{"id":410,"date":"2013-06-13T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-06-13T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T06:58:10","slug":"sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/2013\/06\/13\/sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The past couple of months have had its ups and downs.\u00a0 Within this short time four babies and one adult from our village died.\u00a0 This obviously has been very hard for all of us living in this community.\u00a0 For centuries the Dinangat people believed that all death was caused by sorcery, and even though most of the people in our village are believers it is often hard for them to leave their old thinking and cling only to the truth found in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Sadly, when anyone dies it\u2019s still common to see the blame game flare up.\u00a0 One of the parents of the babies who died is one of my translation helpers, Asa.\u00a0 He knew that his son died because of the very bad sickness going through the village, but many people blamed him and his wife for being negligent and somehow causing his child to die.\u00a0 There was no basis to these claims, but many people treated Asa and his family with disdain, even damaging some of their gardens and not going to his son\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n

One of the men who was blaming Asa for his son\u2019s death was an unbeliever who only a couple weeks later lost his own child to the same sickness.\u00a0 Asa, although culturally could have treated this man in the same way, chose to go and cry with and comfort this mourning family.\u00a0 This was a huge testimony to the unbelieving man who later said, \u201cI\u2019m amazed at this show of grace. I was one of the people who was mad at Asa and blamed him for the death of his child. I did not visit him when his child died, nor did I go to the funeral. And in spite of that, now Asa sits here with me and carries my burden. This is amazing to me.\u201d\u00a0 God is at work in his people, and even though these trials are terribly hard to go through, the believers are growing and are becoming more like Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past couple of months have had its ups and downs.\u00a0 Within this short time four babies and one adult from our village died.\u00a0 This obviously has been very hard for all of us living in this community.\u00a0 For centuries the Dinangat people believed that all death was caused by sorcery, and even though most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}