A sad truth
Apostasy doesn't happen overnight. It is a result of a series of small decisions. Maybe you're unhappy. So you reacted to life. Then you start looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Then you reject the Word of God indirectly by appealing to authority if your emotions. Or you start looking to others for examples instead of digging into the Bible.
Then you fall. Publicly. And you don't know why.
It is because somewhere along the way, very slowly, very subtly, very silently, you exchange the authority of God for your own authority.
Yes nagba-Bible study ka. Yes nag-pa-prayer meeting ka. Yes, nag-e-evangelism and cathechism ka. But these become simply a substitute for the spiritual life. You're spiritual life us dying and you're just propping it up with religion.
So you become busier than ever. But you become more miserable. You're dying and you don't know it. Because you're not willing to humbly ask for help. You refuse to recognize you have a problem. You're deader than dead and you compound the isolation by more isolation.
People notice, you don't. They try to help you but you're obstinate. So they just watch. From a distance. Tiptoeing for you're like an egg that easily breaks. You held the church hostage.
Here's the good news. However far you fall, the way back is always one step away. It starts with 1 John 1:9.
Manatiling nakapokus sa biyaya. Huwag ninyong hayaang nakawin ng mga huwad na guro ang inyong karapatang mag-isip ng doktrina.
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