Anthony Sanders (21
Apr 2009)
"[Spiritual Digest] UNMARKED GRAVES"
I Find this article to be of interest, this was sent to me by "Pastor Bayo Afolaranmi"
It is indeed the case, in these latter days.
Dearly Beloved,
UNMARKED GRAVES
"How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without knowing it" (Luke 11:44 TEV).
Gravesite
is a place that most people would not want to move close to not to talk
of walking through or walking on it. Therefore, gravesite is marked
with designs and marks that will distinguish it from any other
structure or place. It is interesting to discover that Jesus Christ
compared the religious leaders of His days on earth to graves that were
not marked that made people to move closer to them unsuspectingly.
People would have maintained a distance from them if they knew their
real identity. The main reason for the comparison of the religious
leaders and unmasked graves is the hypocrisy of the leaders. They
pretended to be religious while they were neither spiritual nor godly.
People were looking at them as exemplary while they were misleading
those people.
Many people today are also like those
religious leaders. They are indeed religious, but they are far from
being godly or Christlike. Outwardly, they claim to be Christians, but
they are different inwardly. This causes the increased number of
churches, especially in this part of the world, but the people that
attend these churches almost everyday are not different from the people
outside the church. At times they are worst than the people outside.
They have the form of godliness, but their conduct contradicts the
genuineness of their profession (see 2 Timothy 3:5). They are indeed
unmarked graves!
Are you an unmarked grave? Are you really
what you claim to be? Will people like to move closer to you if they
know your real identity? You can deceive people with your acts of
religiosity, but you cannot deceive the all-knowing God. He will reward
you accordingly (see Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 6:7).
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).
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