Today it’s all about shine shine, looking fine at all cost, people forgetting that they would die at any moment and they don’t know what happens thereafter. Sigh!
On Christmas day, Pastor Lawrence Onochie, senior pastor of the King’s Heritage church, showed up at his own church’s Christmas service in a disguised form and no one even consider saying “hi”.
Read the story as shared by the church online:
Today’s service was very memorable. Pastor Lawrence was seated in the congregation dressed as a nonentity/beggar and no one recognized him. People went about greeting others and no one went in his direction – because of the way he was dressed.
At some point during the service, a call was made to the congregation to invite someone they didn’t know to spend Christmas with them at home. Again, no one went in his direction to invite him – no one wanted to identify with him.
When he came up stage and revealed his identity, the congregation was amazed! That’s the world we live in [today]. We relate to those we feel are in the same social class as us and despise the needy.
That’s not what Christmas/Christianity is about. It is about caring for those in need, strangers, the despised. Christianity/Christmas is all about LOVE!
With a heavy heart, Pastor admonished us to have a change of heart towards the needy and down-trodden and focus on what really matters to God – LOVE!
People matter to God, let people also matter to you too.
John 3:16 – For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE … Christianity is a life of endless giving and scarifices. Your life is not about you. Your destiny is not about you alone. There are so many people/so much tied to your destiny. Your destiny is about God using you to bless others!
If you have been looking down on people who are seemingly not on the same social class as you or you have been guilty of despising the needy, God is giving you another chance.
Ask yourself what God would do? Will God despise you when you are hungry, when you need shelter, when you are lonely, when you are sick? The obvious answer is NO!
Stop to help a stranger, put a smile on someone’s face. Talk to that lonely brother/sister. Pass on items you no longer use to the needy.
Christianity is walking the talk.
