Redeeming the time

Christian friends,

The new year is almost here. I can say that for me, 2013 was a year of series of events but I thank God that I have made it into another year. I am indeed grateful to God but however I am still not where I want to be. I have a hunger that is stirring inside me for the deeper things of God and I can't wait to see what else God has in store for me. I believe that as we forge ahead into the future (2014), we have to reexamine ourselves, to look deeper and search our hearts to see how we have progressed so far. What are the things that has kept us back from God? What were our major distractions? What have we replaced God with? These are idolatry. As the book of Hebrews  12:1 says,  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

So Christian friends let us continue to run the race. Put away idolatry. Pick up the Word of God and redeem the time because the days are evil.

In Jesus,

Stephen Ibeh.

Merry Christmas.

The Father delights on the Son. The Son dots on the Father. The love is spread throughout, to Us a child is born. Some one has said that this love is for all and not to very few elites.The joy of knowing that some is not excluding but to reach out on all is part of the plan.We have to reach and receive it. For the One who came to be ransom for many, we can believe that this is the idea, to be rescued from ourselves. Christmas is for all.

The Power of Negative Thinking

The company we keep is the least of our problems.The problem we face is that we are conforming to the society that makes such company possible. The way we see things is either black or white, negative or positive. And to be great in today's society you have to say no more often than yes.

Rose bush

Rougher at the stem
Rugged more at the thorns
Hiding  away the rose for hands not to touch.
May it be still, for it is not sweet
How is it that ice slowly melts for her?
So gentle the scissors cuts,
Retains, the part of thorns, but cuts out the smoother side.
The wasps keep their distance, but love the thrill.
The burning desire of the stem to produce roses.
The thorns can no longer keep the wasps at bay for sometime, for the roses will soon blossom ,softens more than ever.

Introspection

To experiment on something that stimulates our own minds, we look to sensory experiences. And as the thought patterns grows, it hardly no longer needs to be rediscovered as a thought but as a habit. We can find many of these experiment on how we deal with situations in our lives in which we widely accept.  In some circumstances which welcomes change, we widely accept that some things would not change or that some situation may just go beyond repair. We find that hope can be a mirage rather than raw reality. We find that our conscious mind can give out only the report of the moment. In this case, we can only pause and let our hearts do the thinking.

Praising God in the storm

We have a great opportunity to glorify God on the earth to give thanks to Him, all the time.

Some may say that they will wait until heaven to praise God, they speak as if God needs an extra heavenly host in heaven to praise Him.
With one word He can create billions of them, (psalms 33-6)

He has all the angels bowing down at His feet. All praising Him.

The question is why am I here on this Earth and not there in heaven?

This is simply because God choose you.

He wants you to glorify Him on this planet called Earth.

Surely the heavenly creatures are in constant praises but the difference is that they are in His constant presence!

They worship God because of His glorious wonders, His overwhelmingly love, His awesomeness.

Here on earth,  we don't have very little of God's presence, not much of His great wonders except for His creation.

Here on earth, we can only read stories of His miraculous wonders.

But does this merit such praise and worship that we should give up everything and not even be able to perform our daily tasks?

Should we, who have not seen God, praise Him so much as the heavenly creatures? Certainly not!

Nevertheless, He requires us to worship Him in a different form.

We are to worship Him, not by His image or creation,in fact, He considers it as idolatry. But His great wonders through divine revelation , through faith in Him and His begotten Son.

But why is it better to read a book of a great vacation rather than be a part of it. To catch a glimpse of Him through His Word and revelation without seeing the real person?

We have yet to see heaven but what if the greatest opportunity we have now is to glorify Him here and not after?

What if in the storm is now even more better. When God's presence seems distance, yet we praise Him?

God, with the heavenly hosts, all bowing down before Himcannot help but to look to the one who has little yet still praises.

I think this will touch His heart.

Question: What is the reason man exist? (Ephesians, 1:12.)
Answer: For the praise of His glory.

Love is God, not the other way.

When we say that God is love, we really mean that in a sense of originality, God is the essence of love. This can otherwise be a meaningless contradiction altogether. We draw every part of virtue through a source. We can say that a man has great love and affection for his wife or a mother has great love and affection for her children, either way we are still fixed in a circuitous notion. Man's love for his wife and mother's love are both great imitators of what true love suppose to be however, when compared with the original love, it is still  far fetched. We have not even grazed the surface of true love yet. The love we give and get from our fellow human beings is love retained.The love of God is love inherent and there is no correlation between the two. God is the giver of love because He himself is love. Love is to be shared towards others, like a milkman distributes milk to the consumers, from a cow, a water is drawn from a well. Like a well, love is drawn from God because God's love is inborn and not retained.

WORD is...: Where is God?

WORD is...: Where is God?: You can question about God and perhaps question his existence, but your heart will always disagree, because you know that God does exist. Th...

Where is God?

You can question about God and perhaps question his existence, but your heart will always disagree, because you know that God does exist. The question you must ask is how come he is not present in my life? After you have dig a little deeper, you will come to find out that you have been the escapist and He has been the pursuer.  How uneasy you feel about His name in a public settings or how you feel concerning the things of God is an evidence of your disposition toward Him. You will find that you are the drifter, not Him.

NEW MORALITY?

NEW MORALITY?
By Stephen A. Ibeh

There are legalism and the liberalism in both our churches today. But first I will begin with the legalism.

The law was given to us because of transgressions. When the children of Isreal came out of Egypt, (with their slave mentality), they were wild, stealing,committing fornication, killing,fighting and coveting each others wives and properties and worse, worshipping other things except God.

This prompted God to send the Law. God knows that if you leave man to himself and without boundaries he will eventually become just as a wild beast. He wiped the entire human race with a flood once because of that. He certainly knows it.

So to curb the old nature( the flesh) and keep it in check until Christ comes, He had to do something to maintain order, so He gave them the Law.

The Law is only created to keep us in check and show us who we are (sinful creatures that need a savior) until the appointed time, for Our Lord Jesus to come ( Galatians 3:23-24). Simple , nothing more ,nothing less.

The Law is not to be worshiped or observed.Considering that there are other sin which the ten commandments cannot control,  man's inward sin.  For example great sin of pride, evil heart of unbelief ( the unforgivable sin), and inward disobedience towards God ( grieving the Holy Spirit), both for believers and unbelievers.

But today for the believers we have liberty in Christ and not bound by the law!

We have died from the law, because Christ died, and we are risen with Christ in the newness of life which is a new law. The Spirit law.

But where should draw the line on liberalism?

Now, there is a new morality that people have adopted saying that "we are to hate the sin and not the sinner."

As much as how warmly this may sound.Let me warn christains that has adopted this slogan. It is tampering with the Grace of God! The enemy is toying with this slogan and some Christains are not knowledgeable.( Jude 1:4)

This slogan is not in the bible and there's no such thing as a "liberal Jesus" or "Jesus Superstar"

Here is a background concerning how Our Lord Jesus Christ hates sin:

Jesus walked into the temple and saw that the money changers were making deals and gambling in the house of God.

He was furious, burned with anger he began to toss and turn every table and chairs.

The disciple were stunned, they have never seen him behave like this.

Then He spoke this words " My Father's house is the house of prayer and you have turned it to a den of thieves!!

Well that was the temple then, but today the temple is the body of believers...a Holy house for prayer.
( 2 Corinthians 6:16-18)

Most people especially believers all talk about "The liberal Jesus" but not the Jesus of the bible.

He is still the same, yesterday, and tomorrow Jesus who will judge sin in our lives.

Just like the disciples, many will be stunned when He will cast them out of Heaven because of sin in their lives.

Now let's continue:

As for the unbelievers, we can only witness to them, not accept their lifestyle, we are to show them the love of Christ by our testimony and  Gospel of Christ, ( which is the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ) nothing more, nothing less.( Revelation 12:11)

Now, If I present the Gospel of Christ to an unbeliever or a so call believer and he or she rather rejects the Grace of God and chooses  rather they own sinful lifestyle .They are the wicked... enemies of God! (see psalm 7:11, psalm 11:5, and Exodus 34:7, John 3:36, James4:4).

As Christains we ought to love what God loves and hate what He hates, but we should not cast judgement on anybody. It is not left for us to do so.

However, we are commanded to pray for those who are committing evil but not join in and support their sinful lifestyle.( This is where many believers don't take a stand in)

For the believers we also have  grace.Grace is not just for the unbelievers but for the believers as well.But grace is not a license ( see Romans 6, and Galatians 5:1)

Shall we continue to sin? No! We have risen from it! (Notice continuing means living, daily, and enjoying sin). Nobody is sin free.

The flesh itself is sinful in nature, therefore even a believer, might stumble into sin, fault, means to stumble ( Galatians 6:1 KJV)

The believer must confess sin immediately (1 John 1:8-10) and be restored by fellow brethren.

We are to encourage, a child of God who has fallen with the spirit of meekness (godliness), lest we ourselves fall ( Galatians 6:1). Because no one is righteous except righteousness in Christ! ( Philippians, 3-9)

If somebody calls themself a believer   and lives in sin and have been witnessed to by the body of believers ( the church) and he continues to live in sin, based on the authority of the Word of God. He is not a child of God!

And we have the right not to fellowship with them (Mathew 18:17) until they repent and turn to God.

The believer should reexamine themselves and make sure whether they are in the faith.

As Dr. J, Vernon McGee use to say
The prodigal son may get in the pig's pen but won't stay in the pig's pen.

Repent and turn to God! He alone will save you.

Meditation( 2 Corinthians, 6:14-18)

Humility: The song of Asaph.

Where you are right now is an exalted position.

This stage of your life now, this very moment as a Christian.

But this poison called the pride of life is a serious thing.

Satan has mastered this strategy.

He injects it in our thoughts. Pride is a sweet and bitter feeling the enemy uses to keep us out of the promises of God.

He will say things like this:

You have been doing this for years, nobody cares. You have been working here, toiling for decades but nobody appreciates you.

You've been serving God for years yet you have nothing to show for it.

Your mates are now successful but look where you are now.

You are a beautiful woman, what are you doing with him?

He will then turn you against others with this kind of saying:

See how they use up your time, look at how they take advantage of your kindness and your generosity.

Look at how they show discomfort in your own needs.

Then gives you his alternative:

But look what is over here, look what you can get over there. Here's someone better, here is a suitable place.

This will sound, look and feel sweet in the beginning but devastating in the end.

Your thinking becomes your attitude, then decision, then action, then habit, then character.

All this to target and to destroy your character.

Wherever you are now, you are at an exalted place.

At your job, home, church, at your ministry, or school.

J.R. Miller once wrote: "The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried, is the character of a man…What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried."

The enemy wants to destroy your character.

But want to destroy it by offering you false hope. You will be like gods.

Asaph's character was almost destroyed.

But when he turn to God, his perspective changed.

The Wise Builder.

Jesus talks about the man, the foolish builder who builds his house on the sand.

Man builds the house
Upon the foundation, Christ.

Storms.

Storms of finance, storms in marriage, storms in health, family, unemployment, storms of life.

Storms are uncertain.

The foundation is where the pillars are set. The man sets the pillars in place on the solid rock.

A man builds on that which his family lives. They live on the structure the man sets.

Prayer, faith, devotion, praise, thanksgiving, hope, love, grace, courage.

Centered and rooted in Christ.

Joshua: As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

Build the house.

The house structure is the most unnoticeable but yet keeps the house stable.

You remove the structure, the house falls.
You remove the man the house falls apart.

You remove the Foundation the house sinks.

Buried Memory.

Nobody starts out with bad intentions. Whether in marriages, in friendship, in politics or in any organized union, everybody wants to see themselves as noble and just. No one comes into a marriage with an intention to divorce the other nor in politics with an intention to lie, cheat or steal. We start off with with the good foot on the playing field before dwindling towards a downward spiral. Something always happens in the middle, some sort of disconnect, derailment of some kind, misconception of ideas, a glass half full. Somewhere down the line, the norms and expectation is betrayed,  boundaries are crossed, principles are violated: lonely hearts left in shambles.  We either then shift blames or numb our pain with suppressants without looking on the inside.
We never see the inside of the mind- the buried memory. The counselors always take us back to that place. A place where love was tarnished, hope crushed, mind twisted by false memory.The hate, the fear, the disappointment, the failure, the betrayal, the shame and all the pain and anguish.
But there's no need to wrestle with it now, only to release it to the One who had paid for it from the beginning of time. Christ Jesus, the savior of the world. But first you must find it before releasing it to Him.

The Influential Man

Every society needs an influential figure.
Every home should have an influential figure. Without influence, there's no hope for the future.

A man must have an influence. Influence is everything. Without influence a man is just as good as dead.
Your influence stays with you, and remain beyond the grave.

A man of influence doesn't necessarily have to be someone with material wealth.
When you have influence, you don't really. need money, people will pay your way.

Today children are looking at athletes, politicians, musicians as people of influence because they don't see it in their home and their community.

Influence will never die
Your grandchildren will always remember your heroic acts long before you.

Influence comes from within then spreads outwardly.

It comes from the character of a man, his commitment towards his faith, his family and friends.

Before the enemy must completely destroy a man, he must first destroy his influence because your influence permeates through generation to generation.
You can kill a man but you can't kill his influence.

A man must know his origin, his purpose  without it, he is not a man, only half a man.

Without it he doesn't know his destiny.
A man can be influential only at the place of his calling.

The rightful place for any man is with his Maker.

When God begins to promote a man, He will first give him influence.

When a man disobey God, he immediately loses his influence.

When a man walks into uncharted territory he loses his place of influence.
Become a man of influence because today, The world is bankrupt of influential leaders.

The Cognitive Therapy

Suppose that you feel trapped in every corner. Suppose you feel distanced from society. Well, how can one know what is out there, if not for what their subconscious only allows? It is pointless to circle beyond the boundary when you're still trapped in your own mind. All clustered by one's ideologies, concepts and reasoning etc.
There's no open gate beyond that to get us outside of our own little world of thinking.Just as you can see ,we are living in one little box. Wherever our mind takes us (our human reasoning ) will be our destination. But we have come short of it all. We have been misled by this false ideologies. Where the social norms, tradition, education, culture and human reasoning has stopped: faith begins.
All that is left is to reach out and take it.

The Chief Cornerstone

The Builder lays it in, brick by brick; layers of brick. A building that no human hands build. A building that is placed on the Hands of the Builder that sees the Stone; the Cornerstone. Each stones laid carefully on the Foundation. A Foundation that is the Rock of ages,  on the foundation where the Rock was rejected.

Conformity is not in government.

Go home and serve. Service is what brings up a community. You can talk about your senator, you can talk about your president, you can talk about your country, but you have to mention your self in that equation because you are the essential nature to all of it. The need for the government is limited in any community, for there is no conformity in that society. It starts with you, your home, your church and then your community. We have an obligation to love and serve and to be honest with ourselves.The only way to create a society is through love. The love of others that esteems others more highly than oneself, it will take the supernatural, the love that comes only from God, then the conformity begins.

Derailment of the human machine.

Laws, principles, societies, religions, schools, and the home were all established to keep man within his own boundary, (the dos and don'ts).  As long as the field of play is leveled, the social movement is then sustained. Each man in their own "valid" ideology of self-preservation. But now the problem lies in keeping not rhetorical components, but gaining grounds of supremacy. In doing that we have to test each boundaries, drink from other people's fountains, assert our so-called rights to be top of the mountain, wonder into uncharted territories and taken down the landmarks set in place. Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall? Well, we have only ourselves to blame.

Look up to Jesus.

The outcome of knowing that the fatigue of the mind can formally suggest a way of escape.The dull moment that pierces the heart. A shallow perspective that is overwhelmed by grief. The lost of the innocent days oriented with an eclipse of darkness.How the man inside grows weary. Hearts are worn. Suddenly the light emerges.  Look up there is a bright and morning Star. Look up, there's Jesus.Allow Him to come into your weary heart. Peace on the restless heart.Peace.

Reaching out to the Highest plain.

What comes to a man's subconscious mind is far above the natural realm he was to operate on earth. He is to interact on the higher plain and keep exploring the pure limitless boundaries he was indeed created to become. The reaching of the impossibility, the greater heights wherein he has imaginary law. He is to wonder and be at awe and not see the natural. He is to become utterly awestruck and woken by the probability of such events.

Religion as a whole.

The good boys and girls, the quoir boys and girls, the preachers sons and daughters, the deacons and their wives, their sons and daughters, the preachers and the boards, youngsters and old hags, the pulpit and the pews, the devil.

Storm.

Some may say that the storm will never end but there's a beginning and the ending of things. But what happens in the middle depends on how strong our faith is. The beginning is how we respond,the middle is how we develop, the end is what we became.

WORD is...: Peace

WORD is...: Peace

Peace

Love is the foundation

The possible way to address the issues we are having in our present world today is love, love and love.
 

Forgiveness as a perspective

Keep off the heart, from out of it flows the issues of life. Reach out to your will, see the sunrise not through the window but from the sandy beach. Recognize that it is beautiful again, when it begins to shine, recapture the essence, look at the indispensable creation, look only at the bright side: the dark side will then fade away.

Unforgiveness as a perspective

Remember those flowery days when the bees are buzzing, squirrels chattering, birds singing in harmonic tunes, the waves are still. The days when we say to each other, what is wrong with such other days? Shouldn't there be moments like this forever? Will this moment remain a few while, forgotten by such world of reality? And then the storm came, the heart is grieved, the bees stung, the flowers are dying, the squirrels are in hideaway, the birds are inharmonic. We have lost the day. How is it that our world is now far apart.
 

Acceptance

I have heard some people brag about being the product of their environment like it is some sort of a badge of honor. Most of us have been dealt with bad cards one time or the other in this planet called Earth, but the most miserable ones are the people who still dwell in the same spot they were first discovered, waiting for some transformation  The closest place to victory is outside the little box. Getting out will take little baby steps of faith. But to move out of the box, one must acknowledge that the present place cannot change and accept it as that. Only the person that wants to change have to evolve but not the environment. Your old friends cannot understand your new goals. In an old town, only a sojourner can only bring new ideas . This is what Jesus meant when he said a prophet is never welcome in his hometown.  The environment will never change by itself. You have to accept it but not embrace it. You have to let it bend you but not to break you. Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Jesus did.
 

On the side of Grace

Suppose that you had the worst day and nothing in the present seemed bearable. You come across a nuisance and the first impression suddenly pops into your head" this chap is going to get it" the chap is not yet removed from your present inclination when another chap comes by and is much a nuisance than the first. The thought is now becoming exceedingly dangerous. You are now planning to lose your sanity. But in just that split second, is a moment of grace. A brief moment between sanity and insanity, love and hatred, conqueror and the defeated, liberation and enslavement. I choose the side of grace.

Meditation Roman 5:20

Breaking the plains of fear

Equally we all fear the same thing but our reaction is different. Bravery makes us seek after the things that fear commands us not to dare. Fear comes in moments of distress and breeds negative tensions. But in bravery, we fight through those feelings and as we break the plains, fear disappears. Their are some that may never reach those plains. They can count themselves as good as death. To be alive one have to cast fears to waters. Fear is inevitable and can only be conquered through faith in God.

Renewing the mind

In exploration of the brain functions, we can always go to a shrink and have that party. We must otherwise, never guess how all these things (brain functions) are put together. To know is mind-boggling- that is through human reasoning. I am not against the exploration of the mind, no doubt that it needs to be explored. But do we actually want to know how to think? Or why we do the things we do and never changing? I heard something called neuroplasticity. A big word for the psychologist, but not for the ordinary. We can always stick with conditioning of the mind. As some may put it but to begin transformation we have to read the manual, the Word of God.  The thing that God certainly requires for all humankind. For our minds are polluted from heredity to experience. A renewal from all of it is that hard pill to swallow. And only Him will be able to take us there not the other way around. -Stephen Ibeh

Raising up the man

Every man needs a mother even when he is married and becomes an adult. A wife is a combination of a mother and a man's best friend. A full grown man still needs his mother to nurture him just as a full grown woman still needs his father's presence.  For a man to be fully developed and exude his masculinity, he must be willing to lay out his soft side. The reason men today wear masks is simply because they trust no one. A man is like a turtle, he will carry his shell all day but reveal his true image only where he feels safe. Women must not try to advice a man. A man will always find his way if only by reassurance. As a friend the woman should give him a listening ear and as a mother, nurturing words of affections and keeping him honest with his promises. The opposite side in manhood is that the more a man comes out of his shell, the more manly he is becoming.
 

Sorrow

In aghast moments , why are there less tears? When have the town criers stopped shouting? Where are the weepers? The agony has worsened yet we lack empathy. We have mortgaged it with callousness. In the news and magazine headlines,  we witness these horrible events, when sorrows becomes the main tune, yet we remain silent. Tears of joy is scarce, death becomes her. Who cries for those who can't cry anymore? In these perilous times, there is more detachment beyond the funeral parlors, beyond the latest atrocities in the news, beyond our hearts. When sorrow no longer becomes newsworthy, who will still weep for the misfortunes?

Meditations 2 Corinthians 7: 10.

Sexploitation

Under the coverture of a sadistic culture, we have not tapped into the real issue concerning sex. When music, arts, and books are populated with this atmospheric fetish, the common man knows very little of it. The sensual feel of a cloth does not mean it fits the body, the tastes of a certain food does not mean that the food is nutritious. While our appetite is preoccupied by our senses, the misconception of sex that has left many confused and void is sexploitation. We are saturated with it and the lack of it is deemed unacceptable. (A culture where the virgin is made a mockery and the harlot is exalted.) The pollution is far gone from the marriage bed to the streets, schools, media and even churches. The place of sex talk is now anyplace but the marriage bed. Some skeptics may question, the reason God created sex in the first place, if not for pleasure and procreation? Or is God the enemy of pleasure that He would stop his creatures from enjoying themselves?
Certainly not. I don't think God is against either. Although those are some essential reasons but the main part He created it is perhaps for something much profound than procreation and pleasures. In contrast, the amalgamation of two couples resonates naturally stronger in the Holy Matrimony. An attempt of unity, that constantly reminds couples that they are one: oneness not only in the body, but soul and spirit.

Hope is no hope

When you ask questions concerning history, like the rise and fall of a civilization. You will find out that most of the time it has something to do with someone's attempt to gain some advantage or recognition. To take what they believe was right and just in their own eyes. You will find that beneath the veneer of liberalism lies greed and deception. For instance, the Nazi's taught they were doing the world justice through liberation. That is why the harangue of Adolf Hitler was effectual since he too has known its tool. It gave him a lot of playing ground. It gave hope to the Germans and doomed the Jews. The canvas became a playing ground for the privilege and the non privilege. What hope does to the masses! Today we are given hope for the future. A hope that we can become a better nation altogether. But we have not asked who it will benefit the most and who will suffer for it. We have not questioned history.

The Enemy's Weapon

The sharp tongue, the sharp sword, the devices and deception, words of the enemy, ideals.
 Like a sharp sword it cuts, it has been sharpened and purified,
Awaiting for its prey, a deadly device filled with hatred, vengeful and destructive, it finds it's prey, lonely and helpless, it strikes.
Wounds the dove and ruffles the feathers, speaks to the child and rips open the heart, deceives the neighbor and shuns friendship.
The tears are flowing, the heart becomes bitter, the blood spills, love is betrayed.
But in Christ and only in Him, the weapon is paralyzed.
The sword becomes dull, the wound is healed, the heart is mended, the deceiver is silenced and love is restored. SAI
 Romans 12:20, 2 Corinthians 10:4.

The Unveiling

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow use to say that "every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not" and to put up a caveat in order to bring such practice to an efflorescent, there must be an unveiling of layers that needs to take place. The walls that man has built up for himself is more than a cover up but entirely fictitious .The main objective is not to find reason but to completely rediscover man's true identity altogether. To seek out something more on the inside.The inside man that plays hide and seek with himself. The soul of a man. No longer are we to talk about clarity but exploration. The real truth- the truths that keep man far away from his own identity and wishes he could erase it if he can.  But the sad part is that although truth can be altered, it can never be erased. We can only accept the truth or reject it. The moment we accept it, the less pile of layers to unveil: the rediscovering session begins. The truth he chooses to reject seals up his identity that further isolates him from reality .As Shakespeare puts it "to thine own self be true". SAI

Cleanliness

Cleaning the temple, our bodies, our thoughts,our houses, the heart, the life we live is so short, that if we only maintain such discipline, and present ourselves clean and transparency , we can be reflecting the rays of God's sunlight. The Father of lights love cleanliness. The way for cleanliness, is that we have to be guardians of our soul. The brightest light is seen through a. clean lens...Christ the hope of glory. SAI

Appreciation

The life we live is so precious in increments that it can easily be overlooked, particularly, the small things. We fixed our eyes on things, of absolute invaluable, and neglect the most valuable treasure. Health, faith, sanity, friendships and relationships. A life that is balanced and without acquiesce .We have that and freely given to us by our Creator but we have replaced them with non essentials. SAI

When we see faults.

I don't know but there is a profound realization that when we look at a shape of an object. Although every characteristic says that it is circle, we want to envision the other outcome of its shape. And as we begin to dissect closer in our own picturesque viewpoints, the circle sooner will become an oblong, then later on, becomes a square. And that comes with time. Time is never on our side, in fact time is one of man's worst enemy. The change of the object in time will become as a perception that is further removed from reality.
S.A.I

The man who never found himself: The inside Man

The possibility of seeing yourself through a reflection is vast. In a mirror, it reveals an image - a facade, but the inside? That for some , can be very crucial when
hidden scars in the past unveils before them. But for some, to look deeper is like being in a shadow land . A place that brings out only the shadow of the man and never the substance. The substance is what one fears the most and cannot stand to look at even for a split second. The moment they see it, the moment they shunned from it. S.A Ibeh.

Earthly Journey

What we get from life is for a good getaway, a crossroad between here and after. For the people who knew that life shows you kindness when you love it and becomes an opposition when you forsake it, it resonates that what it offers is for a visit only and not for lounging. We must pick up the map and continue on where we left off. I had to maintain the fact that there will be a time of reckoning. The notion that life is for here and now will illuminate a shocking disposition. There is no particular way of knowing the level of disappointment it will bring but we have been told that this was only temporary and it gives us the warnings of getting a little too comfortable. It warns us that death is merciless and if we continue taking on this notion of normalcy, it will come without a warning. It may need more time but his license is never revoked. In due time,when all the dust settles, we have had an opportunity to make our mark here on Earth. S.A.I

Courage Under Fire

Courage in difficult circumstances is conditional. We have moments when courage comes to an attainment At times when honesty, compassion, or faithfulness needs to be validated. Eminently, courage comes to our mind, not as far fetched, but in a close encounter-intertwines with our emotions and forces us to take a stand.Notwithstanding the fact that fear plays no part in this stand. At least we call it a stand because fear is like a wind, unstable and movable.  Courage, on the contrary is like an oak tree, stable and immovable. Fear is for the emotion, courage is for the will, but in difficult moments lies the testing point. Fear will  precede as the best option but eventually breeds a level of compromise,  but courage is always at our disposal depending on how far we are willing to risk. SAI

Unpaid Dues

The devastating thing is that given the fact that most people in their midst of oppression, depression or even confusion syndrome uses suppressants like alcohol, drugs and sex to avoid coping with reality. Although this may be of some temporary relief-a stimulant that covers the exterior casings. However , the imputation that the problem will dissipate is totally false. The old pain revisits the old house and all the lengthy times of additives will come back for the unpaid dues. SAI

Beauty

Beauty can come in such an auspicious way to captivate the hearts of the one it parades. The senses can only beg for more intricacies and more acknowledgment of it. And although for just a glimpse, a slight portion may be all the heart needs. More of it will be viral and cruel. For beauty is made only for the eyes and not for the hearts. Our hearts must not be stretched to the limit. -SAI

The Celestial City.

When we read fantasy books, we see sunny days, green grasses, plenty of food and lots of fun moments. In the real world, a green grass turns to brown, sometimes full of weeds. The sun fades and dark clouds appears, food is scarce, the tides rises and becomes stormy. In the fantasy land, such a time never existed. The part which ensures hope is nonexistent. . We cannot long for a place where all the things we dreamed and imagined is already here.For some, the storms of life- the momentarily affliction will remind us that there is a better place than here and now .. Many are still in the  world of fantasy..hoping for it to stay as it is, that the sun will continue to shine. Hope forces us to look forward to something we have been longing for. Behind a shade is the brighter side. We are looking forward to a celestial city and some will miss it altogether. -SAI

Take Caution

There aren't  many places today that we can call a place of solace. In ancient times, the safest building is the sanctuary. But now, we know that these walls have ears. The only sanctuary now rests in the heart. Although the secrets of the heart is not for long, a secret. We haven't yet in regard to safeguarding our treasure been exemplary cautious. A word spoken in a whisper brings about an earthquake. By hindering, some may prevent the recoil of more landslide. Words may always be hindered, but words protrudes and those that collapsed will do its damage. No need being secretive but we are to filter propaganda and hold our idealism dear to our hearts...far from itchy ears. -SAI

Heathen Beliefs

The madness of searching for some proper way in which to reach a neuroscience base and to align it on the bases of some high power or life force is just as bringing an irrationality to impede an entity. Furthermore, to accept such beliefs, boils down to a conscience camouflage which illustrates man as his own "god" and God as a non entity. Man's formulating viewpoints will heed on one hope, to convince himself that such things do exists and in creating such fallacies, will begin to see it as the only reality. The non entity is of course the facade in which man uses as his own junction. The only thing that keeps him bothersome is anything that will threatens his self-gratification.There is no moral compass. It is now all about self-preservation. -SAI

Unyeilding Faith

The just shall live by faith. In many things that concerns the matters of the heart, is from faith that can come from words spoken to us through an experience. There are some, however their relationship with God is, will falter on coming to His full realization of God of power and might and so on, if their faith is not fully developed. Second hand faith for Christains who had expereinced God in another way, not by their own experience, will have trouble bridging the gap. Having such faith through some indirect observation can only produce a level of yielding and compromise that can harvest an unstable and unsuitable amount of faith. In order to have an unyielding faith, we must grow an inch or two with God everyday. -SAI

Commitment

Just to be "part of" or "involved in" something is merely touching the surface of fidelity.Whether dealing with people, a goal or a cause, the place below the landmark which we shunned away from lies the vintage point. The nastiest neigbourhoods, the sturbonness of the redheaded stepchild, down to the dirt, the abyss, the bottom of the barrel, the place we ought not to visit is always the place where the havest is. What seprates those with hypothesis statements to the realist is that there are those willing to endure the awful smell, the excruciating pain, the dissapointments and still keep the faith. They will resurface with better prespective altogether...The broad difference between involvement and commitment. I believe that multi-tasking is sort of an oxymoron. A multi-tasker is a person that tackles many things at once which is far different than committing to many things at once. Nobody can. -SAI

A tale of two voices

To work together and keep unity alive is what the whole plan was. I had that in mind when I created them. I have demanded that humans should abide by it with all cost. From the beginning We have designed humans to work together and produce wealth to stabilize their community. Not just for the betterment of themselves but for others. I know that their evil hearts will believe in another theory that revolves around self. That is to become self-preserved, to have the orphan spirit. How tragic to see that the same thing they fear is what they have gotten. A solipsistic society. They don't want to have Me telling them that. But someone else already told them that they are greedy, prideful, lecherous but in much of a devious and perverted way. -SAI