My Christian walk

Photo picked from unsplash.com I pray that before the 7th of April 2020, the world will be back to normal and that this Corona virus will be on its way into the past. Notwithstanding, it is such a pity that some families might not really be able to go back to normal after all this, due to the saddening loss of their loved ones. May the Lord surely strength such, and heal the wounds and the hurt, which only He can do. Since I'm going to be turning another year older on the Tuesday of  7th April 2020, and no doubt becoming a "more serious adult", I'd love to share six things that I wish I had learnt earlier. 1. Life doesn't happen, you make it happen. Most times I used to respond to circumstances, I would plan depending on what I think might happen. If it didn't happen, then I'd simply give up; or if something else interrupted the plan, then I'd run after the new thing. Right now i realize that it is always better to act than ...

Photo credit; Medpagetoday.com God made the earth and put man to rule over it and everything therein. But today, with the sudden rise and alarming spread of the Corona Virus, it appears to me that we have all run in the corner in such fear and trembling, and handed over all our authority to the Covid-19 pandemic. Like a soldier whose mandate is to protect his kingdom, even when an evil alien tries to attack, he puts on his full armor_ afraid or not_ and approaches the battle field with confidence . As children of God we obviously ought to take our precautions like everybody else: wash our hands, keep safe, wear our face masks, among others, but we need not 'run away' in fear and trembling,  we need not let our hearts get overly worried and anxious; for while we take the precautions, we ought to face this virus with confidence. This is our world, and our very first assignment is to rule over it (Genesis 1:28), including protecting it, which we can to...

Whether there is one right person for each of us or not is not what I intend to talk about today. Rather, in this post I purpose to share my opinion about waiting for the right one . Did you/do you ever find yourself sometimes with this kind of sentiment, "I'm patiently waiting for the right person in order to experience true love, to be loved and to love back, to tap into that genuine care, concern and passion for each other, with whom we shall go through life's mountains and valleys together and come out victorious."? Those moments when you feel like you just can't /couldn't wait for this intimate, intelligent person who totally adores you, which turns out to be such an amazing thing for you to believe. Needless to say, these are some of what constitute the characteristics of the ideal power-couple that we'd all admire. However, there is a something very important: "T here is no greater love than this; to lay down one's lif...

photo: unsplash.com Isn't online comparison such a temptation these days? With social media, it has become so easy for us to find ourselves comparing our lives with other people's. I am quite sure that somehow, we all have that one person or group of people whose social media updates we wouldn't ever want to miss checking out whenever we get online. "Man, this guy's/girl's posts are always lit!" We silently exclaim, rather ecstatically, every time we visit those people’s social media timelines. If, for example, someone derives great pleasure in scrolling through social media posts of how his/her friend somewhere is seeming to have a lot of good times, I would arguably say that this isn’t bad at all; the only challenge is that it gives the temptation of comparison such a big chance. Is it really fair anyway, for us to compare our real life with the highlights of other people’s? I believe, arguably though, that most of us only p...

Have you ever been asked to do something that you are sure is out of your expertise, or your natural ability?  I remember passing through a period of serious self-doubt a few years ago. Seriously, I know my potential, I know how gifted  I can be sometimes. However, I also know a million more of my struggles and weaknesses so well that when God asked me to serve Him, I struggled giving Him a " let your will be done in me " kind of response. But just like mumbling Moses, cowardly Gideon and remorseful Simon Peter saying (respectively) in excuse after God choosing them, "I am not good at speech", "I am the very least in my family", and "I am such a sinner", I also joined in: "I can't do this, Lord, you know how I struggle doing this right and doing the other; you know how fun-loving I can be. God, I am not comfortable talking to people one on one, why didn't you ask so-and-so to do this? I really don't have a pr...