#Related_By_Blood_But_With_No_Fellowship
From the chronicles of a scribbler,
Mother’s Day was on Sunday and our social media accounts were awash with collages and awesome messages in honour of our mothers. Now, mother’s day is past and at the end of that day, a post by Gitonga George G G inspired me to write this note, I quote, “Ok. After all the updates of the mother’s day, please call your mothers now, send them airtime and mpesa and relax feeling fulfilled.” This post got me curious! Did we have time to fellowship with our mothers? It is very possible to be related by blood yet have no fellowship. It is possible that some of us posted great messages and beautiful collages in honour of our mothers on social media but never made an effort to practically fellowship with them. Gitonga called on us to be practical by calling our mothers and share something with them. I assume most of us did that.
From the chronicles of a scribbler,
Mother’s Day was on Sunday and our social media accounts were awash with collages and awesome messages in honour of our mothers. Now, mother’s day is past and at the end of that day, a post by Gitonga George G G inspired me to write this note, I quote, “Ok. After all the updates of the mother’s day, please call your mothers now, send them airtime and mpesa and relax feeling fulfilled.” This post got me curious! Did we have time to fellowship with our mothers? It is very possible to be related by blood yet have no fellowship. It is possible that some of us posted great messages and beautiful collages in honour of our mothers on social media but never made an effort to practically fellowship with them. Gitonga called on us to be practical by calling our mothers and share something with them. I assume most of us did that.
I have close relatives who I do not have fellowship with. Some who will never call me unless I call them. Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine and I found myself petulant about my blood relatives who won’t spend a dime to check up on me unless I call them. As I rant about this, I’m consciously aware that I have not made any initiative to call/fellowship with them either. What happened to family? When is the last time I had fellowship with my siblings? Okay, I usually call and sms my parents, brother and sister’s family at least weekly and frequently mama comes for bonding sleepover and of course I had wonderful fellowship with her just a day before mother’s day.
Alright, fast-forward, John 1:11-13 says, “11 He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. 12 Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” For sure salvation is being accepted in the family of God through faith in Jesus. But fellowship is being in a relationship with God. Like I said earlier, it is possible to be related by blood yet be out of fellowship. In like manner, we can be in the family of God yet be out of fellowship with the heavenly Father. As a child of God, it is of paramount importance to build a constant fellowship with the Father through prayer, studying and meditating on the scriptures and worship. It is possible to be awash with mere words yet our relationship and fellowship with our heavenly Father is severed. It is true that some of us get to fellowship with our parents and siblings when there is an issue that bring us together-like end year family get-together; weddings; burials and other unavoidable circumstance. Our social media accounts can be awash with collages of happy moments with family, great messages in honour of our parents and siblings yet be without fellowship. The same way, we can easily talk about our relationship with God yet be out of fellowship with Him. It’s easy to quote the Bible and post messages of hope yet our relationship and fellowship with our heavenly Father is severed. It is also very possible to fellowship with God only when we have troubles and problems and in need of His help. We can find ourselves call on Him only when we have difficult issues or when we need some favour from Him. Other times our fellowship with God can be occasional-only on Sundays, over the Easter or during Christmas services.
One of the reason God created man was for fellowship. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden God came looking for them for their usual fellowship but they were ashamed and his from Him. Since then our fellowship with God was disconnected but all for love God gave His son Jesus to die for us so that our relationship and fellowship with God could be restored. 1 John 1:1-10, our relationship and fellowship with the God is predicated on His character-Light. In Him there is no darkness. So to maintain our fellowship with our heavenly Father, we must walk in light. Sin disconnects us from fellowshipping with God but through repentance and confession, our relationship and fellowship will be restored (1 John 1:9).
My prayer is that our relationship vertically (with God) and horizontally (with our family and neighbour) will thrive in Jesus’ name. Purpose to make an effort to build the fellowship. Don’t just be related, fellowship is vital.
Regards,
Kachel Nzaku Nashipae
Kachel Nzaku Nashipae
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