"I am the Way"

 AATHAVAN 🖋️ 646 ⛪ November 04, 2022 Friday 

"And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." ( Acts 24 : 25 )

In today's world we could see a variety of Gospel workers. Dancers, singers, comforters, preachers of blessings, tellers of national affairs, preachers of righteousness, tellers of fables, thus the list goes on.

But a true Gospel preacher is one who leads people in the way of repentance. But if one talk like that, large gatherings will not come and the preacher will not get adequate offering. Hence, the aforementioned charismatic preachers who attract people have arisen in Christianity. Actually their preaching will not benefit for the spiritual development of the people. 

Today's meditation verse says, when Paul spoke of righteousness and temperance and judgment to come,  Felix trembled.  Apostle Paul did so as an evangelical proclamation when he presented his arguments while under trial in Rome. Yes, Paul's speech was about righteousness, temperance and judgment.

But Felix gets scared hearing this because of his guilty consciousness. He was lack in justice, fairness, and self-control, and hence was terrified. He didn't want to listen to Paul's arguments anymore. So he sends Paul away, saying, You may go now, and I will call you when I have time. 

Beloved, this is still happening today. Many people who go to convention meetings and dance and sing, do not have a real spiritual life and do not come forward to hear the real Gospel. They enjoy songs; They enjoy dancing; They say he sings better than the other. But, like Felix, they are afraid of true evangelical proclamations; they hate them. Congregational worship has become a Sunday pastime for many believers. So they don't listen to hard truth teachings.

This is what the apostle Paul told his disciple Timothy that day. ""For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." ( 2 Timothy 4 : 3, 4 ) The time that Paul spoke of is now happening.

Beloved, we can know Christ only when we listen to truth and truth shall let us free. Truth is bitter but only truth can set us free. Didn't Jesus Christ say, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" (John 8:32)?

We need not anymore want dancing, singing, hopping and words of blessing. What we need is the way to true blessing. That way alone will fetch us to real blessings as our Lord Jesus Christ has promised. Yes, Jesus has solemnly told us, "I am the way."

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