The Real Thing

Last Monday, I had a dinner with a friend. We ate and talked. Until she said that when she was talking with her guy friend-let's call him "shallow crush"...hehehe..., her friend told her that one of the curse in his family that needs to be cut off is being a lover of girls or a "chickboy" and then my friend wondered if what is the curse in her family that was cut off when she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour.



That conversation came back to me today and God made me realized that from the day we accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour we are a new creation, not anymore in the curse so we should focus studying and knowing the genuine thing-the Life of Jesus, His promises, His power and authority and our future with Him as Bride to the Bridegroom-Jesus (it's in the Bible-Revelation). That way when we saw any counterfeit or blemishes in ourselves we could immediately detect it and rebuke it. If we want to be able to obey and follow God and detect things not in line with God's will, we need to immerse ourselves in the real thing. We need to saturate ourselves in His Presence (Worship & Prayer) and in the Word of God-the Truth.



So my friend, I remember that I made no comment to your question that night but now I tell you be immerse on the real thing and you won't be thinking of the lie-curse but on the real thing-Jesus Christ our Life!

THE GREATEST PROFESSION

I am sitting right now on my chair at the office, doing nothing except tapping my fingers on the keyboard of the computer, just typing the words what my mind conceived and letting it flow through my fingers, not knowing what to write hence I'm praying that God will intervene.

Profession is the word that enters my mind. I looked the meaning of profession in the dictionary and it means an avowal of faith or belief. Avowal on the other hand means a frank acknowledgement or admission. So therefore, anything within the above definition is a profession.

The next thing, that enters my mind is a question. What is the greatest profession? The answer to this question may vary depending on our different opinions. Though, I am a law graduate I consider a Teacher as the greatest profession because many people may have different course or degree but they can also be a teacher as the Lord lead them - to mold and share a life giving spirit to another.

As we read the bible, Jesus is a Teacher. He taught His disciples the ways of the Kingdom. The ways that only pleases the Father.

A second question enters my mind. Is being a teacher easy or not? Well, an understanding came into my mind to answer it in the affirmative. Being a teacher is an easy task if we do it for the love of God and we let the Holy Spirit dictate and lead us - as to when to speak, what to say and whom to say it. As we read the bible, Jesus says that I only say and do what my father tells me to do. He only obeys what the Father commands Him to do. Being a Christian, Jesus is our pattern and blueprint. If we are following Jesus then being a teacher is an easy task.

Another question pop up again, what are the responsibilities of being a teacher? Wow, that's heavy for me...hehehe...you know why that's heavy for me? Before I know the Lord as my Saviour and Bridegroom, I'm really afraid to hear the word responsibility maybe because I am not taught of being responsible. Responsibility for me before is leaving my comfort zone that means being alone. But as I progress in my relationship with the Lord I begin to love and adopt the word responsibility into my life and I found out that there is much greater freedom in knowing and following the Lord.

Now, going back to our topic the Teacher let me incorporate the word responsibility. As Jesus teach the Word of God some believed Him while others persecuted Him. However, even in the midst of persecution Jesus was confident in what He teaches and remain calm and patient to those who are against Him. Jesus was being responsible to His obedience to the Father.

For us Christians, as we teach the word to others we have the responsibility to obey the leading of the Holy Spirit within us to mold and produce a spirit filled people whose heart and love is unto the Lord alone and not unto us. Since the word of God is like a double edged sword, sometimes when we teach through correction the word will stab the innermost part of an individual that some may react to it pointing back and finding fault to us. However, if we do it responsibly meaning according to the leading of the Holy Spirit good fruit will become out of us and unto the one who was corrected.

Isn't the Lord amazing in His ways. A while ago I was doing nothing but now I wrote something...ooopppsss...not just something but a Big Thing because I am sharing about the Big God! If we let God use us to glorify Him, He makes nothing into a Big Thing! It's really true that there is True Freedom if we love the Lord with the "ALL" of us!