The Grace of God

In 2 Kings chapter 5 we find the story of Naaman who was a great general in the Syrian army. He had secured victory for Syria against her enemies and as a result had become the king’s favorite commander. Naaman had it all but good health. In the prime of his success, leprosy, a deadly killer disease then, checked in, threatening to nip his life in the bud. Luckily for him, in one of his army’s military expeditions against Israel, had captured a girl who knew about the prophet Elisha’s miracle working ability, at the time, the girl was his wife’s maid, hence Naaman having learnt about the prophet set out to Israel to secure his healing. He carried a lot of gold, silver and expensive clothes which he intended to give in exchange for his healing.

Freed

Lust dangled her attractive tentacles

Passion got lured, he became lust

He who walked on sacred grounds

Became enslaved  in the dungeons

Hungry as hell, passion is now lust

The End Times

 King Solomon in his wisdom stated that "there is a season and time for everything under the sun, a time to be born and a time to die" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2).. Time is one of the greatest mysteries that has baffled scientists and philosophers for centuries. The Oxford English dictionary describes time as "a period of minutes, hours, days etc."  This description does not explain what actually time is but rather how time is measured. You cannot stop time, neither can you invest time nor lend time in order to get more of it in the future, the best you can do is to spend time wisely. Time without God in the full picture is very troubling, it is meaningless, as Solomon would have it.

The Power Of Pain

I recently watched a Nigerian movie and in the movie, the main character, who happened to be a young man, full of life and vigor, announced to his parents, who were stereotypically poor, that he had won a scholarship to a prestigious university abroad. The movie ended in a common cliche where after returning from his studies abroad, poverty was replaced by affluence and the young man was spoiled for choice on who to marry, because every girl was after him, of course he married the best and they lived happily ever after.

The common thought that flies through most individuals in developing nations is that if one got a chance to go abroad, and especially to western nations, they no longer will be associated with poverty, that poverty will be a by gone case. In reality life gets messed up at times. What we plan for at in most cases gets reversed and we end up in a worse state than we were at in the beginning or vice versa. There are people who left their countries in search of greener pastures abroad who are currently sleeping under bridges, no home, begging for food, desperate, ashamed and depressed. Who gets the blame in such a case? Statistics has it that most people blame God for their problems.