Dearly Beloved,
Have you ever seen someone
tenaciously looking for what actually was not lost, or someone trying to
keep what really isn't his? Have you ever seen folks emptying today
of its strength while trying to solve tomorrow's problem? Have you ever
seen believers react to a seemingly "legitimate need" like Saul did,
and thereafter lost his kingdom? Have you ever wondered why after over 6000
years, the church is yet to produce a critical mass of 144,000 believers
that'll simultaneously overcome fear like our Lord Jesus and His the
early apostles did?
Heb.
2:14-15 ... that through death he (Jesus)
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through
fear of death were all
their lifetime subject to bondage.
(i.e.
fear of death here isn’t physical but the fear of not obeying/loving/enjoying the world
– Heb. 11:24)
Heb.
11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he was come
to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin (Egypt) for a season; Esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt
The fear of tomorrow
lingered in the life of Abham until he began to walk in the consciousness of
his changed name/identify - Abraham. Fear is an unarmed robber that daily preys
on any believer that hasn’t begun to hear what Jesus heard from the father in
the days of his flesh.
Fear was the first and only
pseudo "gospel" that the serpent preached to Adam in Eden. The fear of losing what should
never have been a possession caused Adam to trade his birthright and mortgage
that of posterity. Fear is the reaction of any soul, at any given time
"T", to any given opportunity where God expects us to lay down our
corrupt-prone life (desires/love), and sheepishly follow God until our
souls lay hold of resurrection power.
Most of the thoughts or counsels
we react to,
hardly ever emanate from the Holy Spirit, through our regenerated spirit!
Our recreated spirit that’s seated with Christ in heavenly places will never
inspire us to "use our brain" or "think big"
in taking decision that borders on our destiny in God. Most of such
philosophies that motivate believers are worldly and sensual
(Col. 2:8/Jam. 3:15). When a believer feeds on such wind of doctrines that
emanates from Grecian wisdom, they become dull of hearing the very truth that
should reveal Christ unto them (1Cor. 1:22b/Matt. 13:15/Heb. 5:11). All of
such "brain waves" can never close the gap between God and man!
1
Cor. 2:11 For what man knows the things
of a man (his inheritance/things of God’s Glory –vs. 7), save the spirit
of man (not the mind) which is in him? even so the things of God knows no
man, but the Spirit of God.
Most of the thoughts or counsels
we don't respond
to, are such that demand we wait without necessarily knowing
when God will show up! That is God’s technology that should make men to
lose measurements of the nature we inherited from Adam, so men can gradually
inherit their true life (eternal life) which has been hid in Christ Jesus!
Otherwise, we’ll fall prey to the dictates of an independent spirit and lose
life.
History, our Lord Jesus, and even the devil, all confirm that "we
have control over our choices (decisions and indecision), but we don't have
control over the consequences of our choices, which will always affect
posterity either positively or negatively.
The biblical provision to
overcome the fear of tomorrow is not the faith that gave birth to the good
reports of Heb. 11:1-39b. Rather, it's the faith of Heb.
11:39c/Titus 1:2 that was authored and perfected through the
victorious walk of our Lord Jesus.
Not a few believers over generations have “gone to heaven”
without overcoming the fear of death, but a generation that will “make
it to the father” are currently being born anew (Jn. 13:3/14:3/1Pet.
1:23/Jam. 1:21). God NEVER approved of the former, but of the latter. It’s our
lot – let’s selflessly embrace it!
Blessings!
Nothing
that happens AROUND US should be compared with what should be happening WITHIN
US!
