“Pillar” or “Pillow” people?

There are absolutely no qualms to what YOU, yes! A young person like you can contribute, serve and influence your church, community and the regions beyond.

You may be wondering, what does the first paragraph have to do with pillars and pillows?

The church is not confined to the four walls that enclose all of you. It is YOU! You are the church. Your life, your whole self is God’s residing place where He dwells in through Christ’s costly sacrifice that made it possible.(Eph 2:21-22), (1 Corinthians 6:19).

So what can we do as believers who congregate week in week out on a Sunday or a Saturday during service and to some of us who are serving in a ministry or two? Romans 16, Paul writes to the Roman church first to commend on a few champions of the faith namely Phoebe, Priscilla and Aquilla who have risked their lives by sending his letters to the Roman church. This history traces back to the days of Nero where church persecution was prevalent and ongoing back then. Secondly, he warns the church to “watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in [any believer’s, own emphasis] way that are contrary to the teaching [the believers, own emphasis] have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord, Christ, but their own appetites….”

The enemy does not just attack the church or God’s people from without but within as well! What kind of person are you today in your church? Are you a pillar to your church or a “pillow”?

Let me list down to you some of the characteristics of a pillow person:

1. - All fluffed up. Everything goes.

2. - Spiritually sleepy

3. - Low resistance level

4. Comfortable and immovable. Complacent with their own confines and are not willing to extend themselves to others.

Pillar person:

1.

-G Grounded but not immovable

2. - Servant-hearted

3. - Consistent, reliable and humble

Dear all, whether you are serving in the capacity as a worship leader, frontliner, or even a steward (usher), you can be a pillar and not a pillow to His house and eventually to your circle of influence. Pillar people serve sacrificially. They serve with an attitude of abandonment to self and they live and serve for His glory and not their own renown. Are you willing to be the hands and feet of Jesus, regardless of what the cost? Are you willing to “die” to man’s applause and seek to please Him more than anything else? Do we have “Paul-s” and “Esther-s” in our midst that have a heart to serve his or her generation in accordance to His plans and will even if it is requires sacrifice.

Just recently, two Chinese girls from China have not been to church or even experience church in their entire life came to the church where I currently attend right now, ELIM Pentecostal, and decided to join the service from there on. Why? They reasoned to us that someone in Uni from our church was kind to them.

You see how such simplicity of living- when we live our lives for His cause and be the church to the broken world out there, that we are able to point them a step closer to our loving God. So let me encourage you to continue to live your lives as pillars for God, able to withstand pressures and forces of all sorts, in your work, ministry, and schools and beyond.

Believe in you most indefinitely.

Samson