08/02/2025
BURY THE DEAD 💀⚰💀⚰⚰
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
9:60 Jesus said unto him, 🗣️ Let the dead bury their dead: but 🗣️ go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Some people get obssessed about contributions and active participation in burials. To them it is the most important thing to be seen mourning 😭😭😭 correctly all the time.
The same people often give a deaf ear whatsoever, when they hear that some one is sick and needs someone. That to them can wait or worse still, 🗣️🗣️🗣️will not be important.
If you are such a person, you need to ask yourself some questions. Can you really do this? Count the number of social groups you're involved in. All of them full of people who love to "socialize" or better put "build their social capitalcapital around things like this.
Furthermore, to these people, when they contribute and participate in these activities, it is an investment that you have to return one day. It isn't for free.
You need to know this. That Family life in this world is about things of the flesh.
Someone rightly said 🗣️🗣️🗣️that family members are excellent at one thing; preparing for burials. But if you want them to help you succeed in life, you'll be wasting your time. That I believe is so true. God has solved the worry of burying the dead by giving almost all people, a family. Why should you help men magnify needs for burials and to make business out of sorrowful events?
More so why do you worry about building a social capital centered around burials? You don't need that.
Your family members are connected to you by blood. The "god of this world" will deal with them mercilessly if they neglect that duty. They can't and won't try it. They're connected to you by blood🩸.
So yes, do not neglect your God-given duties, because you have channeled useful time and resources to achieve this social capital (Lk9:57-60)
God is spirit Jn4:24.
His family is not blood but about a group of people who listen to his voice in order to do it Matt12:48-50. God is not compelled to bury anything in this world. The dead for God are dead in their spirits. Not flesh.
You have the 🆘 OPPORTUNITY to give them life. Not celebrate with them in death. Stop making God angry. Stop being the source of more spiritual death during physical deaths. Death is a defeated enemy for anyone that believes. Some of you calling yourselves believers will not hesitate to cause many to be drunk and wayward at these ceremonies, giving satan that one chance to sn**ch another soul away from God. You even go as far as dancing juju/wearing masquerades 🥲🥲🥲in a bid to please men. Why are you like this.
So I tell you this. 😎 A simple condolence message or symbolic gesture of comfort is often sufficient. except you want to raise someone from the dead. This is the spirit of Jesus 👋👋Let your simple yes be yes. And your no be no. Everything else comes from the father of all lies.
Make your time count.
Let the dead, bury "their dead". Are you a dead man? That you should fill your cup to the brim about celebrating death as if life is death?
in Christ always means turning quickly to the new page. To announce life firmly and strongly again in a world of death. Never to sit in it discouraged or accomodating and affirming the power of deaths lousy grip upon us. Moving forward as soon as we can.
Amen