Bonds

If Christians are back-biting, back-stabbing, and brewing unforgiveness in their hearts towards each other, then, how are we to influence the world, where all this and more is being done? We are to be the light - the way out - the solution to the problem, yet we are also a problem on its own. It is no wonder the world looks down on us and condemns us because we have the nerve to teach forgiveness and then turn around and hate each other! For a group of people who are to be imitators and then ambassadors of Jesus Christ... we sure are doing a bang-up job of it. The most powerful force in this evil world is LOVE (charity) and it can make possible the impossible, but rather than practice this... we choose to hate and fight each other. This is sad - The solution becomes the problem. Then does Jesus have to come down again and teach us how it's done? ...probably die on the cross again?? Well... that's NOT gonna happen! It was done once and for all, and then The Word and The Holy Spirit were provided for help. We just need to learn to use our resources right. Loving is by far the easiest thing to do in this world. Holding on to hate and grudges is such a weight to carry along with the hidden pride that comes with it. A proud Levite? ...unforgiving, back-biting and stabbing?? God Is Love! We cannot come into His presence with anything but that world-changing feeling of love!

It is either we learn to live with all of men as Jesus wants us to, or... not, but the consequences are on you and you alone. No one held your hand and led you to choose anything else over love. There is power in accepting others for who they are, learning to accept their annoying flaws (we all have them) and then finding a way to bond with them such that when the world sees the unlikely hood of two "strangers" becoming "friends" their interest is peaked and are then drawn to know what this difference is between the Christian and everyone else. This is the point where Jesus is so easily elevated.

This does not go so far out beyond our very own groups - choir, usher, pastor, teacher, evangelist, cleaner... etc. A chorister for example... standing on the stage with, i assume, what is the intention  to worship God, and yet... rather than be a team and share the microphone the way it should be in order to project a UNISON of voices and not just yours, you choose to not sing at all or stand back rather than share. To share does not go down well with you so you take hold of the microphone and it is yours and yours alone leaving your fellow part singer(s) to sing into the air, which by the way tends to cause a strain on their throat muscles as well as their voices. This is so very sad!

There's the vocalist and then there's the skillful instrumentalist who would rather overshadow the rest of the instrumentalists because he or she has got the skill and must be heard above all. How is that acceptance of your fellow brother who is also playing a role to bring beauty to worship, praise and ministration?? The pastors who horde the pulpit because they can preach best or the teacher who shows off his wisdom to demean his fellows, the cleaner who does his part and does it really well but will not help his fellow who needs the help in getting rid of some dirt lodged somewhere... these behaviors and more show a lack of Jesus living in us. This in turn draws, well... rather, pushes men away from Him. This therefore defeats the purpose of Christianity which is to draw men to God via Jesus using us as the light for direction through the darkness. If we are become darkness, then who leads who? ...and, where??

Jesus said in Matthew 22 : 37 - 39, KJV - "...thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." I believe Jesus was saying that the way you would care for yourself is the way you should care for your neighbor. The things you would do for yourself, do for the other and the things you wouldn't, do not do to that other. Romans 15 : 2, KJV affirms this - "Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification." We see here why we are to accept our neighbors and be fair to them in treatment; the one who does such good is edified. The same Romans chapter 15 and its verse 6 and 7 say; "That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God." This is the aim of Christianity - to bond with each other regardless of race, cultural and ethnic background... whether Jew or Gentile in order to glorify God as ONE PEOPLE!

My advice... put aside all pettiness and mature to this well-needed point of bonding with as many persons as is possible, friend or stranger, with the aim to bring glory to God as one body. #Selah

~ yoyo

 ~ inspiredw0rdz

~ September 28, 2015 ; 8 : 33 am