Monday, 29 May 2017

Norminal Christian?

Christianity is not confused.
Nominal Christians are the confused ones.
On one hand, you support abortion.
Same you will say "use what you have to get what you want "
"If you can't beat them, you join them"
"Unbelievers are running charity organisations, they are givers"
"They are selling their market. What if they touch you because they advertise? "
"To each his own jhor"
"Just do you "
These are statements you hear from nominal Christians.
Christians in name and church attendance.
Tomorrow, these set of Christians will be quick to judge churches.
Quick to judge pastors.
The financial records of churches and how pastors are feeding fat on it becomes their problem.
How churches are not doing enough to alleviate people out of poverty.
How we are bunch of hypocrites.
When I read them, I see a confused mind.
I see souls languishing in self-imposed ignorance.
All I feel for them is pity.
They forget a priest is chosen from amongst the people.
They don't see the heavy charity works churches are involved in.
They don't know the numbers of orphans different churches pay school fees for.
They don't know the widows that are given employment by these churches.
I am a beneficiary.
The priests of the Catholic Church helped me in no small way to see my university dream comes to fruition.
When I was still in school and my mother was sick, they don't know the effort of the church clinic in nursing her to health.
The church offers affordable church-based schools for basic education and not university education.
They don't see any of that.
The countless successful therapy and counselling sessions by pastors is lost on them.
Long before government builds hospitals and schools in rural areas, churches are always the first to arrive on the scene.
They will start by providing good water to communities.
They will build schools.
Try to make the road a bit accessible.
It is true.
The story is the same in most African countries.
I've travelled to some and I've seen these things with my eyes korokoro.
That heavy tithe, that very one which has become your problem solves all these.
There are pastors, priests in remote villages.
How do you think they survive?
Fellow pastors and priests in buoyant areas send them aids regularly.
They distribute the wealth.
The wealth that is your problem.
Is Christianity the reason why you have sex like rabbits as an unmarried person?
Is it Christianity that taught you how to be unfaithful to your spouses?
How to be irresponsible?
It is Christianity that teaches you to envy?
Same Christianity teaches you to plot against others?
Same Christianity asked you to support abortion?
When you commit abortion or supports it, you don't know you worship Molech?
You don't know you are offering sacrifices to Molech?
Molech feeds on your children.
And you claim to be a Christian abii?
Ku ise ooo..
All the vices you exhibit, it is Christianity and your bible that taught you that?
Right?
But same you, when a pastor is being ridiculed, you are there.
You are busy typing, "we must talk against this evil "
Evil is correcting another seemingly evil
Wehdone sah
Wehdone ma
You sit in gathering of sinners and scorners of God.
And you keep wondering why your heart can't connect in worship in Church?
You wonder why all you see when you go to church is emptiness?
Don't wonder far
The Psalmist already answered you in the Book of Psalms 1: 1-2
"Blessed is the man who walks NOT in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seats of scoffer; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates DAY and NIGHT"
The word of the Lord is no more a lamp to your feet.
That is why your confusion about Christianity, about your life is great!
Things the godless do entices you.
You didn't read it in Proverbs 1: 10- 16, "my son, if sinners entice you, do not consent... for their feet run to evil."
But no, it is in the large congregation of sinners, that is where you have your golden seat as advisor.
Wehdone sah
Wehdone ma
Then tomorrow, you cry out against religion, you latch out against Christianity, you are the first to break the news about a pastor or a bishop who has done wrong.
You hold the judgement book.
Your fall is as great as the wall of Jericho.
Wehdone.
This morning, during my devotion time, there is a decision I needed to make.
The pull was strong.
Then the Holy Spirit dropped this timeless hymn in my heart ;
A Catholic Hymn Book song in Yoruba ;
"Omo mi, bi elese ba n tan o
Mase gba
Ranti Eleda re ni gba gbogbo
Ohun l'omu igbala wa sinu emi re
T'omu o l'okan bale
L'ojo aye re gbogbo/2x
Translation
"My child, when the sinner entices you
Do not follow them
Remember your creator always
It is He that brought salvation into your life
It is He that brought you peace "
And at that point, I knew exactly what to do.
You can move from a nominal Christian to a believer today.
The choice is all yours.
However, for every bad thing you are quick to abuse the body of Christ for, remember the uncountable good works the body of Christ is doing.
The body of Christ is not your elected government.
It is not their job to build you roads.
It is not their job to build schools that offer quality affordable basic education for you and your unborn children.
They are not empowered by you to employ the unemployed.
It is not their job to build hospitals.
Yet, they do it.
Know who to hold responsible for your basic amenities.
And stop abusing the body of Christ with lies just to wage war on the church.
Remember who the father of all liars is?
Are you his?
Your envy, just like the envy of satan against God will not diminish the glory of our Father, the Lord of hosts, the Immovable Mover, the Unshakeable Shaker, the Unchangeable Changer, the One Who was, Who is and Who will forever be.
It will not stop Him from being the One and only Alagbada Ina,
The Eleburuike,
The Awimayehun
The Awuwomaseegbe
The Ageless One
Ancient of Days.. your fight against the Unfathomable God is as useless as the fanning of yourself with your five fingers under the scorching sun.
God is God!
You accept that, you don't, it changes nothing!
The church of God is marching on, and the gates of hell shall not prevail!

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