Day: January 18, 2024

Thursday, January 18, 2024

“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:3,4 KJV).

Why are they comfortable? Why are we comfortable about their choice?

A dear sister in Christ shared some advice with me that I have never forgotten. She said how she used to feel so sorry for people following false teachers. One day, it dawned on her that “this is what they want!” She told me she did not pity them anymore. Having come 18 years in ministry now, that has become increasingly clear to me too. For over a decade, I languished in spiritual ignorance as a believer, but I left that foolishness behind. It was a conscious decision on my part.

I found some sound Bible teachers, and listened to and believed the verses they shared. Therefore, I was able to recover myself out of the snare of the Devil: “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will” (2 Timothy 2:24-26). If I and countless others could escape the error, anyone still in that mess can also come out of it. It all depends on free will: do they wish to leave the darkness and step into the light?

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” (Matthew 23:37; cf. Luke 13:34). Sure, it grieved or saddened the Lord Jesus Christ that, though He was willing to fellowship with the nation Israel, and He wanted them to be united in Him, they were uninterested in His will. Speaking to their religious capital, Jerusalem, He announced how He let them have their way. He had not chosen judgment for them; they had preferred it for themselves….