Thoughts for another day

Feb. 27, 2014.

Today's verse:  1 Cor. 12:20a. For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not:   (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

One of the biggest problems we Christians face is the blatant denial of the Jesus’ principle, “let your ‘yes’ be yes and your ‘no’ be no.”  I’ve seen many times, people say yes to a thing and when their yes has to be tested, they come out as no.  There’re many people who wear masks of such goodness and pleasantness, it’s sickening.  Not only is it a big letdown, but because of our experiences with these people we also tend to distrust genuine people until it’s too late and the damage is done.

Often I’ve wondered why people behave this way… so gracious and pleasant and all sugary and nice before you, but when it comes for us to rely on their goodness their ‘niceness’ suddenly changes into ‘not so niceness’ but of course so nicely, that you just can’t understand their action.  A friend needed help from a lady (also a friend) for a job in Dubai.  Now, this lady’s husband is well settled there with his own spacious accommodation etc.  If this lady wanted to help she could easily have helped him.  But she, who’s all sugar-coated told him to approach another guy who had relied on someone else and take his help.  I found it simply appalling because the lady is as she claims, a true ‘believer’ and I can’t fathom for myself how you can believe in Christ and do such things!  When I spoke to a common friend about this incident, the person tells me that what the lady did was to say a polite ‘no’ so as to not sour the friendship.  But what’s the point of having such a believer as a friend? 

Paul’s expresses similar fear in our Word today; and it’s the fear of every Christian seeking to live a true life before God in trying to understand Christian brothers in the context of what they seem to be and what they really are.  Therefore I believe, it’s best to forgive such people and move on.  It’s good to be what we profess to be or what we would like to be seen as.  It gives much clarity to people we deal with as to what they can expect from us so their expectations aren’t shattered and they don’t look at us in situations they know we won’t help.  So it may also be appropriate to check within ourselves and see what we are and correct our actions if we don’t measure up.