Look Beyond in What Appears to be the Natural...

By Rob Catanese

Friends, it is the dawn of a new week.  I hope that this installment will give you some faith

and courage to battle whatever life throws at you this week!  So often we lose sight of our God given destiny and plan that he has laid out for all of us, perhaps because we become consumed by things that appear in the "natural".  

I am certainly guilty of it, usually because of the trials and the tribulations that life has to offer.  The "natural" for those who may not be familiar, is what we perceive and for that matter, what we see with our eyes in all that we endure every day.  It's difficult at times to, as the good book tells us, to NOT walk by sight but by faith. 

For Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen and gives us assurance of things we cannot see! When I say look beyond in what appears to be the natural, I came across this story that stirred my spirit, which prompted me in writing you today. Now, In the natural, one would think this is a horrible irony!

Wilson spent more than two decades locked up, along with Antonio Yarbough, 40, for the gruesome murders of Yarbough’s mother, 12-year-old sister and another 12-year-old relative in 1992.

All three had been choked with electrical cords and stabbed to death.Wilson confessed to police and testified against Yarbough in exchange for a lighter sentence, but later recanted, saying that police had coerced his confession.  Read more NYDaily

Here is a man, Sharrif Wilson, who spent decades in prison, knowing he did not commit this atrocity, . 21 years is a long time friends, even longer when you are in prison, compounded by being innocent!  In February , the pair were released in light of new evidence, including DNA found on Yarbough’s mother that matched 1999 killings. He clears his name and begins to salvage a life worth living. 

He is only out of incarceration a year and succumbs to an illness, an illness in which he acquired in prison and dies.  In the natural this is devastating, unbelievable, sad, even tragic....In the Natural..... However, what if we look at this out of the natural, perhaps supernatural?  I do not know anything about this man other than what was reported, nor do I know his family and what kind of life he was leading upon his release.  But I do know this,  what if there where another way to look at his death and circumstance.  

Clearly an innocent man redeemed, who had suffered greatly for 21 years day after day night after night without any end in sight, perhaps holding on to hope that one day the truth would set him free and it did!  Maybe his suffering here on earth throughout all that time was enough for him to finally go home?

No really go home to his father in Heaven!  To truly know peace and eternal happiness that had been taken from him unjustly here in the natural.  Friends, when we tackle this week, I urge all of you to stay in faith.  

Whatever you may be facing, be still and know who HE is!  Look beyond the Natural, dare to peer into the supernatural!

 Stay strong in your beliefs and steadfast within your faith and maybe just maybe the supernatural will become a whole lot clearer.