Random Gleaning

In Deuteronomy chapter 4 we find the phrase “ the Lord is a consuming fire .”  In that book the Lord had given His chosen people a law to obey. A law that was to save them, a law to enrich them, a law to make them inGodded, a law to make them the best of what a human can be. He gave them this law for he wanted a called-out people, a people who are counter culture, a people who are holy. After he had given his laws, he added the words “ I am a consuming fire and I am a jealous God therefore I will burn out against you if you do not follow my law .” In previous chapters, the writer gives the believer so much positive motivation to follow and obey Christ; you’ll think he’ll have no nee of negative motivation. Yet he talks of judgement and wrath. Take a look at some of the reasons he gives to help us stay faithful.  Remember that this time we are in the New Testament. The Old Testament was a ‘come and see’ religion. In the Old they had a written law on parchments that when di...

C. S. Lewis compared humankind to small children living in the slums and making mud castles; and refusing to go to the beach for they couldn't imagine a water body so large and sand so plentiful. He was talking about how man gets satisfied with mediocre and silly things when God has more to offer. He believed that the end of man and all being is the glory of God.                               I too believe so and I'll do my literary mentor proud by comparing the Ghanaian Church to a drowning man who is crying because his new shoes are wet. We have no conception of the task placed on us so we worry about inconsequential and mundane things that we can't take to eternity.                            ...

SERVING IN HUMILITY {JOSHUA 3.7-17; 1 THESSALONIANS 2.9-13; MATTHEW 23.1-12}. I will like us to begin our narrative from Matthew 23.1-13. In this text we come across a certain group of people our Lord Jesus Christ warns us against. These are persons called to serve others but because they have the wrong understanding of what service is they demand that the people they are to serve rather serve them. The whole nation order is thrown into disorder for the servants are now being served. To use the language of the Prophets – servants are riding on horses whiles princess walk. Some of us here have been called to serve, some will be called to serve. How true is that statement? I would like to say there is nothing true of that statement for we are all servants called to serve. The truth that can be said is that some of us will serve well, whiles others will fail terribly at our service. Christ tells us not to be that kind of servant who fails. Do not be that man. Do not be th...