WHICH WAY? : Beyond the ‘General Overseer’ syndrome.
The Berean Christians were example of spiritual curiosity, they had gone beyond the backdrop of their own ‘General overseers’ (Paul and the rest apostles), to seek for truths for themselves. Acts 17; 11.
Apostle Paul also ‘challenged’ the ‘chief Apostle (peter) on some matters he felt weren’t totally agreeable to scriptures (Acts 13-15).
That’s was a good blend that produced a wholesome spiritual chemistry and truths we are still holding on to, to date.
Perhaps we are in an era of ‘easy things’- ‘a bite and swallow syndrome’ (without chewing down as such), spoon-fed by our ‘General overseers’ without the spiritual curiosity to find God for ourselves.
And we have men who now think they are God. I read of a pastor who says that people who don’t pay tithe will go to hell. And he has droves of keen followers who can’t differ, simply because they don’t know any better. And He says ‘God told me’!
We love our pastors, General Overseers, great vessels in God’s hand and how we love to hear their wisdom, counsels, and draw lessons from their never-ending dynamic encounters with God.
Their profound and tested miracle-working powers, but they are not God!
Pastors and General overseer’ are seasonal, they come and go, and God is constant.
Perhaps, in times like this we need a new culture of rediscovering God afresh in solitary and personal devotion to His word and to learn to put our ears close to His heart to hear Him afresh each new day and week and month and years.
A spiritual self-improvement technique to save us from the blunder of replacing God with men, and unwittingly giving men the impression that without them we can’t encounter God beyond the veil of their towering spiritual influence and ‘oversight’ (God is the one who truly oversees)
A time to fold up certain learned religious codes, unlearn and relearn God in simple but profound concepts of His nature, principles without the colouration and flavour of modern religious traditions of putting men to sit on God’s throne.
God or His men?
Do I have to appear in a certain way to be accepted by God and deemed spiritual enough to be God’s?
To dress in a Whitman’s’ dress code on Sundays and speak in certain spiritually-toned speeches?
To be what exactly outside the proven legitimacy and authority of God’s word?
For those who are blown apart by the numberless doctrines and beliefs of different churches and denominations; and are asking ‘which way’?
It’s about time we cut our personal paths to God, in finding Him through His word and abiding fellowship of personal intimacy ( 1 Samuel 3:15-20, Philippians 3:10)
