Because of blood...

March 4, 2009

Last Sunday, March 1, two men in need to give blood and a man in need of blood met little did they know that God had other plans...

My brother and I where talking for some days now on donating blood. We know that if we want to keep our health in top shape we have to keep our blood in its healthy condition. Medical studies have shown that blood letting is actually a great way to keep your circulatory system in good condition, since your body will be producing brand new blood cells to replace the blood that was given out. We had little idea on how to do the procedures on blood donation, since it will be just my second time to do it and my brother's first time. We resorted to just going to the almighty internet to get some information. I happened to land on this website http://www.philippinesbloodregistry.com/. I thought to myself that "at least I could start somewhere rather than keep waiting"

Just a few days after a man named Mon texted me in the middle of the day of my work telling me that he got my number from the internet. He told me that he was in need of blood for his sick brother. He said that his brother is diagnosed with Leukemia (Cancer of the Blood), and that his brother's Chemo-therapy will not begin unless they are able to gather up enough blood to support the therapy. His brother has just turned 20 this Feb and is in his 3rd year in college. Their family came all the way from Palawan, they moved here because there is no blood specialist there.

Then finally we agreed to meet up last Sunday to have our blood tested for fitness and blood type compatibility. The process of testing our blood took alot of time. We stayed in the hospital for more than 6 hours until we are finished with the testing and the extraction.

During the time we where there with Mon the Holy Spirit has been convicting me to share to him about the good news of salvation. Time dragged and I continued to struggle. Thinking of how to start or how to divert our topic to talking about spiritual matters. Then finally, when I could not bear the conviction anymore, I started to ask him about his spiritual beliefs. I asked him what are his ideas about salvation, if he knew the ten commandments, if he knew about his eternal destination, and so on. He was reciprocative to all my questions, and when I saw that he has come to realize that he is in big trouble if he met his creator that day because of his sins I told him about the salvation of Jesus. He started to have teary eyes. I told him that only he could make that decision to receive the forgivenes and payment of Jesus for him. We parted ways with a prayer for him and his brother.

I then realized that God planned everything from the start, i could say that in a way it was a divine set-up. God will make every way possible to make sure that every soul will have the chance to hear the message of salvation. Its the greatest privilage for us Christians if God decides to use us to fulfill his divine plan for a lost soul. Knowing that we ought to be always ready to give out the message...

It was by my brother's and my blood that we met, but it is because of Jesus' blood that he saw his need for a saviour.