September 9, 2014
TSAR
TSAR
As many of you know, my mother has Dementia. Her form of dementia is primarily paranoia and hallucinations, and some memory loss, but not of people, rather her personal history, or family life or situations.
I have found that not many Christian families talk openly about dementia. Almost everyone knows someone with dementia. People seem to shy away from the topic. People seem to shy away from the person suffering from dementia. I know it is uncomfortable to see your loved one or friend act differently and speak things that are not comprehensible or unable to hold a full conversation without some aspect of dementia present.
I will delve more into the topic of dementia from a Christian perspective. I do not claim to be an expert just an observer, an eye witness of sorts.
My mom has her good days and her not so good days. Yesterday was one of her not-so-good days. I was at my wit’s end. I called my brother Jesse as I often do, and asked him to take time from his busy schedule to talk to my mom, which he did.
After he spoke to her she calmed down a bit but was still struggling. I stopped what I was doing, and told her we would seek answers and comfort in God’s Word. This seemed to calm her and give her some peace, although she kept declaring that the evil people were trying to come in and were mad at us for taking authority in Christ, to which I answered and declared that “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord” and that the enemy could not touch us by the cross of Jesus, by the Blood of Jesus, and in the Name of Jesus. As I prayed, this word “Tsar” came into my mind, so I looked it up.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/kjv/tsar.html
The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon
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Indeed, distress, affliction, and all of the above definitions applied to our present situation. You know, there is a very strong spiritual struggle component with our Mother’s Dementia. As I studied God’s Word, I went to one of my devotionals for the day, and it spoke to me and to my mom’s situation. I attached it here so that you too could rejoice for and in God’s Word.
I am also attaching a link to a “you tube” song that is encouraging.
Here is that timely devotional…
09 / 08 / 14
. . . casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God . . . —2 Corinthians 10:5
Determinedly Demolish Some Things. Deliverance from sin is not the same as deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, that the saint can only destroy through sheer neglect. But there are other things that have to be destroyed through violence, that is, through God’s divine strength imparted by His Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but only to “stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord . . .” (see Exodus 14:13). But every theory or thought that raises itself up as a fortified barrier “against the knowledge of God” is to be determinedly demolished by drawing on God’s power, not through human effort or by compromise (see 2 Corinthians 10:4).
It is only when God has transformed our nature and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin— Jesus Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily, nor does God intend that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. These choices are continually opposed and hostile to the things of our natural life which have become so deeply entrenched— the very things that raise themselves up as fortified barriers “against the knowledge of God.” We can either turn back, making ourselves of no value to the kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things, allowing Jesus to bring another son to glory (see Hebrews 2:10).
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