How was your weekend? Mine was really great. I finally broke through with my statistics, Praise God! I prayed about it a lot and God answered my prayers. Just had to keep confessing that God has not given me the spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind. 2 Tim 1:7. I sat down with my books all through Saturday until God granted me understanding. Covered Chapters 1-7 and continued after church. Yeah yeah! Okay let me not bore you with that. But seriously God is good. All the time! The value analysis thing is going great.
Church was great. I don't know what was wrong when I first got to church. I just kept feeling and thinking about how wicked the world is today, how only God knows those who truly love him. How a lot of us Christians just live our lives without evangelising and how those who are evangelised to, do not seem to even listen or realise how powerful God is. I was just all over the place with emotion. How we wake up so early to get to work but get up late to go to church. It amazes me how people don't feel bad about getting to church late. If I get to church late I'm a wreck. I feel so bad and it affects me so much. Maybe I'm weird but I just feel like God deserves so much more than what we give him. We can never give Him or show Him all the love He deserves but I mean we can seriously try. What happened to zeal? You know serving God with so much fervor. Empty roads on Sunday mornings. Barely any cars on the road as opposed to during the week. You won't even believe the amount of cars on the road during the week. Empty seats in church. People going to church only on days when they feel like it or when they have a new outfit they'd like to wear. One that amazes me is when some say they are trying to reserve gas/fuel for Monday by not going to church. May God have mercy on all of us.
Then suddenly with the mood I had, we began to sing 'Trust and Obey for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey' led by our Asst. Pastor. [Could not believe the site had it in Yoruba too. Couldn't read it but maybe you can. Click here.] It uplifted my Spirit, I don't know why. Maybe the last line explains it all "Never fear, only trust and obey". I was filling myself with fear. Wondering what I could do to make things better. Feeling like I should go shake people off their beds to come to church, but I can't do that. All I can do is trust and obey. If I do my portion i.e. What God and His word would have me do (e.g Be an example of a believer word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity 1Tim 4:12 NKJV) then I can be rest assured that there just might be a ripple effect. It may be one drop. But the effect goes a long way. Friend imagine, If you do that and I do that and 30 other people do that, there will be so many ripples. The song reassured me that I am on the right path, and I should not let anyone or anything discourage me.
Don't let anyone discourage you or burn your fire for God out. Remain passionate for Him. Trust and obey Him for there's NO OTHER WAY to be happy in Jesus.
May God help us all in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen.
L8r
"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity" 1 Tim 4:12 KJV
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