SAVED BUT NOT SERVING?
reason most people do not want to serve. They are afraid of the level of responsibility and accountability that comes with identifying with the laborers. Afraid to be a model.
If you’re a Christian, much more than identifying as one, you’d experience God.
If you’re not a Christian, may you encounter God.
If you’re a practicing Christian, may your faith be eternally steadfast in God.
Hebrews 10 AMPC
But the just shall live by faith [My righteous servant shall live by his conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it]; and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, My soul has no delight or pleasure in him.
But our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe [who cleave to and trust in and rely on God through Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by faith preserve the soul.
reason most people do not want to serve. They are afraid of the level of responsibility and accountability that comes with identifying with the laborers. Afraid to be a model.
Unedifying songs dampen the soul. The lyrics weaken spiritual resolve. It mocks the fabric of faith.
There’s this idea the world paints that fuels us to keep going in a context that isn’t healthy & you know, that just robs us off the beauty that comes with taking pauses.
Frankly speaking, I’m not one who’s had a linear growth since being saved, but recently, I’m beginning to see what one misses out as one consistently indulges in that kind of spiritual dynamics that doesn’t trust God for stability.
The fact that you know there’s a problem somewhere & there’s still that desire to get back to where you were initially is a good step in the right direction.
Here, one should discern the intention of people we share spaces with. Those who are in your corner for what they can get, those who are around to weaken your spiritual resolve.
Jesus Christ knew what spirit Judas was made of
David knew what Saul was made of
I understand we all have different temperaments and it might be a little difficult for the introverts to step out of their natural shell.
I also know that we can be so groomed of God that our temperament comes