VirtuaLife

Just a few thoughts on today's sermon:

Today was about God's annoiting - what it means, how it was administered, who and what it was administered to, and its importance in our spiritual lives as Christians.

All in all I really enjoyed the message - having finished exams, I am once again finding that sweet spot in 'listening to God', that is, the point where I can critically analyse what is being taught in the context of my Christian walk without going off on numerous unproductive tangents as I am so prone to do.

However, I do beg a point of disagreement. This is not something I have discussed with any other, but one of which I harbor a growing conviction about. See, it was alluded to in the message that without God's annoiting, we and all our plans, and devices would surely fail. The context of failure given was that of a material pursuit, namely the establishment and running of a business.

The reason why I beg to differ is that there are many business run by non-Christians that are massively successful. And I am also sure that there are many businesses run by Christians without God's explicit annoiting that are successful. Therefore, no annoiting does not equal failure.

Rather, I believe that just like faith in God is central to salvation, so too is annoiting absolutely and irrefutably central to accomplishing meaningful works in God. Because when God annoits you, he enables you to do something beyond your own power, for His glory. And then it comes back to the question that most Christians should ask themselves... what did God create me for AND what do I live for?

This world... well, it CAN function without God. Yet, like the author in Ezekiel despairingly writes, if that were to happen then, 'meaningless, meaningless; everything is meaningless!'

Brothers and sisters, pray for annoiting not because its a 'spiffy' thing to have. Pray for it because it endows your actions with meaning, and God-given purpose.

In Faith, Hope and Love!~