Tribute to a Man of God

I have nothing today. I am empty and I cannot pour from an empty vessel. I don’t like to leave you guys without a blog on the days I promised, but this is tough going tonight. 

My pastor and friend, Greg Cox, went home to be with the Lord, and to be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I’m happy that he’s with Jesus tonight because he fought a battle no human should have to face. He fought bravely, and he fought well. On the other hand, his family is devastated and our church is grieving.  He was a great man of God, a man I learned some very important lessons from. And the most important of all was...perspective. 

I’ll never forget him bringing that ladder into the church and climbing up, expounding on the topic. I really don’t think he made any earth shattering statements, nor did he part the Red Sea. BUT his words transformed one small woman’s world that day. It made me see things like I’d never seen before. New thoughts came into my puny little brain, thoughts of seeing things through other people’s eyes, looking at things from different angles, searching through deception and climbing out with the truth victoriously in my hand—all because I changed my perspective. All because one Big Bald Head (my nickname for him) preached a sermon and climbed a ladder in our sanctuary. If I remember nothing else of Pastor Greg Cox, I remember perspective.   

I am honoring him tonight by doing as he would wish. I am changing my perspective of his passing. Rather than concentrating on the grieving, I’m gonna focus on the knowledge he brought to our church congregation, the love he presented to his family, and most of all, the honor it was to have known him. 

Rest easy, Big Bald Head. You have a new perspective tonight, a glorious one. Semper Fi.

Isaiah 40:31 - Those who wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.”