Key Stages In A Christian's Life

to cut their lives short to escape certain events like sickness and death. So as depicted in the movie “Pilgrim’s Progress”, our life journey is full of uncertainties and bends but we have to keep on moving to reach our destination.

I would say, Jesus was the only man who lived on earth and knew full well His purpose and His end, as seen from the scriptures.

While studying that portion of scripture, about Jesus in Gethsemane sometime back, the Lord gave me a revelation about the stages of a Christian’s life. That I have called the six Cs of a Christian’s life. My prayer is that it will give you insight about where you are and how to handle your situation.

Meanwhile I realize in Christianity there are so many words starting with the letter C, so you might get another C coming up.

1. The first C is Confession.

Rom 10: 9 says “That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” So this is the first step that all believers take and so if you haven’t confessed you need to. I remember attending Born again fellowships for over one year without really confessing, but the remarkable experience that I had, was that I never use to understand the sermons. They all seemed like a hard subject to understand until the time I confessed.

I must say this stage comes with so much excitement especially if you felt the touch of the Lord. I remember the day I gave my life to Christ; I had so much peace and joy. I walked as if I was just bouncing in the air. And of course the whole first love bliss happens in this stage.

2. The second C is state of Confusion.

In this stage many Christians are looking for identity, purpose and ministry call. Who am I or what will I be. Yes when you become a Christian, you will definitely come across a teaching of the gifts of the Spirit and there will be pressure to know what your gifting is. You will also be challenged to see people serving in various capacities, and it will look like they are the chosen ones and most happy of all. At least it did occur to me that way.

I remember after two months of being a Christian I went for a one week youth conference. In this conference there was much emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit. Every day we would have a session for impartation and I saw several people fall down under the anointing, but nothing happened to me. I left that conference angry with God, because I believed that he had no gift for me. Several other conferences followed and there would be similar sessions and nothing still happened to me. No fire inside or chilling wind nor shaking or falling down. Time came when I started to avoid these sessions. I would walk out of the service to save myself from the heartache. This went on until I sought counsel from my spiritual father. I told him my experiences and how I felt and steps I had taken. Then he told me, “none of what you think is true. The Holy Spirit works in different ways. He can come to you quietly or shake you”. He added that every child of God has a gift of the Holy Spirit and that at the right time it would manifest.

His explanation stilled my fears and along the way I came to prove that he was right. By the way to date I have never fallen down under the anointing.

Moses went through that stage too. He was raised in Pharaoh’s house but his heart was with the Israelites. We are told that he killed an Egyptian to protect an Israelite. I believe that day he felt like a real defender of the weak. But then the next day he was shaken to the core, when he tried to intervene between two fellow Israelites who were hurting each other and one told him, who made you ruler and judge over us?. Moses ended up fleeing from Egypt. (Exodus 2:11-15). Can you imagine what went through Moses’ head while on the way to Midian? He went to the Midian Priest’s house but I believe he had many questions for the priest. How do you know?, you may ask.

Exodus 2:21 says, "then Moses was content to live with the man…..” To me this sounds like there was discontentment somewhere. A confusion of some sort. I even think that for Moses to have been bold to kill an Egyptian to defend an Israel, it might have crossed his mind some times that probably he was in a better position to help his brothers, because he was raised in the Palace. But when he was questioned it must have brought doubts in his mind.