Nobody Knows

No one knows the troubles I've seen
The pains that be as sharp as from a pin
The gloom that often befalls my soul
As though I be beaten by doom's pole
Forcefully making me depression's acquintance
With no hope of permanent acquittance

Only God knows the trouble I've seen
The terrible situations through which I've been
The depth of depression into which I've neen plunged
And the outer fires that have had me scourged
But with great joy I endure every hardship
As God's greatest confirmation of my sonship

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