Wednesday, March 15, 2006

I was reading Mich's blog... And the post she had written for today really hit me. Many people say I'm an active person in church, serving passionately in ministry and in church because that's how I spent my weekends somehow.

She had touched on whether what she's doing for God is being legalistic or because of His love that she's doing them. So the term 'legalistic' was used and to me, is doing something out of obligation or doing something because the law tells you so.

Serving God should be done of out obedience, out of the love we have for Him and out of faith. But being legalistic means we are doing it not out of obedience, the love and faith but because we feel obliged to do what should be done as a Christian. And somehow I feel I'm on that track. My experience with God because hadn't been consistant, I start to depend God and know God on head knowledge rather than experiential knowledge. It's pretty scary because we know we have to live by the guidance and the anointing of the Holy Spirit everyday.
Because of my own course of actions, I tend to impose those 'laws' on other people which makes me stepping over the boundary like acting as my fellow member's leader which I'm not supposed to because I'm like a member like everyone else in the cell group. For example, I expect everyone to be on time for say, an usual cell group meeting but there's no perfect situation. They will sure be members who are late and very often I don't consider their reasons for being late and all.
But situation might be different if I don't try to be legalistic whereby I'm flexible enough to consider that situation from all perspectives and I believe it's particularly easy if the Holy Spirit is around to guide me.

In the Bible besides the 10 commandmants that God gave to Moses, there's no other law we have to follow in the new covenant. (somehow I feel like I'm a Pharisee because they are the ones who imposed the laws God never meant to impose on the people) And in the 10 laws it didn't say that you can't be late, you cannot eat food given to idols etc.

In the Bible it was stated that,"Whatever happens, conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ." By following what should be done or obeying a own set of laws doesn't make us righteous because we become righteous in our faith in Christ. Out of faith births forth obedience and the love for God. Everything that we do as a Christian should be done with faith and not obligation towards obeying the law that never existed in God's eyes.

It taught me also as I mentioned above there's no perfect situation in anything. I can't be a law imposer when I start blaming people when they don't follow the rule and every member have different level of faith in them based on how closed and how loving they are to God. Members might forget to say grace before a meal, or not attend a church event like prayer meeting or even cell group meetings. Even the desire to be punctual is an issue of how faithful you might be too.
I need to understand the needs of everyone in order for me not to live by the laws. I need to depend on the Holy Spirit everyday to make the right decisions. Everything I do must be done by faith. Of course if we see a member's life going wrong we'll still go to minister to him/her but in the Holy Spirit's way and not the lawful way where there's condemnation. The Holy Spirit's way is always so loving and understanding and it's the love of God that changes people unlike the laws.

But thank God that he taught me this lesson because I know I can go further from where I am right now with Him and changing my perspective is the only way for me to grow.

Apologize to the people who don't understand this post. Haha.. Just my own point of view. =)

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