Memorise: The
backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be
satisfied from himself. Proverbs 14:14.
Read: John
6:66-69
66 From
that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Then
said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69 And we
believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Message:
Backsliding
does not happen suddenly. It’s a process that occurs over a period of time,
during which a person becomes lax in his thought life and begins to entertain
worldly desires. To backslide means to turn away from the path of light to the
ways of evil from which one was once saved. There are many prodigal sons and
daughters today who have forsaken their first love in the pursuit of
materialism. Many workers in the vineyard of God, who started well, have
allowed their spiritual fire to grow cold, thereby departing from the faith.
Hebrews 10:38 says, “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw
back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
A
backslider loses interest in the Lord, in the Bible, in prayer, fellowship and
witnessing, and eventually turns to the world. It is like a dog returning to
its vomit. You will not backslide in Jesus’ Name. The flesh will always find
expression when people fail to focus on spiritual things.
The flesh
clouds the minds of God’s children with such things as idle past-times, sports
and television, and fills their heart with junk at the expense of spiritual
growth. Before you know it, backsliding would have commenced. Someone who has
always been very zealous for God will then begin to miss church
As
Christians who are Heaven bound, we have to be very careful. Let us keep
ourselves away from danger zones as much as we can. You have to be very
vigilant and sober so that the devil doesn’t drag you to Hell with little
things you think do not matter (1st Peter 5:8). Those detrimental “little
things” you fail to terminate may end up terminating your destiny (Song of
Solomon 2:15).
Remember
that even David, a man after God’s heart, fell for Bathsheba. Samson, the
Lord’s anointed from the womb, lost his two eyes and was reduced to a prisoner
grinding corn inside the enemy’s prison. One of my sons came to me complaining
of a problem. He confessed that as every weekend drew to a close; he would get
excited, looking forward to the next Monday morning because he would see his
secretary again. I told him to disengage her from the job.
A proverb
in my native tongue says “Stay away from a snake whose head is still intact.”
Whatever you can’t control will truncate your destiny. Whatever is capable of
destroying your testimony must be avoided. Sometimes you need to apply wisdom
and not strength (Ecclesiastes 9:18).
Action
Point: Take wise, decisive action on any relationship that has the potential of
destroying your testimony.
BIBLE IN
ONE YEAR: Judges 20-21 and Mathew 28.
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