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  • Being a Christian so long I forgot I was one

    Being a Christian so long I forgot I was one

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    Being a Christian so Long I Forgot I was one… Or rather, I forgot what it meant. Now I am not sure what number you had in mind when I said “so long”. It can be a year, it can be 30 years, but all you know is a passage of time has gone and somewhere you might have forgotten what it was you were doing or why you were doing it. You might not have forgotten what it is you believe what you believe but really what it means or what to do with it.

    The early days

    I remember sitting in an Easter Sunday service years ago and balling my eyes out because for the first time I truly heard and understood the gospel. I understood what Jesus was for, why he had come, why he had to die, and why I so desperately needed him. For several Sundays after that, even though I forced matters, it became pointless to wear make up as by the end of each service my eyes would be a smudged up mess of mascara and eye-liner. It wasn’t that the preacher was animated or saying statements to purposefully stir my emotions, it was just good old bible teaching. I was struck. After years of circulating different religions and “versions” of what I thought was Christianity, I got it and thus came the life change.

    Where has the buzz gone?

    Fast forward a few years and I have served in different ministries, becoming a part of the furniture as most would call it. Me being a Christian isn’t a thing, it’s just what I am and slowly I found I stopped thinking about it. No, I have not given up on the faith or anything like that, but it’s almost a going onto auto-pilot where things are done out of habit rather than genuine desire or from a genuine heart. It is not a matter of not wanting to be there, but perhaps simply not being as mentally and emotionally present as one should be.

    Many Christians I have walked with warned about seasons like this. And have shared from their own experiences. Where slowly the words of scripture become dull, fellowship with the saints becomes just a Sunday ritual, bible study becomes a place to socialise and get a free dinner, and prayers are filled with words and phrases that sound good enough to sound genuine but aren’t too personal in that they reveal anything to the strangers you are praying with. But I am still a Christian aren’t I? I even know where the book of Habakkuk is without looking into the index (okay, no, that’s a lie). But I am one. I believe in Jesus as God; it might not be in the front of my mind, but yes I believe…that counts right?

    Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t, I am not sure. I know feelings are temporary and how I feel doesn’t qualify my faith, Christ does. However, I can just imagine how horrible it would feel if you invited a friend out for coffee and they spent the entire time on their phone or picking their nails, but insisted you have no right to be upset because they were there and cappuccinos were had, weren’t they?

    Thank God for God

    But thank God for God and how he is the one who does the work in our hearts. Not allowing us to drift or let go even when we are worried or have stopped being concerned that we have. Thank God for his faithfulness and his continuing to remind us of who he is when we get distracted or allow other things to steal our affections.

    I sat last week at the evening service as I regularly do and was cut to the heart by Reggie Lamityi’s sermon “God is For us” based on Romans 8 (Click here to listen to it). Reading and hearing words I had heard many times before, but in this season they were so timely and very much needed.

    In a walk where the battle against sin leaves me weary and tired, wanting to give up, I was reminded that indeed there is no condemnation. Yes, I have heard that before, many times. It’s been the “go to” passage for many a preacher whom I have listened to over the years, but in that moment, even after years of practising this faith, I forgot that this was a truth. A truth that I, through Christ, could hold onto in my weakest moments. No condemnation – despite how unworthy and guilty I felt.

    I was reminded that God is sovereign. Again, another phrase we throw around loosely like it doesn’t mean that the whole world really and truly is in his hands as the old children’s song says. As though it doesn’t mean he is not surprised when we present our needs to him in prayer and that there is a purpose and plan for it all. As though it doesn’t mean we can actually rest in knowing our lives aren’t left up to fate or chance, but are up to God who created and knows all things.

    Finally Reggie reminded me how indeed the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. Praying prayers we cannot say, covering exposed areas we haven’t noticed, protecting, convicting, comforting us when we aren’t even aware that we need it. All these are concepts I knew; I hadn’t forgotten, but I stopped engaging with them.

    Keep the flame burning.

    Indeed, I had been a Christian for so long I forgot I was one. So often with many things in life, we forget to keep the fire alive; it goes out and we wonder why things look so gloomy and feel dead and cold. The enemy thrives in our passivity and lack of interest. he thrives in us unplugging, doing the do’s with little or no heart. But once again, thank God for his faithfulness and his continuing to remind us of who he is when we get distracted.

    No matter where you are in your walk, only God knows the day the journey ends for us on this earth. I pray we will not be taken up by the winds of life or lose interest in the stillness. I pray that God continues to draw us in, continues to remind us of who and why we are. In a world where everything is pulling us at every side – of which the end points are empty and dead – we desperately need Him.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container background_color=”#ffffff” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”5%” padding_right=”5%” hundred_percent=”yes” equal_height_columns=”yes” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_3″ last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”https://www.christchurchmidrand.co.za//wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Devotions-sign-up-to-our-mailing-list-logo-300×300.png” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”center center” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=”” class=”” id=””][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”2_3″ last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”2%” margin_top=”2%” margin_bottom=”2%” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_title size=”2″ content_align=”left” style_type=”default” sep_color=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]

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  • Being a Modern Woman in South Africa

    Being a Modern Woman in South Africa

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    In this Podcast, Leah and Lilly speak from experience as they share what it’s like to be a young black woman in the modern South Africa. These are two Christian women who are grappling with concepts like ‘submission’, a male dominated society and what it means to be a Christian, modern black woman.

    This Podcast aims to highlight some of the struggles that woman have and while it does not provide all the answers for woman (See below for sermons on this series), it gives both woman AND men a clearer picture of the struggles woman face along with some wisdom that these two ladies have.

     

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  • Hospitality: When it is uncomfortable and inconvenient

    Hospitality: When it is uncomfortable and inconvenient

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    I’ll never forget the first time I came to Christ Church Midrand nearly 5 years ago, we got invited to the home of a family whom we have now become very close to. However that whole day I remember sitting in their home, eating, chatting and marvelling at their 1 year old daughter who could say “awesome”, wondering why they had invited us over at all. I was waiting for them to make a presentation or make some sort of a request, to get down to business, but it never came. I had had a great time yes, but felt like I had been left hanging and as me and my then husband-to-be drove out, I turned and asked him, “What was all that for?”
    Growing up in my tiny family of 3, visitors was a bad word to me. Visitors meant I was going to be inconvenienced – I would have to wake up extra early, clean the whole house before they arrived and watch my mom slave over a hot stove. Once they did and all the awkward pleasantries were exchanged I would have to stay in my room with my sister (if there were no other distant cousins around) so as to not eavesdrop on the conversation of the grownups. It meant a whole Saturday where my home was hijacked. If someone stayed over, for a night or heaven forbid a whole week, then it meant my room. My whole room with my posters and my walls and all my stuff. Visitors never came often, perhaps twice a month and when they did, I hated it. I felt the whole thing to be uncomfortable, and very unnecessary.

    The call to be hospitable.

    I hadn’t realised how precious about my space I was (am). However being drawn into true Christian community, this problem was exposed because this type of community calls us to do the opposite. It is evident in the scriptures that Jesus’ ministry was about people and spending time with them. An example of this is where Jesus is invited into Martha’s home and her sister Mary sits at his feet listening to his teaching (Luke 10:28). What a privilege that must have been. Another example is when Jesus meets Zacchaeus he invites himself to stay at his house. The scriptures describe how Zacchaeus “hurried and came down and received him joyfully”- Luke 19: 1-10. Throughout the book of Acts and in his letters, the Apostle Paul mentions various people who housed him and gave him provision during all his missional work. Finally, in Romans 12:13 we receive the instruction quite directly “Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality” The Lord wants us to share our homes, to be other people centred.

    It is in our homes where we exhale, where we truly live. Where we undo tight pants and suffocating ties and say what is really on our minds. Truth be told, more often than not, every other space in life we are on duty, whether at school or at work, where most conversations are short and superficial but it is in our homes where on a deeper level, we experience “real life on life”. So naturally it is easy to fall into the trap of shutting up all the doors and drawing the black-out curtains over the windows to shut the world out. However when we do that, how are we growing in community? How are we serving in and being part of the body of Christ? How are we reaching the lost and when we are feeling lost ourselves, how can anyone reach us? Yes Jesus himself took time away to be alone but If that’s the kind of behaviour we engage in most of the time, how are we truly being Christ-like.

    Personally most of my growth as a Christian and what it means to live as one, came from being in the home of that family I told you about in paragraph one every week. On good and bad days, living and witnessing everyday Christian life. Through that my family, my family has grown and has extended beyond our difference in blood and even race.

    “This is God’s house”

    Another great friend whom I call my “really cool aunt” tells the story of how when she bought her home she dedicated to God. Being a single woman, she purchased a 3 bedroom home many years ago till this day, on any given weekend, it is busy with grown-ups and children going in and out, having birthdays and dinners and braais and arguments. And one or two odd people who needed a place to stay for a few days. I have watched her do that with her space which I am sure isn’t easy as I have watched her lose it when the people became too much. However, the purpose for her home has remained the same – for God to use it for the benefit of more than just herself. And that has been amazing to see to watch. I myself have benefitted many times from her hospitality even on days when the world became too much and I just needed a place to go to for a few hours. I am so grateful for that. I have learned so much.

    Hospitality isn’t easy and doesn’t come naturally for all of us, including me, however I am sure most of us have benefitted from someone showing hospitality to us. So why not do the same, for the sake of living out the gospel in our lives?

    What does that mean?

    It means if we stand up and say we are believers in Christ. If we say that what Christ has done in our lives is greater than anything we can achieve or possess on this earth, then that should reflect in how we treat our stuff, and our homes. To be willing to meet the need when someone needs a couch, a bed or maybe just a meal. And even if they don’t need it, to be willing to offer it. To be willing to show our true selves in environments, share our lives, the good, the bad, the ugly. To be in true community and to recognise what true family really is, a family we have gained through the love Christ showed as which we ought to show each other.

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  • Christ in the Centre of Your Friendships

    Christ in the Centre of Your Friendships

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    “Get friends that make: sin look bad, God look big, grace look tangible and the Gospel look true” – Jackie Hill Perry

    I saw the above quote on twitter which is pretty cool because the influence of people and various friendships that have come and gone over the years has been something I have been thinking of over the past couple of weeks. This made me think even more so that I’ll take it as a guideline (and a God send… cause’ I’m so bad with headings) and just work around that for this blog.

    1. Make sin look bad

    Amidst great pressure or sometimes none at all, when we are idle and disengaged, it is at this point we tend to forget or simply ignore what we know. We desensitise ourselves to the working of the Holy Spirit and the desire to sin becomes so great. We choose to not exercise the gift of self-control and give in. Thinking we still have it together, we don’t realise it, but we slowly lose our will power to fight the fight against sin. We start letting things slide. Just as the book of James states in Ch1:15, once we let sin bloom it leads to death. The moment between choosing to fight and choosing to surrender isn’t as brief as we think. In those moments it has always been the company I keep and their attitude towards sin that has reminded me that I am in a fight and must do just that. It may not be something said directly to me, for we all know when it comes to sin we become very skilled at hiding. So No, it won’t be that, but it will be something as small as a friend being honest in a situation where they could have lied. Or hearing the statement “As a bible believing Christian (fill in the blank)”. Or the hardest one, the one that makes me want to sink into a hole never to be seen again, when someone asks me to pray for them in their struggle with sin. Now THAT’S when it gets real. I always appreciate God and the people he has sent me when moments like that come. If I can appreciate my friend who reminds me I’m on a sort of, ‘sugar free’ eating plan when I want cake, I can appreciate God’s saving grace when I am reminded of the cost of sin.

    2. Make God look big

    I spend my daily existence in a whirlwind of emotions and I can’t tell you how many times I have sat with friends and family frustrated with life and overwhelmed and desperate for immediate solutions. And then one of them will casually say “Well God is sovereign”, “God is still on the throne”, “No matter what is happening, the point is to become like Christ” or simply, “Have you prayed about it?” God knows we get caught up in ourselves, we make mountains out of molehills and lose perspective of who He is when faced with major trials or victories. Col 3:2 calls us to maintain our focus on Christ which is so important because the moment we get consumed by what is in front of us, we forget him all together. In my opinion, it is in times of extreme victory and extreme loss where we need to maintain correct perspective the most. The Lord does a stunning job of this in Job 38 when He finally responds to all of Job’s frustrations. Without the correct perspective of who God is and his intent, a storm can seem eternal and a little ray of sun falling on our heads can cause us to believe it exists solely for us.

    3. Grace look tangible

    One of my personal favourite things to do is to ask people about their stories of coming to faith in Christ or just something pivotal in their walk with God. When concepts around my faith seem abstract or somewhat unreal, it is stories like that, which remind me what a miracle and privilege it is to be in communion with God and part of a family of believers. And that makes me want to dig deeper. It is seeing lives completely transformed by the Gospel, people literally becoming new creations before my eyes that leaves me in awe. It is seeing those who once rejected Christ stand against everything, including blood relatives for the sake of the faith. It is in seeing those who have been wronged, forgive and choose love. Hearing of the successful businessman who gave it all up for the sake of being more present in his family. I mention such because as sinful beings, that is not who we are naturally. We are more inclined to be self-satisfying and seeking therefore, seeing such transformations can only come by the grace of God and the working of the Holy Spirit. Being in such company reminds me that God is working on me too and to not shift from where he has placed me. It serves as an encouragement to simply stick with Jesus.

    4. The Gospel Look True

    I would say this one links quite closely to the above paragraph, however I’ll extend this to our everyday living as Christians. One of most frustrating things for me to witness are believers who compartmentalise. That is, if their life was a wheel, their faith is just one spoke or section instead of it being at the centre. The issue with such a way of life is that the Gospel becomes stifled, crippled to do the complete work God has intended in our lives. It may be convenient for us as we can avoid certain areas of darkness and not acknowledge we will be held accountable one day. However, when the Gospel is the centre of the wheel this changes everything; how we live, work, play, spend our money, spend our time, love etc. etc. It goes on and on. Sometimes it’s hard, I mean it took me forever to host people in my home, because I love my space uninterrupted. But seeing friends do this encouraged me to do the same and now, looking back, I know I have come a long way when someone invites themselves over and I’m okay with it. But the work isn’t done, I’ll know I have made it when I am okay with sleepovers.

    In Closing…

    The Gospel is God’s power to save, and it redeems all areas of our lives. It is not the means to be with God in eternity but the means to live as he has created us NOW. If that is what you believe then you need people who can constantly display what that looks like. Coming from a broken home, we need Gospel centred families to display what God families to be. Coming from a context where the most violent offenders are men, we need Christ like men to display true manhood. In spaces where women are taught that their greatest assets are their body parts we need bible believing women to display that being made “in the image of God” is far more that the beauty God gives us. The list goes on but most of these changes happen in community, not in isolation.
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  • Get off the stage!

    Get off the stage!

    Advice to the married.

    So, basically, getting married was never really part of my life plan. It was going to be that cool thing which happened, if it happened. But I wasn’t banking on it. I always thought “I’m just not the girl you marry”. I was going to make music and travel the world. That was it, case closed.

    But in 2014 that changed when I walked up the isle with my mother as I half laughed, half cried towards my friend of 7 years and soon to be husband. It was happening! White dress, cake, and all, I was getting married.

    Fast forward 8 days and we move in to our little cottage and I realise I have to make this my new home, with this man. I had to be a wife. “so exactly What is a wife?” I asked myself as we loaded my tiny bundle of belongings into our new home, which we shared with spiders, moles, springtails, and a bat that one time. What is a wife? I suddenly felt this surge of (self-inflicted) fear and pressure to be this wife thingy. In the months to come I found myself struggling to live up to a high-impact performance on a stage which no one had put me on, least of all my husband. So as one could predict I broke down and in a genuinely crazy fit of anger, frustration and exhaustion, through a runny nose and tears I told my husband “I don’t think I can do this” to which he simply replied “do what?”

    Marriage is not your idea

    Ephesians 5:22-33
    “22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord…. 26Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”

    One of the greatest sayings I heard was “Marriage was God’s idea” and in his word he sets marriage up to be a life lived by two people committed to loving Him and each other. It’s a beautiful thing. Reading the passage above is what made the true idea of marriage appealing to me. It is founded on the love of God shown through Christ, the greatest expression of Love. And Christ should be the foundation and springboard for everything else. And yet, after all the marriage prep and after I said “I will” in agreement to the vows, I somehow forgot that. I made marriage a point system I had to come on top of. I never realised in that first year, I was still being influenced by secular thought. Somewhere I was ticking boxes which said “a wife does this, and does not do that” without ever considering God or his agenda. Without ever considering that he knows what is best. So naturally it broke me. I had to go back to the source, rather, I have to go back to the source, daily.

    Marriage is not about you

    There is no performance. It is simply agreeing that both of us are sinners saved by the grace and mercy of Christ, living in this world and figuring it out, together. Working out our salvation. That both of us need God and each other and that is alright. And in being loved by God and loving God we can love each other. At that point, suddenly compromise and the swallowing of pride is less difficult to do and the bigger picture becomes clearer. At the same time kind gestures are driven by more than obligation. Suddenly I can remember – it is not all about me! And that’s a good thing, it would be a disaster if it was. Keeping Christ the main thing is what keeps us going. And Lord knows I WANT us to keep going. However after a hard day and dishes haven’t been washed, my mind is tempted to jump to questioning my entire marriage instead of simply addressing the issue at hand for 2 minutes and going on to have a pretty cool evening with my best buddy.

    Love is not a feeling

    It is tough but just as Christ demonstrated, love isn’t a fluffy feeling, but an act of the will. It is all down to choice and by his grace we can make it every day. And truth be told, that much I would rather have, than hoping a fluttering emotion magically never goes away. And when the arguments do happen and the disappointments do come, it is God’s standard, not my own that I can present to him to remind him of what we are here for and remind myself too. And it is there where we find the big thing, the joy!

    So we turn 3 years old in a few weeks and yes we are very much babies in the game but I am thankful to the Lord for the time so far. For in all the madness that it two people coming together, through Him we have found and experienced joy.

    And to anyone wondering, the story so far is this: I made music, got married and travelled the world, often with my husband. And I am very grateful.

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