“Jesus Calls You So That You Should Call Others To Salvation!”

“Jesus Calls You So That You Should Call Others To Salvation!”
A teacher asked her pupil to draw a good shepherd. One boy drew a healthy man sitting atop a lean sheep as if it was a horse. This is kind of humorous but it paints the picture of most shepherds of today who ride the sheep like horses. They feed fat on the sheep while the sheep gets leaner each passing day.
Ezekiel says of such, “Woe to the shepherds…who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock. You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock…”(34:2ff).
The ministry of today has been transformed into flourishing “chop farm” where cliques band themselves to loot and squeeze the church dry transforming it into family business at the expense of the majority. Contracts are awarded by doubling the cost and receiving kickbacks worst than the familiar thirty percent that we know of.
Mechanisms are put in place to shield the truth of atrocious thievery in great scales and those who refuse to align are ostracized and scapegoated in prearranged meetings!
When we are called, we go to call our family members and selected mafia and tell them, “come, ‘coffee bangfen!’
Being called is not intended to make comfortable seats for ourselves and enjoy the luxuries of salvation alone, but to be a Philip who does not only follow Christ when he calls, but also to find a Nathanael and tell him: “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”(Jn. 1:43-51).
My friend, Jesus calls you so that you call others “to Salvation and not to looting, squandering and embezzling of God’s wealth by impoverishing the flock!”
Each new day is an opportunity to reflect well why you were called and whether you have called others and to what ends!
Have a blessed Sunday! Peace be with you!