“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,
and repent,” – Rev 2:5
Isn’t it unfortunate that the phrase, “It is
well” has lost the faith-inducing power it used to have among the body of
Believers a few decades ago?
In former days, when a Believer tells his
Brother, “It is well”, he was echoing the answer given by the Shunamite woman
(2Ki 4:26) when asked about her state.
She had just lost her son under strange circumstances and was heading
straight to the Prophet. She didn’t panic, she didn’t wail; even her husband
wasn’t told that her son – HIS only son – was dead. Instead she told him
that “it shall be well”.
What boldness, what powerful expression of faith, what level of
conviction. All these are totally lacking when we say the same phrase today.
Even more unfortunate is the response we now hear Christians give to the
phrase. When you say that “It is well”, they’d giggle and reply “Even
inside the well”.
Need I say that the only victim of this crass trivialisation of the word
of God is us. A woman living three millennia ago used that phrase to bring back
her dead son to life; we instead use the same phrase as conversation filler as
we talk on mundane things.
Beloved, we are not like the secular, unbelieving world; we are a people
of FAITH, a people of passionate hope and power. Let’s bring back the
conviction into our words. Let’s Remember
therefore from where we have fallen, and repent.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss
them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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