Do you take time to read your Bible, daily? Many people, including several Christians, don’t! For those who do, do you take note of the words used to describe people – GOOD and bad – in the Bible? You will acquire a lot of WISDOM by reading about men and women of biblical history. In fact, those who do not learn from the Bible eventually prove to be foolish, unstable and unreliable.
I get inspired when I read my Bible and come across the description of men like Cornelius in Acts 10:2 – “a devout man and one who FEARED GOD with all his household, who GAVE alms GENEROUSLY to the people, and PRAYED to GOD ALWAYS.” Wow! I’d like to be described like that too! What about you?
Acts 6:3 tells us that the early church sought for seven men of GOOD REPUTATION, FULL of the HOLY SPIRIT and WISDOM, and they found them in Stephen, a man FULL of FAITH and the HOLY SPIRIT, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas. If you had been a member of that assembly, would they have numbered you with the seven? Would your name have come up for consideration at all?!
Job 1:1 tells us that Job was BLAMELESS and UPRIGHT, and he FEARED GOD and SHUNNED evil. How many Nigerians, including those who ‘live and sleep’ in the church, can be described as such – blameless, upright, feared GOD and shunned evil? A negligible few!
Acts 13:22 gives us GOD’S testimony about David, “I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do ALL MY WILL.” And, Acts 9:36 tells us that Tabitha (Dorcas) was FULL of GOOD WORKS and CHARITABLE DEEDS. Are you?
How will the HOLY SPIRIT describe you if another Bible were to be written? Would you be numbered with the likes of Achan, Ananias and Sapphira, Ahab, Jezebel, Manasseh, Herod, Lot’s wife, etc., or alongside GOOD/GODLY people like Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Esther, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph, Peter, Paul, Dorcas, etc? What story/legacy are you writing for posterity? It’s your choice o!
DA