Hope in the Hospital

I spent much of the day at the hospital today. Jeff Kirby has just gone through a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) to rid him of his ALL Leukemia. The BMT was on Sunday and last night he took a turn for the worse.

I don't know how I helped but I would like to think that just being their and praying for Him and the Family is enough. In times like this you feel pretty helpless. I often think of what Jesus did I think of the emotion he had for those hurting. I prayed prayers of faith and hope and love. I was their in the room and Laid hands on Jeff's bare belly. I spoke into his ear the truth... God is in the hospital room with him and will be their come what may.

It is hard to see Milly and the other family and friends under such duress. Here is what I wish that they could all understand. It is near impossible to talk them through it in the middle of the crises but this is what I want to and hopefully will help them understand.

I sat at a coffee shop a number of months ago and we talked about life and our past and our future and right then and their I talked with him about receiving Christ in his life. Not just about going to church or being a good person... Jeff was already great at those things. But at actually surrendering his life to Gods leadership through Jesus Christ. Jeff and I prayed together. Surrendered together to the will of God and I saw a shift... A change... Jeff was different.

I looked at Jeff in the hospital bed and I was hopeful. Jeff's body may be sick but his soul is healthy as can be. His body will be healed at some point. It prayerfully will be today, but even then he will get sick, he will feel aches and pains, like we all do. Eventually, and hopefully many years from now, Jeff is going to die. Maybe not today or tomorrow. He may live another 60 years. But some day I and you and Jeff will go through the same thing... Death. We will face our eternity. Jeff is ready.

Scripture says that when we die their will come a day when we are given a new Body, a heavenly body. It will be a perfect body without love handles or arthritis or cancer or high blood pressure. It will be a body made to live in eternity with God in heaven. If Like Jeff we have surrendered our heart and mind and life to him. I may have felt a little helpless at the hospital but I was not HOPELESS... Because no matter what may come because Jesus will heal Jeff.

Keep praying... He is stable but has a long way to Go.

Comments

[Phillip Santillan]

Thanks for the update.