STOP!!
For just one moment just stop and say Amen. Say Amen because God willed it for you to be here today. The All-purposeful All-knowing God of ALL creation has ordained that your presence is required in this day He has made. Forget your Monday blues, forget your last week’s shame, forget your dependency on whatever drug you may be hooked on and especially forget those words that made you consider taking your own life. This moment is a new life, with every breath you inhale an opportunity awaits for you to exhale the darkness and breathe in your true air. The contagious air that is the divine language of those whom He formed for Himself.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new[2 Corinthians 5vs17]. This scripture can fly right over your head for the number of times we hear it quoted. Do you understand that yesterday is gone? Yes you saw it and you were a part of it but it is GONE never to return unless you look back at it over your shoulder. Today makes no difference if your consciousness is holding onto things that are long dead and gone.
Fellow ladies if that 10+ years on and off his-life-is-just-complicated-but-he-loves-me fling was your husband, he would have put a ring on it a long time ago. Sometimes we need to ask ourselves if we really want to wear a ring from the person who causes the most damage in our spiritual and emotional lives. He makes you work harder than a 9-5 with no pay or benefits, forget medical aid, he may just contribute to the reasons you need medical treatment in the first place but never adds anything worth having.
Ladies, I know we’re anxious, the clock is ticking and the once hushed conversations are now being had in our faces. Parents and grandparents are wondering why it seems nothing is materialising in the marriage department as if you ignorantly walk through PicknPay and select not to throw in your marriage with the month’s groceries as well.
Every other post on Facebook is a wedding video and happy glowing faces of people stepping into a season that you seem to have been excluded from. You see the people you went to school with, the ones you know have been around the block and there you are “pure” but alone. You had thought that by now surely “the One” would have come along and found you..Lord knows you’ve been waiting.
Are you really ready to be a Mrs?
Are you walking in your full stride? Before we get caught up on that judgement tangent I stumbled across this scripture as I was trying to make another point (that God is not a respecter of persons), “…Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” [Acts 10vs15] and it hit me that so many times we are busy comparing ourselves to outward manifestations of internal journeys that we often had no idea about.
You see, when Round-the-block-Betty repented and gave her filth over to Christ maybe you were still bent out of shape by knowing all there was to know about her transgressions telling yourself with your nose upturned that you would never stoop to the levels she did. Maybe instead of being a friend to her you made it very clear that your moral compass was pointing in the opposite direction from people like her.
So when she walked in Church on Sunday in that way-too-short sleeveless dress you couldn’t stand the sight of her flirting with everyone including the Ushers while holding up the queue as you waited to be shown your seat. What you didn’t know is that God’s grace is sufficient, that rather than punish and destroy He first wants to save, that that’s the point of a Saviour in the first place, that even you in all your ‘perfect’ ways you require this grace to work in your life too.
I’m not saying you are unmarried because you’ve been ignoring grace but I am simply saying that there is a reason behind every season. If you are the sister I just described here, the sister with jealousy and envy issues then it’s time for you to ask yourself some difficult but honest and necessary questions. Until your heart is right Love will walk right by until you give-in to God.
Who are you? to touch(talk about or shame) His anointed
God loves every single person on this Earth, even the ones whose behaviour we despise, the ones who have had sex changes and the ones whose bodies are covered in tattoos, those with butt implants and more piercings than hair on their head. They belong to God whether we agree or think it’s right and even whether we feel they know Him or not.
God loves us too wherever we are, however we think and whatever someone close to us called us as we were growing up. No one not even we are allowed to call his products of purpose tainted. If we would only stop painting other people with the wrong brush then we would have enough peace to accept His loving kindness and forgiveness even for ourselves. We don’t realise that the more we condemn other people is the more we hold ourselves condemned too and that is why we struggle to accept his Grace.
That is why we lean on our own works to impress Him because we cannot accept a deal this good. After all the world says “If it’s too good to be true then it probably is”. God and His love are too good to be true but they are so what do we do about that? What do we do about this Great I AM who lifts us from the miry clay? Beyond our many many flaws. The bible talks about many are the afflictions of a righteous man but I have also come to realise that many are the flaws of a righteous man but the beauty of God is that He is all encompassing and none of our petty human squabbles can separate us or the rest of His annointed from his eternal Love.
The only way to get rid of the old is to accept and submit to the new 😉
About the author
Sharon Rateiwa is a lover of art with a natural flair for the artistic. When she isn’t sharing inspirational pieces with the world, she designs and performs as a singer and poet. Sharon believes that we of God’s generation have a mandate to take up Godly arms in the fight for a meaningful existence. She gives encouragement by sharing her own colourful encounters.
