Heralds Digest

  “ For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you— ” Titus 1 : 5 NKJV Like someone said to me recently, “ excuses are excuses, performance is performance ”. Experts in fault-finding and disorderliness spotting have no supply shortage categorization in all nations, economies, and systems of the world. And in Crete, disorderliness appears to be a decent phenomenon. Like ordinary citizens of Crete, talks about ordinary orderliness are cheap; but only time and talent devotion to turn disorderliness to orderliness could make the difference. Therefore,  Apostle Paul appears to have said to Titus “ let’s cutoff the excuses…about the disorderliness to ordinary orderliness..can you make it happen?” . The face of ordinary orderliness in life is always one ordinary individual out of nowhere, but fully surrendered into the hands of an extraordinary God with supernatural capabilities. An...

  “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—” ‭‭Titus‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ There is a self-fixing standard of uprightness for those who must qualify as bishops or leaders in the Church, at home, and in the society; but Apostle Paul here suggested a higher standard for Bishop Titus, who was expected to oversee the procedure of orderliness. When there is gross disorderliness in any system, like insincerity, insecurity and corruption, even the best of self-styled saints is rendered useless. System-fixing requires the courage not only to model the self-fixing standard; but the encouragement of others to adopt the standard for the good of the system. Unfortunately, when the system resist reformation or fight back, many leaders with jellyfish hearts have often learned how to leave and let’s live. But for Bishop Titus, he was reminded of his pre-assessment as someone with courage to enforce...

  “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—” ‭‭Titus‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ To all faithful and obedient servants of the Lord, ‘No loss, No lack, and No limitation’ is both a promise to claim and a purpose to conceive. Particularly, when a promising life and allocation are twisted with a lack, many minds admit a rude shock. Whereas, lack in life’s allocation presents the relevance of life’s appropriations. As long as we are at the centre of God’s Will, challenging circumstances in our allocation are meant to bring out the best of our relevance in life. For Bishop Titus of Crete, the disorderliness of the people was no doubt a lack and a challenge. It does equally revealed the lucky relevance in ministry. Therefore, instead of buying the toast of discouragement from the devil in our moments of despair, lack can be turned into an asset call from the throne of grace. And with God in our ...