There is a man...
........... sitting in a hospital waiting room today. He is wearing dark pants and a dark button-up
shirt. His skin is dark and tanned from
years of outdoor living and working. His
hair is graying and his eyes and dark, pooling with a lack of
understanding. His hands are dirty and
his feet and cracked, rough and stained.
He may not seem important. May
seem like just any other man to you.
This man though, is a father. He
has fathered 9 children, 7 who have survived past their early years. And lying on a hospital bed not far from his
sight is his youngest daughter. She is
dying. Dying of kidney failure. Kidney failure is not an untreatable
condition but she needs a new kidney.
According to the rules in this country she needs a kidney from a brother
or sister. One would assume that this
father’s thoughts would be full of compassion of concern for his child. Full of encouraging words to the son who will
help give his sister a new life. But unfortunately,
I know his thoughts. They are dark and
evil and unfair and unloving. His
thoughts are worldly and limited. He is
on the verge of deciding that her life is not worthy of any kind of sacrifice
on the part of someone else, especially his eldest precious son. He says that we all have to die at some
point. It’s hard to believe that this man has the
power to hold the life of his daughter in his hands. A word from him and the deed is done, she
receives the kidney she needs, she lives.
Another word and she is left to die.
How can he decide? One who is so
darkened in his thinking? A man who has
spent a lifetime worshiping demons and railing against this youngest daughter
for putting her faith in Jesus Christ.
And yet it is at that revelation that I am so keenly reminded of the
truth. Her life is not in his
hands. He does not decide whether she
lives or dies. He is not in
control. She is a child of God. His thoughts are wise and enlightening. His thoughts are perfect and loving and fair
and true. I’m so glad that my dear
friend’s life is in the hands of her loving heavenly father. Please pray with us for Siripon, that she
will be comforted, encouraged, secure in the knowledge that her Heavenly Father
loves her. Pray for her earthly father
too, may God’s will be done.
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