In the Christian faith, there appears to be many gray areas…

Some religious organisations will lay out their own tenets of faith while others will spell outrightly, RULES (okay, some may brand it as something kinda annoying like code of conduct…). In some settings, these things may not be written in black and white but there’ll just be an air that will make you choke going against ‘the creed’. In some settings where things like putting on jeans (even for a brother) is just below the ‘abomination line’ , you stand the chance of excommunication if you tread such grounds. It even spreads beyond the conventional external trappings to seemingly spiritual activities…

Unfortunately many of these and related practices will not produce spiritual fruit sooner or later. A lot of it will not go beyond dead religion. Cutting down a tree will require exceedingly more effort than picking it’s leaves - this is even more effective compared with people advancing in spiritual things by a mere set of moral rules… this is where consecration comes in.

Many people complain of the fact that righteousness and all are lacking in the land despite the multitudes that patronize, sorry, attend church every Sunday, from the seemingly most spiritual to the funkiest of them. The answer, I believe, lies in Consecration.

I’ll define it simply as “getting oneself set apart for God”

It’s the interactions with God that will produce spiritual fruit. Religious gymnastics may produce psychological and religious confidence and maybe headaches and voice strains , but when it comes to bringing forth stuff that will Glorify the Father, there MUST be interactions between divinity and humanity - personally ofcourse! Even if it’s in a meeting or concert or crusade or…whatever (even if there are a million people present), God will require to have interactions/transmission with us personally.

God will need our attention and submission to move big time in and especially through us. The result of such dealings may be that we will not do something anymore even if it is not a sin in itself, but to insititutionalize a law merely because of someone else’s personal encounter could be misleading. It will raise zombies instead of spiritually intelligent beings.

So in all our dealings, as we seek to bear fruit and glorify God, let’s continually set ourselves apart for His will; checking out what and the way he would want us to handle issues. It’s when we feel a vacuum whenever we jump into things before consulting with our Creator that the Consecration journey has really started. Our need for Jesus in all we do must be palpable…this is the beginning of consecration and true Spiritual Fruit Bearing (first a love for God and then for men and then other things)…and this has to be an individual experience, a private audience, even if it happens with millions around.

And of course, we cannot find a way around the conventional Bible Study, Prayer Communion with God (however our personal styles) and meditating and reflecting on God’s personality and ways even when we are doing regular stuff. There’s just no way around it.

Heb 10:5  Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.

Heb 10:7  Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.”

We really need to pray for grace in this area lest we be stuck in the levels we’ve been over the years. Lord help me truly advance in my Consecration to you in these busy and confusing times…Amen