YOUR CHOICE

YOUR CHOICE: GOD’S APPROVAL or PEOPLES APPLAUSE. Which is your stake today?  

“Ye men of Israel, HEAR THESE WORDS; Jesus of Nazareth, a man APPROVED of God among you by miracles and wonders andx signs, which God DID by him in the MIDST of you, as ye yourselves also know” Acts 2:22. 

Many times, as Believer’s in Christ Jesus, we are crazy about peoples APPLAUD rather than awaiting God to APPROVE us in what we’ve done or about to do or already doing. Majority of the time, the same people who once applauded us are the ones who will RUN us down and BRING us to the PLACES of shame and disgrace again. SOME PEOPLE are absolutely crazy for APPLAUSE, comments or not, before they can see WORTH in themselves, regardless of the context or decisions they’ve made.  

Know this: as believers in Christ Jesus, we are not to get DEFINED or M OVED by the OPINIONS of others. As Christ DISCIPLES, AMBASSADOR’S and EMBASSY, we await God’s APPROVAL in Christ Jesus, the ultimate LEGACY He shared with the Father God while in humanity. The reason been that the Father God will always COMMEND and make PROVISION for whatever He COMMANDS and gives His APPROVAL signature upon it in His time – that’s the how to enjoy His BLESSEDNESS in us in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

Therefore, I exhort you today to seek DIVINE APPROVAL first, before letting MEN’S APPLAUSE take over in anything. When you are DIVINELY APPROVED, He will cause you to be APPLAUDED by men in due time, with ease and without stress, pressure, or questions- just as it was in Christ Jesus [Acts 2:22] 

There’s a need to STUDY to be APPROVED before God and men, ENSURING you’re LEARNED, TRAINED, and SKILLED in your TRADE, thereby becoming unquestionable without sentiments, prejudice, and dissimulation. For whom the Lord God APPROVES, no man can DISDAIN or DISANNUL. For a gracious, graceful and awesome APPROVAL [APPLAUSE], it’s about KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING – hence, STUDY to be APPROVED. The WISDOM to live life and walk in godliness in Christ Jesus stead comes from applying KNOWLEDGE. You become a VICTIM and PREY only in IGNORANCE leading to stupidity and foolishness. Emancipate yourself today for a God-centred APPROVAL by STUDYING to KNOW and UNDERSTAND God’s CONTEXT through His Holy writ WORD, in any subject of doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

“STUDY to shew thyself APPROVED unto God, a WORKMAN that NEEDETH not to be ASHAMED, rightly DIVIDING [APPLYING] the WORD of TRUTH” 2 Timothy 2:15/Emphasis mine. 

It’s very important if you must attain and sustain to that onward and upward trajectory, that you STUDY to KNOW, UNDERSTAND and be EQUIPPED in your TRADE, and be INFORMED well enough to make INFORMED decisions, so that you will not falter, fail or be disgraced and disapproved overtime due to IGNORANCE [LACK OF KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING] of that your acclaimed notable CAREER, TRADE, PROFESSION and SUBJECT in question and other such like. You NEED to STUDY TO BE, that is – HOW TO BECOME in life and grace in Christ Jesus.  

BE BLESSED by God’s GRACE, WISDOM and SPEED. 

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“The STEPS of a good man are ORDERED by the Lord: and he DELIGHTETH in his way” Psalms 37:23. 

“Ye men of Israel, HEAR THESE WORDS; Jesus of Nazareth, a man APPROVED of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God DID by him in the MIDST of you, as ye yourselves also know” Acts 2:22. 

“STUDY to shew thyself APPROVED unto God, a workman that NEEDETH not to be ASHAMED, rightly dividing (APPLYING) the word of truth” 2 Timothy 2:15 (Emphasis mine). 

“A WISE man is STRONG; yea, a man of KNOWLEDGE increaseth STRENGTH” Proverbs 24:5. 

“He that hath KNOWLEDGE spareth his words: and a man of UNDERSTANDING is of an EXCELLENT spirit” Proverbs 17:27. 

“And the TIMES of this IGNORANCE God WINKED (OVERLOOKED) at; but NOW commandeth ALL men everywhere to REPENT: 31 because he hath APPOINTED a day, in the which he will JUDGE the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath GIVEN assurance unto all men, in that he hath RAISED him from the dead” Acts 17:30-31. 

“My PEOPLE are DESTROYED for LACK of KNOWLEDGE: because thou hast REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also REJECT thee, that thou shalt be no PRIEST to me: seeing thou hast FORGOTTEN the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” Hosea 4:6. 

“Therefore my PEOPLE are gone into CAPTIVITY, because they have NO KNOWLEDGE: and their HONOURABLE men are FAMISHED, and their multitude DRIED up with THIRST . . .” Isaiah 5:13-15. 

More Scriptural Reading: 2 Timothy 3:14-17; Philemon 6; James 3:13. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI