To My New NCCF Family House Members (6)


Hello Jesus Corper,
Gracious greetings to you.

With regards to the point I made while rounding off the previous treatise, permit me to offer you here a scriptural understanding of the body of Christ as a family so as to help you fortify your heart. Do you remember the Parable of the Good Samaritan? Okay, sure you do.

Now, consider that the man in the story is the natural man in reality; the thieves are Satan and his cohorts (of course, you remember John 10:10); and the Good Samaritan is Jesus the Saviour Himself. The inn is the Church while the Innkeeper is the Holy Spirit.

We all have been in that miserable situation after the devil has dealt severely with us. Christ met us, and mercifully gave us salvation as first aid; then He took us to the Church to find a family, with the Holy Spirit as the Supreme Physician there to facilitate our recovery.

So again I say, if you ever expected that you will meet a bunch of perfect people in the family house, you are wrong! If you thought that everybody there will understand you, care for you, listen to you and help when you need a hand, you might as well be positioned for disillusionment.

The fact remains that everybody in the body of Christ is nursing one injury or the other although we are at different levels of recovery. The best of us has a weakness which is being dealt with by the Holy Spirit.
So let me assure you ahead of time that in the family house, as much as you will find people who are good to you, accommodating and tolerating, you will also find people with rotten attitudes, bad mouth, impaired vision, lazy hands, etc. Your ability to handle the tension between both extremes is a measure of your spiritual maturity. So how do you do that?

First, you need to sustain the right image about the family. The family is a product of a righteous seed so we can be sure that no matter what, people’s conditions will only get better. You should understand that our weaknesses do not nullify our spirituality, rather they evidence our humanity.

Also, our differences do not invalidate the need for togetherness; instead, they reinforce it. We are all going through a process; we are all growing to perfection. So know no man according to the flesh, and do not despise any.

Play an active part in the family; make a commitment to grow and to help others grow. In order to do that, you have to expect less and offer more; you should also give others the right to be wrong, so that they can transit efficiently from wrong to right without stumbling. When offences arise, forgive easily, freely and fully.

Remember that some people have never really tasted true love in the context of a real family. The NCCF family is there to help discover that dimension of the grace of God. Please be that person that God will use to bind their wounds, heal their hearts, and most importantly, reveal Himself to them through love.

Always remember that God is counting on you.

Warm regards,
Bright Ukwenga
2015/2016 General Secretary,
NCCF Bauchi


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