REST IN PEACE

Mengapa engkau mengganggu aku dengan memanggil aku muncul? [1 Samuel 28:15]

Rest In Peace [Beristirahat dalam damai] seoleh-olah tak berlaku di Haiti. Gempa berkekuatan 7 SR memporak-porandakan negeri itu. Namun di Leogane, kota yang terdekat dengan episentrum gempa, kompleks pemakaman umum masih berantakan dan tak terurus. Batu-batu nisan bergeser dan rusak, liang lahat dan peti jenazah menganga, tulang-tulang dan kain pembungkus mayat berserakan. "Saya tidak bahagia, yang sudah meninggal pun tak bahagia," tutur Pierre, warga setempat yang sedang memperbaiki makam ayahnya.

Namun, yang mengusik orang mati tidak hanya gempa, tetapi juga manusia yang masih hidup. Waktu itu Saul kebingungan karena terjepit dalam perang melawan Filistin. Ia sadar Allah sudah undur darinya dan tak mau menjawabnya lagi. Bukan Allah meninggalkan Saul, tetapi Saul yang meninggalkan Allah dan mengikuti maunya sendiri [ayat 18]. Fatalnya, Saul mendatangi para pemanggil arwah dan roh peramal [ayat 3], yang menajiskan dan dibenci Tuhan [Ulangan 18:10-12]. Saul meminta mereka memanggil roh Samuel yang sudah mati, sebab ia hendak meminta petunjuk [ayat 8-15]. Benarkah roh Samuel yang muncul? Entahlah, sebab iblis pun mampu menyamar sebagai malaikat [2 Korintus 11:14]. Yang jelas, Saul terkutuk karena ini.

Ada sebagian orang yang mengaku diri anak Tuhan, rajin ke gereja, tetapi masih percaya ramalan, hari baik, atau minta petunjuk "orang pintar" ketika hendak punya acara. Lebih konyol lagi, ada yang meminta rezeki di kuburan nenek moyang. Jika tak segera bertobat, mereka bisa seperti Saul; semula dipilih Allah menjadi raja Israel, tetapi kemudian ditolak Tuhan dan binasa.

SEHEBAT APA PUN MANUSIA, SUATU HARI IA AKAN MATI
MAKA ANDALKAN SAJA TUHAN, YANG TAK PERNAH MATI.

[REST IN PEACE] 

Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up? [1 Samuel 28:15] 

Rest In Peace [Rest in peace] seoleh if not apply in Haiti. An earthquake measuring magnitude 7 devastated the country. But in Leogane, the town closest to the epicenter, the public cemetery is still messy and unkempt. Headstones shifted and broken, grave and coffin gaping, bones and cloth wrappers strewn corpses. "I'm not happy, who had died was not happy," said Pierre, a local resident who was repairing his father's grave. 

However, what bothers the dead not only earthquakes, but also people who are still alive. At that time, Saul confusion because wedged in the war against the Philistines. He realized God had turned away from him and did not want to answer it again. Not God left Saul, but Saul left God and wants to follow his own [paragraph 18]. Fatal, Saul came to the caller spirits and spirit forecasters [paragraph 3], which defile and hated by God [Deuteronomy 18: 10-12]. Saul asked them to summon the spirit of Samuel is dead, because he wanted to ask for directions [verses 8-15]. True spirit of Samuel that appeared? I do not know, because the devil has been able to masquerade as an angel [2 Corinthians 11:14]. What is clear, Saul cursed because of this. 

There are some people who claim to be children of God, went to church, but still believe the forecast, a good day, or to seek "smart people" when they wanted to have the event. More ridiculous, no one asked sustenance at ancestral graves. If not immediately repent, they can be like Saul; originally chosen by God to be king of Israel, but then rejected God and perish. 

No matter how MAN, ONE DAY HE WILL DIETHEREFORE RELY ON GOD ALONE, THAT NEVER DIE.