WORK

Every Christian...well let me not say that...As a Christian there have been times when I have questioned the propositions of the Christian faith. If what we profess is true, why are some many of us behaving like atheists? If my Christian walk hinged on the fact that Christians were the best people to know I would have gone astray long time and mostly because of ministers of the Gospel. I have had too many encounters with pastors who have done me wrong to belief that these men in ministry are perfect. I have failed God too many times as a minister to not know the imperfection that dwells on the inside of some many of us men in ministry.

As a young man growing up I thought they was a certain peculiarity about deacons and those person on the church board. The first church I attended quickly shattered that utopia. I saw church politics at it heights when by-laws that were never read out in the church were used to lock the young people out of a meeting and deny us the opportunity to vote on keeping our pastor. When I was appointed a deacon in the church I am now a member of it final came home to me that deacons are humans of the lower nature just like the rest of the church. This revelation was not due to the quality of the other deacons, but when I thought that I was a deacon with all my issues and with God working overtime on setting me straight I knew I was not the only one.

Paul in Philippians 2:12 says we are to "...continue to WORK out your salvation with fear and trembling," The truth is that those who are set over us are accountable to God and the scripture is clear on the punishment of anyone who leads another person astray. Still the responsibility is mind to "work".

Over the last 14 years I have had many discouragement, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost my best friend in a car accident in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost my brother to a bullet in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost my sister in law and my niece in child's birth in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost my cousin to a brain tumour in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost one friend to a bullet less than 100 meters from my house in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
I lost another friend to some unknown illness in 2002, but I made up in my mind to work.
(I feel something lifting me up)
I lost my fiancee in 2003, she just left mi, but I am better for it, because I made up in my mind to work.
I lost my job in 2004, they fired me, but I am better for it, because I made up in my mind to work. (I feel like preaching it)
I lost all that, but I didn't lose my mind...because I made up in my mind to work.
I have failed God so many time, but he is still bringing me through, because I made up in my mind to work.
I didn't have much to call my own in the way of assets, but I made up in my to work.
I have lived without knowing where my next dollar is coming from, but I made up in my mind to work.

Your life is in a whirlwind...Have you made up in your mind to work?
Your brother is hooked on crack...Have you made up in your mind to work?
Your sister is sick with cancer...Have you made up in your mind to work?
You are sick and in constant pain...Have you made up in your mind to work?
Your ministry seems meaningless and trite...Have you made up in your mind to work?
Your marriage isn't going right...Have you made up in your mind to work?
You find it hard to stay away from that woman or that man...Have you made up in your mind to work?
What every you are going throughHave you made up in your mind to work?

Because the beauty of all of this is that its God himself who is working in me to work according to His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13) "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." In verse 11 Paul had declared that every knee will bow and every tongue with confess. Not a group of knees and tongue, but every...individual. It is against that background that I and you as individuals must work out our salvation with fear and trembling, but also with the assurance that God is working in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure and purpose.

Well a suh mi si it...wha yu think?