HERE IS LOVE
A little boy’s sister was fatally ill and needed a blood transfusion. She had a disease from which her little brother had survived and recovered from earlier, and her only chance of survival was to receive anti bodies which could help her fight the disease. Since her brother had the same rare blood type as hers he was the right donor.
The Doctor asked the boy, “Would you give your blood to your sister?
That was a tough question to the boy. His lower lip trembled as he hesitated for a moment. Then he grinned and said, “Sure for my sister.”
Lying side by side the brother and sister were wheeled into the hospital room. The boy was strong and healthy, his sister pale and thin. They didn’t talk but when their eyes met the boy smiled.
His smile faded as the Nurse inserted the needle into his arm and his blood began to flow through the tube into his sister’s body.
The room was silent until the ordeal was almost over. Then the boy spoke, “Doctor when do I die?”
The Doctor was stunned, realizing that the boy thought he was going to die, and he was willing to die for his sister, making the ultimate sacrifice to save her.
(From the book Written in Blood by Robert Coleman)
This story is a remarkable example of human love, courage and heroism which is but a mirror of the Lord’s great love for sinful man, the love which transcends human understanding.
“You see at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners (and we are all sinners) Christ died for us.”( Romans 5:6-8) But because of His great love for us God in His mercy made us alive in Christ…(Ephesians 2:4)
I pray that in the very depths of our human heart we can reflect deeply about this truth.
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