Higher Fools

As we closed the Bible study, the sister said, “Daniel, wait, I want to talk with you. What you said today is just what I needed to shake me out of my slumber. But, you see, I am a young girl, you are old. How then do I enjoy myself. You can afford not to go to disco but me, a young girl, how will I get on.” Then I opened to Psalm 119: 9 which states how the young should live their lives. I made her to understand that what she called enjoyment was not enjoyment but destruction coated with sugar. When you finish eating the sugar, the bitterness would enter into your mouth. A lot of people are like that and we call them chameleon Christians. It is very risky not to be sure of heaven because an unexpected accident can suddenly throw someone into hell or heaven to spend eternity there. One man of God used to say, “Sudden death, sudden glory.” That was because he was ready for death. Someone who is not ready cannot say that. If you are not rich towards God, you cannot say that.

Nobody is born into the way of Christianity. The fact that you were born into a Christian home does not automatically make you a Christian. Christianity has to be sought. It is a way. The Bible says, “Seek and you shall find.” You have to find the way and move therein. Neglect of this opportunity that God presents to you is rejection of grace. If you persist in unbelief, and refuse to respond to God’s call, it is spiritual suicide. One of the most worrying verses in the Bible, which many people wish that it should be removed, is in I Peter 4: 17-18 which says, “For the hour is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear.” Consider the fact that the righteous shall scarcely be saved. Think about it. Ask questions like, “What am I doing here? Where am I going? When I die, what will happen?” If you have never thought about these, then you need serious prayers. When you are tied to the world, it will glue you down. When the trumpet sounds, it will glue you down. The church is in the world, but the world should not enter into the church. This deceptive world we are living in will sink one day and those who are not ready to separate from it, shall sink with it. Many Christians are too worldly-minded to be heavenly good. The world is constantly seeking to defile the child of God and if you allow it, it will have its way.

Today, I want you to think about it very well. There is a little thing in electricity called a fuse. The current passes through it. When God looks at you and sees that the fuse in your life has blown, no matter how powerful your environment may be and fire is coming out, it won’t enter you. Some people have inferior fuses and cannot carry any power. Such people should really cry unto the Lord. One of the greatest tragedies of Christianity is the re-arrangement of priorities. Many Christians are very active when they are praying against their enemies whereas the Bible says, “Seek you first the kingdom and all other things shall be added.” It means that those things will be pursuing you and not you pursuing them.