Preacher Diaries

SHOULD WE CALL ANYONE “MAN OF GOD”? 

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  1. He Spoke in my Ears 

Sometime ago, while I waited to take the podium and speak at a Christian meeting, the master of ceremonies began one of those elaborate introductions and designated the upcoming speaker as a “man of God.”  Almost at once, an acquittance by my side whispered into my ears, “the man of the great God.”  He meant to correct them in my ears.  They probably had been too carnal and vainglorious in their spiritual protocols.  They probably were nearly blasphemously promoting mere mortals when they should meekly have been upraising the mighty God.

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Plus GOD minus STONE = …

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Can you Drive? 

Many years ago, I was walking down the street when I met a brother whose car had stubbornly refused to continue the journey with him.  He had been trying all he could to tease it into a start by touching its tender knobs and intestinal wires, his hands greased with frustration. He was glad as I walked up to him.  He asked me to take the driver’s seat as he tried one more time to rouse the reluctant engine back to life.  I sat in the car, turned on the engine, and it revved into a merry start.  The brother was relieved at last and came in to resume his trip, but the engine died as soon as he took over from me.  He tried to start the car again, but the engine would not respond to his many pleas.  He got out and requested me to I get back into the driver’s seat while he returned to resume his mechanical communications with the adamant engine.  

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NUGGETS FROM THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON

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The New Testament parable of the Prodigal Son provides insights into the process and principles of forgiveness, or of securing forgiveness. In that parable, a junior son demands his inheritance from the father, and promptly goes off to a very distant land where he wastes everything in debauchery.  Sometime later, the hammer of hardship forces his eyes open.  He realises his trespass and takes steps to make amends in the frittered relationship with his father.

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TIME TO MOVE 

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1.      Reading the Weather 

How long you have stayed at and enjoyed a place does not always mean that you can continue to remain there and be safe.  ‘Safe hitherto’ in any place may not mean ‘safe forever’ there.  Read the weather.  Ask Lot (Genesis 19:15).  Every future bliss is not guaranteed by every pleasant past.  That is one implication of Jeremiah’s prophecy when he said, about Babylon,  

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Tragic Busyness

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The wise Solomon tells us that laziness is tragic (Proverbs 6:9; 12:24; 24:33), but the irony is that some busyness is no less tragic than laziness, as we shall presently learn from the prophetic parable to King Ahab.  In that account, King Benhadad of Syria had been at war with King Ahab of Israel; Benhadad had been thoroughly defeated but got strangely spared by the king of Israel. 

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