Thread by @GbengaWemimo

When you find yourself on the same side with unbelievers constantly. Their point of view is your point of view, their pain is your pain,. their argument is your argument, their worldview is your worldview, you need to do a thorough examination of your faith as a believer. You

need to sit yourself down and ask yourself how your light and darkness seem to have a lot in common. You need to check the root of your belief system, perhaps you were too shallow and carried away by the surface theme of deeper plots hewn by detractors of the faith
You need to do

this and get into the word of God more!
If your light is dimming, all things will become relative and sometimes you can't tell the difference between your faith and that of an unbeliever who is deeply rooted in another religion
You sometimes tell yourself that the unbeliever is

better off than many believers because you got so close that the surface conduct of the unbeliever made you assume salvation is about morality and kindness or generosity
I once worked with a great guy of another faith, I was a pastor at the time
This guy was the kindest person

i had ever known
When I had my second son and couldn't raise the hospital bill he gave me his entire salary for that month to help me out. When we get cash gifts for projects and assignments outside of our salaries, he wouldn't collect it. He saw it as bribery and was resolute

he wouldn't pollute himself
After six months of working with him, I began to tell myself he was a far better man than me because of the good and kind things I saw him do, I couldn't do them at the time
After two years of working together, I got another job
He invited me for his

wedding
I made sure I attended with my family
We both went our separate ways
I even lost his contact
Four months ago he reached out to me on Facebook
He said we needed to see
He said it was urgent
I asked him where we could meet
He said it can only be via video call as he was in

India
He had cancer of the neck and was about to go under the knife
He wasn't sure he was going to make it
He needed to talk to someone
We chatted for about three hours
He asked me why I never told him about Jesus
I told him he was the best man I had ever met and I wasn't sure

becoming a Christian could add anything to him
He started laughing
He said he could say the same thing about me but did I remember that he often told me about his religion?
He never kept quiet about his faith but I never mentioned anything about my faith to him
He told me he met

someone in India
A Christian convert who used to practice his religion
He said the man had led him to Christ and he was already born again but he needed to talk to a fellow believer who can enlighten him on many things that he wasn't sure of yet. Then he saw my post on Facebook

and was encouraged to reach out to me
I prayed with him, he got filled with the Holy Ghost and I read the scripture with him daily
I also led him in faith declarations and confessions
He had the surgery
Somehow the growth which was diagnosed as malignant by many experts became

benign. It was the best news. The doctors were shocked and even apologized to him for the mistake
The biopsy they did earlier showed that it was cancer but the surgery turned out to be for a harmless growth
We both knew what happened
The Holy Spirit intervened and turned the tide

I also learned a critical lesson
Anybody can be morally upright
Even the devil can wear a garb of goodness to deceive many but God is always right!
The righteousness of God is sacred and cannot be copied
If God says it is only whosoever believes in Jesus that cannot perish, then

no other form of goodness can qualify any man
The criteria for eternal life is not kindness, goodness or morality
It is accepting the plan of salvation offered by God and believing it
When you do this, you are saying "God is right and I subscribe to his rightness"
That is how we

get righteousness inputed into us
By believing God and affirming that God is right!
I look at social media sometimes and I see believers agreeing with unbelievers and throwing stones at others with unbelievers
A believer joining the mob to label and shame people is not woke, he

or she has lost the plot
A man came to Jesus once, the man was a Jew who said he had fulfilled all the laws from his youth
When the man was done, Jesus said "You are not far from the kingdom"
Did you see that?
Good works can only bring you close to the kingdom but it can't bring

you into the Kingdom
When the man asked Jesus what he must do to get into the kingdom, Jesus told him to sell all his properties and give the proceed to the poor and then follow him
Jesus is the only way that leads into the Kingdom and unless you follow him, the best you can do

is not be far from the Kingdom.
A man was writing on Twitter about being gay and full of the Holy Spirit
Many people started retweeting and forming woke
Nobody wanted the mob to come at them or their account to get suspended
A lady went on the television to cry and make claims

that cannot be verified
She got called out and automatically she was a victim and the person that called her out was the subject of our pelting
We must cast that stone and join the unbelievers to crucify anyone whose conduct does not agree with our belief system
And we will still

preach a loving and caring Jesus on Sunday
Many of us preach grace without knowing what it meant
Grace has not become our nature
If you are a believer and you have joined any forum or group to trend hashtags vilifying a man or a woman whose conduct you consider to be wrong
You

are in no way different from the jews who caught a woman in adultery and were determined to stone her to death
Your tweet is your stone
The moment you pressed "send", you have cast that stone
Jesus didn't join the mob to crucify the lady
Jesus rescued her from the mob despite the

fact that she was guilty as charged
Our duty is to set both the lawful and unlawful captives free of condemnation through Christ
Never will you attribute a tweet that aims to pull down anyone to me
Regardless of how right or wrong, the person was
If Jesus didn't throw stones and

the same spirit that ruled him is at work in me
I cannot throw stones too
I will never be found among the gang shouting "Crucify him"
They may be the majority but they were wrong!
The disciples were few, they stood by the cross in silence and fear
They didn't even have a voice

but they were right
Standing where God stands is righteousness
Any other position no matter how popular or prevalent is wrong
A man of God must stand firm in the place of Jesus in this world at this time
Our mission is reconciliation, not vilification
We were given a message of

peace and love
We were not given stones
Between two opposing parties, no matter how persuasive the story of one side is
A believer will never take sides with either
You have already taken sides with Christ
I know we are all learning Christ
Let us also practise Christ daily!