Many people think so.
I have heard many say something like: “Let others be the ones who cry, not me,”
meaning they do not want to be the ones who lose and wishing the defeat for the
others.
It is good to cry
because we can do away with any bad feeling any unfortunate circumstance brings
us. But as soon as we can stop, we should cover up the hole in our soul so it
cannot get filled up again with garbage emotions which will harm us and will
not make us get ahead. After the “storm” the “Sun” always shines again, so, Who
is the loser here?
I have had the
opportunity of meeting a lot of people who think different than I do. I am
Christian and I find that rewarding because of the HOPE I enjoy knowing that
someday, not too distant from now, Christ is coming back for me and all who
have believed in Him and committed to the goodness of His will. Some might say:
“What if your ‘hope’ never arrives? You
spend a whole life waiting for something that will never be. You are a loser,
then” Actually when we have the faith on the only ONE who suffered much and
was killed for ANYONE who wants to live eternally, and at the third day He rose
from the dead, we know in out hearts we have won. No matter how bad the pain
may be in the incident we need to cry about, we know God causes all; things
to work together for good to those who love Him, to those who are called
according to His purpose (Romans 8.28) So
we end up smiling. Who loses here?
Yesterday I attended a
celebration of Victory. At the dawn of April 8th 1965, the Baptist Church
in Cuba
suffered a big tragedy that caused many tears when the atheist Communist regime
which still operates there took prisoner some of the Church’s most important
officers: three missionaries (women), forty six pastors and three laics. Now,
50 years later, we remembered the tears shed and sang glories to God. We heard
a few testimonies and learned from some eyewitnesses who were then children in
their parent’s home where the arrests took place, how the government officers
busted in, with bayonets and all their hatred for anyone who preached anything
that wasn’t their “revolution”, into non-armed pacific law abiding homes. Some
of the pastors wives offered the officers coffee, even when they had to suffer insolent
comments, looks and bad attitudes from them. The prisoners were taken to a
common jail until their false cause of conspiring against the “revolution”
would take place in a court of law, where different from here (U.S.,) you are
guilty until proven innocent which is never going to happen if the government
has the last word. (It usually does, so you know who we will be dealing with
there) The pastors embraced each other when they could (I know these things because
I happen to have read the diary of some of them) and knowing about the
imprisonment of the early Christian, they rejoiced for the opportunities of giving
their testimony there and sang, praising God. The atheist guards protested
enraged but the pastors treated them nicely. Some even shared their goodies
with them when their family brought them, later on, on visiting days. Some pastors
did not accept the humiliating treatment of being considered like common
delinquent, but some others did for the love to the Church of God.
The results were that many people had to work hard in those churches to
substitute the absent ones, and the ones disguising their true identity, left;
new faces appeared and learned about the Good News of Christ; and the closest ones
to the prisoners followed their example and are now successful Pastors. After
having been predicted the death of the church in Cuba in 50 more years, the Baptists
churches grew from 89 to 445 plus 508 Missions and 1,932 Worship Homes. From
6,754 members, it is now 25, 450 (not counting the people who left the country,
of course)
The 136 baptisms a
year, grew to 1,767 and the seminars doubled. It was confirmed, then, that the
Victory was The Lord’s. Can you please tell me, who is the loser here?
We can cry for justice
but God will restore us. The Holy Scripture says:
Those who sow in tears shall reap
in joyful shouting (Psalm 126.5)
But in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. (Romans 8.37)
Our only cry will be
of VICTORY in CHRIST!
