I Knew I would Write... (4)

 
 
 

• With all the many concerns that abound, one would naturally expect that the pillar and the ground of the truth (the church) will be a place of succour.  Instead, it has become a safe haven for perpetrators of all kinds of evil doings. Ear-tingling sermons, feel- good messages, you- can- do/have- it- if -you- want, name-it–and- claim-it schemes and so on now permeate our church walls! As if the ''come as you are'' ought to remain ''stay as you are !" The gospel is being diluted daily to suit the every growing lusts of wicked hearts and they are at ease! One thing is clear, Jesus is the good shepherd and not a goatherd. And as many goats that these corrupt church leaders think they can smuggle into the fold, the more display of folly they exude! God is not mocked...

THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL - Matthew 16: 18 b

 
 
 

I Knew I Would Write... (3)

•  Recently,  I was privileged to be at one of our General hospitals and some of the things I saw were quite humbling indeed. From the forlorn hope of finding the cure to loved ones' illnesses to the helpless looks on patients' faces, some even looking lifeless with a bleak assurance of their pulling through and at the mercy of the physicians. A little girl of about twelve later died after been involved in an accident. I figured it could have been from where she had gone to hawk stuff -It was just a plain harrowing experience!   I was angry and disappointed at her guardians for asking her to do that and have now put her at such great risk and now, death. As I looked at the mother trying to express in her own way the agony of losing a child, I wondered how fickle, transient- constantly fleeting this life is. I may not fully understand what the family has had to go through that brought about the decision to hawk stuff, but this one thing I do know: LIFE IS VERY HARD!  And the nothingness in and of it ought to daily point us to the need to pursue one that is far better than this one! 

#... all the adversity and suffering in the world is an echo and a witness of the exceedingly great evil of moral depravity in the heart of mankind; and every new day of life is a God- given, merciful reprieve from imminent judgement, pointing to repentance - Romans 8: 35- 36, Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 5:11 Selah#

• Some of those (GOVERNMENT) hospital workers who lack the sense of urgency, importance and place no value on human lives and in turn, further delay the quick response of accident and emergency victims, ought to be sacked and never made to come near such environments as workers. Plain simple!!

#very miffed!#

• It was tragic when on our way out of the hospital later that night, to behold ladies and men of easy virtue  parading themselves half naked. Now, without any visible health condition that allow for showing privates without 'consent', these people place their bodies for sale! It wasn't the first time I'll behold night workers but for the rude distraction of coming out from that helpless environment albeit a hospital to this seemingly self -willed destruction!  Phew!  May I submit at this point, that if you have been saved by the Lord Jesus, the gift of salvation is enough to bask in!...

# I know that being dead to sin means that we are morally incapable of submitting to God or to please Him because the pleasures of sin appear greater than the pleasures of God#

• “The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”   #self- explanatory?#

I Knew I Would Write... (2)

• Since we are in the era of committees and sub- committees looking into ''matters of national importance'' of committees.  Pray tell, who or what looks into the committees that looks into the sub- committee?

#of cluelessness and other things!#

Abeg make we talk one thing!

•  Just when we are (still) trying to figure out how to pay Iya Silifa, Baba Semiu et al by POS, out came the huge distraction of  the  N5,000 note! Some of us understand it was just a lousy attempt to camouflage the failure of the cashless thingy...OK, so now that the N5,000 note dream is truncated, can we return in peace to the confusion of the other that we have since been left with?    

Lest I be accused of, ''the appalling nescience of today's high schoolers concerning international and local affairs. '', I draw no further mention of the matter. What do I even know sef ? After all, I am not an alumni of International University of Africa, The Kennedy School of Government or of Wharton College...         

#"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."― Thomas Jefferson#

• I recently watched (again) the miniseries, Roots . My first encounter with it was as a teenager and a non- Christian. Suffice it to say it triggered obvious somber thoughts like man's inhumanity to man, history and its many biases vis- a- vis what the truth is and what it (may) not... Much more, it displays the extent of man's depravity especially when it is not curbed and in all, I reckon that we who have been greatly forgiven are so obliged to deal with the daily failings of others... 

"Everyone says forgiveness is easy until they have something to forgive". Yet, Jesus' words, ''first be reconciled to thy brother". His direction is clear. He says to go the way indicated to (me) you by the conviction given at the altar; have an attitude of mind and a temper of soul to the one who has something against (me) you that makes reconciliation as natural as breathing. Noteworthy is the fact that Jesus didn't mention the other person, He says - you  go.  There is no  question of your rights.

The stamp of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus - Matthew 5:23 , John 14:15 , Luke 6:46#selah...#

• In June 2012, when that air disaster happened in Lagos, Nigeria; it was both a humbling period and a very sad one for me. First off, where that happened was quite close to where I live and on board that ill-fated plane, was one of my office directors that I had seen at his desk just the Friday before that Sunday! Not to mention the many households that will not be the same again because of the colossal loss! Secondly, to think that I was airborne on the said day going to the same direction that plane was coming from?! I have so many reasons to wonder and shudder at God's sovereignty. And how I know for a surety that still being alive (or not)  is totally not the mortal man's brief!  

“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”― John Piper

• So I recently read of a particular Pastor's kid (male) and his male partner got married recently and were joined in unholy acrimony by the latter's father! Seriously?... Are the true Christians here reading this still doubt the words from the Good books that reads, ''Because iniquity shall abound, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL GROW COLD" (Matthew 24:12)''?

#Just so you'll know that Jesus Christ is both the lamb that takes away the sins of the world and He is a lion that will judge sin!#                     

    

I Knew I Would Write...

• If only phrases like, '' ...condemns in strong terms the killings/ bombings'...'', '' The Police is on top of the situation...'', ''The FG has sympathized with the family of the slain...'',  and other related ones, can BE STOPPED altogether!  Seriously, who cares if all they can do is ''condemn  and sympathize ? You know, the one that really gets at me is ''... is on top'?'' Can they try getting ''under the situation'' for a change! Honestly, we can do with some 'golden silence' and suffer solemnly the loss of lives and property than to be saddled with such monotonous regularities by some lazy speech writer(s)! Haven't we already been through a lot than to be patronised from time to time? These phrases just irritate me and provoke questions like this one, ''whose collective idea was it to vote in leaders whose cluelessality on emerging issues are SO overwhelming and seems like it is a hobby of same to jump in the middle and just spew forth hogwash?''...

     #ho- hum#

• The Nigerian situation is best described in this quote, "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done    so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing." Who has bewitched us so? So much begs for our attention to turn from our wicked ways and same points us to the dire need of and for a Saviour but we are too blind, too educated, too uneducated, too stiff-necked to see the errors of our ways. As much as I try not to mention the leadership and follower ship deficiencies, won't it be hypocritical to submit that all is well with us and those who rule us? By the way, is it 2015 yet?  hmmm...  

#I believe that God upholds and governs the movements of nations, and from the public plans of politicians to the solitary persons all in accord with His eternal, all- wise purposes to glorify Himself yet He's sinless , holy and unjust in all His dealings! - Psalm 33:10- 11, Amos 3:6, Deuteronomy 32:4, Romans 1:20, Romans 2: 11-12, Proverbs 21:1, 1 John 1:5#

#I also believe that all persons are corrupt by nature, enslaved to sin, and morally unable to delight in God and overcome their proud preference for the fleeting pleasures of self- rule. Ephesians 2:2-3, Romans 6:16, 20, 1 Corinthians 2:14 #