DIE BY FIRE
A certain church in Lagos (popularly
known for praying and calling down fire on their enemies) was recently gutted
by Fire (i no call name o!). Comedians leveraged on it saying, “...how fire no go burn their church
when everytime na so so Fire dem dey call down...God come send the fire to burn
the bad people among them... ”
I actually didn’t laugh at their dry
joke but what gave me concern is the trend of Christians these days calling for
the death of their ‘enemies’ (fellow humans, forgetting it’s a spirit behind
the evil works). Only God
knows how many people we have 'murdered' that could have been saved using our prayers.
Today, there’s a call to mercy. God expects
His people to be merciful as He is merciful.
Imagine if God punished us for every single
evil deed, every evil thought...most of us won’t have lasted this long, but the
bible records his unending mercies.
Micah 18-20 Where is the god who
can compare with you—
wiping the slate clean of guilt,
Turning a blind eye, a deaf ear,
to the past sins of your purged and precious people?
You don’t nurse your anger and don’t stay angry long,
for mercy is your specialty. That’s what you love most.
And compassion is on its way to us.
You’ll stamp out our wrongdoing.
You’ll sink our sin to the bottom of the ocean.
You’ll stay true to your word to Father Jacob
and continue the compassion you showed Grandfather Abraham—
Everything you promised our ancestors
from a long time ago.
wiping the slate clean of guilt,
Turning a blind eye, a deaf ear,
to the past sins of your purged and precious people?
You don’t nurse your anger and don’t stay angry long,
for mercy is your specialty. That’s what you love most.
And compassion is on its way to us.
You’ll stamp out our wrongdoing.
You’ll sink our sin to the bottom of the ocean.
You’ll stay true to your word to Father Jacob
and continue the compassion you showed Grandfather Abraham—
Everything you promised our ancestors
from a long time ago.
The good Samaritan, a popular parable
dealt with compassion. Some seem to think they have the right amount of it and
everyone else has too little. Many people seem to have an excuse for when they
don’t show it.
Obadiah 1:10-15 , Micah 2:1-5; 7:14-20 pointed out that the sin
of not showing compassion brings God’s judgement. They also offered assurance
that those who have not shown compassion can change their ways & God will
bless them.
Dear Friend, it is time to discover
and reflect God’s merciful nature. Will you show mercy (even in your prayer
points) to that wicked man/woman today?
So help us God!
No comments:
Post a Comment