Day before yesterday I was listening to one of Rev David Wilkerson’s sermons from a couple of years ago, where he joked about how his children are all fighting over who gets to keep his bible when he dies. Yesterday, I laughingly mentioned this to my sister. Yesterday, Revered David Wilkerson left us to be with Jesus.
When I was read the news this morning on the World Challenge website, my first instinct was to stare at my laptop screen and then kneel down in prayer and burst into tears. Thing is, I’ve never met this man, this magnificent solider of God. I only listened to him, listened to his sermons every night, awed by the moving power of the Holy Spirit that literally flowed out of his voice. God spoke through him when I was weak and alone and renewed my faith and gave strength and solace.
I usually can write on and on but I have no idea what to say right now. Words are failing me, as clichéd as it sounds, I just can’t find words that are proper enough to describe what a wonderful gem of God was David Wilkerson. A man who devoted his life to serving Jesus, to the point of leaving his pregnant wife behind while he went to “walk where angels fear to tread” just to do what God asked him to do. He was a man of formidable faith, never too proud to admit his own shortcomings, never too weak to help others. Sickness constantly plagued his family, yet Wilkerson’s faith only grew with each passing day.
Like I said before, I doubt whether anybody even reads this. But in case someone’s reading this, I urge you to pray for his family, especially his wife and the other driver who was involved in the accident; both of them are in critical situation.
David Wilkerson will never know how God sent him my way to help me out of the darkest pits of hell, out of the most dangerous pits of despair and help me strengthen my faith….the pain I felt at his passing amazed even me: I was always fond of him, but I never expected to feel that way after he died. However, after crying and praying, I felt a wave of peace and comfort descend upon me….Reverend David Wilkerson is exactly where he wanted to be. He’s happy.
He’s Home at last.
“Those who die in the Lord are the winners; we who remain are the losers. Death is not the ultimate healing: resurrection is! Death is the passage, and sometimes that passage can be painful. No matter how much pain and suffering wreak havoc on these bodies, it is not even worthy to be compared with the unspeakable glory that awaits those who endure the passage.” ~ Revered David Wilkerson, February 2, 2011
“Those who die in the Lord are the winners; we who remain are the losers. Death is not the ultimate healing: resurrection is! Death is the passage, and sometimes that passage can be painful. No matter how much pain and suffering wreak havoc on these bodies, it is not even worthy to be compared with the unspeakable glory that awaits those who endure the passage.” ~ Revered David Wilkerson, February 2, 2011
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