Temple Worship

6/11/06

As we were preparing our hearts to pray after breakfast this Sunday morning we were interrupted by a band of 5 Hindu men ceremoniously walking down the street collecting vegetable offerings from any of the faithful. This is done in preparation for their morning service. Every evening and some mornings the 2 young neighborhood men in their thirties collect hibiscus and oleander flowers as part of their daily worship in their family’s own idol house. While burning incense, waving something like sparklers, and ringing small tinny bells they appease their gods. If they stop doing this, sometimes they are plagued with demonic harassment. Many are afraid to stop being Hindu for this reason. Even now more drums are beating.

About one month ago during special ceremonies with the Kali Temple, worshippers dance and chant in the streets to the beat of their drums to call on the demons (they think they are calling on their gods) to indwell them and the demons do indwell them at times showing super-human strength! This special Kali ceremony goes on for a week and thankfully is only once a year.

In light of all that has happened in Guyana in the last 4 years we are clinging to the Lord being reminded of the Apostle Paul’s statement in Romans 8: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.