MY FRIENDS, ARE WE AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED?

July 4, 2015

MY FRIENDS, ARE WE AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED?

Today I need You Just to get through. Today I’m breaking under the weight of it all And I’m afraid I might fall. Today I’m empty but I am willing To keep listening and looking for You in the noise For Your quiet voice. Are You telling me to go? Are You telling me to stay? Are You telling me to hold on to You for another day?

Cause I got nothing left And I’m hanging by a thread I give You all my weakness, You give me Your strength Cause I’m here again, here at my end Where You begin I’ve seen broken Turn into beauty I’ve seen redemption Come in and save the day.

So I don’t have to be afraid, no When You’re telling me to go When You’re telling me to stay When You’re telling me to hold on to You for another day. (Mandisa, where you begin) My friends first the question was asked in those lyrics, “Are You telling me to go? Are You telling me to stay? Are You telling me to hold on to You for another day?

And it seems this question is asked because sometimes we look at life and feel we have no one, or nowhere to go, but then, we remember looking back as a child a congregational song in church that let us know “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole and to heal the sin sick soul.

Sometimes we feel discourage, and think our work’s in vain but than the Holy Spirit revives our soul again even if we cannot preach like Peter or pray like Paul, we can still tell the love of Jesus and say He died for all”

And then it becomes all about strength and redemption and a new home where God’s faithful, heirs to His kingdom will reside one day and the words vibrates within us from another song we remember that says, “lift up the trumpet loud let it ring Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing Jesus is coming again.” So we are no longer afraid of where Christ may tell us to go, or what He may tell us to do because we are “confident, that He who has begun a good work in [us] will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;” Phil 1:6 (NKJV)

My friends, we are at the threshold, of the promise land and we must have a passion and with no fear to cross over. Remember “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim. 1:7 (NKJV) to step out on faith and serve a risen Savior.

Isaiah tells us in Is. 57:3 (NKJV) “He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent….” And then Christ tells us Himself in Matt.16:24 (NIV) “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”

So Paul just re-emphasize what that cross entails as he uses the same words as Isaiah, only it refers to Christ faithful disciples “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. “Rom 8:36 (NIV)

In addition, it must become personal when we think of ourselves “as sheep to be slaughtered” but he or she who “endures to the end will be saved” and our reward will be life eternal in a place “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him”1 Cor .2:9 (NKJV)

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY