In
our church RLM in 2014 it is declared the Year of Possibilities based on
the scripture from Luke 1:37
For Nothing is impossible with God
This scripture sounds like
those motivating verses that one can just chant and miracle happens. This might
be the case for most people, but in reality one need to establish a solid
relationship with our Maker for the words to become life and live. Depending on
God‘s plan for our lives some of the scriptures can be chanted for the whole
year without any breakthrough in that particular area. While some might just
say it once and hundred fold of miracles fill their cup and run over.
The truth is God is taking
each one of us on a different journey, it differs from one to another and
cannot be simply compared. Like a child without a sweet, when he sees another
with a sweet he cries for it, or if the sweet is a different colour, he also
wants the same colour of the sweet. What the child without the sweet might not
realize is that God has given him a toy instead of a sweet. The toy that he can
play with for a longer period while the one with the sweet, he eats the sweet
for that particular hour, while the toy lasts for weeks, months or even years
at times. God things do not work like that. Each one of us need to seek God to
understand which of the journey we are in.
This year of possibilities
does not necessarily mean that at the end of the year, those who are not married
will be married, similarly gotten new car, house and job etc. I am sure many
staunch Christians can attest that themes do not work magic, it
is a process oriented achievements as per God’s master plan for our lives. Many of us have gone
through many themes over the years, some of those birthed results while some
did not. This is due to many reasons, one might have been out of God’s will for
a period, or through our actions God might have deemed us not ready enough to
receive certain blessings.
Thus if one reach the end
of the year without any physical and tangible testimony should not be
disappointed or distressed, or feel left out of what was promised at the
beginning of the year. While still on this point, it important to highlight our
yardstick for measuring our breakthrough with God, so many of us falsely use
tangible and material gains as a good measure of Gods breakthrough in our
lives, such are cars, marriage, house, new job and salary etc. We tend to
neglect the tillage that God has put in for the fruit to be ripe and harvest to
be ready, in other words the behind-the-scene work God has put in for the results
to be claimable.
We also tend to neglect
the breakthroughs that brings into our live that deals with our character and
integrity such as teaching us maturity, honesty, hardwork, forgiveness,
patience, humbleness, serving, deal with anger, deal with people and
establishing relationships with family, friends, enemies and colleagues. This
are the very few factors God might be bringing achievements and attention to
but we are too concerned with the physical and glamorous ones. Those are
normally immature Christians still concerned with pure spiritual milk, have not
really experienced the meat.
In most cases only the
mature Christians are content with what God is dealing with in their lives.
Even though they don’t see the glamorous breakthrough, they are content knowing
that the path and groundwork is dealt with in preparation for the breakthrough
to set in. When it comes, they are ready to receive it wholeheartedly without a
change of heart or acting as if it is self-achievements. The bible state that
the righteous shall know their God.
Just to highlight that
last year’s theme is not dead and buried, it is a build on, add to faith
perseverance, to perseverance knowledge, to knowledge patience and to patience
good virtue. This themes seek to bring us closer to develop a God like
character. We accept the Lord as our personal saviour and work through our
character overtime, that period is called fine-tuning. We make a lot of
mistakes and rectify them, strive for holiness and perfectionism.
To be continued...
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