Previously
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I told him that was double stupidity. He should've learned from his first mistake of getting her first GF pregnant. It should have been a big lesson. But no, he did it again for the second time with his second GF. And this girl supposedly (sometimes I'm not sure if he's telling the truth) has heart problems that made her stop working and badly needed medical attention (according to him) so that he kept asking for our help for the medical treatments. Plus, he got her pregnant later. I kept asking GOD, what did I do wrong? I've been praying for my two kids since their infancy to be seriously devoted to GOD and His Word in HIS prophetic ways as they grew up, and my prayers were said every single day up to now. We exposed them to the Word each Sunday in church and during family devotions. But they just never showed serious interest in the Word or in GOD's presence. I don't want them just being active in church, that is garbage to me. I want them to be deeply serious about the Word of GOD and about His Presence, and in taking part in church, pursuing Jesus' glorious church, which is without spot or wrinkle or any blemish. This has been my prayer for them and my grandkids up to now.
Then my son took her new GF to a very expensive hospital known for being a hospital of the elite rich. I don't know why he took her there, even after we had strictly warned him not to. I told him we would not help if he insisted on taking her there. According to him, some friends cautioned them about taking her to a government hospital because a lot of people they knew died in government hospitals during child birth because of gross negligence. To cut it short, he took her there and incurred hundreds of thousands as bill because of cesarian birth---plus, they were held in the hospital for their inability to pay their bills. They were held there for 14 days against their will.
A lot of people, even Christians, told us to disown him for the things he'd been doing, especially asking as money and getting almost everything we had worked hard for in the US. Indeed, he had used up almost 80 percent of it so that today we're in dire need of money for our own expenses. We're bankrupt, being so frugal even with our food expenses. Sometimes all we eat is small scrambled fried egg sliced into three---for me, my wife and youngest son who's in college and graduating next year. Sometimes I cook miswa soup with an egg drop. Sometimes, I fry three small fish. By the way, I'm the cook while trying to make a small living online and, by GOD's precious grace and mercy, my wife has been employed since August this year (2024) as school nurse in a neighborhhod grade and high school. She just walks for 3 minutes and she's at school. Thank GOD!!!
But the Word says that "while we were yet sinners (while we were downright EVIL and showed no sign of regret, remorse and repentance), Christ died for us. And HIS death is the greatest blessing of all. GOD never withheld that blessing even while we were unrepentant and kept sinning and loved the devil (or "married" to him). That's how GOD blesses people, even HIS church people, and that's the same blessings principle I and my wife are following. GOD blesses both the good and bad with their basic needs (HE makes the sun shine on both good and bad, as well as give them oxygen, rain, etc.) HE doesn't stop the blessings when we sin or even when we repeatedly sin. In HIS Sermon on the Mount, HE said "give to whoever asks from you." No ifs or buts.
Because we cannot just ignore our eldest son and watch him succumb to poverty without extending any help to him, we give aid in any way we can until we find ourselves making loans for our own needs and for his. This started when we helped him and his new GF get out of the expensive hospital via a promisory note. We have to pay for the bill on a day decided by the hospital. My wife is a co-maker in the promisory and would face litigation with my eldest son if the payables (Php 280k) are not met. I'll discuss why we keep helping him in the next coming articles. I just want to put everything here so that one day my posterity would know why my wife and I did what we did for my eldest son. The loans started our bitter financial journey so that now we have some Php 500k plus loans from friends and a few lending agencies. Imagine, once upon a time excitedly praying for my sons to be anointed servants of GOD---my eldest as an apostlic servant and my youngest a prophetic servant---but then ending up like this.
