RE-SEASONED!
Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:13
They live in tropical Africa around forests and lakes and rivers, in wild valleys far from the other tribes. These are the Pygmies, a lower-class tribe which I always look at as being a God created people category to be used as a teaching material for His Church.
Pygmies live on making and selling pots. They always dwell in villages built close to rich clay deposits and surrounded by bushes where they can easily hunt animals. Thus, generations of Pygmies have lived in well known areas for centuries simply because they could get there a kind of clay with a substantial material to produce quality pots. But once they notice the clay deteriorates and starts containing a high percentage of sand, these people simply move away in order to find another useful site.
“You are the salt of the earth; BUT IF THE SALT LOSES ITS FLAVOUR, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”, Christ states. (Matthew 5:13). Christian Believers are practically similar to the clay searched by the Pygmies. God has also been using the Apostles and all the believers to produce new spiritual pots (other new believers) through the proclamation of the Good News. As long as they have kept sanctifying themselves and faithful to the Great missionary Commission, the Lord has also abided with them confirming the Word through the accompanying signs.(Mark 16:20). As long as the Christian Church has remained a “PRAYING CHURCH”, the Lord has used Her powerfully as a spiritual fighter to bombing Satan’s strongholds. But, where is that supremacy today?
“In the world you will have tribulations!”(John 16:33). Dear Christian Brethren, tribulation IS NOT destruction. In God’s working plan, TRIBULATION IS A SPIRITUAL EMPOWERING PROCEDURE He uses in order to RE-SEASON his Church. We need to go through tribulation in order to become the high quality clay searched out by the Lord. Are you a new-born Christian member of the Church, the Holy Body of Christ? If yes, so tribulation is your calling! We all need to be humbled and seen being NOTHING in order to get the powerful and invincible Spirit of God dwell and abide in this. That’s the great secret of the GREAT REVIVALS that colour the history of the Christian Church.
“Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs,
in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I AM STRONG!”, Paul states. (2 Corinthians 12:10).
Am I accepting testing and tribulation as a believer member of the Holy Church or am I still caught and imprisoned in the unceasing PRAYERS FOR BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS? Are you feeling becoming spiritually weak day by day? Are you no longer attracted to kneel and READ THE WORD and PRAY and PRAY and PRAY for the lost? You need to be RE-SEASONED! So, let us all really give its very meaning to this word of HOPE spoken by a true believer in times of tribulation: IN GOD WE TRUST!
Prayer: O Lord Jesus Christ, grant me a re-seasoned heart, should I need to go through tribulation in order to get it! Amen!
In Christ’s love
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