FAITH CAPSULE: What is your work like before God, the only Creator of all?
Matthew 5:1-15
What kind of a believer are you?
Does your character communicate your claim as a believer of God?
What is your work like before God, the only Creator of all?
Are you cold, hot, or lukewarm answering to God?
Revelation 3:15-16 records the word of God in response to the work of all: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
By the scriptural verse above, it is clear enough that there is no middle ground in every word of God. As an acclaimed believer, you are either one who contributes to the earth as a preserver or one who does not contribute but takes the place of a non-preserver (destroyer).
As an acclaimed believer, are you a preserver or destroyer by your way of living life?
In the Bible days, the refrigerator was not in use for preserving food, but it was salt.
Jesus identifies that just as salt preserves food, so should believers are to be the salt of the earth preserving the earth.
Are you a preserving believer or a lukewarm-believer or a hot or cold believer?
A believer should be the one bringing impacting changes to the word, preserving the decaying world of sin and iniquity. The world is changing believers because believers are adapting to the wicked world in the name of evangelizing the world.
Believers are not to be changed by the affairs of this world.
For you, it is not enough to be a consistent church goer neither is it enough to be fluent in quoting Bible verses if the character does not communicate your claim as a believer of the word of God.
Most believers today want to be quiet in their walk with the excuse of not wanting to offend anyone by what they believe.
Think about this: How can it be that food coming out of the kitchen with salt should be tasteless?
Jesus said in Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”.
A kitchen with salt that is producing tasteless and unacceptable food is evidence that salt has lost its flavor.
The salt that is not effective has lost its purpose.
Such salt becomes a waste and due to be thrown away. According to Jesus, a thrown away salt becomes an underfoot material.
What kind of salt are you?
Are you one that is bold in quoting the word of God without Godly character to back your quotation or claim as a believer?
Believers of the word are to be salt that seasons their world with godly and acceptable contributions.
Live life as a preserving agent according to the word of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from becoming a salt-less vessel to your world.