Oftentimes when I look around me
to see how people labour to lead a tranquil and fulfilling life I’m almost saddened
to discover that people have forgotten their identities, they have forgotten
who they are and some are not even aware of any identity whatsoever, as the
bible rightly pointed out in the parable of the sower (Matthew 13) they’ve
allowed to struggles of life rob them of their God-endowed heritage. Many persons have been stylishly brainwashed into
disbelieving/neglecting the truth of the gospel while embracing the lies of the
world hook, line and sinker. I see a people groaning and writhing under a heavy
burden so desperate for a Moses to lead them out of captivity, I see a people
so freely tormented by the devil without reprimand of any sort all because they
are not fortified with the knowledge of who they truly are.
Overtime I have been privileged
to listen to Christians say about themselves that they are sinners and that if
they tried approaching God He just might not answer them, they see Daddy as a
judgemental Father who is always awaiting an opportunity for them to fall into
errors just so He can wield the big stick on their frail buttocks when Hebrews
4:16 KJV records that God wants us to come boldly to the throne of grace that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. In fairness to
those who belong to this school of thought; they are only playing out the script
written, directed and screenplayed by their illusional minds no thanks to the
devil’s subtle suggestions to their undiscerning minds. May I say to you this
day that God in His infinite mercy and love which are renewed every morning is
not vindictive as people of the world view Him to be, He’s not seeking for an
avenue to give a migraine-eliciting knock whenever you fall into sin, He’s not also
pointing searchlight at you (like the FBI after a runaway criminal) just to
make sure He finds something to accuse you with, NO, He’s not the devil, that
role is exclusively Satan’s intellectual property right…God cannot condescend
to such accusatory role because He’s got no darkness in Him.
God is the all-knowing Father
who knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. It is very
important for you to remember that before He formed you He already knew you (Jeremiah
1:5), your strengths and weaknesses are as plain before His eyes just as the
palms of your hands are before your eyes. He knows what you can/cannot do, all
the sins, pitfalls and occurrences that may possibly confront you in years to
come are already plain before Him. He drafted your operation manual, you’re the
work of His hands, and He’s not seeking to destroy you rather He longs for a
loving and cordial relationship with one of His priced possessions. You can
think about it this way…how many junior workers of an
establishment/organization/company can speak to the top boss of such company,
how many does the CEO have a
relationship with or how many citizens of a nation can request to speak with
the president of that nation, your call would probably stop at the desk of the
secretary to the secretary to the secretary of the personal aid to the
president (such is the bureaucratic bottleneck that attends to our
establishments here on earth) but here is the master of the whole universe,
President of the whole world, the One who installs and removes presidents, the
One whom all things were made through, for and by Him coming down to our level
to have a relationship with us, isn’t that too low a status for the master of
the whole universe to descend all in the name of wooing you unto His side? no
wonder the psalmist asked ‘what is man that You are mindful of him…’ (Psalms 8:4).
There is a sharp distinction
between a sinner and a true believer who falls into sin; I’d illustrate this
distinction with two animals that we’re very familiar with (pig and cat). A pig
as we all know is an animal who rejoices in and celebrates dirt, put a pig in a
clean pen with clean water source and watch closely how it utilizes the
resources provided it, I remember when I used to work in my father’s piggery,
it is never an uncommon sight for you to sight the pigs urinating in their
water source and even sometimes they’d defecate in their food trough as well. The
height of disgust comes when they have defecated and water somehow flows into
the pen (you do not want to see them play hide and seek with each other in such
moments, it’s always so disgusting). A cat on the other hand is a very clean animal;
it doesn’t tolerate the presence of dirt as pigs do, ever seen a cat fall into a
bowl of yam flour powder before? It screams as if it’d been shot, all the way
shaking its body to dust off the powder.
A sinner, just as the pig loves
dirt thrives in sin as a bacteria thrives luxuriantly in a richly
fortified medium, sin is his nature, he
cannot do without sinning, his conscience is already seared and as such it doesn’t
reprimand him of any wrongdoing, there’s no check whatsoever on his deeds while
a true believer on the other hand is likened as unto a cat, he doesn’t like
dirt/sin, he doesn’t possess the sinful nature, he still has his conscience
pricking him each time he errs but he can fall into sin and just like the cat
he can run screaming to God for forgiveness of sins while jettisoning the sins.
Moreover God doesn’t see the true believer who falls into sin as a sinner
rather He see the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), He
sees someone who had been bought and redeemed with a high price: the precious
blood of Jesus Christ.
When you’re a bonafide child of
the most High, you have automatically become a citizen of heaven, you belong to
the government of zion, you are a
strategic planting of the Father here on earth, you are simply functioning as
heaven’s ambassador here on earth. You’re probably wondering to yourself that
this is a hardsaying who can comprehend it; hear what apostle Paul had to say
in (Ephesians 1:20-23 MSG) it says “all this energy issues from Christ: God raised
Him from death and set Him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the
universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt
from His rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of
it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ
rules the church. The church you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world
is peripheral to the church. The church
is Christ’s body, in which He speaks and acts, by which He fills everything
with His presence” (I’d suggest you take some time off to let those verses
register in your mind).
The emboldened part says ‘the
church is Christ’s body in which He speaks and acts’…just ruminate on that sentence
critically and tell me what you can deduce from it. Let me confirm your
suspicion, the sentence is simply speaking about you, yes you, you are Christ’s
body here on earth, not the benches, microphones and speakers in a church
building but you and only you. When Jesus was about leaving the earth for
heaven, He delegated His authority here on earth to each and every one of us (true
believers)( Mark 16:17; Luke 10:19) to profit withal, to enforce the
Christ-given victory over the world and the devil (John 16:33).
If you are
still in oblivion as to the heritage and identity that Jesus purchased for you
through His blood; read Ephesians 2:6 MSG, you can start your own reading from
verse 1 for clarity purpose but verse 6 says ‘then he picked us up and set us
down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our messiah’ Wooooooooooow! What a
divine revealing this has been, what a display of love from our heavenly Father
raising us up to sit with Christ in heavenly places…Who does that? Raising up a
nobody and making him reign together with His beloved son in heavenly places?
only God is capable of doing such and this attests to the genuineness of His
love for us (that reminds me; watch out for another great post soon to grace
the webspace ‘God and His hosts of nobodies’). 
I must confess to you that since
the day this revelation leapt at me from the pages of the holy scripture, I haven’t
quite recovered from it, I concluded in me that never will I be ridiculed or
subjected to slavery of whatever kind again, since coming to this realisation
of my identity I have learnt to exercise my God-given authority to change
situations and level the mountains before me.
You would do well to identify
with your present location: you have been raised up and set in highest heaven
with Jesus Christ, you are from the government of heaven, over and above all
rulership, government, authority, principalities and powers; you have to be
conscious of your status as “heaven’s ambassador to planet earth”. You are no
ordinary person my friend, no true believer is, you have a heavenly pedigree. This
however does not say you should not obey constituted authorities here on earth,
NO, obey the authority that governs where you live because they are God’s ministers
to execute wrath upon those who doeth evil (Romans 13:4 KJV). But when a
constituted authority is reeling out decrees, pronouncements, bills, acts that negate
the pronouncement of heaven, then that is time for you to take your stand as “heaven’s
ambassador” to report the brewing matter to your Father who resides in heaven,
who presides over all affairs in heaven, earth and deep in the sea. You should
be the one to dictate the pace of happenings around you, not the other way
round.
Always remember that you are far
above the influences of demons, wickedness, perils and debilitating forces of
this world, only the ignorance of not knowing your true identity can make you
subject to endless toiling and oppression from the accuser of the brethren and
his cohorts. So having been armed with the truth, will you let it set you free
or will you let your present challenges choke it of its potency? C’mon stand up
and fight for what is yours, wake up from your slumber and take a stand against
decisions that negatively affect your existence.
So be confident in your strides
as you go out today and accomplish those feats you think are impossible because
with God all things are possible!
