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Over the years, I have learnt of the posture we ought to have when we serve God. Some Christians may think that to serve God, we must be perfect individuals. On the contrary, if we think this way, we could lose the joy of serving or simply forget that we are serving God.
When we serve God, we are on a journey of obedience and transformation. It calls for us to sacrifice the time, energy, and resources that God has graciously given us, so that we may in turn be a blessing to others. Each decision we make to surrender and submit to Him enables our faith to grow stronger.
My mother’s salvation was one particular challenge that God had used to strengthen my faith.
My faith grew stronger in getting my mother to accept Christ and be baptised. In this journey, I prayed a lot. This went on for years and when I grew tired and felt like giving up, God moved in quickly to show me that salvation belongs to the Lord.
“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” (1 Cor 3: 6-7)
Christmas is an unexpected gift from God! Who would have ever thought that God Himself would come on earth in the form of a baby and be born in a manger?
In Matthew 25: 31-46, Jesus speaks of how sheep and goats will be separated when He comes again. The former will be deemed righteous while the latter as those who have not acted in ways that please God.
As the book of James echos, a piety that is not accompanied by outwardly works, is false. Nobody can receive salvation unless through the Cross of Jesus Christ, before which we have been unconditionally accepted. But the faith we profess in Christ must be translated into actions and into the way we live.
Jesus exhorts in Mark 12:30-31 that “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” The commandments are not to be mistaken as divided or sequential; their summation forms the foundation of all of God’s laws and are to be carried out simultaneously.
When you submit yourself to the will of God in loving others, you will also experience the grace of God coming upon you, sanctifying you.
As quickly as the world is changing because of the pandemic, so our Church needs to continue working for the Lord. In this issue, we continue to witness how our Heavenly Father has been caring, growing, equipping, and using each and every one of His people for His glorious purposes.