Fellowship of the Saints & Zeal

This morning I had fellowship with a couple whose new house I prayed for exactly two years ago. It was as if we met a week or a month ago but alas two years had passed. So there was much to catch up and they wanted to invite me to their daughter’s wedding reception in June and also invited me to speak in their village church in July. It was good catching up.

I did not intend to tell them my current situation but since they asked or mentioned specific people or appointment I could not avoid speaking the truth with them and they accepted it pretty well. 

It is election year and I pray that the Lord will hide me in the covert of His wings to avoid slanders and fiery arrows shot at me. I needed peace literally and metaphorically but I do not envisage my dealings with men of this world or even those in church will get any easier. Men, says apostle Paul at the end time are unreasonable, only care for their own interests and spare not a thought for their neighbours. 

But I am witness to God’s truth and His justice. Those who cannot speak up for their own rights when trampled upon are weak and are dead or dead men walking. How often are we spiritually indifferent or when there is call for justice, there is no one to stand up or cry out for the oppressed. 

Last Sunday I preached on zeal, the zeal of Paul before he was converted as he was zealous for the law and zealous in persecuting the church (Phil 3) and the encounter with Christ did not dampen his zeal but it was re-directed to preaching the gospel to the nations from Jerusalem to the western most part of the Roman empire in Spain. 

Are we zealous for righteousness like Phinehas who won himself high priesthood because he was zealous for righteousness and no one seemed to care when a leader brought a Midianite woman to his tent, Phinehas rose up and killed them both in their act of fornication (Num 25).