SO DR. MYLES MUNROE IS DEAD? If there ever was something like a spiritual father I would consider this is one man as such; not just to me, but also many others, I imagine. In every nation there would be fathers, not just of or to those nations in general terms but also in spiritual terms as spiritual fathers. I consider Dr. Myles Munroe a father in the faith. A father ordinarily would be one such as a biological father, but in matters of the faith a father would be something far different even if both may be considered to share certain features. A father in the faith may be considered in some quarters to be something of a mentor, but it goes beyond that. Such a person like an Apostle would be used by God to introduce certain things and concepts to and among the faithfuls. God used this man greatly in my life, and for this I will be eternally the better for it, and by extension those whom God will also use me to reach. Through Dr. Munroe God introduced several concepts to me, notably: - The matter of Purpose: everything created has a creator and a purpose, where purpose is not known abuse is inevitable, purpose therefore is to be found in the mind of the creator of the thing; hence if we desire purpose we must discover the creator and go to this creator for purpose; - The matter of Vision; - The matter of Leadership; - The matter of the Kingdom of God as contrasted against the matter of being born again; - The matter of fulfilling purpose and dying empty. However there is something else which God used Dr. Munroe to do in my life which cannot be “hidden” among others in a list, which is the fact that through him I came face to face with the Prophetic ministry. In this regard the man preached just one message and it was enough to ignite the prophetic in me. The man was simply great. I first met him in 1994 and right away something about his delivery both intrigued and challenged me: the man seemed to know everything. And then there was his confidence, he spoke as one who knew his subject (and language), never at a loss for words, rather always able to find the right words to make his point. He simply had a way with him. And I followed him even if sometimes from afar. Then the man died. You can imagine that this was quite a shock to me, and it sent me dovetailing into the melancholy. In fact one of my associates was so moved he decided to commence a period of fasting and mourning until God spoke the following words in his heart: “Do not let your appointments take my place in your heart”, and that was enough to stop him. So the man died, and as I considered the circumstance of his demise one piece of scripture along with certain other comments I saw on facebook came to mind. It says in Isaiah 57:1-2, “The righteous perish and no one lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness”. It says the righteous dies and no one takes it to heart; in trying to fulfill the essence of this piece of scripture I must consider (lay to heart) the death of this man whom as I know was used by God to reach me if no one else. We are told his plane crashed against a crane and then exploded before falling to the ground, and several people died with him. This obviously describes a violent death. Then I must ask myself, according to Isaiah 57:1-2, is this how God chooses to take his men home? If he says in scripture that “they shall rest in their beds”, does that not depict a peaceful departure? Then why this?. Two comments I saw on facebook should also help us in taking this man’s death to heart. The first one wondered if the man had failed to heed the inner warning signal which should have told him not to be on that particular flight. The other one puts to question the matter of his owning a private jet, which in itself is suggestive of affluence. We are perhaps now blaming pilot error and perhaps bad weather and possibly the maintenance of the aircraft itself. Whatever human or machine error turns out to be the cause of this tragedy, the big question remains, could God have averted the death of this great man (of his)? Did God want this man to remain alive, otherwise why did he not warn the man about the flight? Those who have experience with God know that inner warning signal which he often uses to discourage us from certain things. I know Dr. Munroe also knew this voice having spoken about it severally; could it be he was warned but failed to heed? Could it be his engagements or appointments crowded out the voice of God in his heart? Please let us understand, my purpose here is not to bring the man into any form of disrepute but perhaps to bring a warning to those yet alive. So was the man’s life cut short or was he taken away earlier than necessary? Did he fulfill his own words of dying empty so as not to populate the graveyard with more unrealized dreams? Did he fulfill God’s purpose, and so was the timing of his death that of God. Did God allow this man to die for reasons not yet disclosed? We really may never know all the answers, but there are certain things which we must pay immediate attention to: 1 – that the man died means after all he was still a mere mortal. That should help adjust our thinking of ourselves, no one is infallible, no one is as yet incorruptible – in so far as we are in this carnal body. It should help keep our egos in check not to think of ourselves beyond the measure of God. 2 – If indeed he died early then the question of purpose comes in, for early means before he had opportunity to finish his course. To help us understand, consider that had Moses died at age 60 like Dr. Munroe now, he certainly would have died earlier than the time to fulfill his purpose. Had Moses died in Egypt before the wilderness he might have received a state burial as Pharaoh’s son, but it would have been too early because in Egypt he was still “being prepared for ministry or destiny”; had he died in the wilderness we might have called him a great servant or even shepherd, but that would have been unfortunate because from God’s perspective - which should always be our perspective - the man was even at that time still being prepared for his ultimate, that of shepherding God’s people out of Egypt and bringing them to worship at Sinai. 3 – If indeed God took the man or allowed his time to be cut short, then we must entertain the matter of why. I mentioned earlier that somebody questioned his owning a private jet for not only is this a display of affluence, but in the face of other considerations, might this have been an offence to God? With this in mind, we must consider other reasons for which God might have allowed him to be cut off. Could the man have been in some secret sin, could the man have simply been in the wrong place, or could it have been for other reasons? We do know that Moses mentioned above was removed by God because he did something out of anger and it amounted to disobedience to God: he had dishonoured God by his action, and it was sufficient to cause him to be removed. Perhaps in this light we better understand a certain principle with God: if a righteous man leaves his righteousness and becomes a sinner his previous righteousness will count for nothing and he will be judged on the basis of his sinfulness; however if a sinner turns from his sin to righteousness his previous sin will be forgotten and he will be judged by his righteousness. 4 – if we want to say as usual that the devil got him, then that only points at several other painful facts: - Is the devil more powerful than God, or perhaps we let God down once again; - Did God not say the gates of hell will not prevail against his church, so what’s going on? - If the devil got him does that not indeed confirm that he was really mortal? Does that in itself not warn us to be careful to stay on God’s side even more? If as someone has already said, that God has said that the death of Dr. Munroe was a sign to the rest of us, then we must consider. What is a sign? An event or occurrence which points at or draws attention to something else. What might God – who does nothing without a purpose – be trying to tell us in the death of Dr. Myles Munroe? Are we even listening? Perhaps if we considered the circumstance of his death we would indeed hear something!
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:39:18 +0000
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