Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth! Topic: In Christ (Part 20)

Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth!

Topic: In Christ (Part 20) 

Text Of Interest:

“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”        

Heb 12:22 – 24 (KJV)

A believer without self-control is very vulnerable as a result he or she can walk into the trap of the enemy at any time. Though he is a believer his life will always be in a mess because he lacks how to control himself in the time of temptations and advances of the enemy. A believer who lacks self-control often times finds himself in fisticuffs with believers and non-believers and such demeans his status as a believer. Therefore, it is a matter of necessity for him to add self-control to his character so that the beauty of who he is will shine in and around him. The good news is that it doesn’t take a rocket science approach to be self-controlled; it simply means that someone should listen to the instruction of the Holy Ghost and draws from the deposit He has made in his spirit when situations arise. Also by reading and believing the word you have read from the pages of the bible. For instance, if you have read from the Bible that you shouldn’t have fisticuffs with anybody, you better follow the instruction even in the face of such temptation you stick to what the word says and by so doing you culture yourself in that direction and it became a way of life for you.

And of course you have read or being instructed not to lie and situations are coming that lures one to lie, no matter what the consequence(s) of saying the truth portrays you should stay put with the truth. A self-controlled believer don’t swing like a pendulum rather anchors or pivots himself within what the Scripture has said; thereby maintaining his status as described in the Scripture. This depicts that a believer should not allow himself to be controlled by events or situation that crops of up in his life, he should take control of the situation by superimposing his authority over the situation. Being resilient and adamant is the watch word here, which makes a self-controlled believer a principled person, and not just a principled person but one who is principled within the dictums of the Scripture.A self-controlled believer can be seen as someone who is reliable and can be trusted with matters of great weight and people can be rest assured that he will not mess things up. Because the tendency for him to be tossed about with every wind of events is very rare and he stands trusted. When one is self-controlled is obvious that he can handle issues involving engagement in all facets of human endeavors. It points out that he can be a good leader, in the church, in the family and in public institution.

However, Apostle Peter went ahead to suggest to the believers that to their self-control they should add patience. This is very essential in the life of any believer, because without patience, no matter how much faith therein in a believer, the strength of the faith cannot fully manifest. It is important for a believer to have faith and also develop it, but the pillar faith stands is the believer’s level of patience. If the believer lacks patience his faith will definitely fail him. This is because if situations crop up in the life of the believer, it takes faith to say no or not to recognize the existence of the situation but while the situation lasts it takes patience to cope in it. Therefore, what consumes the pain of the situation is patience while faith neutralizes its existence. This implies that a believer without patience can be a victim of abortive process in his life though he has faith. Patience therefore, galvanizes the faith of the believer because a believer that has rooted himself into being patient will definitely overcome situations and mostly achieve better results in his life.

Apostle Paul while writing to the Ephesians in his epistle says and I quote “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”(Eph 6:18). Here, the word he used is perseverance which means patience. The example he used here is in praying and this is where the patience a believer is tried mostly, because there is this tendency for quick answers to prayers and is very important for a believer to wait and wait in this aspect. The ability to wait for answers when a believer has prayed matters and that is why Apostle Paul admonishes believers thus “watching thereunto with all perseverance”. The word watching here implies a continuous thing, meaning waiting. The waiting or watching is patience in action; the praying is the demonstration of faith in action. It is understandable that praying is like when one has gone to plant seeds in the farmland, the seeds have to undergo the process of germination and thereafter the process of growth and afterward the bearing of fruits. So the seed’s planter has to wait to see these processes being completed before he can harvest anything out of the farmland. If he doesn’t wait, it means that he will abandon the farmland and by so doing he cannot reap anything out of it!

To be continued…..

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