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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
“Let us encourage
each other a little.” “Life is a court case.” A professional
witness is there to testify. Since I made my profession of faith in
Jesus, I have become a witness of Jesus and as such I have been testifying of
the love, grace and power of the name of Jesus from day one to this very moment
– at 3:00 AM in the hospital in rehab offer a stroke. For
some people, this might be seen as fanaticism, but to me I cannot but testify
as witness of Jesus of his literal strength in me who is as weak as I have ever
been in my life learning to stand and start to walk again. Silence is not a luxury I can afford as
soldier of Jesus., and I still have his strength
reflected in the lucid mind that our Lord has graciously preserved in my
body.; I refuse to wait until full recovery and “normal” life returns to
me. I want the strength of the Lord to be made perfect in my
weakness. To me, life is like prayer. I do not pray in order to live well
but prayer is living well. In other words, I shall not pray in
order to do the “work” but prayer is the work. Sick or in good health I am of Jesus and
belong to him and for me there is no one in this universe but Jesus “no one but
beautiful Jesus.” I find no meaning in life apart from childlike belief
in Jesus, and prayer in agreement with God under his revealed will according to
scripture that is the only way to be in alignment with God and oneness with the
Father in whom all things are yes and a prayer away in Jesus’ name. Though I
write this letter with difficulty with only my right thumb, it is the joy of
the Lord that is my strength “at the cool of the day” early in the morning. Today it should not be an exception,
even though recently a mean college professor cowardly and with numerical
advantage bullied me in my own house telling me that, “You can talk all you want about Jesus
until the cows come home, but we’re not going to believe in you.” That day I felt like dying that I still
remember not being able to write some words with my own hands because I was
trembling in exasperation. Though I am a soldier trained to fight I
cannot fight “Civil wars or fight with women.” Shortly after that experience I
stopped writing my books by hand completely and I have only written letters by
computer.In fact I trace my “stroke” back to
that day where for the first time in my life after coming to know Jesus I was
terrorized to one inch of my life “alone” with no one beside to defend me, but
Jesus to comfort me later.That experience was so brutal to me that I
should have stopped testifying about Jesus and just waited in silence “until
the cows come home” with the “gag order” imposed on me and honoring their
wishes not to speak but one minute at the time per week.When my peace
did not rest in that place where I was going, I left like shaking the dust of
my feet.I have visited several other congregations looking for “room in
the inn.”I found room and was seen as “as fresh meat” in those places
and I was welcomed and treated well, but I have never felt like joining in oneness
with such bodies for lack of agreement.I write
this letter in the belief of “Jesus in me is still the only hope of glory” and
I pray that no matter what your circumstances are,You might also want to
know that you are where God wants you to be at this time and if your fellowship
with Him has been disconnected, remember that your relationship with God
through Jesus the head of the body has never and will never be severed because
relationship is based on birth and rebirth, while communion or fellowship is
based on behavior and circumstances. Let us rehab together to complete reconciliation and be healthy again by
the generous and gracious healer Jesus the Lord, the head of the body and
therefore the mind of God for us.You might find
very humiliating to start again doing things that a Toddler does masterfully,
but it will be worth it to again be in sweet love and reconciliation with God
and the other members of the body through Jesus the “Minister of
reconciliation.” Let God use our weakness today as only he knows how, as we testify of his
love.Once again, when the fellowship of
agreement with God is broken because of neglect, behavior or sin, the
relationship is never severed because relationship is based on “birth” and once
you are a “child of God”, you are always a child of God forever.As
someone said, “Remember that God will never love you more or less than he
already loves you today.” Remember also that you are created to be
loved. Period. A witness of Jesus has testified, Gerry Gutierrez.
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