Wednesday

LOVE AGAIN...


LOVE AGAIN!

And so I heard you say,
I will never with you stay,
And never love or ever may,
To love or never love, I say,
If again I will love, you it shall be,
I will sell my whole love, out to you,
Even if a dime, you will not pay,
At your feet, my love shall lay,
And my passion to you I shall slay,
If again I will live to love again,
After surviving this heart break pain,
Which this ugly fate brought our path,
My love like candle shall burn as fat,
Offering it on your altar as burnt,

Today! I call upon the earthen,
Today! I call upon the heaven,
Today! I call upon the seven,
The seven spirits that carved our fate,
Stand as witness to note my state,
If ever, I shall gather this broken slate,
To write love and clean this hate,
If ever, I shall love again,
YOU it shall be, that I will love again.







Sunday

ADD SOME INCHES

One evening, as I bounced out of the classroom, rushing down towards the toilet to ease myself. Just then, I ran into the hands of a young lady, when I sighted her, my heart missed several beats, all though, she was fair in complexion and tall, this was not what necessarily drew my attention to her, but one thing. Her naked laps. I thought she must have forgotten to pull on her skirts, after using the toilet, this is because she was coming towards the direction of the toilet. I simply thought she had just used the public convenience and out of impetuosity, forgot to put on her skirts where she left it, I felt she must not appear to the public the way she is. Sincerely, I couldn’t help to hold the thought to myself, that when I got to her, I had to stop her and courteously call her attention to my discovery by asking her to go and pick her skirts where she left it.
But, to my awkward surprise, she stared at me embarrassingly, hissed and walked away from me, that was when I discovered, that what she was putting on was all she had wore from home. It was a gown that was barely an inch lower than her hips.
The scene was tongue-tied, how could a lady, in her right senses choose to open the private axis of her body to the public? What a show of shame? What a display of error? The evening scenario did not go well with me, it was recurring in my mind, I was really disturbed, that was why I had to pen down this message.
One of the beliefs of the society about woman is that a woman is a seductive tool, no wonder women are used to gain, hold and sustain attention, women are portrayed as devilish in some societal worldview. However, even if the world or society says you are seductive, or take you to be a seductive tool, Are you really?
Dear Young Woman! The problem of the world today is an error of identity, do you really know who you are? What do you know about yourself? Do you really know who you are? I want to tell you that you are not a sexual tool as the society sees you, you are not a sex object as most people wants to use you to achieve. You are an image of God, a tool to make an incomplete man complete, to perfect an imperfect man, to be a mother to generations, a role model for young innocent generation of girls.
Therefore, for you to make right the wrong notion of the society about you, you need to add some inches to your skirt, add some inches to your gown, go extra mile to get yourself a new identity, different from what the society believes you are, do not live to satisfy the society which you belong to, do not live to satisfy the creations, but live to satisfy the creator, but, live to satisfy your God, your maker, who owns you.
Dear young lady, please, add some inches to your outfit.           

Tuesday

ANOTHER NICODEMUS


There is a man, a follower of Jesus Christ, he is a Christian, and can we call him a devoted one? Whichever, this is because this Man will never miss any of the many church services, talk of the Tuesday service, he is always there, he is never found wanting on Thursdays, the same thing applicable with the Friday evening Jesus hour, where the members of their notable church usually turnout massively, do you know the special thing about this service, this is the high turnout of peoples, the people of the church do not always attend the bible expository class that usually takes  place in the church every Tuesday, like the Friday Jesus hour, the members cherish the prayer meeting very well because they usually wage holy war against their enemies.
          Though, this Man is not a pastor in the church, but  he happen to be one of the deacon in the church, an agile minister, despite how busy he is as a senior lecturer in one of the higher institutions in the city,  this man will always meet up with every appointment  in the church of God. Apart from been a deacon in the church, he is also the coordinator of some other fellowships in the church, like the Men fellowship, Welfare Department, etc, not only this, He is also a Man give out to support the church projects in cash and kind. But this Man has some things he is not very good at doing, can we say it’s due to some characters? This man is a complete gentle man, whom you will hardly see talk to people, whenever he is  at  home, he will never move out of his house unless he was going to the church, whenever he is in the office, been  one of the chief lecturers in the department he belongs to, he will never be seen discussing any issue with his colleagues in the school, he always claim he had no time for all those things, he never preach to students, he sees it as  downgrading, a senior lecturer to students, preaching to his colleagues was also not a part of himself, he sees them as sinners of the highest order, they are not so good in their behaviour, this is because this men practice all sorts of immorality, in their offices, another thing he hates doing, is that, he never honour any Christian activities going on within the campus, he claim that the students are not all holy, all their so called activities are unacceptable sacrifices before God, this man strongly believe in living a private life that is mainly between himself and his God alone.
          Indeed, this man reminds me of the story of Nicodemus, the Pharisee, who was also highly placed among the people, (a ruler of the Jews) who came to the Jesus at night, what a religious Nicodemus, yet he could not risk his high esteemed statue among the society, therefore, He came to visit Jesus at night, this means, he did not want people to recognize him with Jesus. Today, we have a lot of Nicodemus in the church of God, who despite how influential they are in the society, will never show their true colours as a true believer, they have forgotten that since Jesus died for them in the public, they must serve him in the private, he was stricken and beaten in the public, serving him in the closet is highly prohibited, Nicodemus believed in Jesus, he love Jesus, but can he be compared with Zacheus?, while Zacheus was thirsting to see Jesus, though in the public, he never mind, he climbed up to the sycamore tree, just to see Jesus, but Nicodemus, a man who though wanted to relate with Jesus, he paid a night visit to him, what a behind the scene disciple? Yet we were made to understand that if we suffer with him, we shall reign with him, if we deny him, he also will deny us, 2nd Timothy 2:12, Are you not ANOTHER NICODEMUS?                      

Thursday

IT IS MY DAY



 
…IT’S MY DAY…
So teach us to number our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom, so the psalmist wrote in the book of Psalm 90:12. It’s indeed my day. 5th of August is my day, my cherished day. It is on this same day that I was given birth to some years back. Just like yesterday, but years have passed.

Things have happened and several are still happening till this present minute. I bless God Almighty for this awesome moment, to witness another birthday hale and healthy. Glory to God the creator, since I knew him, he has been a caring father. To my lovely parents, I am grateful. To numerous men and women, known and unknown, young and old, who have succeeded in impacting some virtues into my life. Today, I am happy, I must confess, though I am not where I wanted to be, but the truth is that I am not where I use to be. I thank God for where I am and what I have allowed him to do through me, though I am just starting, yet he wishes to bear me faster. Once again, a year has just been added to my years on earth and it is a satisfying news that I am adding another year to my years, but sadly and sincerely, a year has just been subtracted from the years he has planned for me to use on this terrace.
I have only one life to live, just one life and I have started it, I don’t known the number of year left though I know the number of years I have lived. Oh! How I wish, to have two thousand more years to live, but that is a nightmare, because I don’t know the number of years left for me to live. But all I want to do is that; I want to live my life as if I have a few numbers of days left; I want to think and act fast on the issues of life like a student faced with many questions to answer in a very limited time.
Friends, a year has just been added to my life and it is an opportunity so rare because many did not live up to my age, though I will surely account for the number of the years I am opportune to live because to whom much is given, much is also expected, though the treasures I have got may be mine, including the clothing, assets and other costly things that I might have acquired, but I am very sure that something is not mine, and that is the time, (my years on earth), I will surely account for the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks months and years that I have spent on this terrace, because they are not mine. My prayer is that the Almighty God will help me to live right, act right and beautify the world around me.
This message is dedicated to everyone who shared the same birthday and month with me, happy birthday to myself and several other August born. May the Lord help us to live rightfully and impact the world around us. Once again, I wish myself and several others happy Birthday, Long life in fulfillment and all round peace.

Friday

FLEE YOUTHFUL LUST



FLEE YOUTHFUL LUST

Flee also youthful lust, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart, 2nd Timothy 2:22.

Lust remains one of the forces contending the innocent youths of this generation, indeed it is more or less a cankerworm which has eaten deeply into the lives of many youths to an extent that they have become so helpless in the situations which remain unfavourable. To be factual, a lot of young men and women though are not comforted yet they find it difficult to get themselves free from various lust they engage in.
Paul was seen admonishing his son in the Lord, young timothy to flee from youthful lust because he knew the dangers that lie therein, no wonder, we can’t doubt the fact that the young men and women of those days faced the same challenges, we are facing today, and they saw the decay we are seeing all round today.
Lust is a very strong desire for something, this means lust is not limited to youths, it also applies to children and adults, more specifically the passage speaks of youthful lust, this is because the youthful stage is one that is highly crucial as a result of various forces that and individual has to contend with at this particular stage in life unlike other stages, when the passion becomes low towards nearly everything.
However, inspire of the  contending forces the financial lust, emotional lust and material lust which today’s youths will have to face, God Almighty in his infinite mercy and loving kindness has made some ways of escape for willing youths, No wonder, Joseph was able to swim against the powerful tide of sexual lust in the house of Potiphar. Since we are not ignorant of the fact that youthful lust wages war against our souls, we were admonished in the book of 1st peter 2:11 thus “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against thy soul” from this portion of the scripture we understand that these fleshly lust are stubbornly clinging to our hearts as a result of our habitations and the kinds of company we cling to, this is a very good reason why we were admonished to “flee” from youthful lust, to flee from youthful lust is not just the literal running, it is an attitude, this deals with physical and emotional actions towards every form of lust, apart from fleeing from such environments and  companions ,one must also resist every thought and feelings that has to do with youthful lust.
After fleeing youthful lust, one cannot stay alone, so as to avoid spiritual loneliness. Therefore, one must follow righteousness, which is a passion for justice and a life pleasing to God, also, faith, a strong and welcome conviction and trust in God, as well as love; a benevolent affection towards God and man and Peace which is a tranquillity in the heart with God almighty and all men
   Finally, we were admonished to run together and not alone with all other brethren who call upon God from their pure hearts, we must run with fellows companions, we must not reject brethren who fear God, like the words of that psalmist, who says he is a companion of all who fears the lord.
Dearly beloved reader, have you now seen the laid down principles of God on how helpless youth like you can flee from youthful lust, oh? Or you think you are free from youthful lust, when you are already entangled to various lust affairs that you think is love, let me tell you, you are not free until you are sexually pure, hear the book of Proverbs 6:5, Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of fowler. Don’t you know you are a prey, if you are still under the bondage of lust? Remember the mighty Samson, who met his untimely death on the beautiful laps of Delilah, don’t forget Tamar and Amnon, don’t forget Dinah, the beautiful daughter of Jacob, they were all young men and women as you are, or are you free from sexual lust, then hope you are not entangled to financial lust? Don’t forget Judas, remember the outcome of Gehazi’s material lust, are you free?
If you are not free you can be free today, if you can profess like Job 31 vs1 I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think upon a maid? , and pray to stand by it, you can be stable like Joseph while in Egypt, you can stand out like Daniel did in Babylon, if you can flee youthful lust and follow peace. May the good Lord strengthen your soul as you determine to stay pure for your creator in this perverse generation in Jesus name (Amen).


THE OFFER OF SIN



WHAT SIN CAN OFFER?
            Though to some this title may seem incorrect, but it is not, as a reader, one may simply think that the writer will simply put it as “what sin cannot offer”, but the major purpose of writing on this topic is to make known to all who wish to know some offers of sin. According to the book of Proverbs 1:10, my son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Going by the word used in this passage, it could be discovered from this passage that it is possible that there are some pleasures in sin, with which one could be enticed. Therefore, there are some things that sin itself can offer, to those who choose sin, sincerely, there are certain things that sin can offer which you wish to know.
            Since it is no longer a secret that sin is the most accepted commodity in the world today, what is this sin itself, simply put, sin is any unrighteousness, 1st John 5:17 informs us that “all unrighteousness is sin, sin can also be simply said to be any disobedience act to the Lord. However, what has make sin widely accepted is some of the features of sin that seems to be an advantage, there are so many advantage that a sinner derive from his or her sinful ways, there are various pleasures that sinners see as gain, some of the things that is counted as gain, Apostle Paul spoke concerning some things which though were good yet he had detest them, Philippians 3:7-8, But what things were gain to me, those I counted but loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. This particular portion of the scripture informs us that there are some things which were good as option but were not so expedient for him, he was telling us some things that sin can offer him yet which he had counted but loss, he was giving us the idea of how sin seems to be pleasing and appealing, if you want to know some so called pleasures of sin, you can beckon on those who have stolen what does not belong to them something precious to someone, either they already have it or not, here we have people who if peradventure they have got such a thing before, they will tell you they now have two, but if they do not have such a thing before, they will inform you that they now have the particular thing, can we say that is not a good offer from sin? Not only this, you can also walk crosswise to a prostitute who will also tell you how she have acquired her wealth through her profitable prostitution, are these and many more not part of the many profit that sin too can offer? But are these only those things that the sin can as well offer? If No, then what other things?       
We learn from the scripture that the wages of sin is death and that the gift of God eternal life through Christ Jesus our lord. However, can we conclude we have not got the outcome of sin? This is to tell us that sin do not only offer things that a pleasure alone, sin do not make you rich, it is far beyond that, sin do not only make one more influential, these is also well out of it, we must know that Sin also offers death,
 May the good lord help us to stand out of sin as a good soldier of the most high God, finally the lord is vigorously searching out for his end-time soldiers and i gladly tell you that you are not left out, you can be enlisted into God’s army, Are you ready? He is waiting, come to Him. 

Thursday

ESCAPE !



ESCAPE!!!
Raymond, Bob, Lanrie, Jenny, Jeffrey, Tarqa, and Phils went to explore a land on the western axis of their Nation, to them, the area was a prosperous zone, it was an area where the economic growth is vast and encouraging, civilization was high there, and with the presence of several social amenities, the attention of young men and women were drawn to the land, this in turn, brought about time to time increase in the population of the land.
Such was the team of these seven young men and women, the team comprised of five male and two female, they were having the same thought and they were nearly of the same age range, Raymond was the oldest and the captain of the clique, they came to the land to make money through the use of their potentials, to set up establishments since the place had become a centre of commerce, but upon all the fact they had gathered concerning the land, upon the vast knowledge that they have about the land, it was unknown to the clique of the young promising men and women that the zone was a dangerous zone, a zone which had earlier been declared a danger zone to the dwellers of the land.
Soon after the group of young men got to the land, they started establishing their business, building their business empire and expanding it throughout the coast of the land, they became so rich and were soon declared to be among the strongest and the wealthiest men and women of the land. They all got married to the sons and daughters of the land and began to give birth; they increased from seven to twenty nine as time goes on.
Exactly ten years after they came to settle in the land, they received the news informing them of what they have never learnt about the land, the land been a danger zone and the doom awaiting the land, it was indeed a sad news to them, but only a few of them believed the tale. This news did not stop their activities though; they were increasing their structures, as well as enlarging the coast of their business empire.
One day, the impending danger loomed a portion of the wealthy land, several lives were lose, a lot of costly properties, as well as other precious things were missed as a result of a great earth quake which struck a little portion of the land, Alas! the impending danger had started looming gradually; death, loss, and several damage struck the land. Upon this, several investors were now diverting their great wealth from the territory to a more safe area, several companies were sold, assets were disposed and a large population migrated from the great commerce centre.
To the clique, it had now become so clear that the long time fable is not a fantasy but a fact, but only a few of them were moved by the incident, only one family out of the seven received their share and migrated from the land to a more safe area which was not a danger zone, but to the rest of the clique, they saw the incident as an opportunity to increase their firm, several assets were added to their assets, they invested in more by buying from those who migrated and sold their companies as a result of the migration, to the clique, the ugly incidence was an opportunity to attain more wealth.
As soon as Jeffery left the zone together with his family of three, another calamity struck the land, this time around, it was far than the previous quake, half of the land were casualty of the calamity, millions of the wealthy men and women in the land lost their lives to the incident and several investments worth of billions collapsed, this time unlike before, one of the family of the clique were among the casualties of the mysterious incident, Bob and his family of four lost their lives. Upon this, it became more clearer to the clique family that they were not in a placate zone, yet because of the great investment they had in the land, many of them did not even nurse the ambition of vacating the land, only a few number of them left, the families of Lanrie and her husband together with their two year old boy left the land as soon as the calamity struck, Phils and his wife as well as two children were not left out too, they took their own share of the joint business and vacated the land. But the rest of the family did not change their heart, they did not only love to stay more in the land, but their fast growing enterprise and the firm business empire, their properties as well as the beauty of the land caught their attention.
So time flew to become days, and days became weeks, weeks in turn metamorphosed into months, and several months passed, living the land in peace as if to give time for the bereaved of the previous quake to be mourned and those who ran into several loss to regain their loss, until one day when the long proclaimed prophesy about the land came to pass, on the bright morning of a woeful Wednesday, the third day of the week, in the seventh month of that particular year, calamity again struck the land, but this time, it took an unusual form, the whole portion of land sank as a result of an incredible earthquake, properties were lose, lives perished, and the entire population of the land became history, they ended up in the mystifying mishap, not only this, not a single empire was spared and the long preserved assets were out of sight, no man was left, to mourn another, as everything were out of sight.
Indeed! Just like the seven clique, we are all in a danger zone, though there are lots of empires as well as assets, but the world is awaiting a looming danger, the world is not a comfort zone, only those who can escape for their precious souls will not be part of the danger, destruction awaits the world of man, only those who will act like Jeffrey, Lanrie, and Phils will escape the looming danger. Are you ready to take step and escape from the looming danger? Or you want to stay long here and act foolishly like those four members of the clique who perished in the land. The only escape route is Jesus, the only begotten son of God, to pass through him, confess your sins, repent of your sinful ways, invite Jesus into your life, let him take control of your life, let him be your Lord and Saviour and start living a new life in Christ. Don’t wait till tomorrow, it may be too late, it is only when you are alive that you can make your ways right, Jesus cannot save a sinner who is in hell, but he can save a sinner while he is still on earth, He can save you. May you not perish in Jesus name (Amen).
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