Sometimes we as christians focus more on the mission, on the harvest, rather than in the Lord of the Harvest. Here’s one of the situations this creates:
Focusing more on the mission than in the Lord of the mission, can lead to boasting in our own reasonings. This creates the potential to start molding the work of God to our own arguments, instead of having the word of God shaping and feeding our faith so that we could be “fellow workers” for the glory of our God.
The object of our faith is Christ.
Through his word and the Holy Spirit is how we can grow together and firm, as one. This is how we should seek to share the gift of Christ in love and prayer. For the glory of God and not ours.
The thought about Christians so divided saddens me. How can we grow as one body when we are filled with conceit among each other? Instead of giving more reasoning and importance to disputable matters, rather, let’s seek to nourish our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I was going thru 2 Corinthians 1 and somehow, stopped when I came across verse 24.
“Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy;
for by faith you stand.” (2 Corinthians 1:24)
Here is a call for all christians to remain firm in the faith, and not to take pride or boast of our faith.
Many of our own reasonings focus more in what we called disputable matters and cause division, absence of love of Christ toward others, “cultic clubs”, “cultic societies”, accusations toward our neighbors, judgement, ... lack of love. How could we have lack of love if we have Christ in our hearts!
Let’s wake up! Let’s nourish and practice the fruit of the Spirit:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. [...]” (Galatians 5:22-23)
Let’s put our disputable matters aside, and pray instead for our Lord Jesus to give us the growth and understanding through his Word.
He is the object of our faith, the object and purpose of our mission to go and work in the harvest in humbleness, joy and love. Whether it be by word or actions, we need to reflect the love of Christ in our lives.