Friday 20 November 2015

Stop Please!!! You Are Destroying Yourself

The rate of backbiting in the house of God is getting really bad and it makes me sad not just because of the backbiter or “backbitten” but because of the listener whose walk with God is threatened just because they listened. Sadly, this time nothing and no one is sacred. I suspect that if Jesus was still on earth these gossips, liars and destroyers of personalities would have attempted to ruin Him. I guess such people have always existed because they attempted to do the same to Jesus when He walked the face of the earth. My goodness! These people just lie. They rewrite the truth even in their minds, making it more interesting by coating it with lies just so that they don’t lose their audience. They are so desperate to hold onto their audience that even when they run out of stories to rewrite, they make up stories about things that never happened forgetting that if/when God reveals them, they would lose respect because of the number of lies they have told. The amount of lies and character assassinations going on in church today is certainly another pointer to the fact that “false brethren have indeed crept in unawares”. Interestingly, these liars actually think that the fact that they have reasons for telling those lies about others is enough reason but is this acceptable to God and can anyone sincerely love another and yet lie so much about them? What manner of love is that? Is this the most excellent way that the bible talks about? Even the unbelievers will be amazed at the level of hate, envy and dishonesty that exist amongst “brothers and sisters in Christ.’ The truth is, much as we may hate to admit this, we don’t love one another. We actually hate each other.  
 
I John 3: 15 “Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them.”
 
1 John 4: 16b “God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them
 
Our understanding of love is definitely warped. It is impossible to tell a lie about a person you love and especially not destructive lies. It is strange to claim to be born again and yet have the capacity to hate anyone and if you didn’t know it, backstabbing, envy, lying and all the other ugly things hint at hatred. Sadly, the one thing which we ought to hate is some of the most attractive things to us. Though we are believers, we love sin and admire sinners for their sin; so what then are we doing pretending to be children of God? Some of us admire unbelievers so much that we make them our mentors or long for them to be. I wonder how one can look up to another who is travelling a path they turned their backs on because they were certain it ends in death and does not please God. How does one claim to behold God and yet behold one whose life is totally contrary at the same time? The word of God says it is impossible. No one can serve two masters; we will either choose to continue to be enslaved to God who purchased us with the blood of Jesus or return to the life of enslavement to the devil which is not God’s plan for us. No excuse in the world makes it okay for a believer to destroy another believer. You don’t know it but you are a murderer; the bible says so. Every time you tell those terribly destructive lies, God is against you because you are attempting to murder His own. Be careful.
 
Proverbs 25: 18 “Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.”
 
I John 2: 9 – 11 “if anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.” 
 
Unfortunately we hardly make progress in life when we are like that. Believers in this state, hate to even look inwards much less admit that they are liars and murderers. Such believers remain in darkness and so do not have clear direction even for their own lives. Hatred is blinding and facilitates bad decisions so that you are ruining your own life by making room for satan to ruin your life but you don’t see it. It is for the same reason that Cain was made a fugitive for life. Many of us hate our fellow believers so much that like Cain killed Abel, we are murdering them and God is calling out for us to do right that He may bless us. God hates this attitude so much that He responded to the cry of Abel’s blood. The pain of the cry of some believers has come up to God who is known to respond to such cries. We have to repent of this behavior and turn around before the judgment of God is poured out even against such “murderers.” Unfortunately, we don’t grasp the meaning of the love that God is. The world’s definition of love has totally warped our understanding of the God kind of love. It is time to stop!
 
1 John 3: 11 – 12NLT “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous.”

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