Dr. Asemota Osenwem

It is a good thing to build up our faith as believers in Christ that we may be able to live an overcoming life. As soldiers of Christ, it is our duty to consciously and steadfastly be on our guard. We cannot afford to be complacent since we do not know the hour the master would come. 

This treatise is a charge to us as co-labourers in God’s vineyard; a call to sustainable but aggressive crusade against the kingdom of Satan. This is because as people who profess Christ as the redeemer of the world and are recipients of eternal joy, the onus is on us to unwaveringly hold onto our profession irrespective of the tide of life and the vagaries therein. 

Let us examine the life of our early brothers in the wilderness. They were blessed with God-given leaders and the abiding presence of God. Upon their exit from Egypt, they had the luxury of Gold and precious artifacts Ex. 12:35-36. These parting blessings should have been the springboard for them to trust and hold tenaciously unto God, inspiring in them a desire for unalloyed allegiance and loyalty to Almighty God. But rather than using the gold and silver expectedly for beautifying the tabernacle of God (Ex. 30:3-4), they soon forgot their days of servitude and began to demand “the god made by men” from the leader they could see (Aaron). Ex. 32:1-4. 

If we think the wilderness brethren acted wrongly, we had better watch it, because in passing judgment, we ourselves may be indicted since our society is not better off. There is an extensive idolization of nearly every good gift of God in our life. Worse still, today, brethren unabashedly 

‘scripturize’ every practice as if seeking credence and God-authorization of such doctrines. We must not be forgetful like the wilderness brethren who easily forgot their torture and the plagues in Egypt preferring to return to slavery than to endure a brief spell of God’s leading. Those who know their God, the scripture says shall do exploits. In the opinion of Nikita Panin there are two classes of people that please God these are: those who serve him with all their hearts because they know him and others who seek him with all their hearts because he knows them. 

Beloved, there is no end to seeking and serving the Lord. This is why we must hold fast unto our faith if our life would slip off should we lose our grip of it. As Christian Medics, we are double professors professing Christ and our practice of medicine. Knowing that we are a gift from God to humanity, it is imperative on us to use this gift to edify the body of Christ. It must not be turned to the gold earrings in the hand of Aaron of the modern day on the practice of medicine notwithstanding. 

Jesus our Great High Priest trod this path as an example for us to emulate. We are therefore enjoined not to be moved by today’s stress, the opulence of the believers, and such other greed and avarice. 

The despondence of the men of old in asking for a god from Aaron and in the misuse of gold is analogous to today’s despicable use of God-given gifts by young men and women. 

Moses delayed in returning (Ex. 32:1) and faith was lost, Christ’s second coming is being awaited, will he find faith when He comes? 

We owe a duty in the increasingly corrupt world. There is now a high proportion of unfaithfulness among the married couples, the desecration of even the sanctuary of God. There is no better time than now for the call to steadfastness in faith. As ambassadors of Christ, we must allow the Holy Spirit to lead the way in our quest for eternity. 

Over the years, our commitment in promoting the faith we have in Christ Jesus got a gradual boost. The attempt at integrating Christian faith in the practice of medicine through unchanging values in a changing world is being re-engineered through the call to steadfastness in our profession (Heb. 4:14). 

It is our cherished desire that we continually seek to deepen our spiritual life as true witnesses while actively supporting and promoting medical missions worldwide. 

As medical practitioners, we are prime help-givers. In the words of Edward Bulwer-Lytton “When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching”. 

Hold Fast to your profession. God bless you. 

Dr. Osemwen Asemota, 

National President. 

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