Are you in or out?

Day in day out, God is working

Working for your salvation

About two millennia plus a decade ago

He gave His all, I mean His all

His one and only son

His express image and wisdom

The embodiment of His word and glory

Of whom prophet Isaiah said –

Wonderful counselor, Mighty God

Everlasting Father, Prince of peace

I wonder what will remain of God

If Jesus had fallen to satan’s temptations

God would have lost his one and only son

His express image and wisdom

The embodiment of his word and glory

In fact, God would have lost all

I mean his all

And He did not stop there

Ever since the ascension of Christ

He was been giving his all

I mean his all

He has given the church

His physical representatives and ambassadors

Making some missionaries

Many pastors, some evangelists

And others interceding for your soul

So many lives have been sacrificied

All in a bid to bring you salvation

From the times of the early apostles

Through the time of the pope supremacy

To this time of great corruption and discrimination

On daily basis, lives are lost

Lives that God could transform like Enoch

Or gloriously call home like Elijah

But rather in a bid to bring you more help

He let them suffer the world’s persecution

And the humiliating sting of death

What more do you want from God

To convince you that He truly cares

And that He is your best option

Why do you frustrate God’s efforts?

In the book of greatness

There is an innate desire God has put into everyone of us, the desire to be the BEST. If you doubt this, then consider this: Why do you feel sad whenever you end up in a second position in any competition?

I remember when I was very much young, probably five years old, I wanted to be the best in everything including very dangerous activities like jumping from a tall platform. Even when I watched cartoons, I see myself as more powerful than Hercules, braver than Aladdin and more adventurous than Gulliver. But as I grew a little older, I realized that I can not be the best in everything. For instance, I do not mind having the poorest performance in outdoor games, but I feel very bad if I do not emerge as a winner in any board game. Succinctly put, I love to be the best in the things I am good at. But as I grew much older, I realized that I do not need to compete with other people before I can satisfy my desire to be the best.
The second strongest emotion in a person is this innate desire to be the best, second only to sexual emotion. When it empowers and fully possesses you, you will tend to see others as a threat to your success. For instance, consider our politicians, they think that they are very popular, highly regarded and more qualified for a political position than any of their fellow contestants. They let their second strongest emotions get the best of them, so when they lose in an election they find it hard to accept their loss because it makes them feel inferior to the winner. They regard elections as a means of sealing their confidence in theirselves. Indeed, to me, they are psychologically miserable (their fulfillment depends on their acceptance by others).

Dear friend, what about you? Do you rely on the outcome of a competition to satisfy your invincible desire to be the best? Competitions are meant to reward excellence and not to give fulfillment. All that you need to be the best and be forever fulfilled is to make a magnificent appearance in the book of greatness with the special aid of your unique skills. The way to make such an appearance is by seeing other people as your pathway to greatness. Every person is a line in the book of greatness, if you do him harm he will not give you space in his life (line). For every good you do him, he will put a dot for you in his life (line). If you invest in his life and help him find joy, their will be big dots for you in his life and the lives of his children till the third generation. And guess what? Your dots have a unique colour, so when they are present in many lines of a page (which is a generation) they form a beautiful pattern on that page in the book of greatness.

Never forget that seeking fulfillment from competitions will only make you psychologically miserable. Involving your second strongest emotion in any competition makes the competition unhealthy since it will run down the runners up. Rather than relying on the competitions to make you the best, give your best in all you do and you will become the best, simply because, you can not sow your best and reap less. Remain blessed as you remember your creator in the days of your youth.

PLAYING THE POOR SON OF A RICH KING

When nothing seems to go right
And life has never been so slight
When all hope fades like a beam
And breath has never been more slim
When friends seem to be of no help
But always as irritating as a kelp
When thoughts put you on a slippery slope
To scope things that kill hope
When you always fake a fine countenance
At a high cost of sustenance
And living in God's promises is as in a fool's paradise
Like a fool betting his life on a ship's merchandise
When consolation in the bible makes you like an aramean
Who with a fool's head came and went back with twain
When righteousness is like a paper chair
And sitting on it leaves you with no cheer
When God's word seem to rigid and ideal
Too spiritual and supernatural to be real
When God seems farthest from you
Never has he been nearer to you
When God has never been farther
He really has never been nearer

SLEEP, EAT: WHAT ABOUT GOD

Except in unusual cases
No day passes
And leaves for that day a space
On your nutritional diary's face

Except on unenviable days
You never will live some days
Devoid of a good night rest
Even if you throughout the day rest

Days that will keep your food unmoved
To God you pray to be removed
If for days you find it hard to sleep
Then you aint far from the day of eternal sleep

In your bid to keep fit
You invest a lot to get a bed that is fit
From your desire to stay healthy
You never deny yourself of foods that are healthy

You believe for your day to be right
You need to sleep right
And your concentration undivided
You food must be undivided

You know that a day of sleep
Benefits you more than hundreds without sleep
And that a man that is hungry
Is as good as a man that is angry

If sleep and food can be this beneficial
That you need them for your day to be right
Sleeping and eating is hardly providential
And inability to do them is a desperate plight

How much more including God in your day
If sleep and food can make profitable your day
And the lack of them can make your day miserable
Will including God actively in your day make it less profitable?

You need God than you can ever imagine
Only tell Him to come dwell richly in you
And cleanse you from all sins that you can imagine
And help you to serve Him with all in you

THE DEEP CALLS TO THE DEEP

There is one truth I have come to discover
The effect of which I will never recover
No matter how badly written a love letter
It will always convene the intent of the writer
No matter how badly I stammer
You will always get what I mutter
This truth is love's greatest attribute
It comes from a sincere heart with a clean repute
To create the unimaginable in the heart of the recipient
In a way unfathomable and greatly magnificient
This truth is the greatest secret of communication
Without which it will cease to be but deception
The frank sincerity that pierces through all pretence
And forms in every relationship the essence
The only thing that makes reasonable to us
The foolishness of God's love towards us
This truth is what makes people to me-ward
Foolishly stake their lives and all on God's word
Even when it seems like a paper chair
And sitting on it leaves you with no cheer
But with eyes clouded with tears and a heart deeply touched
We cast our all, be it little or much
On one whose love has got us deeply transformed
And to His likeness have we been conformed
Through the workings of this truth that is so deep
And simply is THE DEEP CALLS TO THE DEEP

The Greatest is Love

Of all the forces in the world
Forces that are as rigid as a wall
Even forces that are as dynamic as water
Or forces that smear as butter
Of forces that are as defined as gravity
Forces that has a speck of divinity
Or forces that seem to be in between
Of forces vile and alway in a spleen
Even forces with faces covered with hood
Or forces that delight much in good
None is as great as Love

Of all the fiery emotions in a man
Emotions that makes of one a villian
Even emotions that are placid as sleep
Or emotions that that makes of one a schmaltzy sheep
Of emotions that enrages as jealousy
Emotions that freezes as envy
Or emotions as diaphenous as web of a spider
Of emotions that are as instinctual as hunger
Even emotions that are as artificial as anorexia
Or emotions that be as hybrid as insomnia
None is as forceful as Love

We all have dreams and aspirations

We all have dreams and aspirations
Some to overwhelm most intimidations
We all are full of wonderful desires
That makes us when tired to refire
We all do have glorious ambitions
Of which we daily create editions
We all design beautiful missions
To achieve our glorious ambitions
But we all do not believe in our dreams
And as the years roll by we make them dim
We care too much about limelight
And fear too much about death snuffing the light
We trade our integrity for a newspaper page
And for fear of death, our sense we cage
Ourselves do we continue to delude
If in our dreams death we exclude
For true greatness is not by size but integrity
And a man’s worth is not in dollars but tenacity
We have to look beyond what we see
Even when the world around pulls us like a sea
And when our dreams seem not to come to pass
Suffering from divers limitations and difficulties en masse
We just hold on and dream a brighter dream
Death seeks to freeze the life of our dream
We will be consoled that a vision In Progress
And a dream fulfilled are of the same essence

AFRICA: A TRADITIONAL CONTINENT

Africa is the second largest continent in the world both in size and population, with more than 40 percent of the world’s natural resources. Naturally endowed with the most mineral deposits and least natural disasters. The home of the earliest civilization and the earliest man. Africa’s endowment amongst the continents can only be compared to the inheritance bequeathed a first son among many brothers. Despite all these, Africa has diligently emerged as the poorest continent with a well deserved lowest life expectancy and the most man-made disasters.
Civilization in Africa simply means concrete houses, vehicles, locomotive trains, banks, schools, hospitals, television, computers and suchlike. It selectively excludes true democracy, government transparency and accountability. Though we live in the twenty-first century, our working constitution is a modified version of that for a village setting with changes like substitution of president for king, ruling party leaders for kingmakers and masses for subjects. Under this constitution, it is the king and the kingmakers that determine the length of the reign of the king unless he is dethroned by traitors. Every rich man is given a national title and a man’s real identity is his tribe. The kingship must be rotated among the major tribes to avoid tribal wars (modified to civil wars). Currently, most kings look up to Robert Mugabe as their role model, except that they do not want their subjects to be overnight millionaires. Foreign exports like freedom of information and true democracy are not good for the kingdom and anyone trying to import them will be charged with treason. As for the suffering of the masses, arrangements will be made to appease the gods. Accountability and transparency are simply foreign propaganda with better local substitutes.
You can take a man out of the village but you just cannot take the village out of the man. Africa is still a long way off civilization and democracy in Africa is no more than ballot papers and pro forma debates.

Gifts and Freebies

Just as the sun shines
So shines God's grace
Though the sun shines ceaselessly
Yet sometimes, we see it not
But b'cos our backs we have turned to it
Same with God's grace
Always being there for us
With many gift packages for us
A whole bunch of freebie for us
But the freebies alone have we accessed
Freebies like life, health, wealth and more
And the gifts we are yet to access
To them have we turned our backs
Gifts like salvation, divine provisions and more

Guilty or Not

We all have sorrows
There is always something that bothers us
Think of an hunter with no arrows
Or a lad trying to ride upon an unbridled horse

There is no one with no worry
Even Akuna Matata that means don't worry
Everyone needs somebody
Only no one needs nobody

Even a victor has once been a victim
No predator is never once a prey
The battle of life
No one can ever master

Life is like a voyage
It demands your courage
Though you can never direct the wind
You can always adjust the sail

Life is beyond what you see
So you need to look beyond what you see
There is more to life than you see
So also a God that you cannot see

Nothing exists without a beginning
Not even the maggots in an enclosed region
So also long before our birth
And the births of those who lived before us
There was a beginning

And for there to be a beginning
There must be an initiator
So to initiate our beginning
There was a creator

Even the clock needs a battery
Nothing exists without a means of sustenance
And for you and I to exist
There is a means of sustenance

Finally, just as a clock lacking no battery
Needs the touch of man
So also man lacking nothing
Needs the touch of God

The leaden virgin

There once lived a very beautiful virgin
Though she was intelligent yet her life was leaden
(Leaden means to lack happiness or fulfilment)
She sensed a depth within her like a void
Full of unexplored mysteries and greatly deep
And on some rare occasions when she is most solemn
She is overwhelmingly moved to tears
But not tears of joy or of sorrow
It is as if the heat of the longing within her
Makes water evaporate from within her body system
Only to be made tears by the coldness of her eyes
A longing for something beyond the physical
Beyond a feeling a thought or emotion
Greatly deep and indescribable
Yet can be recognized when experienced
It gives a sense of completeness and fulfilment
Creating within you a large mind-emotional inertia
Making you weigh more than the scales indicate
And you emotions and thoughts are not easily swayed
Making plain the mysteries of life
Annihilating the exuberance of an agile mind
Turning wealth and fame to digits and advert
Fathoming out the essence of life and living
This was the case of this beautiful virgin
Sad and fortunately, it's same with some of us

Dreams and Aspirations

Like the stars infinite, harboured in the sky
Like the sands by the sea, laid high
Like the drops numerous, make the oceans
Such is man's dreams and aspirations

As some stars beyond reach
As some sands buried deep
As some drops do vapourize
Such is most dreams, beyond reach

Life Is A Strange War

Just like in a play
So many things will come our way
As we through this life journey
Some to make us fixed as a pulley
And when we pass through a dark valley
Some to pull our souls into a darker valley
There will be times we feel on top of the world
Only to be left pushed against the wall
And sometimes, you will feel very excited
Only to be left with your soul greatly emaciated

Life in this world is a strange war
A war of thoughts and emotions
With the sword of tongue
And the shield of actions
Having sleep as your nurse
And consoling yourself with daydreams
A war that has no ictors
Only escapees and victims

Nobody is better than the other
He can only be more fortunate
For your lot is as by a cast of lots
Though a live dog is preffered to dead lion
But some live dogs are as good as dead
Decisions made based on sights, feelings and thoughts
Can either be good, bad, foolish or wise
Also, it can be good now to be later bad
The uncertainties of life leaves us uncertain
But with God as your decision maker
You will journey through these uncertainties
In the vehicle of rest and certainties
To a destination full of Glory, Joy and Light

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Learn, learn, learn

Learn to know who you are
Learn to acknowledge your weakness, strength and power
Learn to know how to harness you power
Learn express well the good your strength bear
Let not your weakness catch you unaware
Learn to make your expression of self, bare
Let not it be with vencer
Learn to be precise, affable and not obscure
Learn to be adventurous and not as adventurer
Learn, with care and honesty, to persevere
Learn to be strong and consistent with valour
Let not your impact be a nightmare
Like one fit for annihilation
Like a phantasmagoria
Learn not to glamorize your glamour
Learn to be who you are
Let it not be an excuse for your being under your weakness' power