10.1 Wala ka sa Lolo ko. The Lord Jesus asked him what he wanted, and He granted his request.
2 September 2020
Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” (John 1:38)
I went through another crisis in 2008, you hear it right. Should I say, I have a master's in crisis management.
Before going to details, let me share something I have spied from my wife Marlou.
Around that crisis in 2008, I came upon her Women's Devotional Bible, page 1180.
You can view the book cover in your browser app.
“What Do You Want? Author: Jeanie Miley
“What do you want?” Jesus asks you.
It is such a simple question, and yet you know that how you answer that question is going to shape the rest of your days.
“I saw you following me,” Jesus says.
You turn to your friend as a slight blush washes across your face. Then you look back to Jesus. His compelling force is so great that you don't concern yourself with being embarrassed.
Standing there, poised between your old life and the future, you feel alive as never before. Time seems to stand still. All the colors around you are vivid; the sounds are clear and almost musical.
What do you say when Jesus asks what you want?
Do you even know what you want?
As you stand there, enclosed in a holy place even in the midst of a crowd, you examine your heart.
Are you coming to Jesus out of curiosity?
Do you have some need you think he might meet or an intellectual question he might answer?
Is there something in you that needs to be healed?
Is there some brokenness, a piercing or unrelenting pain, a failure from your past that you would like him to carry?
Do you need forgiveness? Are you dying for love?
Is there something you have tried to fix that escapes your skill?
Exactly what is it that you want from Jesus of Nazareth? Tell him, in your prayer of the heart, exactly what you need.” (NIV Women's Devotional Bible Copyright 1995 Zondervan)
Thereafter, I consulted a urologist at Medical City Pasig and had PSA test quarterly as I would fly home after every 100 days work for 21 days vacation.
Around July 2008, by then we had already moved to Quezon City from Lipa in 2006, I was to leave for Qatar to work for another company when said urology doctor convinced me to undergo prostate biopsy. I yielded after I consulted our family doctor in Lipa, telling me risk is 5% probability of experiencing afterwards UTI or Urinary Tract Infection.
I suffered UTI and had to change antibiotics three times with the last one to be taken for 21 days.
The biopsy turned out negative. However, the worse happened, yet not the worst as you will read later, when I contracted severe drug allergy to Co-trimaxazole or Bactrim. I was hospitalized, I cannot remember how long. Diagnosis was Stevens-Johnson Syndrome or SJS; respiratory rashes did not persist otherwise I could have been vegetable or six feet below the ground.
I left the hospital bloated, with liver and kidney damage due to IV fluid and drug overload. I developed anxiety due to body chemical imbalance and loss of body electrolyte, and suffered recurring leg cramps and abdominal spasm.
The worst that could have happened is I died from infection, meaning the antibiotics worked, albeit with severe allergy complication.
It was around that period that I came upon said devotional bible of my wife.
In the job indicated in the video, I handled about 160 skilled and unskilled people; the demands of the job stretched my stamina, it was therapeutic for my anxiety. God's way of bringing healing to my body and spirit. Amazing.
The Lord granted my request the second time around. Amen.
Exactly what is it that you want from Jesus of Nazareth? Tell him, in your prayer of the heart, exactly what you need.
Job 2:10; 1:21
“Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
John 1
John’s Disciples Follow Jesus
35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.
36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
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Now, more on Jesus.
Very simple question and yet would require much self reflection.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. I pray many will come across your blogs and be blessed.