LIVES WORTH LEADING
PLUG INTO THE SUPERNATURAL
WHO NEEDS IRON MAN WHEN YOU GOT JESUS? BY COLIN MCCARTNEY
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ur society is obsessed with the supernatural. All one has to do is a quick review of box office successes and you will notice a long listing of Marvel movies or fantasy type adventures like the “Star Wars” or “Lord Of The Rings” series, etc. These are clear indicators that our culture is longing and thirsting for the supernatural in their lives. I believe this is a normal hunger placed in the soul of every person. Blaise Pascal describes this as such; “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in a man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself.” A few years ago, I went through the hardest time of my life that could rival any Hollywood blockbuster. I suffered the murder of a young man who served with us in our urban ministry followed by the death of a child from our neighbourhood where we serve. In between these horrible events I had to deal with the suicide attempt of a family member and the death of my beloved dog. All of this took place within a span of three months. Needless to say, it took a toll on my well being. In order to get my life
THEY POINT TO together I was allowed a the government allowed three-month sabbatical helicopter evacuations for SOMETHING FAR to recover. I pulled my emergency purposes. BIGGER — GOD’S children out of school, When I got the results SUPERNATURAL packed our bags and left from my X-ray, I was told Toronto in search of the the damage to my neck PRESENCE IN supernatural power of showed that the wave OUR LIVES! God I sorely needed to get pummelled me straight through these soul-draining tragedies. down onto the ocean floor in a perfect Only two days into our trip the 90% angle thus limiting the break. The sabbatical would come to a horrible doctors were amazed as they said that end in a water accident that left me if my body had been at any other angle paralyzed from the neck down. At my neck would have snapped off. I was this point in my story you’re probably told I’d never walk normal again and thinking to yourself; “What does all this would not have the use of my hands. have to do with the supernatural?” Yet, as the weeks passed in my Great question and here is my answer. recovery my therapists called me the All throughout these tragedies God walking miracle and today, I’m pretty was with me each step of the way. I felt well healed. All of these so-called his presence as we grieved the tragic coincidences cannot be luck. They deaths of our friends while comforting point to something far bigger — God’s their distraught families. It was a tough supernatural presence in our lives! path to walk but we felt Christ’s tears This is the greatest supernatural mix with ours and felt the reality of reality I encountered in everything I God’s love all around us. We knew that went through — God is with us right our beloved friends were with Jesus. here and right now. All you need to do When I was drowning in the ocean is plug into his supernatural presence. unable to move due to paralysis, I After all, who needs Iron Man when experienced God’s presence with me you got Jesus! under those turbulent waves. When I was rescued from the roaring waters and gently placed on the sandy beach, I discovered that my rescuer was an / COLIN MCCARTNEY is an ordained emergency room doctor who specialized minister, speaker, and a bestselling in surf injuries. He just happened to be author. He is also the founder of on vacation at the very beach where I UrbanPromise Toronto and now leads was paralyzed. When I was air vac’d Connect Ministries in Toronto where he, by helicopter to the hospital, I later his wife Judith, and their two children discovered I was the first one ever air reside. For information in booking Colin vac’d from that side of the island as as a speaker, please visit just two weeks before my accident connectministries.org.
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