We dedicate our December programming to our recent trip to Cuba. We not only took medicine, vitamins, and computer equipment to Cohimar Church of Christ but also gathered a lot of material regarding the current situation in Cuba. There has been a lot of changes in Cuba since our last mission trip, especially after covid restriction on tourism, which is a major part of their country revenue. We witnessed great polarization of Cuban society, not seeing in the past and not only in economic sense but also in spiritual and psychological. Quite a number of Catholic Churches, which was predominant before the Cuban revolution, are now functioning and we saw a lot of people coming in for services as well as for personal prayers. Synagogues, Russian Orthodox Church, Islamic Mosque keep their doors opened for those, who want to find God, and want to inquire Faith in eternity. On the other hand, a lot of people are dissatisfied with the economic situation and only think about how to get out of Cuba in any way possible. They put their life and psychological vision into this task, forgetting about everything else.
As we see again and again, in many countries and communities around the world, financial pressure can sway people into despair. Indeed, economical aspects of life is a very important part of our daily wellbeing, but should we forget about our faith, about our beliefs, about God?
CHRIST THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by Me” (John 14:6)
It is the saying of an old divine, that God often orders it, that when He is in hand with the greatest mercies for us, then we are most of all sinning against Him; which He doth to magnify His love the more. In the words I have read, we find an example of this. At no time did the heart of Jesus overflow with a more tender and more sovereign love to His disciples, than when He said, “Let not your heart be troubled.” They were troubled by many things. He had told them that He was going to leave them; He had told them that one would betray Him, that another would deny Him, that they would all be offended because of Him that very night; and perhaps they thought He was leaving them in anger. But whatever the cause of their trouble was, Jesus’ bosom was like a vessel full to overflowing, and these words were the overlapping drops of love: “Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me.” Surely such words of confiding tenderness were never whispered in this cold world before; and oh, then, think how cold, how dark, how dull is the question with which Thomas breaks in upon the heavenly discourse: “Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way?” And yet how condescendingly does Jesus bear with their cold-hearted dullness! How lovingly does He begin the very alphabet of salvation with them, and not only answers, but over-answers Thomas, gives him more than he could ask or think. Thomas asked about the way and the place: but Christ answers: I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” Regarding this, as a complete description of the gospel of salvation, let us go over the different parts of it in our program “Life with Jesus Christ”.
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