Do not allow evil to corrupt your spiritual house

Thu, Jul 3rd 2014, 10:53 AM

The hottest news around town these days is about who is going to Mt. Fitzwilliam to be the next governor general of The Bahamas. Everyone is speculating, probing, digging, guessing, estimating, editorializing as to who, why, why not, what for, when, yes, no, maybe so, who owes and didn't pay. My name was even called in the mix to go to the house on the hill.
I would dare say that we are indeed a peculiar people -- we do not really like to see people succeed and move on in life. Why now should one look up to see who owes what, just because they forecast something good about to happen for someone? There goes the marking of an evil mind -- for the bill was always there.
I really do get sad when I see the published list of distressed houses up for sale. It hurts when people are mean and cruel and no love, care or sympathy is in them. But little do they know that they too are headed for a house either up or down, and how it looks to me, more are going downtown rather than uptown.
In this second book of The Corinthians, Paul continues to address the saints at Corinth. This church was in trouble, and Paul in his first letter to them shared the mind of Christ. He encouraged them to accept this new worship, to give with love in their hearts and believe the resurrection of Christ, and the resurrection of the dead. Greeting them, he bestowed "Grace be to you and peace from God our father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and God of all comfort. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ".
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, and a house not made with hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
Joseph told his brothers down in Egypt that what was done for evil, God turned it around it for good. I pray that with all the talk about who is going to Government House this will help us to think about the day when we will be going to a new house that is not made of mortar and stone or located in some gated community, but eternal in the heavens. Oh how we make gods of houses, while some take no care of maintaining.
Let us begin to develop the kind of love when we first began to celebrate nationhood. We cannot allow evil to corrupt our spiritual houses and cause us to inherit eternal houses of gloom and doom.

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