By ANGUS SHAW,
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe's state media expressed unrestrained glee Wednesday at the pending departure of U.S. Ambassador James McGee, who has frequently clashed with President Robert Mugabe.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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What an amazing God we Serve. He lives within us through the Holy Spirit. God’s love; the Bible assures us is sufficient for our daily lives. As God reigns in us, he shapes the core of our being, bringing us to total submission of His love, wisdom and He is then able to make all Grace abound toward us. It by our own faith that the deeds we complete to serve God in recognition of what the Bible asks of us to obey our God, that we serve Christ, and through His redemption we find our peace.
The world’s ways are not God’s though He is the author of all small and great, though He is the Alpha and Omega, though God ordains all things, circumstances and life, He has handed this world over to sin, through the beginning in the creation of Adam and eve, whom was formed from God’s likeness.
So sin belittles us to a place where we may lose our faith and our hope in Christ. God said through His Son, and in union of the Holy Spirit, take heed for I have overcome this world. As a result of sin, we are born into a world of condemnation, and we become callous in our life, as a result of the consistent sin we are influenced by about us. We discover that in our old age we have hardened our hearts to the essence of joy that the Bible requires us to seek. In James, there is the passage that even he prayed,” Oh Lord, give me strength in this life, to experience human joy as well as the joy that comes from you spiritually.
As it is brethren, we are meant to suffer this world, as the Kingdom suffers violence, but the violent takes forth. This very explanation interpreted here is that though sin engulfs us, we must be violent in handing down God’s word to sinners. This has to be done in love, that the spiritual war is recognised, and that the sinner receiving these words from the scripture would recognise the warfare that exists in the spiritual realm. The man that sins does so not because God ordained it, but as a result of the influence of sin caused by the incessant nature of man to sin. It is by the cause and impact of greed that we sin, resultant in poor judgement prior to the sin we commit. You may have heard it, that the evil of sin will enter in only once it has been legally introduced by God. Evil has disorder, GOD IS THE MASTER OF ORDER.
Let’s look at an example. If you were in a shop, and you left your cell phone behind having departed that shop; you return to obtain it, and the shop keeper or assistant says, well it is not here”,! You have a multitude of emotions that immediately engulf you to overcome your sense of judgement. You feel in your spirit you are being lied to because this is where you last left the phone, so reason stands to confirm this is where it should be. It is by hope and faith that you ask the Lord to have your cell phone returned. Now the shop keeper or assistant has two ways to respond. Either they can obey to the call of Honesty, (Gods way) or they can bow to sin by denial, in the hope that they receive the phone for their gain by dishonest means. Now sin will entrust the individual to assure them that what they are doing is right, as in this instance it was from the stupidity of the cell phone owner that they left it there originally, and as a result it is your right (being dishonest) to capitalize on their stupidity ! This is a distraction from God’s way, which would have been to hand the phone back without cause of discomfort to the owner, or the perpetrator.
It saddens us to see so many righteous and poor people being taken advantage of by sin, but again brethren take heed for our reward is not in this world. God has overcome, and He has beard the sin of the world.
Now resulting from this situation, we as the righteous have two paths to follow. There is no doubt that we will want to curse the sinner, but rather through prayer ask the Lord to rebuke the very evil that caused the individual to sin. We as Christians have to be obedient to our call of redemption, and carry our cross. This means that everything we do we must do out of love for our brethren. In that they could conceive the message of Christ through the good will of your actions. It is by God’s might that we should act to bring that message over through His love and a request for an ear from the sinner. This must be said without condemnation to the sinner. Perhaps by the Glory of God and His grace the sinner may repent through the love of Christ’s message and return the cell phone to the owner.
All should be forgiven, as it is in Christ’s love that all brothers and sisters get along and live in peace. The love of God surpasses all condemnation. By his grace we are saved, and by His love alone we face the peace that he offers us through our obedient, loving call to His name. There are some who will not see the love and blessings that God has to offer, though in experience of this it is your own closeness to God that will abide you to him in recognition of him as the saviour. It is only by His Grace that we are chosen and we are saved. He reigns over this world, and will be the everlasting God.
Choose life with Him OR LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE? This is the question we all need to ask ourselves. I would rather choose life with Christ, and the tri-union of God through the Holy Spirit, than face condemnation and judgement, resulting in the pit of Hell where there is constant pain, anguish and gnashing of teeth.
For in Revelations it is said that in the end it will be difficult for us to have faith as brother will fight brother and sin will mount upon sin. So we must constantly seek God’s face and ask him to redeem us of our sins in this world. It is by His Grace and His Love that we have been chosen to deliver His message and see the fullness of God one day. Ours is not revenge, but in love to pray for those who oppose the Good News that Christ died for our sins, and by his resurrection we are redeemed into a life everlasting with him.
My brethren all I request of you is to seek His face and bow daily to the only God that sent his son to die for our sins that we may be saved from the pit of hell in our earthly death, and that on your knees daily in humbleness before God, ask him to forgive you of your sins. His grace is sufficient for us all. In the Love of the tri-union of God be blessed upon this prayer of the wisdom of the origination of sin and from where it comes. Move in the love and peace of Christ, and ask Him to change the core of your being, so that you to may bear His cross and serve the world by telling of our Majesties Glory.
Finally let us use every good, or/ bad deed of sin in our life to rectify others lives through Christ’s love and His message to all. Let us be Sheppard’s to His calling and spread the good news of the Bible. It is not by the law of the Old Testament that we are to live but by the grace of God, and the God news of the New Testament that we have been given life and are redeemed, living with one through the Holy Spirit. Please read Galatians Chapters 4 to 6.
God bless you, God bless your families, your business, your friends and all those whom you spread the good news to through the message of Jesus Christ.
Gian Franco Airoldi
Johannesburg South Africa
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