It is almost Easter and this is the season I celebrate the most. Of course since I am a little ill, I am thinking about the stripes He endured for me, the blood He shed to pay the price for me and all that surrounds everything this celebrated at Easter and all I can say is “thank you Jesus for all you have done and the love you have shown toward mankind”
I can’t stop thinking about the soldiers that beat him almost to death, scourged him and then hung him on the cross until He died. Okay let us leave the soldiers, did the people that testified against him really believe all the lies they told? Where they so deluded that they believed Jesus actually did those things? Though I must admit that it has all worked out for my good but I am wondering how the hearts of these men were so hardened that they refused to see the pain but could only see their profiting. Obviously all the position, honor and peace they thought would become theirs after his death did not happen.
Just like a tree that is planted by the rivers of waters whose roots go deep down, Jesus reappeared and this time, He multiplied Himself in several people. They apparently cut off the top of the tree but forgot that it has such strong roots and they did not have the strength or wisdom required to take Him out from the roots. Neither could they reach where His roots were.
When I was much younger, I heard that some trees in Africa can never be cut down. The people say demons live in them making it impossible to cut them down. As I got older, I found that these are strong trees with big, strong roots that go deep down so that when you cut them down, they will certainly resurface because their roots are still alive and go deep down. Even the roots are strong. It makes me glad to know that because of Jesus, you and I are like those trees. The bible says in
Jeremiah 17: 7 & 8 NLT “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along the riverbank with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green and they never stop producing fruit”
It is sad that in the church today, there are a lot of people like the Pharisees who want to kill anyone that is carrying the seed of God. They get so desperate that they get consumed by this desire to destroy any person carrying the seed of God. If you are one of such people, it is time to stop. You can’t destroy that person but instead you may end up destroying yourself just like Judas. After you have wasted your energy and everything, what satisfaction will you get and worse still, the person shall return. Its too much time and energy wasted. Judas ended up killing himself do you want to end up that way?
Brethren, its time to think deeply – why do you want that person destroyed. They say the church is a hospital where people come for healing but it does not give them a right to kill the already healed. They come for a healing and I know that there is a physician in the midst of His people who heals all and any ailment - His name is Jesus. This is Easter; let us trust Him for a healing. We cannot continue the way we have been.
This is one area, that we in the church are not willing to acknowledge can, and does exist, in the church - tough to imagine that there will be people in the church who are working to kill the seed of God!
ReplyDeleteI must commend your courage in bringing this issue to the surface, so we can discuss - in the open.
I believe this is a call to examine ourselves; to pause and contemplate; to review our purpose on the positions that we take on doctrines, interpretations, expositions etc of scripture.
Reason is simple: it is so easy to veer off course, and to be fully convinced that we doing the things that God would have us to do; to sincerely believe that we are fighting the Lord's battle as we are attacking the views of others or expressing our opinions on such views, and yet to be so far off course.
I guess that must have been the situation of those Pharisees and the soldiers (born again christians of today). I seriously doubt that any one of them would still have taken the positions they took and done what they did, if they thought for a moment that they could be working to kill the seed of God!
Therein lies the danger - to be doing evil in the name of God. In other words, as it was in the times of the judges - everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
I want to believe that this is the time to rise up and call upon the Lord to deliver the church from the so-called hypocrites (Pharisees and soldiers of our time).
ReplyDeleteTheir main aim is to kill, to steal and to destroy the goodness that God has promised the church.
Our weapon is in the place of prayer. As it was written in Eph.4:8 'Wherefore he saith, when He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men'.
One of the gifts given unto men is gift of the Holy spirit which helps our infirmities and enable us to pray effectively.
We should not allow the seed of God destroyer or their evil works to gain ground in the church. Our weapon as believer is not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, we have to pull down their activities through prayer and if need be to seek the face of God by fasting.
May God deliver the church from the destroyer.