I AM A CHRISTIAN

I AM A CHRISTIAN

A Christian you call yourself, I also call myself a Christian. Also one who goes to church on a Sunday morning and ends that same Sunday in a club-house (committing fornication) if asked, will reply with the same phrase “I am a Christian”. Therefore the question goes thus; WHY ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN or better still “WHY DO YOU CALL YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN”. Time and space will constrain me from starting from the simple (yet arduous) question; WHO IS A CHRISTIAN. But nonetheless let’s check why you are a Christian.  

When I stormed upon this verse of the scripture (2^nd Corinthians 4^16-18-NIV), I had something to hold on to (i.e. a reason) for which I am straining to be CHRIST-LIKE. And after this light came to me, I confidently and audaciously sat a room-mate of mine down and illuminated him on why I am in the faith. Listen, the mystery goes; before a circle is drawn, a dot started it. Now say u are asked by anyone who is eager to know; WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESPONSE. Good!!! You are reading this post; I challenge you, WHY ARE YOU IN THE FAITH (why are you a Christian).

Do not lose heart, keep running, keep striving, and keep on standing for the truth. To the world (people around, family, friends, relatives) I am wasting away. They say and think this way because they do not understand and they lie in the dark, yet what they do not know is that I am being renewed as each day unfold. They lack sight, they cannot see the inward <the lord does not look at what man looks at, the man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart>. They lack sight.

But I know that I am being renewed, that all I am doing is not in vain, there lies for me a crown of glory in heaven. Know this, my light and momentary troubles (this is how it seems to the outside world, though I know in myself that I am storing for myself treasures in heaven) are achieving for me an ETERNAL glory that by far outweighs/supersedes them all(the troubles I seemingly am going through).

As I have explained, it is significant for anyone who calls himself/herself a Christian to go through this seemingly great troubles. Christ himself (our mediator) passed through this. Note the word LIGHT <when I checked the dictionary, it simplified this as 1] of little importance 2] easily endurable> also MOMENTARY <lasting a very short time>. Therefore, my word to you is be strong and steadfast in the LORD.

So you see that I am not wasting away. Therefore, I do not lose heart/depressed. I am not drawn back. This is what I do constantly, I fix my eyes not on what is SEEN (this world, everything in it, everything it offers) but on what is UNSEEN (the eternal glory, Christ Jesus & eternity with him).

As you read this post and as I bring this article to a conclusion, this I want you to always keep to heart; what is seen is TEMPORARY (only lasts a moment), but what is unseen is not only PERMANENT (lasts forever), it is ETERNAL. 1^st John 1¹⁵ says “The world (what is seen) and its desires (everything it offers) pass away, but the man who does the will of GOD (he who does not lose heart) lives forever.

My prayer is that after you go through this article, you will also have perceived why you are in the faith, and you will be able to confidently convince anyone who poses the question to you: WHY DO YOU CALL YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN.

Peace||Selah

PHANTASM IN A NEW YEAR

IN A NEW YEAR

New year! New year!! New year!!!. What exactly is NEW YEAR? In it’s simplicity, changing from one year( a previous year), unto another one(present year). It is not just a normal/natural phenomenon that you and I have seen this year. You agree with me that the things of the Spirit cannot be explained naturally, that is why the cross-over night for some people will have seem natural. Also, many began 2015 hale & healthy but many finished 2015 in hospitals; many began 2015 with a bright thought ahead for the year, but their expectations were never met; many even made decisions to follow GOD at the start of the year 2015 but never ended the year with God; many also started the year not even believing that God exists, but before the year ended, their eyes were opened to know that the creator of Heaven and Earth; so also many started the year 2015 on the hospital bed, but ended the year hale & healthy; In one sentence, 2015 had it’s good part for all of us and it had in it it’s sour part(note the word used, “sour” not “bad”) for each for us (though sour but now in the past) but one thing is that 2015 has come and gone and never to come again. We can only look through the past year, we cannot go into it again.

But let’s be sincere with ourselves, 2015 is only different from 2016 because 2015 is old and 2016 is new. We are all sending messages upon messages and also ourselves receiving HAPPY NEW YEAR greetings without ever sitting down and gazing upon our inner selves and ask: ”what is old that can become new?”; not only in one part of your life, but rather in every ramification of your life; not only in the 2016 but rather a long lasting and effective change.

Listen, I am not just talking about a RESOLUTION, I am talking about something you will put your heart to doing. Some do well by putting down resolutions for a new year, but never fulfil such resolutions. Many have bright ideas for the year but never manifest such ideas. WHY?

They never understood that they made it to the new year, not because others too made it, but because He who is responsible for the creation of every creature has something better (a better reason) for keeping them alive amongst all to see this year. They have always thought in their hearts; ”LIFE IS A PRODUCT OF CHANCE”, which in the very truth, LIFE IS BY GRACE. And for this reason, the creator (GOD) has a reason behind your being alive to see the start of this year.

Therefore, resolutions are not just it. The bible in ISAIAH 43^18-19 tells us to forget the former things, God is doing a new thing. He is a making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. HEBREWS 11⁴⁰ says “only together with us would God’s better plans for us be made perfect. I am not saying resolutions cannot be made and fulfilled, but I am particular about making resolutions not just because you want new things, but because you KNOW and BELIEVE that something greater has to happen and you won’t have seen it through to this year if it isn’t possible for those things to happen. He says in ISAIAH 55^8-9 that “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts”. And again He says in JEREMIAH 29^11-12 that the thoughts he thinks towards you and me are of good and not of evil, to give us an expected end. My friend check these two verses well and u will see what I mean clearer.

Therefore seeing that u are reading my post, if you believe in the God I believe in, why don’t you sit down and before making any resolutions for this year that will not have God in it, think twice and have a word of prayer with your Creator. Call upon His name, He knows best. And only if you believe this will you walk in His will for you this year. Until letting His thoughts be your thought, then will you be able to say you have a resolution for this year. As for me, I have done this and I believe it is only His thoughts for me that I need as a RESOLUTION for this year. It is explained easy as these:

·         Call upon His name

·         Have a plan, but let your plan be His plan >commit to Him<

·         Believe (faith) in your creator

·         Stay in faith.

Peace||Selah