Stay in love

Jesus said we are the branches and He is the vine, and anyone that is attached to the branch will live and be fruitful.  We learnt yesterday that David kept hooked to the tree and ended up being called the man after God's heart.

We are living in a generation where it is popular to follow the crowd, do what everybody does and if you dare to be different you become an outcast; you suddenly become unpopular and even the church will persecute you for daring to be different.  But God says he is looking for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.  The true worshippers who will choose to stand out and be His arms and feet.

2 Corinthians 12 talks about the body of Christ and how each member is important to the body.  We are all called for a purpose and a cause, nobody is born an accident or a mistake, God has a plan for every being created.  But because we have lost our sense of purpose we don’t seem to see the need to be part of the body.

Christ is the body and we are all members of His body and as members, we have a responsibility to stay glued to His body.  Remember, when Paul talked about the gifts of the Spirit in 2 Corinthians 12, he said that the gifts are given by the Spirit of God to profit others or the church, but when he talked about the fruits as talked about in Galatians 5 , he let us know that the fruits are what we get when we walk with the Spirit.  Love, patience, humility, peace, longsuffering etc. The fruit benefit us and makes us grow and expand as Christians.  I believe it’s the fruits that keeps us on track in the lord and keeps us faithful to him.  Because when we bear fruits it shows that we are still hooked to the wine, the tree or the body.

As children of God, as believers and end time warriors in the kingdom of God, God's advice is simple, stay in the body.  Don’t think that you can stand on your own or you can do things on your own. Stay in Christ!

 The body that God was talking about here wasn’t the church, because the church are members of the body - the body is Christ himself.  We have to learn to live in Him, worship Him and love Him and keep our eyes focused on Him only.

The church is not our standard, but Christ is and anyone who does not stay in the body will end up being vain and chasing after vain glory, and will put anyone else down who will dare to stay glued to the body.

Galatians 5:25-26 advices that we should stay in the spirit and walk in Christ so we don’t chase after the norm.  Living in the spirit is simple, worship Him, listen to Him, and follow Him only.  Be a worshipper like David and stay glued in Christ.

God bless you all

Written by Aba Dadson

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