Daily devotion – Saturday 17th April, 2021.
We live in a ‘victim’ mentality society. It is everyone else’s fault when we do something wrong, and we keep making excuses about when we do not do what we should do.
Sadly, this way of thinking and lifestyle has entered the Church of today as well.
Paul wrote to the Church in Corinth and said, “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.” 1 Cor 3:2
It is time to be mature, grow, be people of the Word, and become people of our word. 90% of faithfulness is simply turning up when someone commits to something. Our world lacks faithfulness in marriage, in relationships, parenting and business.
Here is a simple way to evaluate whether you are carnal or not: how is your appetite? Do you crave the meat of the Word, or are you still only able to digest milk?
According to Hebrews 5:10-14, the milk of the Word deals with what Jesus did for us, while the meat deals with what Jesus is now doing on behalf of us – what’s going on in heaven presently, the big plan which will unfold eschatologically. The baby Christian only knows, “Jesus loves me this I know.”
But as great a truth as it is, he has not gone on to see who Jesus is presently and what is coming down prophetically.
Do you know more about what Jesus is doing today in heaven and on earth through His Church than you did last year? If you do, you are progressing and growing; praise the Lord!
But if you don’t, then perhaps you might fall into the category of the carnal believer who still has to be fed with milk, who can’t get the meat on his own.
The Christian Music group Leeland sang the following…
“Today we are living in an emergency…There are many prodigal sons
On our city streets they run
Searching for shelter
There are homes broken down
People’s hopes have fallen to the ground
From failures
This is an emergency!
There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back home
And all your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home
Peter wrote, 2 Peter 3: 10 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?”
It’s time for the Church today to stop playing ‘church’, but instead have its saints desperate to win the lost, to preach the gospel, to pray for the lost and to cease from only seeking its own selfish gratification.
This Sunday, join us as we see this desperation in reality in the heart of the Apostle Paul for the children of Israel in our study in Romans 9.
Leave the world and its ways and see the emergency that is all around us. Be part of the answer that God is looking to bring to the lost and unsaved.
Be a person of the Word and and a person of your word – its important!
Let us repent and fall before God and ask His forgiveness, but like Isaiah, let us ask Him to use us and send us…now!