Prominent actors, sport personalities and musicians know all too well the fickleness of people. One minute you are flavour of the month and can do no wrong, then suddenly the media turns and the crowd becomes hostile. Today, there is a real push in Christian circles to encourage each other. This is certainly not a bad thing; however, it often leads to a lot of insincere reinforcement. Churches are filled with well-meaning Christians encouraging others simply for encouragement-sake, not on the basis of genuine support of what others are doing, teaching or trying to accomplish. It is certainly nice to have people’s encouragement when doing Christian works, but if their praise is our motivating factor, when the crowd becomes indifferent or turns antagonistic, we will ‘drop our bundle’, get depressed and cease our good works. As the Bible plainly states, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength.’ Our Lord Jesus Christ certainly understood you could count on people’s fickleness more than their encouragement. One moment the crowd was cheering Him with palm leaves and shouting, ‘Hosanna’. Within a very short time these same people were shouting for His execution. We should be eternally thankful that our Lord kept His eyes firmly set on God and did not draw his strength from people. We should unquestionably do likewise! (Jeremiah 17:5)
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:05:58 +0000
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