A man from
deep in the village got a job in a big city.
Where he
came from, like most of us with an experience of village life know, houses were
small with very small windows, more like holes to improve air circulation. Even
the big houses were no different in their design. The improvement may have been
that they were square instead of circular with the even bigger being
rectangular with two central pillars instead of one. Everything else was more
or less the same.
With a good
job, he did the thing that displayed his new status as the most progressive in
the village. He built a huge rectangular house that could be seen from afar
because the central pillars were taller than any other house in a large area.
But he did not think to increase the size of the windows because he had never
seen such houses in the city and he had not made enough money to even think of
building the kind of houses in the city. He just built what he knew best which
meant that even though he had more windows in his house, they were simply holes
for ventilation.
His wife was
delighted. She had overnight become the woman with the most desirable house in
many villages. People came from the other villages to admire her house. Her
love for her husband grew to epidemic levels. She could not have enough of him
when he came from the city in the brief periods he was able to get permission
to.
The man
could not believe what he was seeing. His wife had been reserved. He had feared
that she did not love him in the past because she never expressed her feelings.
He thought that she was disappointed with the choice their parents had made to
marry them. But she was a faithful, hardworking woman all the same and he did
not complain. They say love grows and that is what he had been counting on over
the years. How could it blossom so suddenly? Interestingly he never thought it
had anything to do with the house. You see he built it over time as he was able
to be released from work to go to the village and save for the same.
Then he got
another idea. Houses in the village were very dark inside. The most progressive
like his used a tin lamp for light. This is a tin with a hole where a cotton
wick was inserted through to access the paraffin. Most of the others had to do
with the fire they used to cook their supper for their light. Apart from the
fact that light was not enough, the smoke in the house was unbearable for
someone not used to village life. What if he made his house the most lighted around
without any smoke?
He went
shopping for the most appropriate light for his house. Like most of us, he
described his house so that he could get the best kind of light for his house.
But the sellers did not think about the village. They thought about a town
house and the light requirements of the same. He also did not think transitions
and therefore settled for a pressure lamp as his house was big.
His wife was
exhilarated when she saw her man with a package. She knew that he was making
her more and more advanced than her peers. She wanted it to be lighted
immediately but her husband said that it was needed in the night, increasing
her curiosity immensely.
When evening
came, most of the village came to see what their hero had brought from the city
and waited with anticipation for dark to come so that they could see the new
wonder. Again that is how a village behaves. They are really connected to one
another. Their idea of personal property is subject to their communal cohesion.
Success for one is success for the whole village. And that is why in the past
the whole village would educate their exceptional sons to university collectively.
Of course
night came. As he had already fuelled it, he elaborately lighted it. It takes
some time before a pressure lamp is fully alight and you could pierce the
anticipation of the village with a pin. But even that ended when he finally
released the whole light from the lamp. As those in the know are aware, a
pressure lamp starts by blinding you for all the light it produces. But
gradually, as your eyes adjust to the light, you are able to see what is
around.
Again for
those of us who have lived or seen grass thatched houses we know how that house
would look like due to the soot that comes from the fire made from wood, wood
that is sometimes not dry enough. Probably it is intentional that the windows
are tiny. There are cobwebs all over, and they are more like strands of long
black braids because of mixing with the smoke for a long time, and they are all
over the roof and wall.
The
villagers were amazed by the light. But they gradually started noticing other
things as well. They noticed the place the lady of the house pushes the dirt
after sweeping, the food she had thrown under the bed, the dirty linen she had
carelessly hung on the wall, and so many other flaws.
Like with
villagers, they are so free with one another that the flaws in the house quickly
became discussion points.
‘You mean
you don’t take the rubbish you sweep outside?’
‘I thought
you were teaching us that inner clothing should be hidden from the sight of
visitors. How come your dirty linen is hung on the door?’
‘Are the
rats in your house so large that they carried all that food under the bed?’
‘I didn’t
know your roof was as black as charcoal. Did you smear it?’
She was
scandalized. What was meant to be her most glorious moment had become her most
shameful one. What she meant to be her crowning moment had brought her great
humiliation. You see she had invited her friends to come and share in her
glory. Then this!
Eventually
the visitors left after admiring the house with as much light as the sun. Each
wished they could have such a light for their house, with just a few wondering
whether their houses had as much hidden flaws as their hostess. But they were
impressed with the light.
The lady of
the house could not speak to her husband. The beaming husband did not
understand what had happened to the love that had been overflowing just a few
hours earlier. Any attempt at getting to know the cause was met with so much
anger that he was at a loss at what he had done wrong. She even refused to
prepare supper, though adequate shopping had been done.
The next day
the lady of the house left before daybreak for her parents’ home even before
the husband woke up. She met her friend going to fetch water and on being asked
where she was going said that she was going back to her parents. She did not want
to discuss further. This is the lady who told her husband.
He then
picked a few friends and went to his in-laws the same day. They found them as puzzled
as the lady did not want to talk at all. Any questions about any negative
conduct of her husband were snubbed at. Eventually her father was exasperated
and ordered her to do one of two things, go back to her husband as she had no
reason for running from him or look somewhere else to go as they could not
entertain such shame. And she had to leave immediately.
It was then
that she revealed the reason for her actions.
‘He has to
choose between me and the lamp he brought yesterday’, was the statement she
gave the gathered elders and friends of her husband.
It appears a
foolish thing to say. But do we realize that we are many times like that woman?
And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh
to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in
God. (John 3: 19 – 21)
What happens
when the word of God confronts us? Do we, like the woman, hate the light
instead of dealing with our sin? You see, the problem was not the light at all.
She is the one who had the problem. Had she chosen to deal with her issues, she
would have enjoyed the light. The state of her house had appeared okay before
the light came. But it was not so. Dirt is dirt whether there is light or not.
Carelessness is not affected by the light. Cleanliness or lack of it is not
affected by the light. The lack of light only makes it hard for anyone to see
the mistakes.
Light only
exposes.
There are
preachers and writers people hate with a passion. Why are they hated? Could it
be that they are shedding light on our dark recesses through God’s word? Could
it be that the light they shed is making the superficial nature of the life I
live clear? Is it making others accurately discern how empty my spirituality
is? Are they calling me to a higher spiritual standard than I am prepared?
Look at the
popular preachers of our times. How many enrage their congregations? How many
offend them with the truth? How many call them to a higher spiritual standard?
Why is it that most popular preachers are always speaking about earthly success
and fleshy breakthroughs? Is that job or car or house equivalent to spiritual
maturity and potency?
Why is it
that very few (I don’t know of any) popular preachers touch on sin and
sinfulness? Is it that there is no sin in their congregations? Are their
churches composed of angels?
This is why
as we teach on taking the King’s message to a king we have to deal with
challenges, opposition, persecution and even death as some of the consequences
the messenger must consider as he takes that message.
John the
Baptist did not die for entertaining the king. He died for shedding the light
on the pretense that was Herod’s life. In fact many messengers died for
precisely the same reason.
The other
day I was reading about this very popular telepastor. His books are bestsellers;
his TV programs are in almost all networks. He is what can be called the
epitome of motivational ‘preachers’ from Texas. Again I won’t give his name as
you can get it on the internet as you search what I read.
This
preacher was rebuking Peter, Paul and John for writing something akin to hate
speech in their epistles. What was the issue? They were against homosexuality
and other open sins, especially by saying that homosexuals and other sinners
will not get to heaven in their writings (Bible).
Though he
did not rebuke Jesus, he also said John 14: 6 should not be in the Bible as
Jesus cannot be the only way to heaven. He has extensively written about having
a best life now and was saying that God can’t hate homosexuality as the
apostles wrote. That is why he was rebuking and correcting them for being
judgmental and exclusive. In fact he says that they should repent, and that on
national television.
According to
him people who live in open sin are good people and should not be judged.
He is not
alone. In fact most of the popular preachers are like that. Though they do not openly
tell people to sin, their preaching seems to state that sin is okay. In fact a
few of them have even hosted homosexual functions in their churches. Their
preaching seems to state that sin is a figment of the radicals’ imagination as
the god they serve does not mind it in the least.
So what kind
of heaven are they preparing their people to go to? Are they making their own?
Do these people read the Bible? But probably the real question to ask is which
Bible are they reading? You see translations are coming out very regularly and
some have removed homosexuality from their text. Some have also whitewashed
divorce and many other sins.
But you see
that gradually people are getting fed up with all this darkness. Man was
created with a desire to know God. Even non-believers instinctively know how a
Christian life should be like. The reason they hate Christianity is that the
Christians they see are so different from the ones they expect. In fact you may
find out that most of the people seeing all these errors were people who had
followed these preachers with a passion but found out that instead of them
feeding their flock with food were giving them gravel or something worse.
People who
live in sin know that it is wrong. It is only that they find it hard to change.
Telling them that it is okay may make them feel very nice initially because of
your ‘understanding’. But they know that it is a falsehood, more like giving
pain killers to someone with a treatable illness. They are instinctively
searching for a way out of their depravity as they sense it must be there,
somewhere. They want to see the light that will show them the way out of their
prison. Ultimately they will hate you for taking advantage of their weakness as
you sought their ‘seed’ by giving false hope.
Homosexuals
know that their lifestyle is an abomination. No wonder it is called an
unnatural act. Telling them it is fine is going against their instincts, leave
alone conscience. Telling a thief that stealing is not sin will never make him
find pride in it. Sin is indefensible.
Like I have
said darkness does not cover filth. It only makes it hard for people to see it.
I might accept the reality of that filth and make myself comfortable in it but
I can never get rid of it by keeping my house dark. The fact that I can’t see
it does not mean it is not there.
The gospel
is the light. It shows us the state of our ‘house’ so that we can take care of
it. You see we can take better care of our ‘house’ if we can see clearly.
Otherwise we may be harboring a serpent in that darkness without seeing and
might know the same when it is too late as we are suffering or dying from snake
bite like someone who had come to me for prayer. This also applies in the
spiritual realm.
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of
the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out
the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison
house. (Isaiah 42: 6, 7)
The key
responsibility of the King’s messenger is bringing light and release to the
world.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that
thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. (Isaiah 49:6)
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, (Luke 4:18)
This was the
assignment of the Message Himself. And it was His assignment that we are
supposed to be continuing with. And it is the reason we run foul of the
structures and people who are scared of the light because there are a few
things they would rather were not seen by others as they are also scared to see.
Another
thing we should be doing is opening the eyes of those who can’t see which to
those scared of the light exposes them to even greater peril. All those gifts
will disappear once the blind they have been leading have their eyes open. You
see I will not need a guide if I can see for myself. I therefore will not
appreciate those guides who thrived in my blindness because they could
literally get anything from me for interpreting the world for me.
A pastor or
prophet or any other ‘mighty’ servant who is the source of all the heavenly
connections to his (there are many hers today) flock must fight to remain
relevant as the only source of light to all these people as that is how he
makes his living. Light to all can effectively kill him. Imagine all these
blind people he leads starting to see! What for most would be a miracle would
for them be death by strangulation. And that is the reason as I have been
discipling and teaching discipleship over the years the people who passionately
fight it are the pastors as it is in their interest that people do not connect
to God at a personal level. People who can ‘see’ cannot be easily manipulated
to allow the pastors to walk all over them as they get in contact with the King
without pastoral or other intermediaries. That is the same reason we find Jesus
being killed by the religious leaders who fed on their ‘ministries’.
For a certain man named Demetrius, a
silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto
the craftsmen; Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and
said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Moreover ye
see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this
Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods,
which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to
be set at nought …(Acts 19:24
– 27)
That is what
light does. It kills professions and trades as people are able to get a clear
understanding of reality. Ministry to many is not much different from the trade
Demetrius was involved in. They fed from the spiritual yearnings of their
people and fought the light because of the threat it posed to their ‘ministry’.
People who
can clearly hear from God are a treasure to the King, but in the same vein are
a threat to the guides (say pastors or other ministers). If I know the
direction, the leader is supposed to guide me to maximize on the journey. If I
am blind, I must have the guide at all times holding my hands. If on the other
hand I can see but do not know where I am supposed to be going I must be
consulting the one who knows the way continually. The level of light I am
exposed to will therefore dictate my relationship to my shepherd and will
determine whether he is the only shepherd or the Shepherd’s undershepherd.
Many pastors
love leading the blind as this kills dissension. The led are comfortable and
owe it all to them. They will then be able to do anything they want with their
churches, change the constitution to suit their interests and get anything they
want from their churches. They will just need to say that they need to live in
a palace for the whole congregation to sacrifice everything to buy them the
palace even though some can barely afford food for their families. To the
congregation God can only speak through the pastor and any other voice but his
or hers must be silenced.
Leading
people who can see but do not have the direction is not as easy. But it is not
much different than leading the blind. In this the pastor dictates the
spiritual nurture the congregation receives. They must approve the sermons if
they are not preaching. They dictate the Bible Studies that are done, many
times having to prepare them to guard against threats to their authority, of
course saying that they are protecting their flock from false doctrine. This
ensures that the congregation does not grow enough to connect with God directly
and must need a clutch (pastor) to do so.
Leading
those who can not only see but know the direction they are going is hard but
fulfilling. These are the ones who hold you accountable for your teaching and
spiritual growth. These can tell when you have not prepared a sermon, when you
have not prayed, when you are guiding them without being led by God and when
self interest dominates your pastoral leadership. Some might be having an even
closer relationship with God and will help in your leadership as you walk with
them. But they don’t question your leadership; they only hold it to account
before the King. You can’t therefore be careless with your spiritual or other
responsibilities as your flock know the general direction they are going and
can see when you are making a detour.
Most pastors
start with people who can help them see the direction God is leading. They are
his partners in all ways and the pastor knows that he can’t do much without
them. He also knows that they could easily do what he does and many times will
be the ones in charge of growth beyond their small confines by replicating what
they have done with their church. They are more or less equal partners, the
only difference being that they have given him the position of pastor, a
position he knows they can also effectively run.
But the
church grows and his stature also grows. Many of the people joining it are those
who can see but need direction. They therefore elevate the pastor to a guide
which feels very nice to the pastor. All of a sudden nobody seems to notice
whether he has prayed or not. No one seems to notice or care whether he has
prepared the sermon or not. Nobody can sense when he sins as his crowd really
values him. Gradually his initial partners are pushed to the periphery and
eventually removed from the leadership, even the church for making the pastor
look unspiritual by asking uncomfortable questions. You see a guide is paid
better than a team leader as he is more indispensable. He becomes the
undisputed leader of the structure with the congregation at his feet.
This is what
I have seen as the progress many churches grow to. It is the very spiritually
alert pastor who can be able to see and check that progression. It marks one as
very successful though he may be spiritually dead and buried because as they
say who can argue with numbers? And there are two numbers at play here; people
and mammon. The crowds that are excited when you do not grow as you will not challenge
them to also grow and the money they are ready to pay you to remain so.
But is that
what we are called to?
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for
he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings,
and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer
for my name's sake. (Acts 9:15,
16)
To open their eyes, and to turn them from
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive
forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith
that is in me. (Acts 26:18)
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I
have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for
salvation unto the ends of the earth. (Acts
13:47)
Paul knew
his commission. Yet see what he had to go through? He was stoned to death,
imprisoned for opening the ‘eyes’ of a city, and so on. Look at this check list
to appreciate what the commission cost him.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a
fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons
more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes
save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in
perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in
perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in
perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and
painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in
cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh
upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
(2Corinthians 11:23 – 28)
These are
some of the things we should expect if we are to take the King’s light to the
world.
But we
should also know that opening eyes and shedding light to people has its own
fulfillment. Though I said I won’t talk about rewards of being such ministers,
I need to give some of the rewards of doing such a ministry. But these are different from what most would
call rewards as they are using different standards.
The first is
freedom. This is what a parent experiences after their child becomes a
responsible adult. The harvest you get from leading blind people can never
compare with the release you get from seeing them charting their destiny as a
result of your ministry. The neededness your ministry evoked is incomparable
with the release you get when you see them leading others as you led them.
You can go
to sleep without wondering which new fire you will be woken to put out, which
crisis you will be called upon to deal with. You can go for a long journey
without fearing that another pastor will sway their loyalty from you as you had
already directed it to the King. You can easily take a sabbatical, even a five
year break as you are confident that your flock’s loyalty is safe with the King
you directed it to. You know that your position is as safe as your relationship
with the King. You therefore do not need to manipulate the leadership of impose
leaders as you only owe you position to the King.
The other is
security. You will continue depending on God for your sustenance as it was when
He called you. Many pastors transition towards leading the blind because
leading people who know the King’s direction requires you to be connected to
Him. Any diversion on your side will result in the flock deserting you for a
more worthy shepherd, meaning your support is subject to the whims of people
who can hear the King, and the King can order them to stop supporting you. They
can also hear when the King issues another order that is not agreeable to you.
That is the reason they would rather lead the blind or those without a sense of
direction.
Leading
people who are also connected to the King gives me the freedom to grow as much
as the King wants because I know that His greatest calling is growing His
Kingdom by having as many people as possible having a vibrant relationship with
Him. The King desires all His subjects to be not only connected to Him but also
coherently spreading His agenda. Keeping them in the dark is therefore a
disservice to the King. Feeding on the blindness or lack of direction of the
subjects is a crime. And this is why we read
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and
in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matthew 7:21 – 23)
Should we
say that these ministers led from too far in front for those they led to get an
idea of the direction? Could they have been the only ones who could see and
didn’t care to have anyone else with the gift of sight? Could they have been
the only ones with the key to the miraculous? May they have been the only ones
who could hear the voice of the King? Were they the only window that the King
could pass His Light through to the world?
You see we
do not see the King having issues with their prophecy or miracles. Yet they are
sent to hell. Christ had no problem with what they did. It appears that the
problem was with how they did it and the spirit they did it in. They may have
done the King’s duty but lost touch with the King’s way of doing things which
was no different to the King that disobeying Him.
Chances are
that they started well as it is not easy to reach that state of spiritual power
accidentally or by trying hard enough. Remember the sons of Sceva in Acts 19?
What went
wrong then? I believe they lost the direction of their ministry. They focused
their ministry inward. Their agenda became more important than the King’s
agenda. They therefore became a liability to the Kingdom however much they
pressed in doing the Kingdom’s activities. It reminds me of the church in
Ephesus in Revelation 2.
I believe it
is impossible to get in the King’s wrong books if all we focused on is shedding
His light to the world and especially leading all who come to us to connecting
to that light. That is what we call The Great Commission.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:18 – 20)
This makes
our responsibility as believers as leading others to becoming as we are through
discipleship. We are not to be content to just lead people to connect to the
Kingdom, we should be more engaged in making them worthy subjects in the same.
And the things that thou hast heard of me
among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others also. (2Timothy
2:2)
Reproduction
is the agenda of the Kingdom. The superstar spirit is the spirit of the
antichrist. Christ is the only star in the Kingdom. Any other is the creation
of the opposing kingdom. And that is the surest way for a minister to become a
liability to the Kingdom.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I
am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)
That light
is not for a select few but for all who choose to follow Christ. But we must
contend with the one who hates that light and seeks to shield as many as
possible from it.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we
preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants
for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(2Corinthians 4: 4 - 6)
It is
therefore instructive that we realize that it is in the interests of Satan that
we become indispensable leaders in the King’s army. He is the one who wants us
to be the only guides in the ministries the King gives us by empowering us to
emasculate anyone else who may be posing any threat to our leadership. Do you
remember Pharaoh and Herod killing sons to remove any threat to their
leadership? That is what he wants me to be actively involved in instead of
getting as many as possible exposed to the Light as exposure to that light will
quicken the reproduction of the Kingdom.
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these
signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he
was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went
forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the
word with signs following. Amen. (Mark 16:15
– 20)
Here we see
all who believed having signs following, not only their leaders. It is the same
thing we see in Acts. Though there were responsibilities for the leaders,
miracles were not restricted to them. And this is the goal of the Kingdom.
Light was
not restricted to the apostles, though they were the ones who had been with The
Light for a long time. He spread to many others through the people He released
Himself to. No wonder the first Christians were called disciples. You did not
join the church just by believing in Christ. You became one by getting involved
in the apostles’ doctrine and all it involved. Ananias and Sapphira died in the
process of acting like disciples when they were not.
Again we
need to emphasize that miracles were the result of that discipleship. Remember
it is the normal church that prayed Peter out of prison (Acts 12). Why do I say
so? They doubted when their prayer was answered.
In summary
let me say this.
·
Light only
exposes. We should not blame it for doing its work. We should instead use it to
shape our lives to be consistent with what the light is showing us. Preachers
who use the scriptures to confront sin are supposed to be the most favorite
because they are taking us to the level God will approve.
·
Christ is
the Light of the world. As the creator He is best placed to show us how best we
should live. He is therefore the light we should be shedding to others.
·
God desires
that His light is shed abroad the whole world. Shielding it so that it appears
as if I am the source is a crime in the Kingdom we are subjects.
·
The greatest
responsibility to us as ministers is to raise as many light carriers as we can.
Again this is the King’s desire. Discipleship is the route.
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Bearing the
light has its responsibilities and rewards. But it also has its sacrifices and
consequences because there is one whose main goal is to restrict, contain and
if possible block that light from spreading. He moves between pampering me to
contain mine to killing me for refusing to be contained.
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The world
hates the light and will do anything to kill it and anyone who insists on
spreading it. Worldly members of churches may go as far as rebuking a preacher
who sheds light on their sinful and worldly lifestyles. Many pastors have been
sacked for the same. Many of them have the money to follow such agendas
through.
Finally
Let him know, that he which converteth the
sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins. (James
5:20)
And they that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
stars for ever and ever. (Daniel
12:3)
There is an
eternal reward for those who consciously decide to be involved in increasing
the reach of the light in them.
God bless
you
