09/10/2019
BE YOURSELF DO NOT PRETEND
Joshua 24:14-15 KJV
Now therefore fear the Lord , and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord . [15] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord .
Joshua was himself he didn't worship the gods of the Amorists instead he rebuked the Israel's, today in the Christian journey we get lost on the way when we see our brothers, sisters stumble, we also stumbles. When we see a fellow Church member does something not biblical we also follow their footsteps. My bother and sister why can't you be your self. Salvation is very individual.
The bible says every one will be judged according to what you have done, there is no finger pointing that it was so and so who led me a stray. If this scripture passage is correct, then I want to say even if many live ungodly life, live Godly live. Even if you are left alone like Joshua to do the right and biblical rules, do it my brother or sister. Be different from wrong doings, be your self so long as you know what you are following is biblical and right before God. There is nothing new that you may think people have rediscovered from what you believed on, there is no change in the bible, the wards of the Lord remains as it is or was from the time you believed or read it. No change!
If you pick a piece of ordinary stone without colours from the ground begin to look at it for some time with keen focus, never turn your eyes from the stone, continue to look at the stone without turning away your eyes, you will realize that the stone has colour's, shining sort of things. Which is not true the stone remains the same....Pastor Blasius Ruguri..... That's how we look at things that are not biblical, the moment we pick one lifestyle and begin to analyse it looked at it keenly with much focus and interest, they begin to make sense in our eyes, they begin to look nice and right in our eyes. But the fact is that the lifestyle remain the same as it was before it never changed.
Do not pretend and never follow others in doing things that are not glorifying your heavenly Father, even if they are done by people you think are stronger then you in faith, by pastors, by elders do not just follow in doing something you know is not right biblical. But like Joshua I quote " but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord" God bless you as you try to be your self and not some body else in Jesus name Amen.