The christendom on the 9th of November 2014 experienced yet another tragic lose of life of one of its own, Dr Myles Munroe, his wife and 7 other members of his evangelical congregation on board a lear 36 executive jet which hit a crane at the grand bahama ship yard on its way to freeport for an event put together by Munroe’s organisation, killing all 9 crew. members on board.
Oh what a lose! Was what I exclaimed when the news broke. Why does God have to allow his children die in such tragic and painful manner was the question I asked rhetorically.
I immediately flashed back to how we lost a rare gem and a great woman of God in the person of pastor Bimbo Odukoya, to the cold hands of death in a similar fashion.
At that moment, I questioned the mightiness and existence of God. I wondered and pondered- if truly God exists, why will he allow such things happen to his faithful servants? I started viewing things from the perspective of atheists who believe there’s no God. The incident gave room for so many thoughts like, why do christians have to suffer penury? Why are there no instant answers to prayers? Why couldn’t God do something to rescue them from the crash? My mind became a pool of odd thoughts.
All of a sudden, a voice came from within with a consolation that, no matter the situation, God is still God. He works in ways that no one can fathom. Saying, its not about how a man dies, using the death of our lord Jesus Christ as an instance, but the impact his life made to the human race while on earth.
Dr Myles Munroe, no doubt will forever live on in the hearts of many as he did impact millions of lives all around the world with his teachings. In his last lecture before the tragic incident, he was said to have had premonitions of his death. Here is what he said to some audience in kenya few weeks before he passed on,
‘I want to challenge every Kenyan to go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard. Die like the Apostle Paul who said I have finished my course, I have kept the faith and I have been poured out like a drink offering. There is nothing left. I am ready to die. That’s how I wanna die because there is nothing else for me left to die,’ he told the show’s host, Jeff Koinange. ‘When you die, die like I am planning to die. Empty. It’s finished,’
But then, many christian critics would say, if he had premonition of his death, why does it have to happen in such a fatal and not a glorious way as a faithful servant of God? Like he said in one of his teachings, ‘There are things only God understands, know what you know and thank God for what you know’.
May his gentle soul rest in the bosom of the lord.
