Why not chocnut?

Big J once said in the book of Proverbs, that many are the plans of man but it is the Lord’s purpose that will prevail. You see, purpose goes before plan. You can’t make something and not know the use of it beforehand. Am sure when the Wright brothers started tinkering around the airplane, they knew they wanted to fly.

I had the opportunity, for the past two years, to witness how, in my own life, my own plans were disrupted and God’s purpose prevailed. It was with a strong sense of gut feel that I went for the USMLE, not having any intellectual or financial means to go and finish it. I followed it but before I could hurdle my step 1, God came in and his purpose prevailed. I guess you could say Big J made a major overhaul on me.

So there I was, halfway around the world, relying only on Big J to guide me. Whatever He said about guiding His people – all true. He said that He will give specific instructions, even to the very specific detail (should I go right? Should I go left?) – Again all true. Very hard for a person who was raised up in an environment of “promises are made to be broken” to believe all those preposterous claims. He made a believer out of this skeptic.

Yesterday, the results of the Match came out. There are only two possible outcomes – you have a hospital that will take you in (any one of those hospitals that interviewed you would be the hospital), or you don’t have any hospital. Had I not been “tight” with Big J, I would have worried. But yeah, remember the part about me being overhauled in the way I think? I wasn’t worried. I knew beforehand I would match, and I knew among all the hospitals that interviewed me, which hospital would take me in. How? Big J. Crazy you say? I have no rational explanation. But whoever said that the man who managed to turn water into wine, to feed five thousand people with five loaves of bread, who managed to rise up after three days of being dead, followed the natural laws?

A friend asked me to explain the reason behind the miracles I have been experiencing.

I’m nobody. I’m no one. I’m just a bad kid with a bad heart who realized I needed a Savior and told Him that I was a useless piece of junk, but if He will have me (which if you check out the book that He wrote, He wants not only me, but also you), then my life is His. That simple. I didn’t have to do anything special.

.I’m not talking about praying the rosary everyday. I’m not talking about beating yourself in the hope that this “fearsome” God will hear you. I’m not talking about a distant being who you know by mind but not by heart. I’m not talking about fasting. I’m not talking about all those rituals – the kneeling, the walking barefoot in Quiapo, the wiping of the statues, the lighting of the candles… All those won’t get us anywhere. You know what they are? They are our way of saying maybe if I do these good works/hard works, you’ll notice me. Which is weird, He said good works won’t save us. The only thing that would save us – us acknowledging we are lost without Him and that we need Him. Simple… but our species have been known to complicate things.


I attended this convention where a man said the following words:

If you look at the book of Genesis, on the very first chapter,

When God wanted fishes, he spoke to the sea.
When God wanted animals, he spoke to the land.
When God wanted plants, he spoke to the land.
When God wanted light, he spoke to the heavens.

Where a thing comes from, that thing needs its place of origin in order to live.

Fishes need the sea. It’s not that they want the water. They need the water to survive.
Animals walk and feed on the land. Same philosophy.
Plants need soil to grow.
The light resides in the heavens.. (unless of course nag bulalakaw at andyan na si Panday…)


Again, where a thing comes from, that thing needs its place of origin in order to live.

God spoke to the sea to bring forth fishes. Fishes originated from the sea. Fishes need the sea to live.

God spoke to the land to bring forth plants and animals. Animals and plants originated from the earth. Both need the earth/land to live.

God spoke to the heavens to bring forth light. The sun, the stars and the moon all belong to the heavens. They need that kind of atmosphere to live.

But when God made man, (look it up at the first chapter of Genesis), he did not speak to the land, to the sea or to the heavens.

In Genesis, when God made man, it was written that “God spoke to himself…”

Man originated from God.

It’s not that we will want God. It’s just that we need God to live. We will never really live until we realize that.

I never really lived until I realized that. It’s a great adventure. It’s a great life. I never knew that life could be so full of .. Life. I’m sorry if I sound like some radical. But if I have found the world’s best tasting chocolate, how could I not tell everyone about it? If I could rave about coffee bean and tea leaf’s iced mocha, how can I keep this to myself? It’s real power. It’s real joy. It’s real guidance. It’s real provision. It’s getting out of the rut.

I forgot, about the match results – it came out and matched exactly at the place I was telling you about.

Kid with a bad heart standing on grace.