Panic filled the white room of Saint Mary's hospital as a critical
patient just entered. Hopelessly Theodore and Michael the chief of staff stare
at a distance as tears roll down their cheeks. Countless times they have
experienced miracles in this hospital, but this case looks beyond normal.
However, rooted inside of them is their value, like the roots of a strong tree,
no wind can shake. There lies hope and hope never disappoints. "Call the
doctor quickly there's no movement" Gabriel, the surgeon on duty, exclaims.
Stalling towards the operation room gives time for gossip inside. Martha the
nurse stood there with a silly smile on her face, as though she knew how all
things will work for good for the young man. Supposedly she had seen a dejavu,
the doctor's delay doesn't mean denial. Though his coming may tarry but it will
come to pass. His hand is not too short that it cannot save. A buzzing sound
echoes the room as the panic heightens...enters the master physician with
calmness to perform his operation. His tool box consisting of two nails, blood
and water.
" how in the world did he get here?" he asks. Michael began to
give the surgeon a report on the patient. This devoted young man who has given
himself wholly to the masters will. Pure in conscience and upright in
character, adored by those who know good and abhorred by the lovers of
iniquity. No bad record at all, few enemies but not enough to do such a bad
deed. He was bruised and battered by criticism, which paralysed his self-worth,
ashamed of his faults located by the investigation of critics he fell into a
shock of terminal self guilt. A man who was shot by bullets of condemnation
which pierced through his integrity. As if it was not enough he was stabbed in
his heart by a Judas nearby, draining all his ability to walk in love and
faith. Like the story of the Samaritan, the priests and Levites with all their
antidotes to help they were too busy in a building and forgot to aid this brick
of Christ's church. Poisoned by snakes in sheep's clothing he further suffered
a blow of rejection, so he took the drug of sin and became an addict, I believe
there was no hospital on earth that could save him.
Ready and eager the master surgeon begins his work. This man came with a
dysfunctional heart and corrupt nature yet the master wilfully receives him. He
loves him in spite of his failure of character and offers him a heart renewal.
It is often said that a man cannot only be believed according to what he says
but by how he acts. Many people have professed
the Lord but it is not all who obtain the kingdom, even betraying Judas thought
the master was not aware of his plan to sell him out. Jesus is a surgeon and
the best surgeon there could ever be. A man by the name of Dr Chris Barnard was
said to be the first surgeon to do a heart transplant, yet we know it is not
true, the first heart transplant happened two thousand years ago at the cross
of Calvary.
" And Jesus
said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise"-Luke
23:43
The
thief who was condemned for his actions, which were a result of his corrupted
heart, stood next to the master. A murderer and worker of iniquity, we all
would see his condition as fatal and irreversible, we would write him off as
cruel and undeserving of a second chance. A heart that has been dominated by
evil, in medical jargon an "Intensive care unit" scenario with no
hope. The Dr Barnards of this world see no alternative but Jesus the master
surgeon prepares his operation with confidence and greatest of compassion. What
could of taken some hours of restless labour through fasting and prayer; The
master does it in seconds. in a twinkle of an eye the deceptive heart is
changed, the heart transplant of the master works a tremendous deal and what we
could have written off becomes the first ever human heart transplant.
"And I will give you a new heart,
and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My
Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments
and do them."-Ezekiel 36:26
Through
all eternity people have been trying to cure their heart condition. The law
came to enable them to live right by easing their defiled conscience. The law
failed in doing so because it exposed more thoroughly their wickedness. Like
the criminal at the cross man knew that he would one day pay for his wickedness
that sprang forth from his heart. Self righteousness was the snare of law
abiders, they thought they could do the transplant by themselves, Pharisees and
Sadducees came in the scene and showed off their way of being pure by doing
good works. A man once broke his car and damaged his engine and the whole car.
The next day he fixed the car up and it looked brand new. He added effects and
spoilers that transformed it from a normal vehicle to a sports car. Everyone marvelled
and the jealous folks were angered at his sudden progress. The man messed up
and took the initiative to fix up his mess and make it better. Just like the
fallen race which uses the law and good works as their justification. He hurries
out to the streets and enters the best automobile with haughtiness and a daft
grin in his face. Puts the key inside the car's ignition and to his greatest surprise
the car won't move. He fixed the outside when the problem was the engine
inside.
No
matter how good it looked outside the problem was inside. The fallen man
changes his greeting and outward appearance yet the problem is his heart! He
can transform his religious duties and works yet that won't cure his disease,
only one doctor graduated from the university of life with flying honours. No
other surgeon knows best and no other medication can cure this disease. There
is a law of relativity. For every short there is a tall, for every thick there
is a thin. for every heart Condition There's Christ. Where the law failed just
like an antidote of medication that doesn't work; there is no cure only he is
the answer. He doesn't require counter performance he does his job freely,
heavens medical Aid has paid with the blood of Jesus, no other payment would
do; To those who come to him he does what he does best; he changes their
hearts. He cures the sin disease of wickedness and grants divine health to
those who will. If you accept him he will grant you the operation and cure your
heart with an everlasting remedy; Himself in you. he doesn't give you
medication to live by he gives you the cure which is himself.
Prophet
Ezekiel saw the heart transplant of God in prophecy, he saw a generation which
will not need to try and do right but will be transplanted with the right heart
that is created to do right and godliness only. That heart is not just a new
heart(Spirit, inner man) It is a heart that carries something beyond right
living and God pleasing. It is the very essence of the message to sinners or
sick people who require a doctor. When we come to Christ he puts a new heart in
us, deception leaves, wickedness leaves, evil and every thought of it exits our
nature. He doesn't restart he renews us. he gives us a new heart and enables us
to be better men than we were before. If we were criminal minded we are change
after the operation, we walk with forgiveness we lay down our pride and walk
with uprightness of character. We no longer see right living as a drag but as a
lifestyle, a nature we always embraced. Just like any other patient who exits
the laboratory after an operation, just after it occurs we are not aware it
took place, we still feel the same like we did before. If our Appendix was
removed we don't feel like it was; we not conscious of that fact yet in spite
what we feel it still happened. Sometimes when we received Christ we still feel
like we are the same old man we were before because there's no external
evidence that's concrete enough to confirm that reality.
But
to the rejoicing of Martha and the amazement to Theodore, the patient is saved
effortlessly. A loud rejoice fills the room as the Master surgeon smiles in
glorification. The young man wakes up being divinely touched. Heavens
brilliance radiates on his face as he looks in the mirror he no longer sees
what he saw, he sees himself in the view of his physician. With a doctor's note
which reads:
"You
did not choose me, but I chose you and ordained you to be fruitful"
Your
duty is just that. be fruitful.
Elijah
God's Strategist.
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