Oh..dear friends in Christ, i am back after long time being off Blog for organizational issues. Thank God i am able to be back.
Let me tell you a story
One day a church teacher was preaching in a funeral service of a known person under a mango tree in the community and he was preaching about death. He said,
....brothers and sisters, we should not fear death because it is the only way we shall get to heaven. Even this one we are burying today is able to go only through death. We shall all die and go, so we should not fear death.....
..and he was going a head when mistakenly a green snake of about 35cm fell from the mango tree in-front of the church teacher and seeing that it is a snake, he took off...ran...
So brothers and sisters, when we speak, we are not only speaking to men on earth but we are also speaking to God. You see, death comes to us in different ways and at different times. So why do we speak to people when we can not keep in practice what we are saying yet we as church leaders and servants of the Lord are suppose to be exemplary.
Let us live exemplary life in the Lord by not corrupting our works and sayings by the desires that have earthly bases. Sometimes we speak when we do not know that God can mean to test you there and then in-front of the people or public.
Just like prayers, God answers prayers either before you pray because he knows your needs, during praying and after praying.....thus is also what we speak which is subject to test and evaluation by God any time anywhere. The Bible tells us that as church leaders, we should not let HIS children to stumble by giving false testimony, poor exemplary life, if we do, great punishment awaits us.
Decide for your self but my request is that let us do and speak what the Lord directs us to do and speak and be firm to defend by being exemplary in our words and acts so that others will get to know the real stand in us that they may BELIEVE and follow
Love you all in HIM who SAVES
Mathew
