Recent Thoughts
I read somewhere that we have on average some 70,000 thoughts per day – and these thoughts cascade in all directions within our mind. Unless we have a star to steer by we will be lost. Let the light of Christ be our star then let us look upon the darkness as giving clarity to the to the light. Then Christ will come into our hearts and he will lead us to safe harbour.
If we want to live our life in Christ and profess ourselves as fishers of men we have to accept our cross and follow the Lord. As “fishers of men ” our boat is the church, the seas that surround our boat are the various temptations that befall us and our net that we use is the true word of God. To be in the church we must believe in the church given to us by Christ. Anything less makes the craft that you sail unseaworthy and the ways of the world will swamp you and you drown. So, before you can become a fisher of men you must be caught in the net of the Lord.
The great Paul tells us to “share in suffering as a good soldier for Jesus Christ” (2 Tim 2:3). Now you may ask, as a soldier what weapons do we need to engage the enemy? Again Paul comes to the rescue. He tells us that we need the whole armour of God to withstand that evil day. So, we need to gird our loins with truth and put on a breastplate of righteousness. On our feet we need to wear the gospel of peace. On our head, the helmet of salvation and in one hand we carry a shield of faith and in the other the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Our earthly mission is to pray, keeping alert with perseverance, supplicate the saints and a to boldly preach the mystery of the gospel. Then we are indeed good Christian soldiers.
We are our best friend or our worst enemy. Why? Because we give emotional value to everything around us. Situations in life are simply that – they happen to all of us – but the emotional value attributed is what makes us soar like an eagle or sink like a stone. So get it right! Admit that you cannot do it on your own; believe it; live it – and then, and only then – you can become a follower of Christ, and as a follower then an ambassador of Christ.