“Maintaining Our Secure Position In Christ!”

“Maintaining Our Secure Position In Christ!”(II Pt.3:1-7&13-18).
While Christianity is spreading in the continent by geometric proportions, it is at the same time being rubbed in the mud more than ever before. Some say Christianity is a scam or that it is a tool of enslavement used in brainwashing the gullible Christians. Some even blame the continent’s poverty level on Christianity.
The oldest of these accusations is the one that was there in New Testament times.
In his time Peter told the faithfuls: “…you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires…” These scoffers will deliberately doubt the Second Coming, because, according to them “ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
For us who are forward looking, who believe in the Second Coming according to the promise, “we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.” As we look forward, we should “make every effort to be found spotless, blameless, and at peace with him,” bearing in mind that “our Lord’s patience means salvation.”
Dear friend, we have been forewarned, so we should be on our guard so that we won’t be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from our “secure position.”
These words of assurance were passed on by the prophets, given as a command by our Lord and Savior through the apostles who passed them to us through missionaries and subsequent ministers of the word.
Let us hold on to what we received so as to maintain our secure position, growing “in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Specifically to the Christians of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, maintaining our secure position and growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ is not so much material expansion and wealth creation – as important as this can be to enhance ministry.
How we improve on our spiritual lives is what we become as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
On the day of full autonomy the Revered Jeremiah Chi Kangsen, one of the architects of this autonomous church told the missionaries that in as much as Cameroonians were glad to take over the structures the missionaries were handing over, they were more interested in inheriting the spirit of the missionaries in the same way that an African “Chopchair” inherits the spirit of his predecessor through the ancestral cup.
Yes, my friend, our joy should be in whether we taught the gospel so that Christians should not fall from their secure positions but rather grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
P.C. Day prayer: Holy Spirit, help us to maintain our secure positions as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen!
Have a blessed and wonderful PC Day celebration! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.