REMEMBERING TATAY

Mark 6:56
…and as many as touched it were healed.
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The doctors allowed us and we decided to go home. But my father (who we lovingly called, “Tatay”) has to undergo series of dialysis, for his kidney has already malfunctioned. He us to undergo checkup on a weekly basis for his heart is already showing slowing down. We decided to go home, prepare him for his dialysis & checkups and just put all the trust in the Lord so he may regain his health for the better.

Seven years ago, after three months of medication, Tatay decided to go home, together with God in His Heavenly Kingdom. His body succumbed to organ failures. We wept, we felt really bad at that time – but we prayed really hard that he may finally find rest with Him. Tatay decided to go home, so he may prepare our mansions up there – awaiting us so we may all be together again in God’s glory in heaven.

God does not promise to heal every single disease. If He does, then no one will ever get sick and die from illness. Medicine is wonderful and the advancement in medical technology is likewise a good thing. James 1:17 tells us that “every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above”. Seeking medical treatment for our illnesses glorifies God. Seeking the best medical treatment we can find just acknowledges God's sovereignty in dealing with our sicknesses, making us well and raising us up. Be assured that God approves of us using available means to promote health, including medicine. But there is one important requirement: We must pray about it and receive it with thanksgiving.

Let us pray +

Almighty Father, into your most holy hands I commit the keeping of my heart, asking you for health of soul and body, in the certain hope that you, my most loving Lord, will hear my prayer. Into the bosom of your tender mercy, this day, every day of my life, and at the hour of my death, I commend my soul and body. To you I entrust all my hopes and consolations, all my trials and miseries, my life and the end of my life, that all my actions may be ordered and disposed according to your will and that of your Divine Son, Jesus Christ. Amen +

Lord, rise up and save me.