Dr James Knight
It is hot these days. It is always hot during our summer festival. But everyone has been feeling the extra heat in recent months. Imagine what it will be like out there in the carnival crowds, especially for those playing mas on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. The kind of heat that we have been experiencing can prove to be quite dangerous even to the healthiest of persons who find themselves exposed to the burning flames of the sun for several hours.
Beat the Heat
Leaving your skin exposed to the sun is dangerous, because your skin is where your body sends your blood to cool off and return to your internal organs to cool them down. It’s not by chance that your skin colour may change significantly when you are hot. Your sweat is to cool the skin, and therefore the blood.
If the skin is too hot to cool down the blood, then the hot blood goes back in to damage your internal organs. So cover yourself with light fabrics of light colour, or use an umbrella or a broad hat.
If you are playing mas in the sun, according to your outfit or costume, you should be getting sprayed or sprinkled with water at frequent intervals. If you are a spectator, then find some safe shade if you find that you’re getting too hot. Your umbrella or broad hat might be all that you need.
Of course, you must have water to drink. Never be thirsty for more than half an hour. A sport drink would be even better. Coconut water is good. NOT A BEER OR OTHER ALCOHOLIC DRINK. NOT AN ENERGY DRINK. THOSE WILL MAKE YOUR SITUATION MORE DANGEROUS. Be careful with your kidneys, heart, gut and brain.
Watch out for those around you. If anyone seems to be having sudden jerks or cramps; if anyone seems to be fainting. Get them to a cool spot, loosen their upper garments, sprinkle them with water and call for emergency medical help. Have a safe carnival.
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Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV
[13] “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. [14] Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
It is getting so hot, hotter and hotter because God is coming back to judge us all. We are living in a fallen world where the bible clearly says the wages of sin is death. Staying away from carnival is the best option. Our body is a temple of the Living God.
Everything is changing and we need to realize that things like carnival is not what God is looking for. Revelry is wrong in the site of God. Galatians 5:21 says
[21] envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
None of us are perfect and God is Merciful and full of Grace but that doesn’t give us the opportunity to keep sinning. Just like pride month, this is wrong, God created Man and Woman, there are only 2 genders people. And He created a man for a woman and a woman for a man. God hates homosexuality Romans 1:25-27 NKJV
[25] who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. [26] For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. [27] Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
Some blame Christians and believers of Jesus Christ and the bible and say they are hypocrites and evil but we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. For the bible says God sees our good as filthy rags. He is an all Powerful God, Good, Loving – that’s Unconditional Love for us, Kind, Faithful, Merciful, full of Grace, Forgiving and always with us. But He is also a Judge, just like we have judges here on earth to judge our wrong doing, God also Judges and He is a Just Judge. He said He will never leave us nor forsake us. If we hear someone singing Mariah Carey’s song ‘we belong together out’ of tune, we won’t go to Mariah and say we will not listen to her song again or blame for the bad singing, so in the same way we shouldn’t shun believers and stop going to church. People are quick to leave church because they say Christians are evil and hypocrites. We don’t go to church for people but we go because of the relationship we have with God. Some even go as far as saying we don’t have to go to church, but we do Hebrews 10:25 NKJV
[25] not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. God Loves each and everyone of us, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins, Jesus Christ is the Ultimate Sacrifice. Come to Jesus, Seek His face, Surrender to Him. Repent, we all must repent from our sins. The bible is God’s Living Word. Everything it says we could see it coming to pass, God is not a man to lie. And His Word will not come back to Him void.
So do not be deceived. II Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
[14] if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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