I will start by reminding you that when Cain killed his brother Abel, the Bible does not say that,‘and then Cain replaced Abel as God’s favoured one’!
It is common in church and life in general, for people to crave approval and love so much that they are willing to pull one another down to gain that favour. It is the reason behind the advent of what we now sadly know so well as ‘evil prayers’; Christians wrongly using their God-given anointing and gifts to curse and pull down fellow Christians in a spiritual own-goal. How absurd.
We have known this to happen a lot in the workplace; workers bad mouthing one another to get ahead in the bosses’ graces. When that comes to places of worship, it is scary, because it underlines the departure of the fear and knowledge of God from us.
We are having a generation of young people coming out of broken families where they were never accepted or loved. When they get to church and find these spiritual parents (read pastors) that readily take them on and love them unconditionally, they become territorial and it can be destructive to others in that church family.
And like in real families such as Adam’s with his sons Cain and Abel, the sibling rivalry, backstabbing, mudslinging, rumourmongering and spiritual killings become a reality.
Be careful the love you crave; even the devil has learnt to recognize these deficiencies in Christians and quickly offer his counterfeit, temporarily generous love whose end is disastrous.
When you become desperate to be loved, the devil will even plant the wrong wo/men in your life as possible spouses, initially offering what was denied you since childhood, only to turn around and cut you down once you are well reeled in.
Girls craving for their absentee fathers’ love will seek out much older men for love, subconsciously looking for someone to fill that fatherly void, and the results are not always good.
In ministry, you can genuinely work on yourself and let God lift you to the heights He alone can take you to, without having to bring down another minister first. Sigh. It must indeed be hard work being God Almighty!
malita@observer.ug
Source: The Observer
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