Throughout recent months I have been reading different letters concerning the Cayman Islands and how our lives should be organized.
Among other things, I would like to answer, in particular, the letter published 21 July from John Case regarding Sunday trading.
There has always been a store open in Cayman on Sundays. Mr. McField, in particular, had what one might today call a one-stop shop that he opened on Sundays to air out the store and sell whatever the public needed.
I was one of his customers. To my knowledge, no one complained about that.
Talking about God of the almighty dollar, how many people who are here are really here because they want to be here and not for the almighty dollar? Some even admit that that is the only reason they are here.
Would the day worshippers like us to close the islands down from 6pm Friday to 6pm Saturday to accommodate those who worship on Saturday and then from 6pm Saturday to 6am Monday to accommodate Sunday worshipper?
You will say this idea is crazy and you are right. Closing on Sundays is just a traditional ritual; it does not honour God.
What honours God is a lifestyle of worship; worshipping Him in spirit and in truth, as Jesus said.
What we want and need are real men of God who know God and can lead us to His son, Jesus Christ. Men we can look up to, trust and confide in without later hearing it on the street. Godly men who are committed to Jesus and Jesus alone.
The scriptures tell us that in the last days, men will fall away from the truth.
They will have their own gods and seemingly it has started in the Cayman Islands because of the titles men are giving one another in churches.
Growing up, Caymanians worshipped with one another although they kept different days. No on was told not to worship at another church and even the preachers were friends.
No one spoke out against one another, maybe because there were only four churches at that time.
Today when you ask some young people why they don’t go to church, they say they do not want to be brainwashed and the question always asked is ‘If there is only one God, why are there so many churches?’.
The spirit of division in churches was brought to the Cayman Islands and from that day, the spirit is still here and no one seems to be concerned about it.
I am asking for those people who have had an encounter with God, like myself, to pray out to God for the spirit of truth to replace the other spirits that have taken over the island in Jesus’ name.
The Lord thy God is one Lord. Jesus has not promised to build anyone’s ministry. He has promised to build his church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
Velma Herod
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