By Odon Bulamba (summary only - 01 Nov, 02)
Jesus didn’t need 1000 disciples to help Him. When the word of God is in you, God doesn’t need you to have 50,000 gifts to work. Before worshipping God many people look around them to see who is there, and if there are few people they feel uncomfortable. Jesus sometimes took His 12 disciples up onto the mountain, but more so He would take 3 of them to another level. It means that Christian life is not about quantity but quality. Jesus says that when 2 or 3 are together He is among them, so never be disappointed if the numbers are few. Remember the young boy with 2 fish and 5 loaves who fed 5000 people? With the little Jesus had, He had enough to feed a lot of people. We can pray with 5 or 6 people and feed the whole world, only if we are serious.
Romans 8:35 35, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Ask yourself this question, who can separate you from God’s love? Or what can separate you from God’s love? To go forward in Christian life we have to ask ourselves this question so we can know our spiritual abilities. When a Christian can answer this question, they are able to define their spiritual level.
When God created us He thought it would be good if we as humans ruled the earth. God gave us the power to control everything and has put us above anything created on this earth. But as human beings we want to be below all these things. Example: Money must not reign over your life but you must reign over money, it is not up to the money to control your life, but it is up to you to control the money. Today many Christians are separated from the love of God because of money. When people don’t have money they steal, kill, lie and can commit any kind of sin.
Paul talks about this in Romans because God’s love is over all things. When you are separated from someone and they are far from you, and you are unable to contact them, the decree of love is slowly lost. Sometimes in Christian life material things can give love second place. When we do something that doesn’t please God we become separated from Him, and when we are separated from Him for a time, this love decreases. When this love decreases we only go to God when we have a problem. Even though you use to read and pray every day that zeal has been lost, and this happens when we are separated from God.
This Bible says that only our sins separate us from the love of God. Your sins make a barrier between you and God.
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