Osha needed this bath because he was sticky and gooey from the coconut milk and raw egg mixture I was bottle-feeding him. I had no choice but to put him in the tub of horrors. Fortunately Osha was too sick to even care. As you can see from the picture above, there wasn't much left of him except for some skin and bones. I had to force-feed Osha for three weeks to keep him hydrated and nourished enough to stay alive until the mile-long string he ate finally passed through his system.
Below is a picture of Osha today. He is . . . um, well, healthy. Did I say that right?
All of us in the family still look at Osha with amazement because of his recent transformation from death to life, from skinny to, um . . . (here I go again) . . . corpulent. (I'm pretty sure I'm safe with that word. Osha won't know the meaning and it sounds dignified.)
When a person asks Jesus to come into his/her life and heart, and to change him/her into the person God wants him/her to be, the transformation is just as amazing. That person, who was once blind and living an earthly life with a death sentence, now lives a Christ-like life with a clear vision and a promise of spending eternity in Paradise.
"So all of us who have had that veil removed
can see
and reflect the glory of the Lord.
And the Lord — who is the Spirit —
makes us more and more like Him
as we are changed into His glorious image."
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NLT)
The Christian transformation will be as obvious to others as Osha's transformation from sickness to health is to us, because salvation is a conversion, not just a word we say.
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