Is “Crying” for Losers?

                                     

 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 8^th 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!