The following article, I authored and was published in a Contact magazine Spring of 2019, last year sometime through The Light House Church of Kuwait, Senior Pastor Gerald Goldbeck, is the story of bringing the Word of God to life through our very hands, and with our very physical being. It’s the essence, and my heart’s desire, for this website, and the Youtube Channel 9113BC.Org to blossom into; a place where disciples, or followers of Christ Messiah King can experience through articles, videos and audio formats, what it means to put Christ’s teachings into practice in our daily lives. Through a daily communion with Christ in His Word, the Holy Scriptures.
Walking with God is a marathon, as sojourners in this lifetime journey, every moment in our lives is a test such as Yahweh tested the heart of Israel in the wilderness for forty years. A moment in which we can allow Christ to shine through it, and let His GLORY be witnessed through our very lives as we are used for the purpose of Kingdom business, bringing others to the feet of the one and True Messiah, King and Master of our lives.
The journey is not an easy one. It’s also a place of solace, and solitude. Solace for Christ brings us peace, joy, love, compassion and breathes life into our challenging circumstances, and situations. Solitude, because there will be times when everyone around you kneels to the Golden Calf Statue in the wilderness or the 10 foot golden statue of Nebedcanezzer before the multitude of unbelievers or fearful believers as well. Let us be strengthened by the POWER of YAHWEH, for it is HE who firmly holds us together, and we stand. For in our standing, Christ, the Angel of the Lord will be in the midst of us, within us, and around us. For the eyes, witnessing our actions, will be encouraged, and strengthened in their spirits to stand. Let us be an inspiration, an encouragement, a lifter of spirits, and a breath of life for the lifeless, and an omnipotent light for the blinded.
I hope you enjoy the article. It’s the banner and the initial launch of this website’s first blog. Please leave your comments or send us your testimonies, in the form of video, audio or PDF doc via email on our submission form that’s throughout the website
On These Two Commandments
After several hours of notifying the staff via the intercom and pressing the nurse’s buzzer on the beds as well as trying the orderlies at the front desk, of the dire situation with their patient, my detainee, I acknowledged that I was given the opportunity to bring scripture to life. Though I couldn’t stand the foul smell of this unbathed vagrant, with days old sweat, urine, and fresh excrement oozing from the bed sheets, he was one of God’s flock, another one of His lost sheep.
The hospital’s silence was broken by the cling, clanging of the shackles on the metal guard rails of the bed. His eyes looked into mine in timid shame, as I finished the final touches…cleaning his waste off his privates and buttocks.
I changed the sheets, gave him a sponge bath, and freshened him up like new. The rest of the night he would ask if I could take him to the rest room. His uncontrolled trembling from his alcohol withdrawals was extremely bad. It broke my heart to tears seeing this empty soul, a pale, frail skeletal frame in such suffering.
Ensure public safety, maintain order, and escort prisoners throughout the facility…that was my job description.
Now an unforgettable moment as a Corrections Officer was taking place in my life. That day, however, I was more than just a caretaker. That day…my soul was overwhelmed with so much incomparable love…I just let Christ do His work through my hands…I loved my neighbor.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:37
