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Tag: #gospel

  • Favoured, loved and never alone

    World mental health day 2022

    May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
    2 Corinthians 13:14 NLT
    https://bible.com/bible/116/2co.13.14.NLT

    1. Grace = unmerited favour/ getting what we don’t deserve.
    Justice – getting what we deserve
    Mercy – not getting what we deserve
    Grace – not only being spared of what we deserve but getting better than what we deserve.
    It is through the Grace of Jesus Christ that His sacrifice on the cross makes us eligible for the love of the Father.

    2. Love. Let it be a reminder that we are loved by the Father by the virtue of being a child and being adopted into His family and not because we are inherently worthy.

    3. Fellowship. We are never alone, the Holy Spirit is our comforter, advocate and helper as promised by Jesus to His disciples before He ascended.

    Wherever you might be today, facing a trial or a triumph, in a valley or a mountain top, alone or surrounded by family/friends, remember that you are favoured, loved and surrounded by the Trinity.

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    God bless you.

  • Impact of a seed

    What if success was measured not by the harvest but by the seeds sown?

    People always remember the medal winners but no one talks about the participants. We just watched the 2020 Olympics from Tokyo, podium finishers were decorated, commemorated, honoured and worshipped but does anyone remember the others who finished the race 4th, 5th and so on, probably facing and fighting insurmountable odds in the process. Medal winners made headlines while the others were frowned over as disappointments.

    When a farmer sows seeds, not every seed that is sown comes to fruition. When a farmer scatters his seeds, some of them may not get buried immediately, some will be picked up by the birds others dispersed by the farm animals. There is a possibility that the dispersed seed is buried elsewhere outside the limits of the farm and bears a fruit there. Hence, the success of the farmer can’t be judged only by his farm produce in a limited time period.

    Let’s learn from apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth, he writes, “I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
    It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.”
    1 Corinthians 3:6‭-‬8 NLT

    Against the backdrop of eternity let our lives continually, persistently sow seeds of the gospel, seeds of hope and love in a world starved of love. Our labour may not be rewarded with an instant harvest or even in our lifetime, but one can never estimate the potential of a seed. Let us continue to shine our light and sow seeds of the good news unabashedly in the face of the darkness.

    This little light of mine I am gonna let it shine.