Today it's all
about shine shine, looking fine at all cost, people forgetting that they would
die at any moment and they don't know what happens thereafter. Sigh!
On Christmas
day, Pastor Lawrence Onochie, senior pastor of the King's Heritage church,
showed up at his own church's Christmas service in a disguised form and no one
even consider saying "hi".
Read the story
as shared by the church online:
Today’s
service was very memorable. Pastor Lawrence was seated in the congregation
dressed as a nonentity/beggar and no one recognized him. People went about
greeting others and no one went in his direction – because of the way he was
dressed.
At some point
during the service, a call was made to the congregation to invite someone they
didn't know to spend Christmas with them at home. Again, no one went in his
direction to invite him - no one wanted to identify with him.
When he came
up stage and revealed his identity, the congregation was amazed! That's the
world we live in [today]. We relate to those we feel are in the same social
class as us and despise the needy.
That's not
what Christmas/Christianity is about. It is about caring for those in need,
strangers, the despised. Christianity/Christmas is all about LOVE!
With a heavy
heart, Pastor admonished us to have a change of heart towards the needy and
down-trodden and focus on what really matters to God – LOVE!
People matter
to God, let people also matter to you too.
John 3:16 –
For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE … Christianity is a life of endless
giving and scarifices. Your life is not about you. Your destiny is not about
you alone. There are so many people/so much tied to your destiny. Your destiny
is about God using you to bless others!
If you have
been looking down on people who are seemingly not on the same social class as
you or you have been guilty of despising the needy, God is giving you another
chance.
Ask yourself
what God would do? Will God despise you when you are hungry, when you need
shelter, when you are lonely, when you are sick? The obvious answer is NO!
Stop to help a
stranger, put a smile on someone's face. Talk to that lonely brother/sister.
Pass on items you no longer use to the needy.
Christianity
is walking the talk.
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