My Christian walk

Many thanks to Saint Mary's Press What if God asked you, "What do you want me to do for you?" Without even thinking hard, I guess a bunch of us would most probably say, "Please give me wisdom!" Over the years, I've found myself silently hearing God asking me this question, just like many fellow Christians I talk to, and we all said that, "Give me wisdom." was our response every time. This is simply because we have been taught that wisdom is the most perfect prayer request one can make, just like king Solomon did when he asked God for wisdom instead of riches, fame and long life (1 Kings 3:9). We continue to learn that God was so pleased with king Solomon's request that he gave him the wisdom and also added to him fame and riches  (1 King 3:13). However, I now have a few points that I believe need to be considered before we crown "wisdom" as the most perfect prayer request: Wisdom doesn't always guarantee a good ending. Even with a...

Image from www.people.howstuffworks.com Setting new year's goals/resolutions is a good habit, which most times helps us grow, ensuring that we are better than we were the previous year. However, sometimes we set our goals and get so focused on them that we totally forget to ask God  what He has in store for us. As we set our new year's resolutions, I suggest we consider two sets of resolutions:  My-to-do resolutions God's resolutions for me My-to-do resolutions   These are things that we desire to do, areas we desire to be better at. And in most cases, there's a lot we can do in our capacity to bring them to accomplishment. But I find it quite interesting that we think we can do so all by ourselves, yet we can't even guarantee that we will see tomorrow. "Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life...

Image from imgflip.com The disappointment I felt every end of year when I looked at the resolutions I had set to accomplish that year and I had not ticked even a single one of them off the list was too much. And yet, when you set your goals right, you'll end up setting resolutions that you'll manage to accomplish. And at the end of the year when you look at that list and realize you've ticked off almost everything of those that you'd intended to do, it's such an amazing feeling. I have come to appreciate the following 5 tips in setting resolutions that get accomplished: 1. Set goals that matter to you. In most cases, we find ourselves setting goals that matter to our parents, teachers, friends, neighbors or our society, which is why we often find it hard, or even pointless to accomplish those specific goals. That external motivation that comes from wanting to please those around us is not motivation enough to get us through from setting a particular goal to accompli...

Image from Pinterest How many weeks are in a year? Here it is: about 52 weeks! But how do I know this? Maybe because I Googled? But also because this lovely blog site has now made a year! On the 21st of  December 2019, we published our very first article: " Why the Festive excitement? ", after which 51 more amazing articles have come to you every single Wednesday. Happy 1st Anniversary, family! Leave my Merry in Merry Christmas It's that amazing time of the year, singing, food, dancing, bright lights, gifts, good music, weird sweaters, not for getting the miracles happening everywhere (by the way be sure that you  Don't miss your Christmas Miracle! ). However, in order for all this merrymaking  to happen, it's us to cause it to happen. Someone has to cook that amazing food we get to enjoy, in fact, to begin with, someone has to buy that food; someone has to buy those gifts, put up those lights, find the perfect Christmas tree, put together that amazing Christmas m...

Thanks to Abby Hahn on Wordpress.com Before the good news of Jesus' birth, God used to talk to His people through prophets. And just after the book of Malachi (the last book of the Old Testament, just so you know), it is said that God went silent for four hundred years, until the birth of John the Baptist (see  The bible Journey ). Yes, the gap between the Old and the New Testament is 400+ years: 400+ years of people not hearing from God, not even the one prophet they had left at the time (Malachi,  who died around 450 BC ). And all of a sudden, miracles started happening, angels  started visiting and singing, the Holy Spirit began pouring out on people, dreams started to be fulfilled and very old prophecies began coming to pass everywhere. At such a time as then, as no one was expecting to hear from God (and even if anyone did hear from Him, most certainly everybody expected Him to speak through another prophet or the teachers of the law), ordinary people started se...

Image courtesy of Jeff Weese on Flickr The learned, the unlearned, children, adults, men, women, Christians, atheists, everybody might have wondered at some point in their life, if Jesus Christ was really born on 25th December. Many say that He wasn't even born in December, because He wasn't born during winter, while others argue that seasons shift and that's why we now have snow in December. Emotions fly over the roof as opposers and proposers try to explain their beliefs about the actual time of Jesus' birth. And I love the fact that this time of the year brings a feeling of great joy all over the world, punctuated with bright lights, gifts, food, amazing songs, family time and more. My Mum, for some reason, refused to tell us (her children) the date when she was born. However, we decided to celebrate her either way by just randomly choosing a date. In spite of the fact that it's not the actual date on which she was born, I love the fact that we get to celebrate h...

photo by:  Contributed Photo New year, new goals. But before you chase that goal… I want to believe that most, if not all of us, want to achieve some sort of a better life. We each have a unique image of what a better life means to us: more money, better family, better job, bigger platform, more influence, you name it. We spend a lot of time striving to get to our version of "better", but very often we forget to look into the real cost that comes with this our version of  better .   Every good thing we can think of comes with a ' cross' The idea of attaining a "better life" tends to be so exciting that sometimes we sacrifice too much to get that better life; and sadly, oftentimes when we eventually get it, we realize that the cost was too much, and then we start to hate what we strove so hard to get. Every good thing we can think of comes with a  cross_  something attached to it: responsibility, accountability, too much work, limited freedom, and many ...