“Stand Firm In The Lord Jesus Christ!”

“Stand Firm In The Lord Jesus Christ!”(Phi.3:20-4:1).
I visited a Christian in his gigantic plush mansion. He told me that they intend to park out and look for a small manageable apartment. He said the children have all left and the mansion is too big for just him and the wife. We have heard such worries quite often.
We are not also advocating stagnation or that people should not enjoy their labours. But it is sometimes very aching to see how much is wasted ostentatiously only to let it lie in waste. Meanwhile there are many slump dwellers around us whose living conditions would have been improved upon, if we had tuned down on our unnecessary excesses!
Paul told the Christians of Colossae, and by extension, the message is for us,“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things”(Col.3:2). Unlike some in Phillppi who caused Paul to shed tears because “their mind is on earthly things.” Such people are enemies of the cross of Christ(Phi.3:18-19).
As Christians we know that “our citizenship is in heaven.” We are pilgrims. Pilgrims do not stretch themselves for permanence when they know that they are just passing.
It is true that as Christians we should be at the forefront of making this world a better place than we met it. But while we go about it, we may take time to reflect and ask what became of the great civilisations of yesteryears!
Our reflections upon that salient question may help us to know that making this world a better place is to create a world where everybody feels a part of it.
We can make the world a better place by developing mindsets that are concerned with the brotherhood of humanity.
Pilgrims do not stretch for permanence in the land of pilgrimage. Pilgrims gather only what will be enough to carry on their way home.
While we are still here we are “eagerly awaiting a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the powers that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”
We are not yet what we have to be, until when God who has called us in Christ has transformed us into what he wants us to become.
Therefore,let us not allow ourselves to be tossed here and there by any wind of change of confused philosophies. Rather, we must stand firm in the Lord, because when he comes he will bring everything under his control!
Weekend prayer: Lord Jesus Christ I wait for you to transform my lowly body so that it will be like your glorious body. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you!
Rev. Babila Fochang.