Ascertaining who you are in God´s eyes and will!
Deciding who you want to be… when no one is around!
Usually people fear death, either in its natural form of departure from life or as isolation or rejection by their peers and because of it they end up letting enter in their lives the fear of life by not daring to stand up, firm, in their convictions, just for the sake of seeking acceptance from exacting peers who manipulate their aspiration to be another member of the gang, without mattering what type of gang it is… social, political, financial, religious or whatever fad is in fashion at the time being.
And for these understandable but not acceptable reasons people tend to compromise or rationalize their beliefs, their moral values, their convictions and their loyalties…
And sorrier than anything else is when their livelihood depends on the whims or shortsightedness of people who feel like life or death decision makers… Just because by a fortuitous or “sought after” turn of events they become appointed to apparent limelight positions or because they have been accepted as the leaders of some human “dominion or control” fiefdom on this earth.
Humans love to build up their little fiefdoms, their little kingdoms, and their little controlling and dominion scenarios. They feel themselves like kings of the roads, happily or anxiously immersed in their insignificant dealings and wheelings even in what should be the important service on behalf of the Lord, where qualifications, size and nature do not matter but motivations and willingness and where unselfishness is the vital part of the service so we can positively reach the suffering and the needy.
God´s plans for us are neither our personal aggrandizement nor our Christian posturing in life… Not even if we are indispensable for a while in terms of leading the seeding or putting our hands on the plow… but to show in our weakness and inadequacy His incomparable strength and wisdom as well as His generosity and mercy.
We should have always in mind and indelibly printed on our hearts what the Lord tell us in Second Samuel 14:14… “For we shall surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one may not be cast out from him”.
And if the Lord does not cast away or refuses to accept the uncomfortable and hard to understand outcasts… Why should we?
One thing I have learned along the way. We should not have to fear the world, nor death, nor life, nor compulsory compliance with any human group or endeavor. WHAT WE MUST HAVE IS TO HAVE “FEAR OF GOD” A REAL ONE! A HEALTHY, PURIFIED AND RIGHTEOUS ONE! BY FEAR MEANING THE DEEPEST RECOGNITION OF HIS GRACE AND OUR TOTAL DEPENDENCY ON HIM! AND THE DEEPEST GRATEFULNESS FOR HIS TAKING CARE OF US, PRESERVING OUR LIVES FOR GREATER TASKS AND CHALLENGES IN HIS SERVICE!
Because this is the only way we can be of any use, of any good, on His behalf while we labor in the advancement of His Kingdom. And as we walk along the way, we cannot but be, at the same time vertical and uncompromising in our beliefs… Tolerantly understanding the reality of ours and other people´s weaknesses, but not appeasing the unrighteousness just because of it.
Because if we do so we will just miss the opportunity that allows us to become effective prayer warriors, Especially when we state that we are committed to a Christian Way of Living… Avoiding at all costs to turn it into a material and convenient Livelihood that distorts and irremediably contaminates the purity and the righteousness of our thoughts, feelings, purposes, deeds and actions
And for these understandable but not acceptable reasons people tend to compromise or rationalize their beliefs, their moral values, their convictions and their loyalties…
And sorrier than anything else is when their livelihood depends on the whims or shortsightedness of people who feel like life or death decision makers… Just because by a fortuitous or “sought after” turn of events they become appointed to apparent limelight positions or because they have been accepted as the leaders of some human “dominion or control” fiefdom on this earth.
Humans love to build up their little fiefdoms, their little kingdoms, and their little controlling and dominion scenarios. They feel themselves like kings of the roads, happily or anxiously immersed in their insignificant dealings and wheelings even in what should be the important service on behalf of the Lord, where qualifications, size and nature do not matter but motivations and willingness and where unselfishness is the vital part of the service so we can positively reach the suffering and the needy.
God´s plans for us are neither our personal aggrandizement nor our Christian posturing in life… Not even if we are indispensable for a while in terms of leading the seeding or putting our hands on the plow… but to show in our weakness and inadequacy His incomparable strength and wisdom as well as His generosity and mercy.
We should have always in mind and indelibly printed on our hearts what the Lord tell us in Second Samuel 14:14… “For we shall surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one may not be cast out from him”.
And if the Lord does not cast away or refuses to accept the uncomfortable and hard to understand outcasts… Why should we?
One thing I have learned along the way. We should not have to fear the world, nor death, nor life, nor compulsory compliance with any human group or endeavor. WHAT WE MUST HAVE IS TO HAVE “FEAR OF GOD” A REAL ONE! A HEALTHY, PURIFIED AND RIGHTEOUS ONE! BY FEAR MEANING THE DEEPEST RECOGNITION OF HIS GRACE AND OUR TOTAL DEPENDENCY ON HIM! AND THE DEEPEST GRATEFULNESS FOR HIS TAKING CARE OF US, PRESERVING OUR LIVES FOR GREATER TASKS AND CHALLENGES IN HIS SERVICE!
Because this is the only way we can be of any use, of any good, on His behalf while we labor in the advancement of His Kingdom. And as we walk along the way, we cannot but be, at the same time vertical and uncompromising in our beliefs… Tolerantly understanding the reality of ours and other people´s weaknesses, but not appeasing the unrighteousness just because of it.
Because if we do so we will just miss the opportunity that allows us to become effective prayer warriors, Especially when we state that we are committed to a Christian Way of Living… Avoiding at all costs to turn it into a material and convenient Livelihood that distorts and irremediably contaminates the purity and the righteousness of our thoughts, feelings, purposes, deeds and actions
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