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M the Manna | October 2010
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Columns09 | Signals11 | On the Air31 | Perspective
Features12 | The Impact of a Life Well-LivedHow do you affect the world around you?
16 | Cinematic DeathMoviemakers often miss the point.
19 | An Appointment With GodLiving our numbered days wisely.
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20 | Death Represents...Choosing the right perspective
24 | Blessed Are Those Who MournA mystery both available and yet to come.
28 | It’s Not Just a JobSometimes the extraordinary happens.
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Statement of FaithWe Believe…that the Holy Bible is the inspired, infallible and authoritative source of Christian doctrine and precept;that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;that the only hope for man is to believe in Jesus Christ, the virgin-born Son of God, who died to take upon Himself the punishment for the sin of mankind, and who rose from the dead so that by receiving Him as Savior and Lord, man is redeemed by His blood;that Jesus Christ in person will return to Earth in power and glory;that the Holy Spirit indwells those who have received Christ, for the purpose of enabling them to live righteous and godly lives;and that the Church is the Body of Christ and is comprised of all those who, through belief in Christ, have been spiritually regenerated by the indwelling Holy Spirit. The twin mission of the Church is worldwide evangelization, and nurture and discipline of Christians.
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Life Over DeathI like old things. I’ll rescue a piece here
and there from impending death on the rubbish pile of life where unneeded things go. The old things are so easily thrown away and, after a while, a way of life has died off.
Some people simply have a strong con-nection to a distant past that draws us to these old things, to a supposed simpler way of life. Yet, was it?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no desire to heat up an old wrought iron on the hearth to press clothes. (What am I thinking? I don’t even want to plug in an electric iron!) No desire to visit the “facilities” behind the house on a cold winter night – or any night! No desire to attend school or ride in a car without air-conditioning! And no desire to wait till I actually arrive home, or to the of-fice, to actually start making phone calls!
It’s hard to call the days when we did things the old fashioned way “simpler.”
So, what will remain of today’s society in another 150 years?
It’s amusing to consider their perspec-tive, looking back in 150 years, of a culture with faces pierced, tattoos rampant, purple hair. What will they say about our archaic methods of communication? Transporta-tion? Entertainment? Education? Will we seem old fashioned or just odd?
Part of it is sad – the death of a way of life. But the part of me that finds it sad is the part that looks back with yearning sentimentalism.
Part of it is exciting – because the death of one way of life brings with it the birth of a new way of life – and that part of me looks forward with yearning anticipation.
Consider the ministry of Joy! 102.5 and
the Manna. Not more than ten years ago, we couldn’t imagine we’d be streaming the signal worldwide! Only two years ago we couldn’t imagine that the Manna would be an outstanding webzine read around the world! Come to think of it, I bet either could be accessed by the Space Station – so, perhaps, we’re an extraglobal or inner-galactical ministry. Can you imagine how unimaginable that would have been when the founders of this ministry were plotting the early course for our work here?
And that brings us to what’s important.It’s not the things with which we sur-
round ourselves, or the manner in which we use them. They come and go. And, by and by, they are found first in yard sales and later in rubbish piles, rotted and corroded.
Scripture tells us, in Mark 8:26, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
It’s relationships that withstand time. With family, neighbors, co-workers, friends. And, more important than all, the relationship we have with Christ. When we honor Christ in our relationships with oth-ers, we live a life worth living – and a life others will remember. And, when we live in true relationship with Christ, we have His promise that we will not live in eternal damnation but, instead, will live in harmo-ny with Him for eternity. When it comes right down to it, what more could we want? Life over death – forever.
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The Journey33Miles is a contemporary Christian
band with a bit of country music influences from Franklin, Tennessee. The trio includes Jason Barton, Chris Lockwood, and Collin Stoddard. We’ve been playing a number of their songs over the past few years, such as “There is a God,” “What Could Be Better,” “One Life to Love,” “Jesus Calling,” and now their latest track “Where I Wanna Go” that’s set to release around the country this month. Recently, we had the chance to ask Jason and Chris from 33Miles about some changes within the group.
You may have noticed a slight change in the demographic of 33Miles—Collin is no longer in the picture. Earlier this year, he was contacted by a church to consider a position as worship pastor. After months of prayer, Collin and his wife Jenna felt like it was not an accident but an opportunity from God. So, they accepted the call and he officially started the first of September. We are excited for him and know that he is right where he needs to be. Change is not a negative thing when God
is in the midst of it all...it is a glorious thing that drives us to lean into the arms of Christ more each day. We love and miss them, but we applaud Collin for his willingness to say yes to Christ, whatever that may entail. I know he will miss all the wonderful people he has met along the journey of 33Miles. However, that journey is not over.
The mission of 33Miles to serve Christ by encouraging the church to do the same is growing stronger and stronger. Our new single is being played on stations all over the country, our new album Today releases this month, The Today Tour is about to kick off, the Christmas CD Believe will release nationwide, the number of child sponsorships is rising, the church is hearing the Gospel preached, marriages are being restored, lives are being saved... Man, it’s exciting! Please keep us in prayer as we embark on another chapter in the story of 33Miles... the best is yet to come!
To learn more about 33Miles, be sure to visit their website at www.33milesonline.com and listen for their music on Joy! 102.5. www.wolc.org .
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During my initial week as a college freshman, I made it a point to at-tend the first worship meeting of the InterVarsity Christian Fellow-
ship chapter on campus. Since my school was a secular liberal arts college, I knew it would be crucial to get involved with other Christian students. While the meeting was enjoyable, I felt a little anxious as to how I’d get to know everyone. Not being particularly extroverted, the idea of going up to people and introducing myself was pretty intimidating.
Thankfully, one of the first people I met was a sophomore named Libby. She not only struck up a conversation with me that night, she sent a nice note to me in the mail later that week and also singled me out in the dining hall to chat. Her kind-ness was definitely a contributing factor in my continued interest in the fellowship group, which would eventually become the lifeblood of my entire college experience and help me grow in my relationship with Jesus.
To some, what Libby did may not seem like much, but to me, in my little world, it meant a lot and had a lasting effect. Maybe you have a similar story. Perhaps someone once showed you that he or she cared, not necessarily with some overt, grandiose gesture, but in a simple way that truly min-istered to you.
Have you ever stopped to consider the ways in which you affect the world around
you? Is it for the worse or for the better? It seems easier to go about as though we were wearing blinders, consumed in our own troubles. Demonstrating that we care, and more importantly, that there is One who cares much more, requires that we come out of ourselves, so to speak.
Scripture says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especial-ly the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2 NLT).
We have the power and responsibility to impact the people we encounter during the race of our everyday lives. Perhaps your God-designed race doesn’t involve overseas missions, adopting a child, or preaching from a pulpit. Maybe the sphere where you can have the most influence for Christ is at your own dinner table or the row of cubicles in your office.
It’s a worthwhile exercise to think about what our legacy will be and what people will say about us when we die. To live a life that can positively impact at least one other person besides one’s own self… isn’t that the sum total of a life well-lived? A life that points to Christ has the greatest of impacts and, eventually, the greatest reward.
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It’s easy to write about the death we are going toward, because we all know it’s coming. It is even dreamy, in a morbid sort of way, to think about peace and
rest from earthly toils or temptations. Some take poetic flights of fancy about death and create works of art that point to the end in subdued whispers and ghostlike choreography. Others desperately try to imagine nothingness.
But, death is not dying.What about the death we are meant to
live? If the death we are meant to die is one that is common to everyone as all bod-ies move toward physical decay, then the death we are meant to live is the one that means dying to our wants now for a greater payoff later.
A living death is not exclusively a spiri-tual matter, but a matter of sacrifice. To really be good at something, there must be something else that a person sacrifices be-ing good at. For a professional musician it means foregoing one or maybe many things to devote time to practice. If you want to play right, you have to practice right. For
a long time, too. It’s the same across all dis-ciplines, whether it is for public or personal satisfaction. An unwillingness to sacrifice – to die to one thing to pursue another – means an unwillingness to improve.
And then there is Christianity. Every-thing seems backwards with Christianity and it can’t put it forward. Christians are told that the least will be first. That to lose your life means to ultimately gain it. To now trust in what can’t be seen so vision can become clear. In short, to follow Christ, means to not follow ourselves, not now, not later.
For the Christian there is something greater at work than their self discipline. Christians are required to live their death now by allowing God to operate through them. Putting to death their desires, no mat-ter how kind or even generous those desires may be. Nothing is quite so deadly to an individual than saying, “Not my will, but Yours.” There may be no tangible proof in years to come that allowing God’s will to be theirs reaped a great harvest of professional or personal accomplishment. It may only be a proof of dying in the living.
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The American Film Institute (AFI) created a list of the top 100 films of the last 100 years. Out of the top ten, I’ve seen four (and I watch a lot of movies). The vast majority of the movies on the list deal with death as ei-
ther a main theme or a consequence. Some of the movies elab-orate on an after-life with various secular concepts, but mostly
death is simply “The End.” In the past century, movies have told our greatest tales. In generations past,
books were the medium, and before that, spoken word. For as long
as mankind has existed we’ve told stories and the stories that have impacted us most deal with death. It is the common fear and inevitability and so it touches every heart and imagination.
Just a year or so ago, I saw a delightful movie (not
on the AFI list) called Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Empori-
um. It stars Dustin Hoffman as an eccentric toy shop owner who is nearly two hundred
and fifty years old. He doesn’t fear death; in fact, he is excited about the upcoming new adven-
ture. “Light bulbs die, my sweet. I will depart,” he shares with his protégé, Molly Mahoney (played by
Natalie Portman).While Mr. Magorium is ready for what comes next,
he recognizes that his loved ones will be hurt and sorrow-ful because of his departure. He challenges them to rise to the occasion that is their lives; to love each other and enjoy this adventure while it lasts. It is a sweet and positive movie, though not a Christian film. It doesn’t deal with Heaven and Hell, but is perhaps my favorite film-take on the impact of death on those who are left behind. I genuinely look forward
to watching it with my daughter when she is old enough to be curious about death.
When I was a child I remember learning about death in Sunday school. We learned that Jesus had died because we were sinners, but then He came back to life to offer us eternity with Him. It was fairly easy for my child-brain to comprehend the story being played out for me on a felt board with cut-out figures. Of course, having seen death a little closer up with grandparents and friends, I now have a better understanding of the heartache that loss brings. But because I’ve always associ-ated death with new life, I am less apprehensive about death, though I am still... let’s call it concerned about dying. Will it hurt? How will I die?
As a kid, I was sure that I would die in a laser gun battle, as I defended my friends and family with a light saber. As an adult, I worry more about heart disease and cancer. As a hus-band and father, I deal with writing a will and purchasing life insurance to ensure my family will be taken care of. My ideal death is less cinematic than it used to be. I hope to live a long life, play with grandkids one day, and fall asleep one night only to wake up with my Savior the next morning. But perhaps I will be in a fatal car accident before this article even goes to print. Or maybe a rock will get caught up in my neighbor’s lawn mower as I walk by, flinging me into eternity. One way or another, it will happen. This part of me will end, and the eternal part will go home.
The book of Ecclesiastes says it is better for someone to spend time at funerals than weddings because understanding death’s inevitability is the only way to truly be grateful for this life (Ecclesiastes 7:2 Josh’s Cliffs-Notes Version). I think Mr. Magorium would enjoy Ecclesiastes. Both Solomon and Mr. Magorium understood what movie makers haven’t quite caught up to. It’s the life that matters. Perhaps one day at my funeral someone will quote this sweet movie and say, “... if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest, ‘He died.’”
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An Appointment with God
It’s hard to explain when someone’s life has been cut short, dying at a relatively young age. We expected that person to live a much longer life. But who is to
say that it wasn’t his or her appointed time to go? Who is to say that it wasn’t the exact length of life that God had preordained for that man or woman from the very begin-ning?
In the book of Acts, the apostle Paul says of King David: “For when David had served God’s purpose in his own genera-tion, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers” (Acts 13:36, NIV). David, great a man as he may have been, served his pur-pose in his own generation, and then was taken off the scene.
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That is why we want to make every day count. To paraphrase the words of Moses in Psalm 90:12, “Lord, help us to realize our lives can end on any day, so please show me how to use each day wisely.”
We don’t know when our day will come. We don’t know when we will have “served our purpose to our own genera-tion.” When God calls you home, you’re going home! You can live on vitamin C,
zinc, and Echinacea. You can drink green tea, eat tofu, and avoid all the toxins you can, but when your number is up, your number is up.
God is not done with you yet
On the other hand, you will be around until God is done with you. You won’t go before your time. You may or may not be the healthiest person, but you will live to the time that God has appointed for you… and worrying about it won’t extend your life for one moment.
At the same time, however, we are not to take foolish risks and “put the Lord to the test.”
We can be assured that we are here until God is done with us. As the apostle Paul said, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians. 1:21). So let’s make the most of the lives God has given us.
Missionary Jim Elliot once wrote: “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
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What comes to mind when you consider the concept of death? If it merely represented the end of bio-logical function, death would be little more than a routine part of life. For it to produce a sense of
loss indicates much more meaning attached to it. Death is the departure of something important, someone
loved. It can be a family member, a friend, even a pet. Death comes to visions, institutions and nations. Death can come to the land. A large body of water can have “dead zones” which will not support life.
Many in the Western world consider death an unpleasant subject. It embodies the root of human fear. Some people never get past the ghastly image of the Grim Reaper, an eerie skeletal figure cloaked in black, carrying an hourglass and a scythe to harvest souls from the earth when their time here is up.
While it is a cause of grief in some respects, there are places where death is a reason for festivity. A unique celebration occurs in Mexico each November 2, when families gather on El Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) to pray for and re-member deceased friends and relatives. Immediately following All Hallows Eve (Halloween) and All Saints’ Day (November 1), this holiday honors the dead with private altars. Celebrants visit graves with gifts of food and beverages for the interred.
In Eastern countries, bonfires and funeral pyres are used to celebrate lives. Hindus believe that the soul remains attached to the body until it is released by burning the corpse to ashes.
Some cultures observe the traditional wake – a watch over the body of someone recently deceased. Wakes can be par-ties, serving food and alcohol to commemorate the life of the departed by mixing revelry with mourning. In this country, the wake has been largely replaced by a viewing, where friends and loved ones gather to console surviving family members prior to the funeral.
A Better World
Throughout history, it has been hoped that the dead will leave this world for a better one. Egyptian pharaohs were bur-ied with valuable possessions they would need in the afterlife. Judeo-Christian tradition holds that heaven is the real home of true believers, and their time on Earth is just a temporary sojourn. Virtually every civilization has been influenced by the sense that we will exist forever somewhere, and the way we live in this world determines the quality of life in the next.
Accordingly, we like to think that the way we live will af-fect how we draw our last breaths. But the biblical injunction
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” does not necessarily guarantee an easy death. There are good people who die hard deaths.
All of the 12 apostles were martyred except for John, who nonetheless suffered because of his faith. Tertullian, an early Christian historian, wrote that John was a target of Emperor Domitian’s persecution of the Church in Rome. This account says John was banished to the island of Patmos after being immersed in boiling oil at the Colosseum and displaying no ill effects. It was reported that the entire audience converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle. John lived to the ripe old age of 94.
Legacy
When we think of death, the question surfaces, “Is there a part of me which lives on when my physical house dies?”
Funerals are a great place to reflect on life’s meaning. Anec-dotes and tributes reveal the impact one person’s life makes on many others. They give credence to the meditation of English poet John Donne, “No man is an island, entire of itself… any man’s death diminishes me.”
We shed a tear because someone died who left part of him-self in us. And we celebrate knowing a portion of this person remains alive as long as we do. His legacy continues after him.
A legacy is a gift or inheritance passed from one generation to the next. While it may refer to possessions or wealth, the part of a legacy which lasts is character.
All of us have mentors, those whose lives have helped shape our own. They aren’t the idols our culture pays homage to as “stars,” just as ancient peoples worshipped celestial bod-ies. Our mentors are people with whom we have relationships. We are students who receive a deposit from someone who cares about us enough to impart his most valuable possessions – his convictions. When a mentor dies, we should be prepared to mentor others.
Jesus told a parable about servants who were entrusted with money by their master. A lazy one buried the sum he was given, while the others invested and doubled theirs. When it was accounting time, the master commended the profitable servants for doing well and being faithful, but the lazy servant was castigated.
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Fall is suddenly here. I watch pine needles hurtle like fierce rain into my backyard, turning the green grass a burnt orange from pine needle puddles. Robins collect by the dozens on lawns pocked by busily digging squir-
rels, and geese form their long Vs and swing across the sky.This is the season, I called, when I lived in cold and wintry
western New York State, “My favorite, were it not for what comes after.” And, grumble as I will, the best that I can do is to make sure that I am ready for it, with blankets and boots and shovels, for I know that winter will come in due time, and I must be prepared.
Now, for each of us, something bigger, and longer, than winter is coming into each one of our lives; something also viewed with trepidation and concern: the day of our death. Is there a way to prepare for this, the same as preparing for win-ter’s bleak and bitter blast?
Ziggy, the psychologist’s son in my favorite movie for gloomy days, What About Bob?, says to his roommate for the night, momentarily freaking him out, “You’re going to die. I’m going to die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Yet, instead of terrorizing Bob, his roommate, this state-ment makes Bob realize the pettiness of his constant fears and concerns. It revolutionizes his life, because, in the face of death, what else is there to fear? Not much.
But what, then, do you do with death itself? Is Ziggy right, that there’s nothing you can do about it?
How do you conquer that hollowness of room, that empti-ness of chair, following the loss of a loved one? Or conquer the fear of that which faces each of us, concerning our own coming demise?
Wouldn’t it be great to know that there is something you can do about death? That you might be able to stare death itself in the face and say, “Where, O, death where is your victory? Where, O grave is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV).
You can: by living your life for Christ.
And what is a life lived for Christ? It is a life lived with the endpoint of eternity and God’s kingdom in mind instead of a life that simply stops here.
A life lived for Christ means comprehending the reality of death, yet being filled with hope; that instead of fear and terror of the unknown, death provides instead the doorway to the kingdom of God, where Jesus Christ, our coming King of Love, rules and reigns.
1 Corinthians 15:50 points out that, “Flesh and blood can-not inherit the kingdom of God” (NIV).
And, “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1Corinthians 15:53 KJV).
So, death must come in order for us to enter into the king-dom.
What, then, is the point of our lives, prior to death? What is the point of our struggles and trials? Is it possible that all things here are preparing us for our lives in eternity, for which we were created? (2 Corinthians 5:4,5).
2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV), says, “Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
Is it possible that these relatively small and temporary prob-lems are actually the tools that God is using to make us into what He would have us to be, into the particular being that we will be in eternity, into the image and reflection of His Son?
If this is so, then the life we live here and now for Christ is simply the preparation for what we know is coming: a future in the Kingdom, with Him. And, just as we load up on blankets and boots and shovels here, knowing winter is coming, we can prepare for our forever futures by trusting that the God Who made us knows best the particular tools to use in our lives to get us ready for that very long time to come; because, as Paul reminded us in 2 Corinthians 4:8, “What is seen is temporary – what is unseen is eternal.”
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There is much in our world over which one can mourn. In the midst of a mournful situation myself, I know this well. I also see it all
around me. Devastating floods in Pakistan have swept away thousands of lives. Tele-vision screens and Internet clips broadcast images of crumbling houses and buildings provoked by earthquakes in New Zealand, China, and Chile. Famine, genocide, and political oppression mar the landscapes of the Sudan, Zimbabwe, and the Congo. This is the kind of suffering that goes beyond the depths of sorrow, leaving the bereaved as exiles in the disconsolate realm of mourning.
In our local worlds as well, there are the micro-tragedies and disasters that over-whelm us with different kinds of floodwa-ters. Waves of despair from personal hurts, disappointments, and broken relationships flood our hopes. Infertility, loneliness, and isolation wither dreams like relent-less drought. Losing loved ones to illness or frailty leave fissures and cracks in our souls so deep we wonder if we will ever be whole again.
There is also the mourning that comes from the consistent failings in our personal lives. We do not meet our own expecta-
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Yet to these flood, earthquake, and fam-ine victims of all kinds Jesus speaks an un-likely word of blessing: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” How is it that those whose lives are marked by mourning are blessed? And what is the comfort that is promised?
Author Gerald Sittser believes that those who mourn are blessed “by living authentically in a world of misery.” He continues, “[Sorrow]...expresses the emo-tional anguish of people who feel pain for themselves or for others. Sorrow is noble and gracious. It enlarges the soul until the soul is capable of mourning and rejoicing simultaneously, of feeling the world’s pain and hoping for the world’s healing at the same time. However painful, sorrow is good for the soul.” Sittser doesn’t speak as a detached observer, but as one who is intimately acquainted with mourning. He lost his mother, his wife, and his daughter all in one tragic accident.
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promised comfort to those who mourn will come when we “recover” from our losses and no longer dwell in the realm of mourn-ing. Jesus knew that those crowds who followed him would remain poor, remain hungry, remain the least and the last, and would continue to mourn the suffering of their existence. But he doesn’t reserve blessing or comfort if they cease mourning. Instead, the blessing is extended “to those who mourn” and not in spite of it. Jesus was also a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And consequently, those who put their hope in the God revealed in Jesus do not have to mourn as those who have no hope.
So what is the promise of blessing for those who mourn? It is a mystery that is both available, and yet to come. Blessing becomes available as the mourner allows his or her sorrow to enlarge the heart for a world that mourns with them. It may come as eyes are opened to see streams in the desert, or scout out the distant, dry land in the midst of the flood. In Sittser’s words it is a kind of blessing that recognizes how “life can still be good—good in a different way than before, but nevertheless good.” This kind of blessing is not necessarily easy or quickly gained.
Indeed, the comfort that is promised by Jesus is a future comfort. The verb used in the Greek is in the future tense: “for they will be comforted.” While there is a comfort that comes from being a part of the community of other mourners, a time is coming when God himself will be the Comforter for those who mourn. As it is declared from that future place of com-fort: “Behold, the dwelling of God is with human beings. God will dwell with them, and they shall be God’s people, and God himself will be with them; God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”
Margaret Manning is a member of the speaking and writing team at Ravi Zach-arias International Ministries in Seattle, Washington.
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn by Margaret Manning, A Slice of Infinity, No. 2293, orignally printed September 21, 2010 (www.rzim.org). Used by per-mission of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.
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The object of Christianity is overcoming suffering and evil in the world through strength which comes from Christ. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a timeless classic which chronicles the vic-tories of His followers over everything their detractors could bring against them. Next to the Bible, perhaps no other account demonstrates and imparts such faith in the face of unspeakable agony, from which death was deliverance.
From the persecution of the first Christians to the witch-hunt for English protestants, this saga shows the courage of believers who refused to renounce Christ, regardless of the consequences.
This is not a volume for the faint-hearted. Sadistic torture is described in graphic detail. Its encouragement is how God’s grace enabled victims of corrupt religious leaders and greedy sovereigns to endure to the end. Instance after instance shows them forgiving their tormentors and asking God to do likewise. They faced the horrors of execution gladly because they were considered worthy to suffer for the sake of Christ.
These examples show how God enables us to be unafraid to die, and to overcome the enemy of our souls by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
Jesus in Blue Jeans: Laurie Beth Jones
The third in a series, Jesus in Blue Jeans is an insightful approach to keeping Jesus in the practicality of our daily lives. Similar in presentation as her Jesus, CEO and The Path: Creat-ing Your Mission Statement for Work and Life, Laurie Beth Jones includes short scenarios and pairs them with introspec-tive questions and prayer.
She explains that she had a dream about Jesus in a mead-ow, wearing blue jeans. He asked, “Why are you surprised? I came to them wearing robes because they wore robes. I come to you in blue jeans because you wear blue jeans.” She says she fell in love with Him at that moment. And she brings to the reader the practical Jesus, the approachable Jesus, the Jesus Who is as real today as He was when he walked with his disciples. The Jesus Who is as real today as when He hung on the cross.
Jesus in Blue Jeans is a light and easy read that deals with deep and complex truths and an indication of how we can live out with practicality a constant connection with Christ in our lives.
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How many people around us silently suffer with feelings of isolation, worthlessness, and desperation? That thought doesn’t enter high school star athlete Jake Taylor’s mind until his childhood best friend – whom he abandoned for the sake of popularity – takes his own life for those very reasons. Now,
the world that seemed to hold so much promise for Jake, be-gins to look a lot different. Is he to blame, and can something like this be prevented from happening again?
If nothing else, this movie will prompt you to analyze how well you know the people in your everyday surroundings. Some may very well be teetering on the edge and need a hand to pull them back. The story demonstrates that there are many simple ways to show that someone else’s existence matters and that he or she has value. Who knows... saying hello to a stranger may save a life.
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When working with a lot of different people on different jobs, it stands to reason that sooner or later something
unusual, even extraordinary, will occur.Out of the blue, an old friend contacted
me. Her vacation home had suffered water damage over the winter. The roofing had already been repaired, but the damage inside remained. She knew I did this sort of work, and wondered if I may be able to work on the home or at least point her in the right direction.
My first inclination was to offer her advice only, for a variety of reasons, one of which was the fact she hadn’t been just any old friend. We parted ways amiably, but hadn’t really spoken in depth since then. I was hesitant to even open that door.
I made a fact finding trip to the house alone. Being there had the effect I antici-pated. While surveying the property, a flood of memories smacked me in the face.
Accompanied by my youngest daugh-
ter, we met my friend at the house one Saturday. We talked about the repairs, and then took some time to catch up on what had transpired over the past 27 years. As the details of the job unfolded, it became apparent that, while I was hesitant to step into this situation, it seemed I was the right person to do the work.
The visits to the house and the sub-sequent conversations prompted some contemplation regarding our past. It was a process I foresaw having to walk through, and elected to press on despite the dis-comfort. The thought that this was being orchestrated for us was hard to shake.
The following Sunday morning our worship leader opened with the song “It is Well with My Soul.” As I sang the song, the present situation immediately came to mind. I knew I was midstream of a healing taking place, and thought “this is well with my soul. This is all good.”
But then those churchy goose bumps were interrupted. Was I singing this sin-
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cerely? The answer came quickly - no. So I turned the song into a prayer, and asked “Lord, make this situation more well with my soul.
I sensed a desire to talk to someone. Two of my best friends were out of town together. Some help they were in my hour of need. So I sent off a text to another friend, Joe. He was busy, but would call later.
About this time, I received an e-mail from my friend Bill. He forwarded a story about dealing with the past. The timing was uncanny and I shot a response back to him mentioning this. We discovered a common bond, and thought it prudent to schedule a time to meet for coffee.
The day I started the job, I could tell that something was different already. The only thing that smacked me in the face was the desire to get it done in time for my friend’s vacation. Around day four the reality of the magnitude had set in, so I asked my dad to help me. We spent some quality time together. I even snapped at him a few times and had to apologize. It was beautiful.
Bill and I met for our scheduled coffee. We had one of those heart-to-heart talks that they say men are supposed to have, but rarely do. But this came about very natu-rally, out of a mutual desire to share what light we had which may have applied to our situations. He told me he would be praying for me, and I believed him.
A few days later, Joe called me, and I sat out on the step while we talked and my dad continued slaving away in the house. We exchanged stories of similar events in our lives, another one of those heart-to-hearts that men are told to have. But no one had to tell us. We connected in a way we never had before.
And then there were the occurrences that didn’t involve people at all. The sum-mer so far had been unusually dry. The night before we tore out the ceiling in the bedroom, we had a horrific rain storm. As we removed the old ceiling, we found some soaked insulation. It didn’t take long to trace the leak to a window above the roof, which was easily fixed. The timing of the rain was perfect.
It wasn’t long before another horrific storm hit the area. I was half way home and for some crazy reason thought of the cook top in the kitchen. We had covered the top with plastic and a rug to protect it
while tearing out the ceiling. It had push button controls, but I couldn’t recall where they were. I wondered if there was a chance we could have inadvertently turned on one of the burners.
Of course, I returned to the job. When I arrived, the storm was directly over the house. I found the cook top to be off, but as I was removing the plastic and rug, I heard a dripping sound. Coincidentally, water was coming in a window above the kitchen in the same manner as the first leak we had discovered. Again, the timing was outrageously perfect.
My friend arrived with her family the night before my last day on the job. That last day we talked as I finished up with some painting and miscellaneous jobs. I met her husband for the first time face to face. It was a perfect ending to one story, the perfect beginning to another.
As is the case with many so called rou-tines in life, this wasn’t just a job. God’s fingerprints were all over it. I would sug-gest that it was nothing less than a walking out of Acts 2:42. “And they were continu-ally devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” The “they” in this case was a whole cast of people that I encountered during the job.
In that light, throughout this five week period, I believe it is entirely probable that the Lord brought to mind teaching we have all been exposed to throughout our lives which may have been applicable here. It was no effort to devote ourselves to intimate fellowship with each other, not to mention the local body of believers we meet with on Sundays. Without the “break-ing of bread” – the actual work of Christ Himself represented by that - the work and interactions would have been nothing more than a chore, perhaps an inconvenient one fraught with pitfalls. And to varying de-grees, we held this whole situation before the Lord as it unfolded.
And the fruit of this so-called “devo-tion?” As in any gathering of believers, it brought new life. The relationship between my old friend and I was re-defined. New relationships were birthed. New life was breathed into other relationships in a way that only a sharing of the life of Christ can. We were reminded again of His hand in our lives. And, as an added bonus, an old house got restored.
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Humor in Our FearPerspective
My mother studied nursing at Philadelphia General Hospital, and part of her training was working in the emergency room. This duty has changed little in the decades since she treated accident and crime vic-tims, cared for people with terminal illnesses, and comforted anxious relatives.
I knew her as a nurturing and compassionate person, so it was hard to comprehend when she told me about the morbid jesting and feigned indifference used by the staff to deal with suffering. This was a smoke-screen to shield the merciful nature which prompted them to enter this profession.
When death comes in all its graphic array, isn’t it typical to use dark humor to sidestep the grim-ness and conceal our own pain? This was conveyed on the popular TV program M*A*S*H, when lead character Hawkeye was challenged over joking about the mutilation and anguish of war. “It’s the only thing I can do to keep from screaming,” was his response.
Doctors and nurses aren’t the only ones who use wit to mask their reaction to the distress of others. We all do it.
Fear of death, particularly the manner of its arrival, is not inescap-able. Children don’t fear death; they behave as though they’re invincible. Elderly people can reconcile with death as an end to pain and fatigue. That leaves young and middle-aged adults to grapple with its implica-tions.
One of my memorable brushes with what seemed like certain death came on a whitewater canoeing trip
on the Guadalupe River. This was my first time in a canoe. I was used to the stability of a flat-bottomed rowboat. The swift, easily tipped nature of a canoe was much differ-ent. But I was with friends and didn’t want to spoil the day by chickening out.
After renting our canoe, we started on the beginner’s course. We overturned a couple times before we finally got the hang of it. With three of us in a canoe, one had to be in the middle where an inflated inner-tube was placed, apparently to add buoyancy in case of capsizing. That’s what I was sitting on when we got sideways in the current and the canoe flipped over. Upside down and underwater, I discovered I was wedged so tightly in that inner-tube that I could not get out. Bubbles rose noisily around my ears. Time seemed to stand still. I couldn’t see where the surface was. I thought for sure I would drown.
It paints a laughable picture, like something in the movies. But I was not a good guy fighting to escape a trap laid by enemies. I was a fright-ened novice desperate to figure out which was was up, and hoping to get there.
At the last possible moment, I got free and my lifejacket floated me to to where I could breathe. There I found my companions, bruised from the rocks on the river bottom but oth-erwise okay. So we continued onto the intermediate course.
After eight hours of paddling in the searing Texas sun, we were worn out. We didn’t want to be heroes, we just wanted to be done.
On the other side of the sand bar
was a large, still pool of water which no one was taking. We weren’t too proud to go the easy route. We paddled and glided effortlessly – too effortlessly.
My friend Billy told us to steady the canoe while he stood up to get a better view. When he sat down, he said soberly, “I think we messed up.” The way he said it was both comical and unnerving. We were about to go over a waterfall.
The current was too swift for us to turn around. The only thing we could do was paddle with all our strength to achieve some velocity, and hope to remain upright so we weren’t killed.
I was in the front when we came to the drop-off. Dusty, my other companion, later told me my eyes “got as big as saucers.” From where I sat, it looked like we were about to go over Niagara Falls.
Actually, I think the waterfall was less than 10 feet high. The bow of the canoe went over the edge, straight down, dipped under the wa-ter and bobbed right back up, like we knew what we were doing. I felt like we were with Lewis and Clark.
We calmly made our way to shore, turned in our canoe and waited for the bus to take us back. Inside, the adrenalin rush had scrambled my emotions. I went from mortal fear to the exhilaration of a conqueror – all in the span of a couple minutes.
Now I can tell it as a amusing story. But while it was happening, I thought it was anything but funny. I’ve learned that with time, life’s most stressful events can become humorous.
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