Last Tuesday, I went to Kenyatta National Hospital
to be introduced to the staff that work with fistula patients since I will be
working in the Fistula Department. While
I was there, I had the opportunity to go to the theatre to observe a fistula
surgery. The patient was suffering from
a 4th degree perineal tear.
When the Surgeon started operating, I saw him cut the patient further
before commencing suturing. Well, being
a curious observer, I asked why he had to cut first. He said he had to make a fresh cut so that
the old wound could heal properly. You
see, the tear was old and it had already healed.
That made me start to think of the scripture in
Hosea 6:1 which says “Come, and let us
return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten,
and he will bind us up”. It also
reminded me of the process of refining gold in the fire. Gold has to go through the fire to remove the
impurities. As Christians, we must often
go through trials of many kinds which are meant to grow and strengthen us. There are things we go through and we often wonder
why we are going through them, but they are for our strengthening.
When we go through trials, they are meant to make us
die to self. We have to grow through the
process of dying otherwise our “wounds” won’t heal properly.
The trials are like a fresh cut .
They are also meant to show us that we don’t know it
all; that we are not an end in ourselves but God is the beginning and the end
of all things. Many a times when I share
the gospel with people, there are many who are usually so stuck in their own
philosophies, religious doctrines and traditions of men. Their ideas and religious philosophies are
usually so deeply ingrained in them that it has become part of them just like
the woman with a healed tear.
Was the patient
alright when she had the healed tear?
Far from it. Those individuals
are usually closed to the gospel of Jesus Christ that I often wonder whether
they need to undergo a deep skin fresh cut experience in order to let go of
their ideologies.
Remember what happened to Jonah?
Thematically, you are on point, on track to 'deep that calls unto deep’. The healing process is the object, not subversive, but akin to the subject which may be incubated in the cocoon of the 'Faith' in God.
ReplyDeleteKudos my daughter
Tenki papa oh. I want to be like when I grow up. You know the other day somebody in Kenyatta in theatre called me a woman of the clothe and I had to pause first and I think what was that. Then I remembered, that's what they called you.
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