Complications: Dealing with problems concerning a laity is easy. When a public figure is involved, then caution must be exercised.
Foolish is the one who’d mix up Kingdom life with complicated secular matters.
It’s absolutely evil to dash off an innocent person to wolves to be devoured because someone wouldn’t swallow his/her pride to simply acknowledge, “I’m sorry, I was wrong!”
“Can we please stop associating being a good person with how much you’re willing to suffer in silence for other people?”
– Helen Ochonga
THERE’S more to life than meets the eyes. When issues involve people already in a higher echelon in society, such issues should be dealt with cautiously because if most of these people are not truly humble and Godly, to put things in better perspective, it will be very catastrophic especially when it involves the body of Christ.
If you have a problem with a man of God, you can sit him or her down to talk things over. As human beings, we are fallible whether you’ve attained a very high position already in God (Christ) or not. The temptation is higher, though with someone who has taken a position already in the kingdom.
It is right, responsible, fair and Godly that when we err or make a mistake, we should be able to acknowledge that we made the mistake rather than rub it off on everyone just so we could clean our hands, and nail our errors or evil deeds on innocent souls (find ng a scapegoat) or just so we can call someone a bad name or prove right what has been told about the person.
It might be hard to believe it but it a truth that has been proven true. Many people who come into the fold, especially under the umbrella of pastoral ministry become too audacious, they allow their canal desires to rule over them more than they submit to God to guide and direct their motives and decisions. And when we are not led by God but led personal or human convictions, we do or make flawful mistakes that might lead to the destruction and abuse of the gospel that we preach. And then, rather than promote the gospel to build the kingdom, we make a mess and shipwreck the gospel because of stupid pride.
The gospel of Christ is bigger than one Man of God, the integrity of the Body of Christ is more important than respect of one Man of God who is derailing from the truth. And the integrity of a true child of God is proven when we publicly acknowledge our mistakes, especially those who have better knowledge and understanding of God (Men of God). You show integrity and respect to God when you acknowledge before the world your human nature, by the flaws or weaknesses that sometimes show forth in our dealings with life and or people.
Sadly, some men want to take the place of God. They act like they don’t have flaws and so cannot fail. That’s impossible, everyone of us humans faulter by default, from time to time. It’s natural for us and when we begin to hide those flaws in pretense, we begin to allow problems to escalate from simple and ease of handling into degrees or dimensions beyond repairs.
TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED:
“Don’t you dare touch my anointed ones, don’t lay a hand on my prophets.” – 1 Chronicles 16:22
God’s protection of His beloved servants is a divine plan to keep all who love and keep His commands, all who have confessed and allowed the word to become our guide and counsel. However, God warns us not to allow the liberty He’s given us as licensed to ensnare others. “My brothers and sisters, God called you to be free, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful self. Serve each other with love. The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” – Galatians 5:13-14.
Many ministers of the gospel become too self conscious with the word to use it in order to command fear and respect for themselves in the congregation of the righteous. People use the gospel to make gods of themselves.
So, the issue isn’t just about one suffering in silence, but more about what to do to stop it and who is ready to associate and identify with one already tagged, “Stubborn and pick-headed” because he won’t subscribe or submit to the attacks and bullying of a certain cartel of “big men.”
Pardon my use of the word, cartel, which describes a group people, organizations or syndicates involved in organized crimes. First, those groups begins with noble purposes until those running them become greedy and begins to find ways to eke out a living by using their offices or positions to extort and take advantage of other people’s ignorance.
Anyone can be recruited or dragged into any group and gently, gradually and subtly be initiated into a cult of evil intentions without even realizing it because it had the semblance of good and well-intended plans until someone lost it and became greedy, pompous and self-centered to want to make gains or intimidate the weak and less privileged.
To challenge or refuse a “morally and religiously correct” cartel is actually a dangerous place to stand. So, those whom your message has tagged, “Willing to suffer in silence for” might not be about being willing but about those who have refused to give an ear to the cries and are even ready to join with their persecutors to completely decimate such men.
Stuck Up With A Bomb?
It can really be very difficult to understand how fragile certain life issues could be until you’re stuck up with a bomb in your hands. Whether it is activated or not, you’re definitely going to be very conscious and cautious of how you handle it because you know that any slight mishandling, boom, it will go off in a burst and the consequence is the destruction of life and property.
When you are faced with very difficult situations, you will be awake and alert how you take care of it so that you can safeguard yourself, your household and everything you care about.
When a bomb detonates, it is not selective of who is affected, everyone and everything within the range of its eruption becomes victim of its menacing disruption.
So, you will be careful how you treat certain sensitive matters, especially when they involve God or His Kingdom because a careless mishandling could be costly.
DO WHAT IS RIGHT:
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” – James 1:22-25.
If God’s word is what guides our every step and dealings then, we will become less conscious about self and more conscious about what the word can do in us, then, we become better refined and complicit to divine guidance and providence.
The man who is protected in God is the man is under the provisions of, “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm” whether such a man has enrold in the school of the anointed and prophets or not. A lot of Bible characters who enjoyed that Godly provisions never considered or placed themselves in that class but God Himself gave them all the protections they needed.
Let us not use our position in God to extort, not necessarily taking anything from the people but to use these words of Scripture to keep them in fear. God’s word liberate lives and not enslave them.
Abraham who was the first man chosen by God never used God’s word at anywhere he went to get the things he wanted to acquire. As a matter of fact, Abraham was always hiding his identity to avert trouble from the nations and people Abraham with his households sojourned with. At some points, he lied to call his wife, Sarah his sister. God came through for him by warming the king who had taken Sarah from Abraham for a wife.
The long and short of this is to not use the provisions in God’s word to ensnare others. I read this somewhere and I quote, “Don’t abuse the grace of God.”
Apostle Paul speaking to the Corinthians Church and telling how hard he had worked, more than most of the other apostle before and in his time, yet, he did not consider himself as the best or infallible. “By God’s grace I am what I am, and the grace that He gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God’s grace working with me.” – 1 Corinthians 15:10 (GNT).
This argument transpired when some Church members began to manifest certain division amongst themselves, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?” – 1 Corinthians 3:1-9.
These divisions will always come and they also come according to the class of understanding. As we continue to grow in our knowledge of God’s word, many will begin to determine and categorize their worth by the response of people to their ministries and ministration.
Paul handled this issues well when they first broke out amongst the Corinthians Church. Paul needed the people to understand that they will not always share the same knowledge and understanding on certain issues or have a certain spiritual authority tell the people whom or whose teachings to believe in but that the teacher isn’t as important as the message preached because all those teachers came to preach the same message but might present the message in different formats.
He encouraged the people to pay attention to the message than the messenger.
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