Editor's Letter - 3rd issue
I said farewell to my friend Steve this month.
If I am to identify myself with a character in Scripture for the past few years, it would be a forgettable disciple from the masses who followed Christ, a fickle fellow that vacillated from earnest imitator to the greatest silent enemy. No one sets out to be forgettable or fickle. No one wants to be known as the guy who is one day standing on rooftops urging people to go follow the wonderworker from Nazareth and the next day disappear to be later found in a pig sty, wallowing in his own failure.
The Great Fast, the Lenten period, is a time that prefigures the Final Judgment: where the chaff is separated from the wheat. It becomes obvious from Christ's perspective, just from looking at the masses flocking into churches, who is a true follower and who is a forgettable one.
My friend Steve followed in the footsteps of the Lord Christ in everything he did. He dealt with the hurting like Jesus did with the Samaritan woman, he challenged his critics like Christ spat sinless venom at the Pharisees, and he went after the discarded souls and cared them back into godly life like the Good Samaritan. I miss Steve greatly and when I said goodbye to him at the airport, I didn't want him to leave, my muted tears testament to that.
For if he left, who else would I hide behind when it was time to be fickle?
Midiane
Editor, Efmevi.
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