IF HE DID NOT SPARE JESUS.....
Life is in phases and the phases have its own peculiar challenges. There is no problem free life. As our faces differs so is our challenges. Some people are of the school of thoughts that religion is a way to escape out of life problems but they are wrong. If you are thinking religion will give you a relief from life troubles you will be shocked when it fail you the moment you need it most. Many a times, we blame people for committing suicide but have we ever put ourselves in their shoes and see if we can do better. Suicide to them is a way to escape a temporal situations that they could have overcome if they had managed it well.
Religion is not the answer to human problems. Some are atheists today because at a time in their journey of life, religion failed them and they see no reason why they should believe in God. Christianity is a religion, it can also fail you but Jesus cannot fail you. Religion is good but do you know that religion cannot make you right with God. If religion can make us right, there is no need for God taken human flesh to deliver us and showed us a better way to live and please him.
Religion says if you believe in God you will be spared from the troubles of life.Religion says if you fast, pray, give alms, tithe God's blessings will be on you. Religion says you have to do something before God can favour or blesses you. In reality today, we have so many religious people in churches who do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. These are people that will say I will stop serving God because I lost my job. I will stop going to church because he could not stop the devil from killing my father and it goes on like that. These are religious Christians without encounter with God with his spirit dwelling in them fully. If they had known Jesus and walked with him, they could not have lost their faith in the midst of trials. Jesus was not spared from sickness, failure, persecution, poverty, lies and if Jesus was not spared from this then we should expect more. In the World we shall see tribulations but our joy is that Jesus have overcome the world. Dear brother still insist on not compromising your faith when you are faced with persecution. Hear this, that a Christian die in a air crash, due of terminal diseases, or in a fatal accident does not mean that they are terrible sinners. Even Jesus was not spared from a gruesome death. At a time he cried "God why have you forsaken me?" There are times you will not feel God's presence but still praise him. The just shall live by faith and not by sight. Whatever you are passing through now that seems hard in your sight is something that you can overcome. It is your size, God will not allow you to be in a situation that will end your life without providing a way of escape. He have said it in his word
1st Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
God is not wicked, he understands everything. Stop asking him " God! Why me?" Who should it be if not you. God is not your classmate that you will be asking questions. The best thing to do is to still thank him and see his hand working in your situation. Jesus felt the pains on the cross, hours before the crucifixion, he saw what he was about to go through, he prayed to the extent that his sweat was as thick as blood. At times is not because you do not pray that is making bad things to happen. No, you can pray and still bad things will still happen. Have seen people praying fervently before embarking on a trip and they still died on their way. We are not praying to avert evil, we are not praying to get things from God. That is simply transactional Christianity. You simply pray to worship God and reverence him. God is still God. You are not blessed because of your prayers. Jesus prayed too yet he was not spared from that gruesome death. At a time he felt like saying no to that gruesome death but eventually he said " let your will be done". The question should be why will God not spare me from that trouble or pain. God will not spare you because there is a glory ahead. Without cross there is no crown. No pain, no gain. If you are ready for glory, you must be ready to pass through pains. Remember this :
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Jesus was not spared because God's intention is to save the whole world through him. Salvation of Christ is a total package that include all good things. Whatever unpleasant situation that befall you remember that God have something bigger ahead of you which is beyond your comprehension. At times God will not take you out of that troubles but make you pass through it into glory.
Abolanle Oladipupo
11th November,2021
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