Questions from the hospital

Question 2- When can I go home/What do I have to do to go home?

This seems like a very innocent question and one that comes to most every mind when they enter the hospital. This I think may be the most profound of all questions that one can ask. This also has the most far reaching of consequences. Immediately when this question is asked it implies two things: 1) you will go home and 2) there is a time frame for going home. When this question is asked no one expects to hear the words you may not get to go home. Most docs even in terminal cases try to keep the hope of going home alive and well. The very hope of being able to go home will allow the patient to strive and fight through difficulties and force themselves to work through pain, fatigue and ailments to do what it takes to recover. Looking around the hospital I see people in pain and anguish force themselves to get up and walk trying to get the body flowing and working right in order that they can just go home.

Doctors will ask that they walk so much or do so many things and when they can perform these tasks then you can go home but not until then. It is ironic to me that many of these requests go without question. Many just blindly do whatever the doctor wants whether they agree or not. Many will even say "I will do anything to go home if this crazy doctor wants me to do ______ then I will." Sadly some of the patients will never be able to perform these tasks and thus will never leave the hospital to go back home.

When I think about the pain and fatigue of this world and how much many of us just want to go home eternally. Jesus says in John 14 that He went to prepare us all a place to come home to. There are many things that God asks us to do in order to go home. Many people want to argue and fuss to say why should I have to do this or that. "My God would make me do anything"- I have heard some tell me. Jesus says in John 3:36 "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." Many people quote John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life." When they quote verse 16 they say see all I have to do is believe I don't have to do anything but say I believe in Jesus. If you keep reading from verse 16 to verse 36 (Jesus is still talking here) you would easily see that belief=obedience. We have to believe in Jesus but not just believe in Him but believe and trust and obey Him.

If you really want to go home-Belief and obedience is the only way your gonna get out of here. Is this a time for questioning why or just doing "Whatever it takes to attain the Resurrection of the dead"-Phil 3:11

MPE