1 Corinthians 6”17”But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”
Did you know the tremendous impact the person you move with brings on you? Today as I was serving lunch to my school kids, I watched one particular boy eating his food very neatly and cleanly compared to the other children who normally have a messy way of eating; surely, what they see the elders do every day reflect in their habits.
Same goes with the friends that we move with, we got to be extremely careful with the kind of crowd that we associate with, their character would sure rub off on us. The Bible clearly warns us that we should make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go. - Proverbs 22:24
Now, I come to the awesome portion of being joined to the Lord! While we meditate this, we surely remember the words of Jesus when He categorically stated, ‘Abide in me.’ Jesus further stressed, ‘you can do nothing without me.’ Very true! Let me quote John 15:5: "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” Friend, the more you spend time with God in prayer and reading His Word, his qualities start growing in you, His patience starts operating in you, His love starts flowing out from you, His compassion starts filling you and overall you slowly start being a ‘city on a hill.’ This is what you call as ‘joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him!’ People who spend much time on ‘Face Book’ and the internet would never know what I am talking about, they would gruff and puff over small matters, they would be hasty and nasty while judging others, they would blow their top off over small issues, they would be selfish and hard to adjust with. Apostle Paul warns us in Romans 8:13, ‘For if you live according to the flesh you will die..’ Friend, let me make it very clear here, saying ‘novina prayers’ , ‘hale Mary prayers’ and prayers counted on rosary beads cannot bring the transformation in our life which only Jesus can bring. Please do not get offended but only do a self-check of your spiritual growth of how much you read His Word. You need ‘none’ to reach Jesus, He said ‘call unto me!’
I remember reading a small book written by a wonderful servant of God years back, which talked about ‘divine walk’ with God. He gives us three phases of our walk with God which starts with little of God in your life and more of you, then the second phase where more of God and less of you and then the third phase where everything is of God and nothing of you. The last phase is spiritual highness! Seriously, I did not understand the true spiritual richness behind that revelation then, but now as a preacher I can literally feel when I am ‘full of God’ and when I am ‘full of self’ because my preaching and teaching clearly reflects the level of my ‘filling.’ I’m excited! On a particular Sunday I allowed myself to get distracted a little bit but I faced the consequences in the pulpit when the ‘Living water’ was not flowing freely in my preaching. I knew then that I had grieved God and I pleaded God for forgiveness; only when your sharply sensitive to His presence would you be able to sense His movements.
How does one get joined to the Lord? Avoid unnecessary distractions: Facebook, internet browsing, needless chatting on the web/mobile and meticulously start spending time in prayer and reading His Word. Have a disciplined timing and stick to your schedule aggressively, give every molecule of your being to it. I remember clinging on to the alarm clock like a kid and keeping my time with the Lord passionately.
Only a man like Apostle Paul can write such words that ooze with anointing: He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him! Powerful! I repeat the more time you spend with Him, you get merged with Him, like getting stuck To HIM with Fevikwik! Quick! Run to Him!
I’m full of beans as I write this! I must, I must, I must… tell you what happens when you get ‘Fevikwik stuck‘ with the Lord:
• You would quickly make up with people who have offended you and that would be like a ‘Mary Kom punch’ (if you don’t know who is Mary Kom, you’ll get another punch) on the face of the devil
• You would quickly wake up to pray
• You would be quick to read His Word
• You would be quick to keep your word
