December 9, 2023 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John (2SoJ)
#4 It’s Time to become United
Jesus is coming back for His Church. A united church moves and acts like one person, and is a humble church. Too often that is just the opposite direction the church leadership is taking the church body.
There is no unity without humility and for each person to find purpose not in what they do but in what Christ has done or is doing. There are way too many ‘big I’s and little you’ in the Body of Christ. Too many people sit in the seats on the church platform or in the reserved seats in the front row of the church. It is like saying, “OK I am here, we can now get started with the service.”
There are so many religious TV programs honoring the “look what I have done” ministries. God says He honors the least members in the body—it is not the head, arm, or leg that gets God’s honor but the little finger and toe. When the Church begins to tell the so-called “mountains” in the Body of Christ to sit at the back of the church and allow the members that labor without acknowledgment in the Body of Christ to sit at the feet of Christ, then and only then will there be unity and the fulfillment of what Christ is returning for—His Bride, perfected and beautiful! (Remember Christ’s statement about allowing children to come to Him.)
As the verse in Isaiah states, The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God (Isaiah 40:3 KJV). God further states that every mountain will be made low (i.e. the prideful person) and the valley be lifted up (i.e. the unworthy and humble person) throughout the Bible.
It is only in unity, it is only in humility, it is only in all members being honored equality and without jealousy will the Body of Christ make itself ready for Christ’s return.
I like the verse that states that great faith is in humility, considering oneself to be unworthy and an unprofitable servant who says, “I only did what I was supposed to do, I deserve no honor or recognition.” Unity is not in following but in humility!
“So likewise, you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ” (Luke 17:10)
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