Daily Bible

Yesterday we came to the church to worship the Lord as usual. Unknowingly to us, there would be a funeral at the same time in the next chapel. We have been renting a room in the American church for Vietnamese Christians to have our own services. If we knew beforehand during the week we would have some arrangement so that our brothers and sisters in the American congregation could mourn their death properly. But we were already there at the church so we decided to have the service as usual except that we would low down the music behind closed doors to make sure that we did not disturb the funeral. But some people (not from the American church’s leadership) came to see us and spoke to our faces suggesting that we should cancel the service to the Lord in order to show some respect to the death! We were so surprised to hear such thing from them. What were they thinking? Canceling the service to THE LIVING GOD to show respect to the death? They should understand that we came in not for a mere tea party. If it was the case we would willingly cancel it right away. We did not have any intention to disrespect the death. She was also our sister in Christ although she was in the American congregation. But we came to worship THE LIVING GOD and they wanted us to cancel the service to HIM because of the death of a human being? What were they thinking? We believe a hundred percent that our sister in Christ who just passed away from this world would agree with us in this, because on the other side she already knows that God is real and He is the One we should have to show our utmost respect, not her. But why the others, they are also Christians, did not understand that? Put on a scale, the whole universe cannot compare with our God, why did they think that we should push God aside and cancel the service to Him in order to show respect to a mere human being and a dead one? They should understand that even a king, a president’s funeral was there it were not so important if we have to come to God’s presence. We do not have any intention to disrespect our passed sister or anyone, alive or dead, but all of the combined human race is just a speck of dust on God’ scale. Why they did not understand that and suggested such improper thing like they did? For all those years sitting in the church, what did they learn from the Bible? Our passed sister did not die for them on the cross, but God did, and they wanted God to be push aside so that the death could be respected? Or did they think that because we are just a renter so the service to God, our God and their God, too, should not be respected more than a dead human? The American missionaries came to our land and introduced the faith in Jesus Christ to us more than a hundred years ago, and after we abandoned our ancestor’s idols to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and now those today Christians wanted us to push Him aside so that their death could be respected? We hope that those people with their improper way of thinking were just a few, not a whole American Christian community. Because if the American Christians kept honoring their death more than God Himself, this country will surely have no hope to turn around from the mess in society today. We will remember this verse and all the verses that followed:
(Romans 1: 25) Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen.
(Rô-ma 1: 25) Vì họ đã đổi lẽ thật Đức Chúa Trời lấy sự dối trá, kính thờ và hầu việc loài chịu dựng nên thế cho Đấng dựng nên, là Đấng đáng khen ngợi đời đời! A-men.