Joel's Journey: a planned gift

Monday, June 3, 2013

a planned gift

Say for instance in 10 years you will meet a person and they will become your best friend. You don't even know this will happen. You don't know who it is. Your new best friend of down the road will of course have a birthday and when you meet this person in 10 years you will want to give him/her a gift. Would you start searching diligently NOW for that gift? Will you go out today and spend hours shopping and be consumed with finding the perfect gift? Of course we wouldn't do all that. BUT there is ONE that has done exact that for you!

You see, Jesus did that. I Peter 1:10, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you. That grace that "should" come unto you." Along time before "our" time, Jesus agreed with his father in heaven to carry out grace upon the earth through death on a cross, and make a "gift of grace" towards all those sinners that would live in the future, not born, not existing on the earth, but to be redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and with our spot, who verily was forordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in the last times for YOU! He planned and bought you a grace gift way in advance! Praise God for his kindness to think of me/us along time ago. Happy Birthday to us from HIM. What a beautiful gift he prepared for us far in advance!

Happy Monday!!

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.