Sleeping awake whilst listening attentively

Complicated title? Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. What do you think about people who constantly live their lives like that?

Complicating things by never stepping out in faith because they are too scared of what others think of them.

They persistently stay in the dark and never grow closer to God for living a Godly life is being dead to yourself, by giving up your life and doing what ever God asks you to do.

These particular people who don’t give God all He deserves and don’t give him all the Glory and don’t live their lives like a Christian should, they don’t get to experience God to his legitimate capacity.

God loves these people of course just as much as He loves you and me, so now why do these people not do what is required of them?

I believe that they have an image, everyone has an image to a certain degree, and they cannot and will not relinquish that image in fear of becoming too exposed and vulnerable.

So these people are in fact stronger than we initially expected and they are very hard to break. They are strong on the outside and don’t let anyone in but on the inside they are incredibly soft.

First and for mostly you need to start praying for them to get better perspectives on things, for revelations they will be small at first but the big ones will come.

As long as you aren’t one of these people who are half-hearted Christians and are fully committed to God then you shall always be witnessing to them so its all good?

Not always. There comes a time when you start to notice things about your fellow Christian friend. They go to church, they read their bible and they pray.

Seems fine but if you stop talking and close your mouth and listen attentively* you can observe many things you wouldn’t ordinarily perceive.

You see, you hear people talking, people gossiping, people telling lies and spreading rumours. You listen to people saying things about your fellow Christian friend you’d rather not hear.

Things like, “Well he does it and he’s a Christian so its fine for us to do it”. That’s giving all Christians a bad reputation. It just takes one of us to step out of line, and people won’t forget.

Ephesians 6:16-17 Above all, taking the shield of faith, where you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

1Thessalonians 5:8-10
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
For God has not appointed us to anger, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we are awake or asleep, we should live together with him.

So we have to watch out how we act and react all the time, put on that helmet of salvation and make sure that if people scrutinize you they will not be able to find fault. Its what we need to be aiming for. Till next time*