It will be Revealed

I read a post on Facebook today, it was shocking. It brought to light the concept of Character which has been the focus for March. A Choir Leader (Female) had been engaged in a sexual relationship with another church member. One faithful night after the act, he saw her off around 10:30pm. He was shocked to receive a call few minutes later that she was hit by a trailer and died.

He visited the house later and met a sad mood, 'but the people rejoiced that a dedicated sister had gone to be with the Lord'. They believed she was with God in heaven. Only the brother knew, he knew what had transpired the night she died.

When it comes to issues of Life, there's nothing that can be hidden. Everything will be brought to the open. As a matter of fact, everything is opened only that people aren't seeing it. Scripture says in Hebrews 4:13 'Everything is opened before the eyes of whom we have to do'. There's nothing hidden, before God everything, yes everything is opened. Before men, everything will eventually be opened after a period of time.

Exposure isn't a bad thing, in fact businesses pay thousands and millions to get the world to know what they do, the products they offer and how they can make life better. It's not exposure that is the problem, but what would be exposed. Just as celebrities want to be in news always,  even so many of them would gladly pay to prevent certain information from getting out to the Public.

Your Character will find you out. Just like the lady that died in that accident, it was a hidden act, but now the world knows what happened. Before God it will be opened and she would receive the judgement that God metes out.

We have the chance to destroy whatever seeks to destroy us. Everything will be exposed sooner or later. Jesus made it clear when he said "For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad". - Luke 8:17

Prayer:

Lord whatever will destroy me in years to come and in eternity, help me never to do them...and whatever I'm doing now that will destroy me help me to stop today in Jesus Name.

Grow in Grace,

Oluwatobi Adesanya.
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Building Blocks Of Sound Character

I have a terrible impression about Judah (One of the sons of Jacob). I don't know if I'm sounding like an holier -than - thou kind of person  but I really don't like the footprints he left behind. What was Judah's challenge? He lacked self control.

Self Control implies exercising dominion over impulses which come from the flesh.

It is very clear that we are constantly being tried in our character everyday. We are being exposed to the fire where we are to showcase if we are thoroughly built up and established in Christ or half - baked Christians. How does it feel eating per -boiled rice, especially when its not salted? Getting the drift?

We must be willing to go through character refinement as youths who belong to God. This process might not necessarily be easy on us. In this day and age of "whatever you do is right". This period when we automatically have the impression that all we do is justified, even when its clearly wrong. We give excuses like don't you know we aren't under the law? It's a dispensation of grace. We must always remember that even Grace came with a lot of sacrifices from the One who decided to be Our Lamb.

Getting on to Judah, we see him as someone who threw caution to the wind. He was so insensitive that he slept with his daughter -in -law thinking she was a prostitute. He even gave up his seal and it's cord, including the staff in his hands as pledge for a time out with Shua. This depicted his lack of self control. He took her for a shrine prostitute and had a fling with her. I guess that'd be the least you'd have expected from a grandfather.

Well, this is not to say I'm totally justified and so innocent that I've never broken God's heart countless times by certain actions I've taken in times past, and those times I still recently misbehave, in terms of disobedience to clear cut instructions and fleshly outbursts of anger. I'm simply saying when we have truly and genuinely given ourselves to God in totality, we must strive to maintain his standard of purity and give ourselves fully to his pruning.

Jesus tells us in John 15:1-2, "I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit HE PRUNES, so that it will be even more fruitful".

Character formation as earlier established in previous series is not a one day thing. Its the little little habits we take up that forms them. Our present character didn't just perch on us like a mosquitoes perches on the human skin. It sure took a process. Hence, we must be careful what we let in, people we move with as companions and friends, including what we spend our time on.

I pray that the Good Lord will help us as we sincerely desire to possess a Godly character, which is without blemish in Jesus Name.

With Love,

Omotola Fatunsin.

Even in Egypt Part 2

In the midst of the strangeness of Egypt, Joseph never lost his identity as a child of God. He remained an example of the believers in purity. (1Tim4:12). Contrary to the opinion of an adage I'd always heard when people talk about influence, which I'd like to paraphrase in English, "When a leaf stays long with a bar of soap, with time, the leaf itself becomes soap". This implies that the leaf leaves it's original identity by virtue of the long term stay with the soap and takes on the identity of its present habitat, thereby becoming a soap itself. By then, there would be no distinction between the leaf and the soap!

Are we beginning to leave our foundation? Are we beginning to be romanced by the affairs of this world, so much so that we can't be differentiated from the world? Are we beginning to act, react, talk, think, live and do business like the world?

Well, we can't afford to. The cost can never ever be paid. Brother John through the Holy Ghost makes an injunction; "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boastings of what he has and does - COMES NOT FROM THE FATHER but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever".( 1 John2:15-17).

Here's our own Egypt - The world. Yes! The world. We must strive not to lose focus and be determined to give the race all it takes. The Holy Spirit is reliable and trustworthy. We can always depend on him and draw strength from each day. It's really not an easy task trying to live right in a wrong world, but we can always count on God's sufficient grace to help and see us through. (Hebrews 4:14-16).

At the moment, you might think you've gone way past redemption, " Hell no! I ain't Joseph", you exclaim. I'd like to bring you a word of assurance. No man, I repeat, no man is way past redemption. There's still a chance to make amends, get your acts right and present yourself to God in genuine repentance. He'll take you in, just as you are, even in Egypt.

Action Point:
Make a decision to work consciously and deliberately to live right even in 'Egypt' by adopting the weapon of reliance on the Holy Ghost for help in this race.

Prayer:
Lord, help me to stand and live for you even in Egypt. Give me all that it takes not to deny you, in good or bad times in Jesus Name.

With Love,

Holy Spirit in Omotola