Thoughts for another day

March 22, 2010

Today's verse: 1 Cor. 6:1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

A Christian needs live by Christian principles and standards and today’s scripture in a clear manner suggests that even to the point that if there’s a dispute between one brother and another, then the arbitrator has to be a Christian and not someone who’s not a believer.

Over the years since the departure of the apostles and other Christian leaders from the earth, much has warped the Christian way. Tenets of belief, structures, dogmas, sects, etc. crept in and the simplicity with which Christianity began started to become complicated. What then was a simple belief in Christ and living His way, enshrined in His Gospel message morphed into man’s way of living which accommodated many things not essentially of Christ like systems of worship, liturgical rites, etc. I’m not saying they aren’t good, but they added to the burden of people living simple lives and created haloes around the ones who propagated these systems and they came to be revered too as were the Pharisees and priests of Jesus’ times. Ironically, Jesus many times called their bluff which is why they hated Him.

Today, the church is undergoing serious challenges and I’m appalled the body, doesn’t go to the Lord for clarification, but to the courts and judges of the world. And what will their judgment be: it will appeal to the moral consciousness of a depraved world which will allow freedom to people, the way the world wants it for e.g. marital rights to homosexuals, etc. Of a surety, the body of Christ faces grave danger particularly by inculcation of worldly rights and tenets that gnaw at the core of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, most of the so-called Christians accepting these things are blissfully unaware of the damage it does to the teachings of Christ. They’re comfortable with worldly definitions of moralities and practices. Therefore, we see, brother fighting against brother and sister fighting against sister and then they progress to the next level in their fight and go to court, where love, sympathy, etc. don’t exist, except what is called justice does much like the suggestion of the woman at Solomon’s time who agrees to cut the boy in half! It’s time we look at this and realise how far we have gone from Christ and then decide today to come back.