Saturday, February 11, 2012
   
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The phenomenon of suffering innocently (III)

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EVEN till today Jesus is being accused falsely.  Some believe He is an impostor.  Some said He fathered children through Mary Magdalene from whom He cast out seven evil spirits.  Many believe Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus “whom (he) loveth much” were his girlfriends.  Others believe He was nothing better than Rasputin, the Russian monk who manipulated one-time Czar of Russia, Nicholas and his wife Alexandra on his finger-tips using the incurable sickness of his son who should succeed to the throne.

...But wisdom is justified of her children.  Matt. 11:19.
These days the devil is rough in his war and devices against Christians and non-Christians alike. He is not waiting till you sin before afflicting you. Even while you are guiltless he wants you to suffer for no just cause.  On the neck of the righteous, he tries to hang a banner on which is written “condemned” and he is employing all manner of tricks in his book and bag to do that. He wants to put a label, a name you do not bear on you and he is doing all this out of utter desperation.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.  Rev. 12:12.
One lady came here to see me sometime ago.   She said “Pastor Oyor , I’m going to my village and if I die, I will prefer to die in my village, I have resigned from my job, and I’m going to my village.”

I had never met her before.  So I asked “Sister, what is the matter?”

She said “I have been accused of stealing three times and I have never stolen a pin all my life. Pastor, the one that broke the camel’s back was the one that happened just now”.   

She was off duty because she had just finished her night shift, and as a nurse at the end of a night-duty, the hospital gives you some days off. When she returned from the holiday, at the gate, the security man said, “Mrs. Mark, where is the carton of paracetamol we are looking for?” Shocked, she replied, “I don’t understand what you are talking about, what happened?”  The gate man replied “we are looking for a carton of paracetamol and we are sure you took it”.  She just ignored the gate man because she believed all he was saying was nonsense.  But you know, even her best friend walked past, as she went in to call her a thief.

After she settled down, the medical director of the hospital called her and said “yeah Mrs. Mark, where is the carton of paracetamol that we are looking for?”  Embarrassed, she recalled what the gate man had said and how her friend had addressed her, so she asked,  “When was it discovered missing, sir?”

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