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The Bible’s Lone Voices Suffered

04 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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Suffering

 

But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection. Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons. Some died by stoning, some were sawed in half, and others were killed with the sword. Some went about wearing skins of sheep and goats, destitute and oppressed and mistreated. They were too good for this world, wandering over deserts and mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground. ~ Hebrews 11:35b-38, NLT

 

Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting,
‘Clear the way through the wilderness
    for the Lord!
Make a straight highway through the wasteland
    for our God!’ ~ Isaiah 40:3, NLT

 

He is a voice shouting in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord’s coming!
    Clear the road for him!’ ~ Mark 1:3, NLT

 

Voices crying in the wilderness usually are lone voices. Although today these lone voices might have hundreds or thousands of supporters and/or followers, for the most part the toughest yet most corrective godly messages the greatest of these lone voices CRY (communicate, convey, reveal…) only are received and applied by a faithful few. Moreover, it is sad to say, but past and present lone voices often suffer some of the most painful and cruelest deaths (whether physical, emotional, financial, and so on), usually at the hands of their countrymen, relatives, friends, and/or religious associates.  

There is a biblical pattern, which proves the above statements to be true. While many great voices crying in the wilderness were tortured, ridiculed, whipped, chained, and so forth, the Bible’s greatest crying in the wilderness voices are those belonging to the most righteous and most faithful children of God who (because of the hard to swallow Divine Truths they shared) were, for instance, either sawed in half [Isaiah], or stoned to death [Stephen], or beheaded [John the Baptist], or killed with a sword [James the brother of John], or crucified [Jesus Christ].

Therefore, for the people in today’s churches and ministries to think that because they are serving God and humanity their service is reason enough why they should be guaranteed lives free from sorrow (griefs, hurts, sufferings, troubles, torments, pains, and etc.), and lives abundantly graced (favored) with inner circles overflowing with very close reliable, supportive, and encouraging family members and friends, are merely deluding themselves. They have set themselves up for a Humpty-Dumpty fall.

It is important to note here that Humpty-Dumpty is not just an old nursery rhyme children, for over a couple of centuries, have memorized (the earliest known version of this rhyme was published in 1797). Additionally, a shattered Humpty-Dumpty is an old folk metaphor that has been used to describe the after-effects of moral failure, idolatry, and public fall from grace.   

Now one of the often hard truths to swallow today is that many of the people who declare they are servants of God and mankind, sadly, often are just so-called Christ followers who are in friendships with the world.  Several of them are living mostly sunny lives filled with wealth, good health, happiness, and ample family members and friends who always are dependable, accommodating and reassuring. Besides that, these wealthy, healthy, and happy – assumed to be servants of God and humanity – primarily are just preaching and teaching feel-good messages, in usually feel-good and seeker-friendly churches or ministries.  

What’s more, many of these alleged servants of God and individuals also are teaching and preaching salvation guarantees ALL saved believers that their Lord and Savor received all of the bad and cruel things this world offers so that His saints would be free to receive all of this world’s “good” things. This belief often is called the “Divine Exchange.” The result of this Divine Exchange is that many so-called followers of Christ Jesus not only are believing they exchanged their sins for His perfection, but also they are believing they honor their Lord’s sacrifice the most when they completely are trusting that He will, at all times and in all circumstance, provide them with wealth, health, and happiness.

The purported servants of God who are the foremost promoters of the “come to Jesus and get all of your problems solved” gospel, which includes preaching and teaching on the Divine Exchange belief, often infer that believers are not living God’s promised abundant lives, if their winning souls for Christ Jesus ministries are resulting in those believers being unemployed, impoverished, or in debt; stressed, anguished, or unhappy; emotionally, spiritually, or physically sick; and/or facing unimaginable trials or tribulations. These same supposed servants of God who are major proponents of the “come to Jesus and get all of your problems solved” gospel also proclaim that believers in churches and ministries who are suffering financially (without any or do not have many partners, benefactors, supporters, givers, contributors), or are suffering physically and emotionally, are doing so because they are weak in the faith and/or are unequivocal backsliders.

However, the apostle Paul says that servants of God show that they are true ministers of God in everything that they are doing, when they patiently are enduring “…troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind” and patiently enduring having “…been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food” (2 Corinthians 6:4b-5, NLT). Paul adds:

We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors. We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything. ~ 2 Corinthians 6:8-10, NLT

The apostle Peter also teaches something totally different than the “come to Jesus and get all of your problems solved” gospel and/or “come to Jesus and be abundantly blessed with church or ministry financial success, good health, and happiness. Peter writes:

Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.

If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs. But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name! For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News? And also,

‘If the righteous are barely saved,
            what will happen to godless sinners?’

So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you. ~ 1 Peter 4:12-19, NLT

For today’s believers who are in the Lord’s ministry, the bottom line is this: If everybody loves you, then somebody is lying to you. If everybody likes you, then you are not preaching and teaching the unadulterated Gospel of Christ. Furthermore, if nobody is talking about you, then you are not doing anything worthy for anybody to talk about, neither in a positive nor in a negative way. You definitely aren’t living a holy and righteous lifestyle, like Christ Jesus lived. Lastly, if you never are sad or grieving, then you aren’t living at all!

To believe otherwise just means, as previously mentioned, you have set yourself up for a Humpty-Dumpty fall. Thus, when your morality fails you, or when your idol status is revoked and no one worships you anymore, or when you actually fall from grace and shatter into millions of pieces—too many for your reliable, supportive, and encouraging family members and friends to put you back together—perhaps then you will believe and trust in what the Word of God says about suffering, which mainly is that the suffering of trials not only proves your character and integrity but also tests the object and quality of your faith (cf. James 1:2-4).

Finally, maybe a Humpty-Dumpty fall is what it had to take before many of us would understand that God uses all kinds of sufferings as His tools to get our attention, so He can influence us (via His Word and His Holy Spirit) to fulfill His purposes for our lives—godly purposes which might never include financial success, good health, happiness, as the world knows them, nor a life surrounded by countless supporters and encouragers who are family members and friends. Instead, maybe His chief purpose for our lives all along has been for us to join the impressive list of holy, righteous, and powerful lone voices, of which none were very wealthy (neither with money and material possessions nor with large numbers of supportive and encouraging family members and friends), not all of them were 100% healthy, and very few were happy (according to how the world defines happiness)! 

Selah (pause and calmly think about that). Amen.

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BUILDING OUR OWN FAITH!

31 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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Build Your Faith

And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].  Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. ~ Mark 11:22-23, AMP

For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him. ~ Romans 12:3, AMP

Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).  [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. ~ Philippians 2:12-13, AMP

 

In order to remain spiritually strong and spiritually healthy, we must EXERCISE our individual spiritual Faith muscle! It’s our responsibility to build our own Faith muscle! If our own Faith is weak, flabby, atrophic (wasting away, withering), or false, then it is our own fault – NOT God’s!

It is so sad but so true that most people strongly dislike exercising—they have an acute aversion to physical workouts. Even though they know that physical exercise is “good” for them, because it will strengthen their muscles, strengthen their bones, improve their mental health, improve their mood, control their weight, and etc., they often put off exercising primarily because they know that in order to obtain their goals they first must allot plenty of time and expect to experience much bodily pain.

Now it appears that the abovementioned reasons for why most people put off exercising (too time consuming and too painful) are not only the same reasons why many of God’s children have an intense distaste for physical exercise and, thus, will avoid doing it, but also the reasons why they often have no desire to engage in spiritual exercise. Too many people who say they are followers of Christ Jesus seem to have no desire to devote the time nor any desire to endure the pain it will cost them to do what it takes to increase the strength in or gain more power for their Faith muscle. This, however, is the undeniable truth as to why their spiritual Faith muscle repeatedly fails them in their times of need, and why they repetitively are asking/begging God to give them more Faith or to increase the strength and power levels of their Faith.  

The above-stated physical and spiritual exercise analogy is why this blogger does not understand why so many Christians keep teaching and preaching that WE should ASK God to INCREASE and/or STRENGTHEN our Faith, or give our Faith MORE POWER. The Divine Truth is that God already has given each one of us OUR own measure of Faith (the degree of Faith apportioned by God), which is our individual portion of His Faith! For this reason, He doesn’t need to increase or strengthen or empower our individual Faith any more than He heretofore has done, because He has given us ENOUGH Faith to make us born again believers, to make us victorious saints, and to make us powerful followers of Christ Jesus—powerful enough to literally move mountains, which means that even if our measure of Faith is as small as a grain of mustard seed It still is strong enough and powerful enough to remove a mountain from where it is located on land and throw it into the sea (see Mark 11:22-23 also Matthew 17:20)!

Furthermore, God’s Word tells us that our mountain-moving measure of Faith automatically INCREASES and/or gets STRONGER and becomes more POWERFUL when we put our own measure of Faith to use—when we EXERCISE our own measure of Faith by WORKING OUT our own Salvation (see Philippians 2:12-13), and by evaluating our God-given ability with sober judgment in accordance with our own measure of Faith (see Romans 12:3). Once again, God gave all of us who are His sons and daughters everything we need to live holy, righteous, and victorious lives on this Earth (see 2 Peter 1:3), and that EVERYTHING includes more than enough Faith!

Let there be no doubt about it. It is our responsibility to live out our God-given Faith in Christ Jesus, even more so during the many storms of life that come our way! Unfortunately, it is sad but true that the painfulness we encounter that causes most of us to have an aversion to working out our own Salvation happens every time we EXERCISE our own spiritual muscle of Faith while we are facing the various kinds of storms that frequent our individual lives.

Oddly enough for many believers in Christ Jesus, it is because most of us frequently can’t understand why God didn’t keep us from the soreness, distress, and other unpleasantness we suffered in our past storms that we often stop exercising our Faith, while we are in a present storm. This very poignant and unquestionable truth is why we all need to understand this also very frustrating yet undisputable Truth: God allows us to weather the storms (to be all right in spite of experiencing great difficulties and/or serious problems) that come into our lives so that we realistically can evaluate (judge, appraise, determine) just how fake or true, weak or strong, flabby or firm, atrophic or developed, and/or powerless or powerful our own Faith is in the God we say we love, we obey, and we TRUST! Our evaluation definitely will show us just how spiritually strong and spiritually healthy we are, as well as point out how important it is for us to continue with our Faith’s spiritual workout regime.

 

A word to the wise should be sufficient.  Shalom . . . .

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New Orleans: My Personal Ruminations

09 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Natural Disasters

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Written in Foshan, China on September 3, 2005

After viewing nearly hundreds of photographs depicting Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, surprisingly, the dominant image that is on my mind is that of what I witnessed when I was in New Orleans in 1992. As the President of Kappa Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., I was expected to attend as many of the Regional and National Sorority Boules (Conferences) that were held while I was in office. The 1992 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. National Boule, then, is what took me to New Orleans, or the Big Easy as it also is called. There I discovered that the Big Easy is everything that this nickname suggests, which is how easy it is to find, here, in the city of New Orleans, that which a person might not be able to find elsewhere.

While attending my Boule, I had the opportunity to see firsthand what my college students had reported to me after they had returned from their spring vacations spent in New Orleans. Moreover, what I had witnessed, either from my Canal Street hotel window or from my stroll down the infamous Bourbon Street, as well as throughout the French Quarter, was how big and easy this city’s residents and visitors were on sexual immorality, underage drinking, and every form o debauchery and abuse that is associated with boozing, drugging and wild partying that New Orleans seemed to encourage doing—anything and everything that was so big and, therefore, so easy to spiral out of control. These images I saw far exceeded those I had imagined from my students’ tales. Indeed, of all of America’s major cities, it would seem that only in New Orleans could the world witness people’s basic nature that not only was thriving but also was continuing to be condoned.

I do not want to diminish the distress, loss, hurt and pain that sufferers from New Orleans and other cities recently encountered, nor do I wish to diminish the hope and faith that Hurricane Katrina’s survivors and their families, as well as countless caring observers, have shown. Nothing but disaster was blowing in Hurricane Katrina’s winds, and noting but relief, comfort, mercy, and unconditional love should be given to the persons these destructive and deadly winds have touched. Yet, as I look back at the time when I visited New Orleans, I remember how distressed my spirit was from seeing the in-my-face unrighteousness and ungodliness that I had beheld when I walked those French Quarter streets. Furthermore, at any time of the day on any given day, anyone could witness the same kinds of in-your-face wickedness that I saw–sex shops, sex dens, year-round Mardi Gras drunkenness, muggings, fisticuffs, and so forth.

During the whole week or so that I was in New Orleans, I often thought of the Scriptures that Christ spoke about in reference to the end times and His second coming:

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:26-29)

With these Scriptures in my mind, I also couldn’t help but think that some God-ordered judgment awaited this city if the people in it, specifically in the Bourbon Street French Quarter area, did not turn from their wicked ways. Then I wondered why something like Hurricane Katrina would hit New Orleans and affect so many of the innocent, poor, destitute, and the God-seeking individuals more so than it affected the French Quarter degenerate folks. Fact of the matter is, the majority of these degenerates had hightailed it out of the French Quarter on Sunday, before the storm hit.

Whether Hurricane Katrina is a form of God’s Divine wrath on New Orleans, the epicenter of the crisis, or not, only He knows for sure. But what is certain is that He allowed this hurricane to leave behind a deluge that resembles, in some measure, that of the flood in Noah’s (Noe’s) day. Ironically, though, unlike Lot’s Sodom and Gomorrah that completely were destroyed, and are today the Dead Sea, the French Quarter, although damaged somewhat from the hurricane’s winds and the rising floodwaters resulting from two breached levees, seems to have been spared from the worst flooding. The out-of-control looting is what is taking its toll on the French Quarter.

Still, as aforementioned, the innocent, poor, destitute, and God-seeking individuals who died from the floodwaters, and those who died in the Superdome, Convention Center and other refugee shelters while waiting for food, water, and medical assistance, have seemed to suffer the most in Katrina’s wake. Human lives and property losses for the surviving family members have reached astronomical highs. For these reasons it is plain to see how so many believers tend to have their will to serve God broken by what they may perceive to be as God’s crushing yoke–the deaths and homelessness caused by the hurricane. Disaster like this one often have become too much for many believers to bear.

Meanwhile, those who seem to go untouched by the hurricane, like many surviving French Quarter people, are reported as celebrating their survival by visiting a bar on Bourbon Street where they are enjoying some of their favorite drinks. One such French Quarter person is quoted here:

‘You know what? There’s a reason why we’re called Saints,’ the 53-year-old tour booker said Monday as she communed with 20 or so other survivors. ‘Because no matter what religion you are, whether you’re Catholic, whether you’re voodoo, whether you’re Baptist or so on, so on, and so on–we all pray. We all pray. I’m not a religious fanatic. But God saved us.’ (”French Quarter survives onslaught” by Allen G. Breed)

God forbid if the ungodly actions that take place on Bourbon Street and throughout the French Quarter are considered in the least bit to be “saintly.” Furthermore, if indeed the prayers of these French Quarter Catholic, voodoo, Baptist, and whatever denominations or religions of people represented here by this speaker, were answered, then it is easy to see why born-again, totally-surrendered believers often have their will to serve God broken by what appears to be His alleged answering of the perceived “lost” souls’ prayers but supposed denial of the perceived “true” saints’ prayers. It is, thus, in times like this, that even real “saints” question: if God really loved all of His people and really didn’t want any of them to suffer, then how does He account for what has just happened in New Orleans?

I have asked myself this question, starting on day two of the storm, and I have continued to ask myself it as I look at the rampant lawlessness and senseless deaths now occurring on the streets in New Orleans. I don’t have any answers that would help people who were in the midst of this kind of storm, other than to tell them my usual, which is “to focus on God, and to trust that God will work everything out for your good because only He sees the bigger picture. Things aren’t always as they seem so that is why it is important to remain Christ-centered at all times.”

This answer, to me, even as I write it, in light of all that has happened in New Orleans, sounds weak and somewhat depressing, when it should sound powerful and always uplifting. Nevertheless, things aren’t always as they seem, and God, despite how things look at present, is still in control. While it might appear that the floodwaters did less in destroying the sexually immoral, drunken, proud, indifferent-to-the-needs-of-others people in New Orleans’ French Quarter, as it did in destroying innocent, poor, destitute and God-seeking lives of born-again believers and doers of good who did not patronize the hotels, sex stores, and bars in the French Quarter, the end-time promise is not that the wickedness in this world will be wiped off the Earth again by water, but rather by fire!

Consequently, I have determined that only the hope and faith that born again, sold out for Christ believers have in this, or similar, disastrous situations are what matters most to God. We must have the hope and faith that our God, indeed, will see all of His people through any and every storm, especially when His true saints (whites, as well as every person of color) keep their eyes focused on Him. We must cling more to this hope in His promises and our faith in Him to fulfill those promises, instead of questioning why me, or why them. No matter how much we really might want to know God’s every move, we must understand that how and when He moves in our lives might not be ours to know. What we can count on is His Divine Intervention manifesting itself in mysterious ways. We can count on the biblical Truth that He knows what the end will be. We also can know with certainty that we will reap what we sow, and that God will be the final judge of every deed that we say and do in our bodies—no matter whether our works are good or bad.

So, let us, therefore, continue to pray for Hurricane Katrina’s sexually abused, impoverished, homeless, missing and grieving kin of deceased individuals, and let us move forward, doing all that we can to help this storm’s survivors rebuild that which can be rebuilt in their lives. This is not the time to focus on New Orleans’ decadence or our government’s ineptitude and poor response to the needy, but rather it is a time to look inside our own hearts and determine if we are truly the people we say we are–if we are the redeemed, justified, sanctified, holy and righteous children of a merciful, loving, forgiving, and “living” God.

Furthermore, everyday of our lives, let us do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8), for this is what is required of those of us who love the Lord. God’s dealings with and judgments on the New Orleans French Quarter lifestyles, as well as the other unholy and unrighteous kinds of living going on in various places all over this world, will be, as Paul Harvey says, “the rest of the story.”

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