It’s a wonderful day!
I've decided to start sharing my
thoughts on Life and Relationships with people as they come up. Some of these
thoughts might be radical and might seem alien to some of us but please do well
to consider them before debunking or criticizing.
So yesterday someone met me
and asked why I haven't joined a unit in my local assembly, and I told him I
wasn't sure I wanted to join but I'd consider it. And then he said "the
earlier you start being useful to God the better...." And I picked it up
from there as I did not allow him finish. I immediately told him that my
usefulness to God is not judged by my joining a unit in my local assembly. My
usefulness and your usefulness to God is directly and inversely proportional to
your usefulness to man. I further told him that what we do within the four
walls of our local assemblies is not as important as what we do outside those
walls. We'll be judged more by our contribution to humanity than the unit we
joined in our local assembly.
The purpose of our local assembly is to
equip us for the work of the ministry/service. To who? To humanity of course. So any local assembly
that doesn't empower or enable you to serve humanity does not qualify to be a
church. There is a difference between the work of the ministry and ministry
work. Maybe joining a unit in your local assembly is ministry work while the
work you do outside its four walls for the furtherance of the kingdom is the
work of the ministry
An usher in a local assembly is not doing more of God's work than an business man providing ten people with jobs.
An usher in a local assembly is not doing more of God's work than an business man providing ten people with jobs.
The major issue is that
we've overtime separated spiritual work and secular work. So you see someone go
for a vigil and come to his place of work dizzy and becomes ineffective
throughout the day. You see another one reading his/her bible at work and
doesn't even know when a client comes. But is this truly what God wants? I'm
sure you know the answer. You see a chorister in the choir who thinks she is
more valuable to God than an Asa. But these are all religion! And religion is
the greatest enemy of Christianity.
Every work is spiritual if
it is fulfilling Gods will and advancing the kingdom. Another bone of
contention is what is the kingdom. Even if you don't know what the kingdom is, just
know its is not the fall walls of your church- that's also an instrument God is
using to advance His kingdom. The same way he could use the media, economy, politics
,entertainment, education etc.
When
God gave Adam the work of a gardener in genesis, he never called it spiritual
or secular work. So let's see everything we do as long as it’s in line with
God's will as spiritual work if we have to call it anything. This will even
help us to put in more excellence in our jobs and work knowing that they are
all unto God!
Selah
I
value you!
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