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The Heimlich Maneuver: A Sure Sign of Insufficient Faith
Friends,
My family and I were having a nice lunch buffet at a family steakhouse last week with my cousin Chuck and his wife, who stopped by for a visit on their way to Branson, MO. I had always thought Chuck to be a fine Christian man, active in his church, and fully capable of rightly dividing the Word of God. However, as I learned, we must always be careful of our perceptions of others.
During the course of a lively conversation about my family's last visit to Branson, Chuck began choking on a piece of beef tip. I immediately called my family of prayer warriors to attention, we formed a ring around him, held hands, got down on our knees, and began praying in earnest for the LORD to look down on His humble servant, making His face to shine upon Chuck. For as it is written:
John 14:13-14
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
However, after over a minute of fervent prayer, the beef tip remained lodged in Chuck's throat, his face turned a deep purple, and the veins in his eyes began to burst. His wife was hysterical, not even making an attempt to join our prayer circle. This is all a clear indication that Chuck's faith and that of his wife was not as strong as we had all been lead to believe. And as we learn from when Jesus healed the two blind men, it is according to our faith that we may receive healing from the LORD.
Matthew 9:28-29
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
My family lifted our voices to Heaven even louder, my eldest son speaking in tongues, which made me so proud. It was at this point that I yelled out for one of the busboys to bring me some olive oil from the kitchen, so that I may give Chuck an anointing, as prescribed by James 5:14. However, the busboy instead burst through our prayer circle, pulled Chuck off of the table, got behind him, and administered the Heimlich Maneuver, which is an incredibly violent and perverse secular remedy for choking. It looks something like this:
Disgusting.
My family and I were having a nice lunch buffet at a family steakhouse last week with my cousin Chuck and his wife, who stopped by for a visit on their way to Branson, MO. I had always thought Chuck to be a fine Christian man, active in his church, and fully capable of rightly dividing the Word of God. However, as I learned, we must always be careful of our perceptions of others.
During the course of a lively conversation about my family's last visit to Branson, Chuck began choking on a piece of beef tip. I immediately called my family of prayer warriors to attention, we formed a ring around him, held hands, got down on our knees, and began praying in earnest for the LORD to look down on His humble servant, making His face to shine upon Chuck. For as it is written:
John 14:13-14
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
However, after over a minute of fervent prayer, the beef tip remained lodged in Chuck's throat, his face turned a deep purple, and the veins in his eyes began to burst. His wife was hysterical, not even making an attempt to join our prayer circle. This is all a clear indication that Chuck's faith and that of his wife was not as strong as we had all been lead to believe. And as we learn from when Jesus healed the two blind men, it is according to our faith that we may receive healing from the LORD.
Matthew 9:28-29
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
My family lifted our voices to Heaven even louder, my eldest son speaking in tongues, which made me so proud. It was at this point that I yelled out for one of the busboys to bring me some olive oil from the kitchen, so that I may give Chuck an anointing, as prescribed by James 5:14. However, the busboy instead burst through our prayer circle, pulled Chuck off of the table, got behind him, and administered the Heimlich Maneuver, which is an incredibly violent and perverse secular remedy for choking. It looks something like this:
Disgusting.
The beef tip flew out of Chuck's mouth, but at tremendous cost to his dignity. He's obviously got a bit of work ahead of him if he intends to get on the right side of the LORD. If we had known that his faith was so deficient, maybe it would have been better to just let that busboy get to him in the first place, although I'm concerned that this amounts to condoning homosexurality.
At least we know that as True Christians™, we will never have to resort to such depravity in a similar situation.
At least we know that as True Christians™, we will never have to resort to such depravity in a similar situation.
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