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There is a certain grace that falls on us when we experience the loss of a loved one. What would threaten to take away our own breath in heaving gasps of inconsolable grief seems to be intercepted by the Holy One and not allowed to come one step further. When we feel as if we are about to collapse under the weight of loss, and when we are intimidated by the enemy to the point of being completely overwhelmed and overpowered, God, in His pure authority and sovereignty, merely has to cast one glance and raise a hand in the direction of our adversary and he must desist.The enemy will try to bring discouragement, hopelessness, and ultimately accusation against God. One of the main questions he will ask us is what I mentioned in my last blog: Why did God not heal? And should we not hear an answer from heaven, we need to be OK with that. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 20:44 |
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In 1983, my mother died after a three-year battle with cancer. She had been bedridden the last year of her life and spent the month before her death in hospital. The end came finally that spring, and to be honest it was a blessed relief for all of us. To watch someone suffer so relentlessly and seemingly without hope of recovery was almost too much, especially for my father who bore the emotional weight of this family crisis. Eighteen years later, I found myself pacing a hospital hallway in disbelief as staff tried to resuscitate my father. A simple medical test had gone horribly wrong and he had suffered a cardiac arrest in his hospital bed. His death came suddenly and unexpectedly amidst the flurry of a full resuscitation. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:52 |
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It's a bitterly ironic St. Patrick's Day. Reading the news on the Internet this morning, I learned more of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady's scandalous cover-up of paedophile priest, Father Brendan Smyth. Why, I wonder, did Brady ask two young boys at a meeting in 1975 to sign vows of silence regarding the abuse wrought on them at the vile hands of the paedophile priest, and never report the sordid affair to police? Why, 35 years later, is this just coming to light? |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 17:30 |
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Some people always say, “If God would only do this or that, then I might believe in Him…If He would end all the evil and all the suffering on earth; if He would only do a miracle, then I would believe in Him …”
In the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31, we see that God has given us all we need to know He is God. He has given us His word, His commandments, His creation, and our conscience. After the rich man dies, he realizes how real God is, and he wants Lazarus to come back to life and warn his brothers about this. But it is written then in verse 31:
…if they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.
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I never noticed something about the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15. It is a very familiar story to so many people. Familiarity is not always such a good thing. It seems in this story of the prodigal son, the older son was a bit too familiar with his living situation at his dad’s house.
After his younger brother returns, Luke 15:26 says that the older brother called a servant to himself to find out what all the commotion was about. Why didn’t he go straight to his dad to find out? Was he afraid? How much was he really concerned about the things his dad cared about? Everything his dad owned he could have at any time. Now, he gets angry because his dad seemed to care a lot about his son coming home. Why did the older brother get angry? I believe because he never really tried to understand his dad. He never really cared for the things his father cared about.
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