We Are More Like Him
DAILY VITAMIN
- We Are More Like Him
When the government fails to provide the needed amenities, we flare up in anger, frustrated, and curse and abuse them until we feel we have gotten even. In doing this, we totally forget that our brothers and sisters make up the government; sometimes our pastors and friends, our religious companions and benefactors, yet for the reason that we are frustrated, we curse endlessly. Frustration forces us to put away. the Christ in us, to express the fallen Adam within, which always has an excuse for every wrong, and a victim to blame for every problem. we encounter.
The world and the problems that come with it are bent on achieving one aim; which is to drill out the slightest bit of God out of the Christian man, keeping him frustrated until he stays more human than Christ-like. Most times, we yield not because we do not know that the eventual end- which is our being frustrated, is a gambit of the devil to make us say and do things that do not exhibit the Person of God, but because we choose to believe that without our conscious vile efforts we can't get our views known.
However, in a pandemonium-filled world, God says 'when you pass through the waters, I will be with thee'(Isaiah 43:2); and so that is to say that though the floods would be there to get you thinking perhaps God's absent, keeping you finetuned to your frustrations, but God is saying 'Don't give in because I'm with you', a clarion call to keep our eyes on Him, and not on the things the government didn't and can't provide, or that life never offered, for one difference between Christ and Adam is that while Christ had to pass through what Adam never did, yet never gave an excuse for whatever challenges that would appear.
Note, it is not your fault when you get so frustrated at times that you feel like venting it all out, but it is when you choose to stay frustrated; for God has not given us the spirit of the world, but of Christ. So let's try to remain calm, and trust more on Him.
- We Are More Like Him
When the government fails to provide the needed amenities, we flare up in anger, frustrated, and curse and abuse them until we feel we have gotten even. In doing this, we totally forget that our brothers and sisters make up the government; sometimes our pastors and friends, our religious companions and benefactors, yet for the reason that we are frustrated, we curse endlessly. Frustration forces us to put away. the Christ in us, to express the fallen Adam within, which always has an excuse for every wrong, and a victim to blame for every problem. we encounter.
The world and the problems that come with it are bent on achieving one aim; which is to drill out the slightest bit of God out of the Christian man, keeping him frustrated until he stays more human than Christ-like. Most times, we yield not because we do not know that the eventual end- which is our being frustrated, is a gambit of the devil to make us say and do things that do not exhibit the Person of God, but because we choose to believe that without our conscious vile efforts we can't get our views known.
However, in a pandemonium-filled world, God says 'when you pass through the waters, I will be with thee'(Isaiah 43:2); and so that is to say that though the floods would be there to get you thinking perhaps God's absent, keeping you finetuned to your frustrations, but God is saying 'Don't give in because I'm with you', a clarion call to keep our eyes on Him, and not on the things the government didn't and can't provide, or that life never offered, for one difference between Christ and Adam is that while Christ had to pass through what Adam never did, yet never gave an excuse for whatever challenges that would appear.
Note, it is not your fault when you get so frustrated at times that you feel like venting it all out, but it is when you choose to stay frustrated; for God has not given us the spirit of the world, but of Christ. So let's try to remain calm, and trust more on Him.
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