Ambulance
Mark 2:4 ‘Jesus Heals a Paralytic’
…And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”…
Sorry for writing so much about myself,, these are just my experiences, and I am trying to get them on paper.
The ONLY reason I am here is to get people in front of Jesus. I want to give them the OPPORTUNITY to have HOPE in a eternal life. IF I was not a follower of Jesus, I would not be here. I hesitate to use the word minister, missionary or christian because I blow it so much. I am a follower of Jesus, and not a very good one at that.
‘They will never care about how much we know until they know how much we care’.
We have all (or most of us anyway) have been big mouths at one time or other. We promise the world one day, and disappear into thin air the next day when things get a little hairy. Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes unintentionally. I have never felt comfortable doing that.
Jesus is real, His promises are real. I should know and never doubt that. He would do things for me that are inconvenient, or expensive, or dangerous because of who He is, His Character. I know Him and His character, and that of His true followers. The true Christians, as well as Jesus Himself, have taught me THAT by showing the spirit of inconvenience. By helping me no matter how expensive or dangerous it was. Pray that I get it right some day.
I love it when people have real problems, they come to Winnie and me. Especially in times of urgent emergencies, or real hunger.
When the crunch is on, they come to us, and we love that. They could go to a lot of other christians, missionaries, millionaires, who would probably help them, but they seem to come to us first, and that is an honor. Especially if it’s after ‘hours’. I want to be their first thought when things go wrong. It’s great, I love it. I don’t care what time it is day or night, as long as it is a legit.
A while ago a lady came to me, telling me her baby daughter was sick. So Winnie and I drive over to her house. It was around 5 in the evening, the sun was going down. When we got there,the baby was in a hammock out back. I felt her forehead and it was really hot, like 104. The baby not breathing, and really stiff. I thought it was having some kind of seizure. When I started giving her mouth to mouth a spider crawled out from behind her little lip, a BIG spider! It crawled right into my mouth. I had a really horrifying spider / spider web experience when I was in combat once, so I am not too cool with spiders to begin with. Crawling out of a mouth of a dead baby and into mine was spider 501!
I took the baby’s body to the nearest hospital. I wanted to find out if she had died from an infectious disease. When I walked into the ER with the dead baby in my arms, the baby was starting to stink a little. They yelled at me and kicked me out. They told us to take it to the morgue. Naturally, I couldn’t find the morgue, who goes to city morgues?. I, finally found the city morgue, after about an hour. When I walked in with the baby, who was now ripe, they tried to arrest me. I turned in the mom, who was fortunately in the car outside, waiting. She was kind of loaded. Turns out mom, in a drunken stupor, put the baby on the hammock in the back yard for about 5 hours. The baby cooked to death under the hot 105 degree sun. Tat is why it was still hot to the touch. Our car stunk like death for a week. Both the baby’s mom and dad are my friends to this day.
Am I still the all hours of the night attendee? YES! Do I still do ambulance calls? YUP! That is the only way to show people you love them. Would I have done anything different? Nope. They don’t have an ambulance company down here worth anything,, ambulances take 1 to 2 hours to get here. When THAT changes, I will, but until then, pray that the Lord protects us. He has for 2 decades, no need to stop trusting Him now.
Dean Peters
