What a beautiful Sunday it was, with a touch of a gentle cool refreshing breeze, if you’d compare the weather the week before, the heat wasn’t scorching and exhausting, just perfect for Sunday service!! (But even if the weather wasn’t as perfect as that day, I’d still love to go to church!! hehehe)
Anyway, Sunday’s passage was actually taken from 1 peter chapter 4, Living for GOD. It was a wonderful sermon, and it gave so many insights on how, we as Christians should live our lives for Christ. My pastor shared to us this cool illustration on how JESUS is our HOSPITAL. Awesome!! It struck me because it was SOOOO RIGHT!!!
The word HOSPITAL actually came from the Latin word “hospes” which later came to be “hospitalia” in Latin meaning, a place for strangers or guests. Aside from that translation we could also define HOSPITAL as an institution where the sick, the weary, the dieing are treated and cared for. At this point, I guess you guys already know where I’m heading, right?! If you don’t well, let me make it more clearly to you, if we correlate the HOSPITAL and our JESUS, wouldn’t we see a similarity?? DEFINITELY!!! Who gives life to the dieing? Who heals the sick? Who comforts the weary hearted? Who cares for strangers? I guess by now, it’s ringing a bell?! If it can give life and take away, then who else can we compare that too?? NO one else, but to our Heavenly Father!! He’s the over all “everything” we need, so if I say the HOSPITAL, I’m not just talking about the doctor, the nurse, the therapist, the technician, or the nutritionist… but EVERYONE, from the engineers who designed the building, accountants who budget costs, security officers who guards the place and even the highest in the chain of command, to the janitor that sweeps the floor!!! How amazing!!! hehe*wink*
Man, how blessed I am, that in my profession I can say that I’m not just gonna be working in a HOSPITAL because this HOSPITAL is not just an institution, but JESUS and for JESUS!!! Wow!! What a motivation, I’d never really thought of it like that before, and now it really gives me a booster to love what I’m doing. I know to those of you who are reading this, you may not all be in the same field as me, but guess what?? Whatever you’re doing, it still serves the same purpose?? FOR CHRIST and IN CHRIST!!! So as it says in my devotion book, “let’s take what we have and use it sublimely”!! Psalms 139:23-24 says and I quote, “Search me, O GOD, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” What you have and where you are now is your gift, no one else has it… so use it my friend, for HIS glory!!! Ciao…
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