Page 85 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 2

ISSUE TWO | SEPT/OCT

Once, very early in my walk, He sent
me on an errand, to give some money
to one of His daughters. As we went,
I got puffed up in my head. “Hey! See
me, going to do something for God. I
must be important somehow. He has
Walking Love Wow, I’m really something. I’m doing
chosen to use ME! Oh look at me!!

my part for the Kingdom!! Hey!” What
followed next not only shocked me
and silenced me, but that big puffed
up head was popped so fast and so
memorably that it’s a memory and a
key lesson I keep close to me at all
Loving God and serving men is found in the little things we times. He said - very STERNLY to
do that leaves beauty and sweet smiles on the me - “If I send you somewhere, it’s to
faces of those we meet each day. do something FOR ME. Not for you
By: Chioma Phillips to get your vain glory from. Do you
understand? It is as MY SERVANT
you go. I could just as easily use a
This is what it’s like to be a beneficiary consideration and protection, as does
DONKEY. You are NOT any better
of walking love. To have dire need of the water and the air. Much much
than the one I am choosing to use you
something: shelter, food, clothing, more than this, our brothers and
to SERVE. DON’T GET IT MIXED UP
encouragement, wisdom, rebuke, sisters need love and consideration
IN YOUR HEAD.”
correction, advice, kindness, help and and care. Those He made in His
yes, even money... and to receive it image and according to His likeness.
As rebukes go, that one was
just when you need it the most, even We are expected and indeed needed
powerfully delivered and has not been
from the most unlikely sources. To feel to express God to one another, to give
forgotten for more than a decade. It’s
the relief of knowing that God knows Him leeway to do what only He can do
still fresh. Still saving my life, after
you. Knows your exact location, on earth, as it is in Heaven. To sever
all “Pride comes before destruction
situation, need and He can and is those ties is to lose love and value
and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
well and truly able to take care of you upon the earth. Which is why creation
He has also helped me to remember
as He promised He would. It’s a cold is still groaning for the manifestation
this by ensuring that I have also gone
glass of pure water on a hot, dry day. of His sons, because we often don’t
through times of great need in so
Relief, in other words. connect to the needs of His body as
many ways. I have endured the bitter
and when we should.
sting of ‘help’ delivered in pride. The
Life’s journey can sometimes be
person saying to themselves that after
hectic and often is very unpredictable. Years ago, when I first (properly)
all ‘it’s their money that they worked
Particularly when you have believed, God showed me a network
hard for’ and having to take their help
surrendered everything to God for of interconnected people that He
because God said, “take it as from
Him to do what He likes with you. His was building. It looked to me like a
me, forgive them.” Having to pray
training methods are very unique. fishing net, link upon link upon link.
for them to learn that it all belongs
They ALWAYS match up with what He explained to me that this is what it
to God, for myself to forgive and be
you absolutely must learn in order to is supposed to be like in His Kingdom.
more humble... and so on. I have
be who you absolutely must be. The One piece, made up of many
also received help from those who
other thing about God’s training is interconnected joints giving strength
do it from a place of honoring those
this, He makes sure to match up your to the whole. He gave me the picture
who God has highlighted to them, not
training and experiences with others of a mountain-climbing expedition, to
seeking glory or praise from men or
in His family that He too is training and further clarify what He was saying.
from God for the gift given. It’s such a
raising up. He said, “What I desire of you,” (His
blessing to the heart to receive such.
His sword is double-edged not only children) “is, that the one with strength
It truly is the ‘blessing that makes rich
for the individual’s spirit and flesh or in one area, who has overcome
and has no sorrows added.’
joints and marrow... but is communal something will, having reached a
for brother to brother, sister to sister, new height, bend down and help the
Rest assured, a gift given in pride
husband to wife, parent to child and next person up, who will - in turn - do
speaks. But love? Love is not boastful
so on. It doesn’t stop. He makes sure the same for the next and so on and
or proud. And remember, wherever
that what I need is tied up in you and so forth.” He said that we need one
the feet can go, love can reach.
what you need is tied up in somebody another and that He has put different
else and all is tied up in the training He strengths in different people and all
desires to provide each one so that at the answers that we need are in each
the end of all things, none are lost but other. The key is to find out what is
all are transformed into His image (as in His heart concerning the people
iron sharpens iron). He brings our way and handling them
God created a network when He EXACTLY and PRECISELY how He
created man. The soil needs our instructs.
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