Empty Me
As many of you know by now, I'm finally working in a medical school here in
The first week of class, I attended the white coat ceremony for the first year students. That great day when the students receive doctor's coat and that says you belong here. The guest speaker was Dr. Vargas Bidot, the founder of Community Initiative. He is the Patch Adams of Puerto Rico; he has change the white coat for jeans to work with drug addicts and HIV homeless. He spoke of how doctors have to treat more than a physical condition, they also have to treat the patient and their family as if they could reach the sky on your shoulder. He was talking about that feeling of security, hope and peace doctors should transmit, even when patients are facing the impossible. I soon realized how hard that was. It is something that is not taught at medical schools.
I started to wonder, where did he developed that heart? The answer came later that day, when my dad told me he was a Christian, not only of words but of actions too. You have to have more than knowledge in order to serve in that way.
Philippians 2:6-8 says,"Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man. He humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross"
Christ chose to be a servant, even though he was God. What ever you or I have done as a Christian can not even begin to be compared to what He did.
Empty me, empty me
And Fill, would you fill me
With you, with you (Empty Me, Jeremy Camp)
That should be our prayer! To be emptied of the Me, Myself and I. To take off the "white coats" that hinders us from serving. To look beyond the physical need. To be filled with the ointment that gives peace, that heals the spirit. To be filled with Christ!
Javier
