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 Touching StoryA young boy was terribly sick, so sick in fact that the doctors said he was going to die if they couldn't match his rare blood type. They tested the entire family and discovered that his sister was the only who had his rare genetic match. They would need her bone marrow to save his life.The doctors and her parents explained the nature of the emergency to the little sister and asked her if she would be willing to give some of her marrow for her very sick brother. She didn't answer them right away–her child's mind seemed lost in ponderous thought. |
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Finally, she faced them again and nodded her curls....she would give her marrow to her brother. They wheeled her into a hospital room where the medical specialists prepared her for the removal of some of her bone marrow. They carefully explained to her the procedure, identifying the point of pain through the process of incision and then removal. But it was for so worthy a cause, and the little sister bravely smiled her agreement. After what seemed like hours, the life-giving marrow had been removed from the little girl. Bandaged and dressed, she was taken from the surgical room to her waiting family. As they wheeled her out, she looked up into her daddy's face and with
a quivering lip and tear-brimmed eyes, she asked: "Daddy, when will I die
now?"
For a split second her father looked puzzled. And then like a bolt of lightning it hit him: His little girl had just gone through that entire ordeal believing that once she had donated her marrow she would die! When she had said Yes...for her it had meant, Yes I will give my life for my brother. In between the lines of that little girl's story might be discerned the story of a God-forsaken God on an old rugged cross...and a scream in the dark...and a love so deep and so full that it had already made the decision..."In order to save them all, I am willing to die forever." At the cross of Jesus our sin and God's salvation were summed up by the profound truth that God loved us more than He loved Himself. He took the chastisement of our peace upon Himself, treating us as He would have wanted to be treated if He were in our place. Which simply means....that at the cross God was in Christ, taking our BAD NEWS that we might have His GOOD NEWS, and that is the BEST NEWS we will ever hear! "For God so loved the world that He gave us His only Son, that whoever
believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life." How can
the news get any better than that?
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