With every passing of time my heart is aching and indeed is unable to come to terms with the news of your passing on. How I have wished it was just a bad and horrible dream for atleast then I would wake up and you were still with me, the jovial friend with a heart of gold and a long tender and loving embrace . Sadly the reality is the other way that indeed you are no more, you have crossed the abyss and there is no coming back . What have I but the memories of the time we spent together, back in high-school serving the Christian union, back in your days as the prayer coordinator,.. The teacher students you held with all passion and diligent teaching,... I specifically remember you teaching on the four D's of failure,;Discouragement, Deception, Denial, Discontentment. How they remain etched in my mind.
With every photo of you am seeing around, with your broad shining smile, it hurts to see all that gone, your accommodation will remain unequalled. A true and faithful servant you were with utter devotion in your endeavors.
Much as there is sure hope of meeting you again the truth is it's devastating thia way.
However I won't be ignorant of the fact that to God you were devoted and yes there is hope that though you have crossed the abyss, you're not lost, you are more alive than you ever were,.. You are now beholding whom your heart loved and cherished.
And yes that gives me consolation , that yes from this world of corruption you have departed to that of no corruption, and that when Christ appears you too with Him you will appear in glory, oh what a glorious day.
And indeed your sleeping in the Lord is not in vain for your good deeds follow you, and though dead you shall live am reign with Christ forever.
I have much to pen down but the song by Richard Baxter is the best way to end it all,..
Lord, it belongs not to my care
Whether I die or live:
To love and serve Thee is my share,
And this Thy grace must give.
If life be long, I will be glad
That I may long obey;
If short, yet why should I be sad
To welcome endless day?
Christ leads me through no darker rooms
Than He went through before;
He that into God’s kingdom comes
Must enter by this door.
Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet
Thy blessed face to see;
For if Thy work on earth be sweet,
What will Thy glory be!
My knowledge of that life is small,
The eye of faith is dim;
But ’tis enough that Christ knows all,
And I shall be with Him.
Yes indeed my knowledge of the life you have gone ahead of me to experience is small, of a truth the eye of faith is dim, BUT its enough Christ knows it all and YOU ARE WITH HIM
️️Forever in my Heart brother Joseph Thuo Chuaga️️