Life Changing!

We are constantly faced with challenges that have pushed us to the wall. The challenges are mere products of life. They present themselves even when the are unwanted. Such challenges had made many people to take drastic decisions that either brought peace to them or aggravated the present situation. Challenges are obviously not accepted by anyone but has a way of coming around. Believe you me! Challenges cannot be avoided-for sure. The question one needs to ask is. How can I be free from these challenges? In the Holy Bible (Matthew 26:36-47) lies an interesting story. Before this incident of the passage,Jesus clearly predicted His imminent betrayal,death and resurrection. He had envisaged the events and predicaments that would befall him. He had the foreknowledge of all that would be coming His way in a short while. At a time,He decided to visit Gethsemane with some of His top disciples for the sole aim of praying. Obviously, Peter,James,and John,who went with Him were respected m...

Have you taken time to look around in a bid to appreciate the mysterious masterpiece of God? Have you been privileged to visit very good looking sites in the world that are better used as or are presently tourist sites?Y You may agree with me that there are many such wonderful places in the world.Have you taken time to appreciate them? Only a visit to one of the tourist centres around may convince you. I have also taken time to look at the children of men. Many are exceptionally beautiful.   Pl ease,dont misunderstand me . Obviously, there are many people around us, that are 'fair to the eyes of the beholder'. Dont try to pretend now.  There are people you will see and wonder whether God was partial in creating them. Of course you know that He does no such thing.  Evidently, some people are very 'good looking.' Someone may be tempted to think that God took more and quality time or better materials in creating them; maybe He made them in the best part of the day, when a...

It takes great discipline to make out time to fellowship with one another, even in busy moments.  Your motivation isn't the monitoring prowess of your leader, neither should it be your desire to impress a man, but a deep understanding of the benefits of koinonia.  Sometimes, we make assumptions and hasty conclusions that a fellow whose level of attendance has dropped, is slowly backsliding, without having the knowledge of his/her predicaments.  Having a personal cordial relationship with God is much more important than your perpetual presence in the front row of the 'church auditorium'.  One can actually be present physically but absent and properly disconnected spiritually.  For some, meeting God is a weekly affair; at 'special' venues, on holy days, and only effective in the midst of others.  When you find yourself alone, in a place where meeting with others is almost impossible(like during COVID-19 lockdown), then you will realize that it takes a sincer...

Secrecy,also called clandestinity is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups, perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is hidden is known as a secret. Secrecy is often controversial,depending on the content of the secret,the group or people keeping the secret and the motivation for secrecy. Animals conceal the location of their den or nest from predators. Squirrels bury nuts hiding them and they try to remember their locations later. Humans attempt to consciously conceal aspects of themselves from others due to shame, or from fear of violence,rejection, harassment, loss of acceptance, or loss of employment. Humans may also attempt to conceal aspects of their own self which they are not capable of incorporating psychologically into their conscious being. Loyalists of religions in the world usually hold firmly their beliefs and are made to preserve their teachings from any form of 'corruption'. Somehow, people originally in a parti...

There are always paths that lead to the different places where people may want to be at any particular time. There is no place or destination that does not have its own route, whether wide or narrow, popular or unpopular, on the maps or not. Even the apian ways and so-called 'shortcuts' end somewhere. A stranger in a new environment can only move freely with the help of a reliable human compass or a detailed easy-to-use map. Without any of these, such a fellow becomes a wanderer and a potential victim of harassment or trespass. Only 'luck' will be able to bring safely, such alien to where he/she is heading to. Evidently, any pilgrim on a journey has the desire to arrive safely via the simplest possible means. Somehow, we'll always meet people who may want to offer some help in difficult moments. Some may come up with 'strange' options in their bid to helping out while others will come up with uncommon options that are actually what we may only need. In any ...

Unarguably, the decisions we make each moment of our lives have a way of making or destroying us- it can either make us better or worse. Again, our actions, to a great extent dramatise our decisions. The truth remains that our decisions, thoughts and actions cannot be separated, they work together to determine our choices and relevance; the nature of our relationship with people and all-round influence on our society. Once in a while, we make up our minds to act in ways that leave us regretting at the long run. Though some people consciously decide to commit crime, giving themselves biased and selfish reasons for their actions ,in some others, the consciences is still potent in its regulatory role and ability to sharply differentiate between good and evil. God must have seen that evil shall abound and that people will have to decide what to do with life's numerous 'presents', before creating and giving everyone of us the abstract regulator in the form of conscience. ...

Having miraculously come to be the governor through one of the easiest and rarest circumstances, one would have expected a better performance from Chief Ikedi Godson Ohakim(IGO), the governor that was recently ousted from office in Imo State. Having been privileged to see the limelight, though from a humble background, Ohakim carelessly managed and made a mess of the rare opportunity given to him to write his name, like Mbakwe, in the annals of Imo history. The 2007 elections in Imo came with enough tussle and confusion, desperation and war, paving way for the emergence of IGO on the platform of Progressive Peoples Alliance(PPA), an unpopular party floated by Orji Uzor Kalu(OUK). The likes of Ararume, Agbaso and other popular candidates were technically deprived of the number one spot or position in the Eastern Heartland, probably due to the sentiments, bags of money and other underground 'political games' played by OUK and his allies. Imolites may have accepted him, thinking ...