Our Declaration of Faith

WE MUST CONTINUE TO HOLD FIRMLY TO OUR DECLARATION OF FAITH. HEBREWS 10.23.

It is still early in the new year into which the good Lord has allowed you to enter. As a medical doctor and a social leader, let me remind you that you are one of the truly fortunate ones in this world of ours. Want, sickness, sadness and calamity haunt the human being in many places! Do not forget God’s favours to you. Even more, let not the goodness of the Lord make you forget Him! The simple reason I remind you of this is because on every side I see God’s people blessed by Him becoming so busy that they neglect their God.

The other day, I was in a Chinese Restaurant with my family. The place was full. Business was brisk. But I noticed the prosperous owner with his huge smoky joss sticks swaying at the altar of his god and all around the place. He did it in deep reverence and gratitude to his gods, and regardless of the hundreds of clients eating, drinking and chatting away. I drew the attention of my family and asked, “Do you think any Christian would dare acknowledge His TRUE AND LIVING GOD like these people whom we call pagan idol worshippers?” They knew the answer and we kept looking at him!

Two things your God asks you to concentrate on this year and in the years to come. Read today’s portion below.

1. You must continue to hold firmly to your declaration of faith (v 23). Build up your faith. Don’t lose your faith as many are! Are you daily making any effort to grow by reading God’s Word and by prayer? If not, why not? For there is no escape (vs 26-31).

2. You must also consider how to encourage each other. You must continue to encourage each other even more as we see the day of the Lord coming (v 24,25). Just as much as you can lose your faith, your fellow believers in your group can too! God is commanding you twice in this portion alone to encourage and minister to one another. Atleast 60 times, this “ministering to one another to edify the church” appears in the New Testament. Shouldn’t you begin to do something for others to help them in their faith? The God who asked Cain in Eden, “Where is your brother?” will one day ask you the same question? What answer would you give? Start today before it is too late.

I would to God that our churches and leaders and all our members would take heed of God’s command and warning and begin to respond from the very outset of 2007. May the Good Lord bless our souls much more than our health and finances this year!

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, help me to fix my eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Cor 4.18). Amen.