Friday, August 22, 2008
I am currently in a state of shock. So news broke out yesterday about mike guglielmucci's cancer hoax and i'm still finding it really hard to believe. When his name came up i thought it was because he had died or something.
For you melbournians who were at youth alive concert last year..do u remember that guy, the youth pastor of Planet Shakers, who said he had some rare form of cancer and he had like 32 broken bones in his body and preached that awesome sermon and sang a song called Healer that he had written himself and everybody cried?
Well since then...he has been going around to all different churches sharing about how God has been healing him and his song has touched soo many people. In recent months he was part of the Hillsongs annual recording and conference. I bought the hillsong dvd and when i saw him speak with that oxygen tube in his nose and and heard him sing that song I cried...along with the congregation pictured in that dvd. Strange i know..but that's how powerful his message was. So since buying that dvd..that song has been stuck in my head..i have been singing it at the top of my lungs (at home) and the song lyrics had been stuck on my msn name.
AND THEN last night...news comes out that all of it is FAKE. He had lied about the whole cancer thing and if you believe the media..apparently even his family and wife didn't know it was all a hoax! How you can possibly pull something like that off is beyond me. Literally thousands of people have been praying for this guy over the past couple of years, he has received so much in donations and so many people..espescially those suffering from cancer have been touched by his story. It makes me wonder how they all must be feeling right now.
Having said all this..we need to pray for him. We don't know the story behind it but i'm sure he's going through a pretty tough time. At the end of the day it just shows how flawed we all are. It's so easy for me to point the finger and criticise him but despite my disappointment..it has made me realise..i have nothing to say. Sin is sin...it doesn't matter what we have done they're just as equally bad. Guys..how important is intergrity?
As i was spilling out my thoughts to my brother on the train last night he asked me..."doesn't that make you realise we can't place our hope and trust in people? doesn't that make you realise just how much more we need to place our hope in God's word?" If we place our hope in people..our family, our significant other, our friends..it's almost certainly going to lead to disappointment just because of how flawed we are as human beings. Isn't it amazing then...that we can place our hope in God knowing that he will never fail us, knowing that he will never disappoint us?
and back to Mike...i still think he has an amazing gift of preaching, singing and song writing..he just made a huge mistake but haven't we all? And..it doesn't matter if the whole story wasn't true..that song still brings me to tears and I still believe God is my healer and everything I need.
posted @ 5:32 PM
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