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Rejection point

by Bruce Wadd 

 

On my driver’s license renewal I have a choice to make. If I am killed in a traffic accident would I allow my body organs to be donated to science, with the possibility of being used as a transplant?

 

Organ donation is becoming more and more acceptable in our society. I am sure it would be a privilege to give something so vital of yourself to another person in great need.

 

But there is a critical point reached in every organ transfer when the new host body either accepts or rejects this foreign element. This is crisis point in the process, and decisions for survival must be made by the recipient and their medical professionals, decisively and hastily.

 

At this rejection point changes must be made immediately – the body either accepts the organ, drugs need to be administered or the organ is removed! Action must be taken or the patient faces the grave risk of infection, severe complications, even death!

 

I’m putting myself out on a limb here… I believe that God rejects His church, His people, when they move on without Him. He has transplanted His heart into ours, by dying on the cross, but have we unknowingly rejected Him?

 

It’s in our weakness and frailties that we need to humbly accept His heart, and let it pump His blood into our life.  Our only hope of survival is a continual intimate connection with Jesus.

 

“For I have come to urge sinners,

not the self-righteous, back to God.”

Matthew 9:13b

 

TODAY, take Jesus’ transplant… it will save your life!

 

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