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WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR A FRIEND WHO SAVED YOUR LIFE?

In July 1885, a language pack photo premium 10 nine-year old boy who had been mauled by a mad dog in his village of Alsace in northern France was brought to language pack photo premium 10 Paris to see a chemist who was experimenting to produce a language pack photo premium 10 vaccine against rabies. Joseph Meister, a shepherd boy, had been savaged by a language pack photo premium 10 rabid dog. In those days the mortality rate from rabies was 100% - once bitten, the victim would die a within a few weeks.   

Five years earlier in 1880, Louis Pasteur had language pack photo premium 10 been working on mad dogs to try and produce a language pack photo premium 10 vaccine. People who had been bitten by mad dogs would remain well for language pack photo premium 10 3 to 12 weeks, and then they would start to language pack photo premium 10 have convulsions, delirium and a fear of drinking fluids (hydrophobia). Within days, they would be dead from rabies aka as hydrophobia. The only known treatment was to language pack photo premium 10 burn the bite site with carbolic acid or red-hot poker. This “cure” itself often killed the patients before the rabies got them!  Through his work, Pasteur was able to show the world that the ‘death’ was carried in the language pack photo premium 10 saliva of the dogs which then attacked the nervous systems of the language pack photo premium 10 victims.

On that language pack photo premium 10 summer day in 1889 when Joseph met Louis, the chemist and language pack photo premium 10 his friend, Dr J. Grancher inoculated little Joseph with a fluid taken from language pack photo premium 10 the spinal cord of a rabbit a fortnight before.  Pasteur arranged lodgings for language pack photo premium 10 Joseph and his mother who had accompanied him.  Each day the language pack photo premium 10 boy was given a stronger injection until towards the end of the language pack photo premium 10 treatment cycle he was injected with the most virulent rabid fluid in the language pack photo premium 10 laboratory.

Then came the long wait – will Joseph survive or will the scientist be shown up as a charlatan? The tension was so much that language pack photo premium 10 Pasteur took a holiday to Burgundy and daily waited to receive the language pack photo premium 10 dreaded telegram that Joseph had died of rabies.  When he returned to language pack photo premium 10 Paris, Pasteur found that Joseph had made a complete recovery.  Pasteur died of old age six years later and language pack photo premium 10 was buried in a magnificent marble tomb built in the Pasteur Institute that language pack photo premium 10 opened in1888.

In his middle age Joseph became the concierge (caretaker) of the language pack photo premium 10 Pasteur Institute in Paris. He would take his family to admire the language pack photo premium 10 bust of his ‘saviour.’ In 1940, during the language pack photo premium 10 Second World War, Joseph Meister committed suicide rather than open Pasteur’s tomb to the Nazis.

It is language pack photo premium 10 not uncommon for us to be indebted to anyone who saved our lives. There is language pack photo premium 10 more poignancy if that person had saved our life by sacrificing his liberty, money, house or language pack photo premium 10 his life. There is no greater love than that shown by a language pack photo premium 10 man who laid down his life for his friend ¹.  What would you do to your friend if he did that for you? Sponsor his children through university/college? Build a house for his widow? Look after his elderly parents till they died and language pack photo premium 10 give them a befitting funeral? Yes, these and language pack photo premium 10 much more. What if the friend simply asked for a less tasking ‘repayment’ and just wants to be remembered, loved, mentioned often and respected? That shouldn’t be difficult, should it? That, exactly, is language pack photo premium 10 what a carpenter from Nazareth asked of those he died to language pack photo premium 10 save.  He saw you language pack photo premium 10 bitten by the rabid dog called sin. The symptoms were not convulsions but little lies, cooking up stories to language pack photo premium 10 get others into trouble,  thefts from language pack photo premium 10 the employer, tax evasion, taking undue advantage of the poor(bribes), the weak (muggings/child abuse), the lonely (rapes), the stranger (racism), the desperate (over-haggling) the unfortunates (prostituting young women),  the defenceless (paedophilia),  hatred, anger, wickedness, greed, jealousy, quarrels,  violence,  deceit, gossip, pride, murder, arrogance, disobedience to language pack photo premium 10 parents, worshipping anything other than God, boasting, lacking conscience, failing to language pack photo premium 10 keep promises, showing no kindness or pity for others, ruthlessness, rudeness,  inordinate passion for same sex ²,  envy,  idol-worship, hero-worshipping, sun-worship, Satan-worship, consulting mediums, séance,  reading signs/horoscopes instead of depending on God, palmistry, witchcraft,  sorcery, participation in demonic activities,  drunkenness, orgies, wild- wasteful  parties, eagerness for lustful pleasure,  causing dissensions³,  fear of accepting God, fear of what language pack photo premium 10 people might say, fear of the future,  fear of man (all cowardice) and  sexual immorality⁴

Now he carpenter cures all these with His vaccine. Joseph Meister went to language pack photo premium 10 Paris because he did not want to die needlessly. He was still healthy when language pack photo premium 10 his mother accompanied him to see Pasteur. But they both knew that language pack photo premium 10 people bitten by rabid dogs had a 100% chance of dying from the disease – much later. He had nothing to lose. He either died in Paris – or in his village. He chose to die in Paris, but he lived – by trusting one man he had never met before.

You too have been bitten. You won’t die now but, as Jesus said, “later.⁵” You do have a choice – to remain in your village with 0% of survival when the rabies comes. Or, you can go to “Paris” and language pack photo premium 10 see the Healer. Paris for you is Calvary, where Jesus died on a language pack photo premium 10 cruel Roman cross for you to save your life from language pack photo premium 10 the rabies of God’s wrath that language pack photo premium 10 will become the lot of all bitten by the mad dog of sin. You have language pack photo premium 10 a choice to say “Yes, Lord Jesus, I believe, forgive my sins; take me just as I am. Don’t let me die needlessly. Be my Saviour. Help me to live for you” or, you language pack photo premium 10 can choose to be stubborn and defy God. Pasteur did not die to language pack photo premium 10 save Joseph, yet, in history, only ONE man had ever died willingly to language pack photo premium 10 save his/her followers. He will NEVER struggle with you. That’s not His way. But one day, He will ask you, “What did you do with Jesus?”  WHAT?

1.   John15.13     &        2.   Romans 1:25-32          3.   Galatians 5:19-21        4&5. Revelations 21:8

Acknowledgement: The first part is based largely on ‘How is it done’ by Reader’s Digest while the second part is my personal view and belief.

Johnson F.  Ajayi,   October 2008.

“Worried mum” as she identified herself, had language pack photo premium 10 thanked my employers and written very complimentary things about how I attended to language pack photo premium 10 her daughter – who was 37 weeks pregnant – and language pack photo premium 10 allayed their worries about the prognosis of her unborn grand-daughter. A Community midwife, who language pack photo premium 10 felt that the baby was rather small and lagging behind its expected growth velocity (“small-for-dates” or “intra-uterine fetal growth retardation)” had language pack photo premium 10 referred them to the hospital. Two weeks earlier I had language pack photo premium 10 received a “Thank you” card from language pack photo premium 10 a patient I did not remember. The delivery records showed she was one of three women whose babies I delivered by an language pack photo premium 10 operation on night duty in May 2008.

The two expressions of gratitude contrast with the language pack photo premium 10 commonplace culture of complaints, criticism and disaffection that is prevalent in our society today. The doctor, especially the language pack photo premium 10 Gynaecologist is the most-affected. The reasons are legion but some include:

Gynaecology “patients” are language pack photo premium 10 normally healthy women who come to have a baby or who language pack photo premium 10 have a menstrual problem. Unlike other patients with severe abdominal pains from language pack photo premium 10 appendicitis or chest pains from a heart attack, they are not exactly ill. It follows that language pack photo premium 10 their treatment must be perfect. Perfection however belongs only to God. If and language pack photo premium 10 when things go wrong our women feel aggrieved and if an language pack photo premium 10 apology is not swift and satisfactory, the solicitor’s letter follows as light follows darkness;

Obstetrics is language pack photo premium 10 one of, if not the most, high-pressure clinical speciality. It is language pack photo premium 10 the only speciality where the doctor is confronted with treating two individuals in one – the one inside the other. The mother’s needs must be balanced against the baby’s hence the language pack photo premium 10 timing of intervention requires lots of experience. If a woman of 32 weeks’ pregnancy has language pack photo premium 10 severe abdominal pains due solely to her pregnancy, we can language pack photo premium 10 relieve it by performing a caesarean. That however creates another problem – a language pack photo premium 10 premature baby who could become brain-damaged, blind, deaf, disabled or even die. In trying his/her best, the language pack photo premium 10 doctor may cop an earful from patients and their spouses and language pack photo premium 10 relatives. Added to this is that the resident doctor usually has language pack photo premium 10 more than one client to attend to simultaneously. He or she prioritises but that language pack photo premium 10 would not satisfy the last in the queue;

Previous press reports of doctors’ misdemeanours and language pack photo premium 10 successful litigations have fuelled the belief that every complaint needs to language pack photo premium 10 be aired and pursued to its logical conclusion. There are always genuine complaints as well as doctors’ blunders that language pack photo premium 10 need to be addressed. I personally believe that victims of medical errors, who language pack photo premium 10 have been incapacitated should be compensated but frivolous complaints about trivialities not only undermine the language pack photo premium 10 confidence of these doctors, they also slow down their work as they need to language pack photo premium 10 take time out to study case notes, write reports and on occasions attend hearings or language pack photo premium 10 even courts. In practice only a tiny proportion of complaints succeed because there are language pack photo premium 10 always extenuating circumstances and peer reviews along the lines of Bolam and Bolitho.

With these in mind, every doctor is language pack photo premium 10 uplifted when a patient returns to say “thank you.” On the language pack photo premium 10 other hand, victims of insinuations, presumptions, assumptions and innuendoes usually despair if their character is language pack photo premium 10 not strong enough. Some can shrug off such misinterpretations but others are language pack photo premium 10 not so strong emotionally. When Tiger Woods was wincing in agony in the language pack photo premium 10 fourth round of the 2008 US Open golf competition, Retief Goosen, a language pack photo premium 10 fellow pro, was quoted as saying that Woods was exaggerating an language pack photo premium 10 injury. It turned out after tests that Woods had indeed been language pack photo premium 10 very courageous to play through a serious injury when most mortal men would have language pack photo premium 10 cried off. Michael Stich, the German former tennis player whilst commentating on Wimbledon 2007 thought that language pack photo premium 10 Serena Williams was making too much of an alleged injury. After the language pack photo premium 10 Beijing Olympics, there were doubts from newspaper sports writers on the language pack photo premium 10 genuineness of the feats achieved by Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and language pack photo premium 10 Christine Ohuruogu. It is true that certain athletes have cheated in the language pack photo premium 10 past – some were caught, others escaped – but every human endeavour, no language pack photo premium 10 matter how incredible must be given the benefit of the language pack photo premium 10 doubt. Until I have walked in some else’s shoes, it language pack photo premium 10 ill behoves me to criticise them for limping. Until I know somebody’s genetics and how oxygen-deprived his/her brain was at birth, I would be wrong to criticise their stutter.

Let us give credit to language pack photo premium 10 whom it is due and be considerate when criticising any errant person. The best criticism I have language pack photo premium 10 ever come across was that in the letters written to seven churches in (today’s) Turkey. Five of the language pack photo premium 10 seven were failing. The writer first outlined what they were doing well before suggesting what language pack photo premium 10 he would have done differently. That is constructive, improvement-oriented, desirable and language pack photo premium 10 life-changing criticism (Revelations. 3 & 4).

And who makes us a judge over others anyway? It was well said by ………………. that language pack photo premium 10 there is so much good in the worst of us and language pack photo premium 10 so much evil in the best of us that it hardly behoves any of us to language pack photo premium 10 talk about the rest of us.

Johnson Folorunso Ajayi, September 24, 2008

The story was told of a church that interviewed a few people for the vacant post of Head Pastor. Of the 10 short-listed, many applicants they rejected (and the reasons) were:

Abraham – told a lie to protect his wife, he would be unreliable;

Moses – cracked under pressure and did not know how to delegate; Elijah – prone to bouts of depression;

David – brave but murderous; besides, our wives wouldn’t be safe with him about;

Solomon – wisdom personified but a serial womaniser;

Peter – unreliable and untruthful; abandons friends in moments of need;

Paul – good orator but had a violent past. Known to have been intolerant of opposing views; 

John the Baptist – too rustic and ancient. Takes Green issues too seriously and critical of royalty;  

Jesus – hangs around with riff-raffs; his brand of “second chance” wouldn’t wash;

Judas – cunning tactician; could sell our dead woods for language pack photo premium 10 30 grand; good with money – he IS the man

Funny or true?

Incidentally, the language pack photo premium 10 church in the story missed out on appointing the only man that language pack photo premium 10 was called the “friend of God” – Abraham. Only four people were ever called “Man of God” and Elijah was one of them. Moses – what language pack photo premium 10 can we say of his selfless sacrifice when he asked God to language pack photo premium 10 wipe his name off His book so that God could save the language pack photo premium 10 people he was leading to Canaan? Paul, Peter, Jesus?

The church missed out on the only man ever described as “the Man after God’s own heart” – King David. So he sinned with Uriah and Bath-sheba? But he repented and language pack photo premium 10 that is the crux of the matter. God is not looking for language pack photo premium 10 perfectionists but the Zacchaeuses, Mary Magdalenes, Nicodemuses, “the woman caught in adultery,” and the weaklings of today – so long as they are willing to admit, repent and change.

Johnson Folorunso Ajayi, 23 Aug 2008

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