In mid-November 2024, I experienced a sudden dizzy spell. What I thought would last only a few days or a week turned out to be 5 months even as I’m writing this. Every day was a challenge because there was a constant sensation that I was sitting in a rocking boat. It was so bad that I had to give up driving completely.
I was referred to a neurologist who suggested doing an MRI of the brain. As I waited for the results, thoughts of anxiety and fear filled my mind. “What if the scan showed I had a brain tumour?” “What if I had to go through a major brain operation and I end up in a vegetative state?”
In those moments of anxiousness and fears, I cried out to God. “What makes you think I will fail?” was His reply. That brought assurance, comfort and a reminder once again, that I serve a faithful God who doesn’t fail!
Results came back and it was an all clear! Praise the Lord! As I look back on these past few months of experiencing dizziness in my every day, I wonder how I passed my days.
In 2 Cor 12:9, Paul said “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”. It was His grace and love that saw and still is seeing me through my days.
In the past few months of living with this condition, I have truly experienced His grace and love. I learnt that God has given me enough strength to get by each day no matter how bad the dizziness gets
Through it all, God has never turned a deaf ear to my cries for help. When it got too overwhelming at times, I would pray a simple “God, help me!” and somehow I would manage to get by my day.
Looking back, I may never know the reason why I have and am still having this dizziness but I saw it as an opportunity for me to increase my dependency and trust in God.
Walking through this experience has given me a glimpse of who He is – a dependable, fail-proof God!
– Bernie Goh
Thrive Church 