Many Christians Driving Jesus Around In Cycles – Ojukwu, Abuja Cleric Laments

Many Christians have taken over the driver’s seat of their lives and relegated Jesus Christ to the passenger seat and are as such hindered in their spiritual journeys in life, Pastor Michael Ojukwu has said.

Mr Ojukwu spoke while delivering the sermon at the Hospital Chapel, National Hospital Abuja on Sunday morning.

Speaking on the theme, Hope Has a Name, the cleric lamented that Christians even while claiming to be disciples have refused to take up the anchor that would bind them to a steadfast relationship with God.

“The difficulty we have in life is that we don’t want to lose our will to Him. He gave it to you free, but if you return it to Him it is better for you,” Ojukwu said.

Quoting extensively from several bible passages including Colossians 1:26, 27; Hebrews 6:19 among others,  Ojukwu said that God’s pattern is for Christians to enter into a partnership with Jesus being the senior partner who takes up the driving seat.

Quoting from Matthew 11:28 he said that taking up the yoke and tying with Jesus is the beginning of a relationship that leads to a lifelong reward.

The Man of God remarked that Jesus, Himself subsumed His will and indeed, emptied His will to that of the Father so that He could realise the will of God on earth.

While Jesus wholly submitted Himself to the will of God, Ojukwu, however, regretted that the devil continues to lie to mankind that submitting to the will of God will make man a loser.

“We are looking for the glory but do not want to take the yoke that goes with it,” the cleric observed noting that God does not force His yoke on anyone.

“He said take my yoke, He does not fasten His yoke on anyone, the decision to fasten the yoke depends on the individual,” he said as he observed that entering into a yoking with God is a wholly voluntary affair.

Noting the expenditure many invest into prayers and fasting while relegating the important issue of yoking with Jesus, Mr Ojukwu said:

“We want to bypass the yoke but do not want to fasten the yoke. We are ready to tarry in prayers and fasting but do not want to fasten the yoke. When you fasten his yoke on yourself you will see that your prayer demands will reduce substantially even to zero because you have become an appendage to the Christ.”

Referencing John 5:30, John 6:38, Ojukwu told his audience that Jesus was incapacitated when he was on earth wholly relying on the capacity of the Father.

He also made references to John 4:34, John 8:28 to drive home his point.

The cleric warned Christians who have jumped into learning Jesus without taking the yoke saying that they would sooner than later enter into trouble as he affirmed that taking the first step of yoking was an unambiguous step in the Christian journey.

“When heaven gives protocol don’t bypass it else it will lead to problem.”

With Jesus now physically out of the earth, Ojukwu said that He has sent forth the Holy Spirit to guide and guard Christians as an anchor.

Following the message, the cleric in leading the prayers observed that many have taken position of the driver’s seat of their lives and relegated Jesus to the passenger’s seat. He thus prayed for a reversal of roles.

GWG.ng reports that the service was concluded with a thanksgiving by Dr Zaccheus Ajuwon, erstwhile personal physician to President Olusegun Obasanjo and also former Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital.

Dr Ajuwon, who turned 70 during the past week thanked God for mercies over the years enumerating how God blessed him with a jewel of inestimable value at the end of his youth service, took him to Yola for a momentous experience and also saved him from death.

GWG.ng reports that the celebrator was serenaded with songs of thanksgiving as the celebration climaxed with the cutting of the birthday cake with children and grandchildren around him.

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