Overcoming Special Days

Colossians 2:14 Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us, which was contrary to us; and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath,2:17 Which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.

The Lord Jesus had already crucified every ordinances, human customs, traditions, culture, philosophy, man made religion, and superstition at the cross. These things are deeply rooted in every human being as they are being imbibed into the fiber of his life since childhood. Even after being saved, it is likely possible for all these things to still hang on in a person's life. No wonder many Christians are still entangled with the public feasts and festivals as commonly and normally observed and celebrated by the worldly people. Even me, I was no exception in the past. And it is the Lord's mercy that stripped me of all these feasts gradually, one by one, year by year.

This year I have begun to experience a deeper stripping of all celebrations of birthdays and anniversaries. The month of June is when my physical birth date fall and also my marriage anniversary. I am glad, my wife and I completely forgot about it altogether. Sometimes, we even made the anniversary special and unknowingly succumb to the superstitious beliefs and practices. Similarly with my birth date, I purposefully did not do anything special. Rather I simply continued to live my normal life as usual. I really did not have the heart to make any day special in any way at all. Nor did I want anybody to wish me. Thank God, nobody wished me either. Neither any of my family members. To me this is a deliverance.

Though I practice this to myself, I do not impose my belief to anyone else. If a person does not see the vision there is no point for me to impose my view. As Christian grows in the divine life, the Lord will reveal to them in time. Until then, for the sake of shepherding new believers, I may still wish them and pray for them if they request so. And that's what I have been doing to my classmates in our WhatsApp group when anyone's birthday or anniversary occur and the group is wishing so. But I do with a string attached; I indirectly preach the gospel or share the word of God to the one I wish.

The vision is clear to me and the Lord has led me to overcome the human culture and tradition. Superstition is one other thing the Lord help me overcome, including Christian religious superstition of reckoning a certain day as holy or holier than other days, or a certain kind of food as unholy. I am not under the affect of any of this anymore. Praise the Lord, the Lord has delivered me from all these bondage! Hallelujah!

Let no one therefore judge me in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath, which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ. Overcome all special days! The reality of all these is Christ. Live Him day by day, and everyday will be special.