I dare to suggest that when God
wants to bless a person, He sends a man into their life and as is usual with
satan who counterfeits God’s ways, he also sends a man into a life he wants to destroy.
When God wanted to bless Naaman He sent the maid to his home; when He wanted to
work a wonder in the time of Ahab He sent Elijah and there are countless such
stories but I must mention that when He wanted to bless mankind, He sent His
only begotten son Jesus Christ. So the people we let into our lives definitely
matter and add to determine what we become.
Some people may consider you mean
for disallowing some people into your life but you have to remember that you
take responsibility for your life. I am not suggesting that you form what we
call ‘clicks’ in Nigeria and please note also that being members of your church
does not make a person okay to be in your life. Some people are meant to be
acquaintances, which doesn’t give them a role in your life, so there’s no point
being nice and allowing them in your life. Despite there being so many
translations of the bible, there is not one I have found that uses the word ‘nice’
to describe what God expects of us. If you allow any and every one into your
life, your life will end up nowhere. Some people just don’t fit no matter how
hard they try.
I hope you understand that I am
not just talking about bad people because some people though very good, have
not been allowed into your life. Indeed, it is very easy to disallow people in
your life when they are bad. The problem is usually with good people. Even
satan uses good people just like he himself pretends to be an angel of light.
If he made his servants outright bad, then it would be easy to identify and
disallow them but he does not. Also, if we make these decisions using our
physical senses we would most likely make wrong choices so it has to be by
discernment. Sometimes, even the people God sends into our lives are not
necessarily the best people but God sent them for His own purpose.
2
Corinthians 11: 14 “But I am not surprised! Even satan disguises himself as an
angel of light.
Let me use the example of Judas who
was allowed into Christ’s life; for Christ had to be betrayed. Betrayal speaks
of breaking trust/ treachery/ disloyalty and so on; so it would have to take
someone you trust to betray you. To fulfill His God given purpose, Jesus needed
a ‘slimy’ person in His inner circle and that was Judas. At the end of the day,
his evil nature worked for God’s purpose. When God brings such people into your
life, He gives you the grace to deal with them yet He opens your eyes to see
who they truly are. If however, they are in your life without His consent, they
will outsmart and mislead you because you have not been given grace to deal
with them.
However, there are some people
God sends into our life but we think are bad because they don’t say what we
want them to say. Please let us make the decision to ‘live smart.’ The world
advises that we work smart so we can be productive but there is no working
smart without smart decisions about those you surround yourself with. Please
prayerfully look for new friends if this is necessary. Time is far spent for
the night draws closer so we need to be fast about being wise. Emotions cannot
really take us far.
And the truth is that, somewhere in your gut, in your spirit where God speaks to you, you KNOW the instant you meet someone who is 'off'. In 2013, we must not ignore that voice. You are spot on Pastor B, not everyone who seems nice and helpful is nice and helpful FOR YOU. The bottom line as you have taught us so many times is that we need to be DISCERNING!!!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely otherwise we have to blame ourselves for whatever happens. We owe it to ourselves to be discerning.
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