We Were Made For His Pleasure; But Are We Giving Him Pleasure?

 There was a time when I thought some things would definitely never be mentioned in the midst of believers. Painfully, some such things have become the order of the day amongst believers. I wish this was about sexual sins, not that it is acceptable; but this is about wickedness, envy, jealousy as a result of which we are tearing down one another. It is about greed, strong desire for power and lack of contentment. The hatred amongst believers is totally on another level; I don’t think unbelievers even experience this. We tear one another apart so badly that we pull down the body of Christ, albeit unwittingly, thereby making the word of God appear ineffective. Is there any end to all of this? 

Acts 2: 44 “And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.”

I have heard some believers argue that these should not be unusual occurrences amongst believers and they buttress their position by insisting that it was the same even with the Apostles. They talk about how the apostles struggled for position, wanted to know who was greatest and who Jesus loved the most but they forget that this was before they were baptized in the Holy Ghost. After they received the Holy Ghost they worked as one and even when they had differences they were soon resolved. The level of bitterness that exist amongst us now is on another level; it is so bad we don’t even need the devil to kill and destroy believers anymore, we appear to be doing fine at the job.

1 Corinthians 3: 3 “for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?”

I guess the truth is, the level of carnality is at an all-time high and heaven is not on our minds. Life is now all about us, what we can get and how to have the most pleasurable life here on earth. We even want to live on earth forever and will prefer to do anything we can to avoid dying forgetting that we are pilgrims on earth who will one day, if Christ tarries, die. Reality is that eternity is where a good life matters the most, because there is no ending to it; and we decide here on earth by the choice of our faith and how we live our lives, where we would spend eternity.  Seeing that we love pleasure, shouldn’t we fight to ensure that we live life in comfort in eternity? Or could it be that we don’t believe in life hereafter or we don’t believe that hell exist? Or are we just too self-centered to care?

Romans 8: 6 “So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.”

We have become so engrossed in self that we think life is all about us and our wants. Indeed it is so bad that we are not ashamed to boast about it forgetting that if life is all about us then we leave no room for any other including God who desires that our lives are all about Him. God demands that we willingly give Him our lives as living sacrifices so that our lives are meant to be built around Him and not the other way round. Instead of desiring that our lives give God pleasure, our desire is that God works to ensure that we have all the pleasure that we desire. All we want is to be blessed which by the way is to have all the money that we desire so we can get anything we even think of not caring whether or not it could even cause harm to others. Sadly, this desire is insatiable; so insatiable it can actually make believers steal, kill and destroy whilst still professing Christianity. This is certainly not God’s plan so we must stop.