REALITIES MINISTRIES

Series: Youth for Jesus

Number: Vol. 9, No. 6

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Gal 6:9NIV)

Who is Paul talking to in our opening text? All God’s people! And what is he saying to us? It is that we should not become weary or tired in doing good to others.Now if it is not possible for us to become tired in doing good, Paul will not say that we should not become tired in doing good.

For instance, if people will not appreciate the good things we are doing to them or for them, we can become tired of doing good to others.Also, if people are paying us back with evil for the good we are doing to them or if they are taking undue advantage of our generosity to them, we may tell ourselves that we have done enough.

In other words, we may not be inspired to do good to any other person in any serious way again. And that will be because we are already hurt.Then if we are not receiving or experiencing much acts of goodness from others, we may not feel encouraged to continue to do good to others.

In fact, we may, in such situations, assume that God is not paying attention to our good works, so that He may reward us for them.But the word of God to us in our opening text is that we should not become tired of doing good to others. Why? The reason is that God will surely reward us for all our acts of goodness at the right time. That means if we are not yet getting rewarded by God for any of our acts of goodness, the reason is that the time is not ripe. When the time is ripe, He will surely reward us for each of them, if we do not give up.

So, regardless of people’s attitude towards our good works, whether good or bad, we should not become tired of doing good. On the contrary, we should be like our Lord Jesus who continued to go about doing good, even though He was being persecuted and insulted for doing so. And just as God honoured Him for it at the right time, He will honour us too at the right time for whatever good we do, irrespective of people’s attitude towards us.

But then, we too should be careful of paying attention to people’s attitude towards our acts of goodness. Otherwise, we may fall into the trap of the praise or approval of men. Then we may lose whatever reward we may hope to receive from God for our good works.

Cheers!

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Series: Youth for Jesus

Number: Vol. 9, No. 15

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.” (Prov 12:1NIV)

Those are some of Solomon’s words of wisdom to us on what our attitude towards discipline and correction should be.

First, he tells us to love discipline. And is that a simple thing to do? No! Why? The reason is that discipline, any kind of real discipline, is hardly pleasant. Now because discipline is hardly pleasant, many of us will do whatever we can to avoid it. It is only those that are looking at the value it may eventually add to their lives that will love and embrace it. If you, then, will not love and embrace discipline, it must mean that you don’t want to see yourself increase in value and usefulness in life. (Cf. Heb 12:11)

But if you want to see yourself increase in value and usefulness before God and before men, then, don’t run away from discipline. Don’t excuse yourself from circumstances sent into your life to teach and train you to increase in fruitfulness and usefulness in life. Those circumstances may be unpleasant.

Yet you must be determined to endure them. And you will be able to endure them, if you will trust God in prayer and in His word for the strength, determination, patience, wisdom and any other thing you need to do so.Remember that the word of God tells us that in all things God is working for the good of those who love Him, of those who have been called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28).

So, you are not alone in any situation you find yourself in life. God is there with you to work in you, with you and through you in order to fulfil His good purpose in your life. That is why you should not lose heart or give up. Instead, you should make up your mind to use the situation to discipline you to experience a greater fulfilment of the purpose of God for your life. And it shall be so.

The second thing Solomon speaks about in our opening text has to do with loving correction and not hating it. Why must we not hate correction but love it? The reason is that correction too, like discipline, is hardly pleasant to receive.

Yes, some people are so gracious in the way they talk and act that you will really have to be a proud person for their correction to hurt you. But you can’t always expect that it is only such people that will correct you in life. All kinds of people, the good, the bad and the ugly, have corrected you in the past. And going forward, you should still expect the same.

In any case, regardless of whether the correction coming to you is coming in a gracious way or not, what is important is that you take to it. Are you truly wrong? If you are, then, accept correction. Don’t try to defend yourself. Don’t try to justify yourself. Don’t try to make excuses for yourself. Otherwise, you will sooner or later be injured for refusing to accept correction. Then you will have proved yourself to be nothing but stupid, as Solomon tells us in our opening text.

What was the difference between David and Saul? Their attitude towards correction! Both of them were God’s choice. Both of them were anointed of God. And both of them, being human, messed up at different points in their lives. But then, while Saul was totally rejected because of his mess, David was forgiven and established in spite of his mess.

Why? As bible account shows us, the reason was that where David would readily acknowledge his sins and seek God’s face for mercy and forgiveness, Saul would simply be labouring to justify himself. He always had excuses to make for messing up.

And because he was often more concerned about making excuses than doing what was right, he could not become the king God had always wanted him to be. So, he was rejected and replaced with David. Now if we too don’t want to be rejected by God for the various places of usefulness, advantage and honour that He has prepared for us in life, we need to drop whatever bad attitude we have towards correction. No one knows it all.

So, no one is above missing it. If you, then, are being corrected for missing it, admit it and do the needful. Not doing so is simply saying that you know it all. And we know that those act like that are nothing but stupid. Are you, then, stupid? If you are not, then, begin to love correction and to also show it by appreciating anyone that God may use to correct you. And may you be cleansed and energised by the Spirit of God to begin to do so, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Series: Youth for Jesus

Number: Vol. 9, No. 4

“Why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD?” (1 Sam 15:19NIV)

Who were these words said to? King Saul! And why were they said to him? They were said to him because he did not completely obey the command of God given to him by Samuel.

Now what was the command of God given to Saul by Samuel? It was that he should go and completely destroy the Amalekites and everything they had, leaving nothing alive. Did he, then, go to destroy these people and everything they had? Yes! And did he completely destroy them and everything they had, as He had been commanded by God? No!

Why did he not make a complete destruction of those people and everything they had? Greed! How? Well, when he and his men saw the fat and well-groomed livestock of those Amalekites, they changed their minds about completely destroying them and decided to spare them. They even spared their king, Agag. Why? It may be that he had promised to give his wealth to them. Who knows?

In any case, it was greed that made Saul disobey God the way he did. Yes, in his own eyes, he felt that he had obeyed God by destroying all the Amalekites and sparing only their king and the best of their livestock. He even thought of what he did as an opportunity to sacrifice some of the animals to God.

But as far as God was concerned, his partial disobedience was as bad as total disobedience. That means he did not obey Him at all. That being the case, He judged him by removing him from his throne.

What, then, do we learn from this? It is that we should not allow greed to push us to take for ourselves a reward that God has not given to us. King Saul did what he did because he felt that he and his men deserved to be rewarded by God for the hard work of destroying the Amalekites. But they were not the ones to tell God what they deserved or did not deserve. They were His servants and were meant to obey whatever command He gave them, whether He was going to reward them for it or not.

As the bible shows us, even though God always rewards people for doing His will or for doing good, we are not to see that as an entitlement. Rather, we are to see it as a manifestation of His grace towards us. That is because He is the source of our lives and everything else. So, He does not owe us anything. We are the ones that owe Him everything. (Cf. Job 41:11; Luke 17:7-10; Romans 11:35)

Therefore, regardless of what we may have done for God, we should never attempt to reward ourselves with what He has not given to us. Others around us, including preachers, may be doing that, rewarding themselves through extortion, manipulation and threats with rewards God has not given to them. But we must always turn away from such. That is because He will never forget to reward us adequately for our labour of love at the right time (Gal 6:9; Heb 6:10).

If we, however, should decide to reward ourselves by ourselves and in our own way, we may lose even our souls in the process. So, mind yourself.

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Series: Youth for Jesus

Number: Vol. 9, No. 3

“For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the LORD, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.” (Zech 4:10NKJV)

Who is speaking here in our opening text? It is God. And what is He saying? He is saying that no one should ever despise whatever He is working on, simply because it looks small or little. That is because His Spirit will see to it that what He is doing, however small or little it may seem in the eyes of men, is completed in such a way that there will be much rejoicing over it.

Now, as we see in our opening text, it was a prince of Judah called Zerubbabel that this word first came to. And it came to him to encourage him not to look down on what he was doing in building the temple of the Lord as something insignificant.

But why would he look down on the temple he was leading his people to build as insignificant or small? One main reason was that he was must have been comparing it with the temple Solomon built. The temple Solomon built was indeed great and magnificent. And to compare it with what Zerubbabel and his people were building at the time would be like to compare day and night. In fact, when the foundation of their own temple was laid, those who were privileged to see Solomon’s temple could only weep aloud. (Cf. Ezra 3:10-12)

Nonetheless, what God was really concerned about was not the magnificence of His temple but the degree to which it was able to serve His purpose. The temple Solomon built was indeed magnificent, as I pointed out already. Yet God handed it over to the Babylonians to destroy it. Why? It was no longer serving His purpose.

So, even if what we are doing is great and lofty in the eyes of men, as long as it is not serving God’s purpose and bringing Him pleasure, He will cast it aside as useless. But if what we are doing is little and yet is serving His purpose, He will give increase to it Himself so that it will be able to serve His purpose even more.

Therefore, however small or little what you are doing in life may be in your eyes or in the eyes of others, as long as God is able to use it to bless or touch someone’s life, don’t despise it. And don’t allow anyone to talk you into despising it, regardless of what they may say. That is because the Spirit of God is able to take that which appears small or little today in the eyes of men and make it a wonder for the world to see.

Then, in closing, be very careful of comparing whatever you are doing with what others are doing. It is a sure way to discourage yourself or to begin to think of yourself more highly than you ought to. And that will cause you to limit the move of God in your life and through what you are doing in very serious ways.

So, watch yourself.

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Date: May 27, 2026

Series: Youth for JesusNumber: Vol. 9, No. 2

“Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.” (Luke 11:35NLT)

Those were the words of our Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples. And He said what He said to teach them the relevance of not acting under any form of assumption in life. Now look at His words again: “Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.” What does this mean? Well, to begin with, we need to know what light is. And what is light? Light, according to the word of God, is anything that makes things visible (Eph 5:14).

Therefore, how visible anything will be to us will be dependent on the quality of light we use in viewing it. If the light we are using to view something is really bright and good, we will be able to see it clearly and make the right judgment about it. But if the light we are using to view it is poor, we may not be able to see it clearly or make the right judgment about it. Have you ever tried to tell the colour of a dress under a very poor light? How easy was it for you to do so? Were you able to get the colour right? You most likely were unable to get the colour correctly until you brought it under some bright and good light. Also, have you ever tried to see your bones by merely staring at your body under the light of the sun or the moon? Did it work? It could never have worked. That’s simply because it takes some other form of light to be able to see your bones through your skin.

In like manner, if you want to see God, people and life itself clearly, you need to use the right form of light. And the right form of light to use is the word of God. Otherwise, you will find yourself often misjudging God, people, life and situations. And the price you will pay for that may be as high as your life or your soul.

For instance, King Ahab lost his life in a battle with the Arameans at Ramoth Gilead because he was operating with the wrong light. As the account shows, before that battle, he was counselled by King Jehoshaphat of Judah to seek the guidance of the Lord, which he did. He called his prophets together, about four hundred of them, to tell him the word of the Lord about the battle. And they all told him that he should go because the Lord would give him success. (Cf. 1 Kings 22:1-12)

But Jehoshaphat was not comfortable with the prophetic light of those prophets. Why? He was a spiritual man. So, he must have sensed that something was off with them. Therefore, he asked to know if they could get light from another prophet of God. And they did. They called in Micaiah to give them divine light about the situation. (Cf. 1 Kings 22:13-28)

Unfortunately, Ahab was not comfortable with the light of that man of God, Micaiah. He was not comfortable with it because his prophecy was not favourable to him. So, he chose to walk in the light of the other prophets, which was nothing but darkness. And he lost his life for doing so. (Cf. 1 Kings 22:29-40)

Now what is my point in all this? It is that one can lose their life while walking in a light that is nothing but darkness. It may be a prophetic light. It may be the light of someone’s experience or the light of certain traditions or culture. But as long as such light is not rooted in the true light of the word of God, it will prove to be nothing but darkness at some point. And those who use it may end up suffering greatly. (Cf. Is 50:10-11)

All this is why Jesus tells us to make sure that what we call light is not darkness. It is your job to do that. it is my job to do so. We all have to be willing to do the hard work involved in doing so with an honest heart. Otherwise, as I said before, the price we will pay for walking in a light that is nothing but darkness may be as high as our lives or souls. May God not let that be our lot, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Cheers!

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