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We were recently told we need to have a picture of ‘your person’. This was however quite unnecessary because I’m sure most of us if not all already do, especially ladies. We’ll be having an idea of even a wedding gown as early 10.(Effects of these Cinderella cartoons partly). But of course I’m not addressing myself to a toddler. So how is your checklist dear sister…some I’m sure are as outrageous as “he must have edges and a jawline.” Anyway, I don’t mean to rain on your parade but…let’s not be petty. We need to filter needs from wants and tiny compromises have to be made..if need be…

Now speaking of compromise, we must be careful…There is one that should not under any circumstance be overlooked. I don’t mean to impose on your preferences but this is the mere minimum, if I should put it that way, or rather it is the starting point. So let’s draw the bottom line, shall we?

He’s not the one, till He’s met the Man….some of y’all already know what I’m talking about, but, hey,let’s not make assumptions… I want to draw us first to the Man. There was a man who was willing to die in your place… A man who is proclaimed by God, acknowledged by angels, adored by saints and feared by devils. He is the One through whom all things were made(John1:3)…He is the One that said, “it is not good that man should be alone, I will make him a help meet for him.” He is the first matchmaker, the first wingman…the whole idea of partnership was His. Our problem is we want the invention without the inventor, whom without the invention would never be..

Let’s take some time to look at His order..

Genesis 2
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

He created Man, gave Him instructions then saw it fit to grant Him a helper. You see, God did not entrust Eve to a man who had not an experience with Him. The truth is we will always have contention with the submission mentioned in Ephesians 5:22, if we overlook this. The only way to submit to the man who wants to cleave to you, is if he himself has submitted to the Man Christ. How can we want claim the right given that, ” Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for it”, if the man does not know Christ. How can He love,a love that gives up even life, if they have not experienced the love of the cross? You see we ask to much of them if that’s the case…

Now with that being said some Christian ladies are about to stone me because some of them have been beaten with character development (if you know what I mean) by these men who profess to be followers of the man Christ. Now, profession amounts to nothing if the life has not been transformed. Take heed lest you find that they are as thorough in breaking hearts as they are on those pulpits…How then shall we know?..

Matthew 7
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?…This is pretty frank and clear..but what are the fruits?

Galatians 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Now as I end, let me highlight this… Sanctification is not rapture..We cannot place such a standard and expect all men should have had everything worked out. Simply look in the mirror too and judge if yourself have reached that level.. However any Christian is to have conversion as a daily process, and by beholding Christ we become changed from glory to glory… Otherwise we must learn to treat good men as fallible and bad men as redeemable… Disclaimer: Dear daughter of Eve, be careful lest you make these demands on any of our brothers while yourself have not met the Man. You must also have an experience with the Man and submit to Him first before any other..

For my sisters in the PCM mistries ( preach, convert, marry)..I simply suggest you be clear whether you want a relationship or a crusade. Otherwise I know of needy mission projects you could support. (Apologies for any violence detected).

Peace be with you.

And tonight once again the daylight fades
I used to love the darkness.. It brought calmness, peace and quiet.
I used to love the night sky, with the bright twinkles mid the blackness
But now I have phobias..and as the sunshine set again today, its no different… The darkness thrills no more
It wakes demons, it dims effort. Herein hides secrets, herein refuges silent tears.
Now the day replays, and battles lost molest, like firearms held over the head… And the warrior they saw, now crawls by the knees behind the scenes…

There’s a place I know, I’ve only heard of it though..
They say its free from sin, there there’ll be no more battles..
I have heard of it, a place with no parting..
So I hear there, are streets of gold and mansions fair..
But all I hear, whispering in my ear, is of the Saviour there
Who left that land of bliss, to die in misery
And even more my heart’s delight, is to know there’s no night..
For my Saviour who died, there He is all the light…
Now I hear tonight, sweet whispering hope.

On 27th May, 2015, researchers reported a robot invention that was able to learn to move in just two minutes after its limbs were damaged.. Now this professor had this to say…

“Robots will eventually provide tremendous benefits to society, especially if they can complete tasks too dangerous for humans to perform,” study author Jeff Clune of the University of Wyoming told The Post. Many roboticists hope their creations will end up digging for survivors in treacherous rubble and fighting deadly fires in man’s stead. “But robots won’t be effective in those situations if they can’t adapt and continue on after being damaged,” Clune said.

Robots of course have designers or their inventors. In this case, the designer foresaw the obvious that the invention would be prone to ‘wear and tear’ or damage and designed this robot to combat this fate…was the robot designed to break? In this case, most probably, because in order for them to test this new feature, they had to break its limbs… But is that the case too for human beings…

Firstly, if a robot has a designer, then a living, breathing, emotional not to mention the incomparable complex body organs which all function in harmony, should lack a designer? And the design cannot surely measure up to the designer, I mean creator is far far more superior to creature or created… This is not however my point of contention… Let’s get into our theme of the day..

I saved a certain quote, more than a year ago during a difficult time, and it somehow gave solace to me… Lately it has really been ringing in my head so maybe I should share it, and you may choose what to make of it. It says, “Maybe we are all designed to break to teach us how much we can take, maybe this is how the future survives the past.”

So is it so?… Did our Designer, design us for breakage?… Maybe this might have given me comfort for some reason, but now, now it beats my logic just how…. Because we are not robots.. We are actual, living, souls, with emotions.

When we go a step further to look at breaking in form of grief, the magnitude is variant on the event or even the type of affected person. Death might be the weightiest and the truth is, you never get used to it. In fact, the second or third blow might be worse than the first. Was this our Creator’s design? Did God design us thus?

We looked at this in a previous blog and saw that all He created was good. And it was sin, disobedience to His good order of things that bore all destruction that weighs us down. We were not made to break. Maybe that’s why even a small cut can be very painful. We were not created to die, maybe that’s why death is so painful.

This is why, I will still have contention with people claiming we can overcome with strength within. It cannot be so. That’s why we even need to draw from God the willingness to go to Him for help, let alone the help we need, Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. And praise God, because He is willing and able to help us!

With that being said, my first antidote for grief will be to go to our Designer. He knows where to fix and how to fix it. He did it once and He more than able and willing to do it again. He has done it for so many, He has done it for me, and you are not an exception. In fact He is the only antidote, the rest are just means He uses to help you.

Now the second recommendation is maybe unpopular…but because the rest have been spoken of a lot, let me speak on this. The second, is “living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” or leading faithful lives to the Creator. How could this possibly make grief any lighter? Allow me to focus on grief caused by death of a loved one…look:

John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Well Jesus is the One speaking these words (check your Bible), but how can we truly eat of Him? Well through scripture, for Jesus was the Word made flesh John 1:1-14..and in His temptation He said, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Looking to Him, daily obtaining strength from Him to obey Him, not because of what He gives but what He’s already done(died to set us free from sin) we shall not die! And this is the eternal death we’re talking about.

So imagine if each of our loved ones would just look to Jesus, that they live by every word, we would not have to lose them forever! We would only part for a while but assured to meet again never more to part. I don’t know about you, but this makes grief lighter. We would still cry but have hope of meeting. Tears of hope! May this buoy our spirits up, to lessen each other’s grief, and not work just for our salvation but for others’ too. That none should be lost, and not just for our sake but theirs too.

We sat at the edge of our seats, waiting for that bell to ring. Bittersweet feeling honestly….sometimes it would mean lunchtime, sometimes it meant time for that dreaded subject (probably kiswahili/social studies..ha!). But this time its home time! And at the moment it rang, oh how we would scramble for the door..then our eyes would caress the grey pavements to catch a glimpse of mostly, mum!

School days were the worst!…then… Barely knowing enough, we’d wake up to the dreaded morning shower, only to go to school with one umbrella to shelter three….sometimes I forgot to do my homework because all weekend we played football with the boy next door( and yes, it was weird football because we didn’t have to run around but it was still football!) And now the math teacher expected us to present the multiplication assignments off our heads. So my two friends wrote 4×4=16 at the back of my hand so I wouldn’t have to face the wrath of “Mr Blue”

Then there came the holidays… Sometimes we had to go to the suburbs…I mean to my grandma’s…and it was weird because we didn’t know the local dialect…you should have seen how the two parties stumbled over words, just to say good morning…and at first you would hear our murmurs on how there was no electricity and we couldn’t watch “The power puff girls“… And there were no dolls to play with…so we had to settle for long walk around the steep hills, and go fetch water at the river… But I loved it still, not the walks, but roasting maize till late at night… The spooky stories of cousins from the coast where allegedly animals talk(cats mostly)

But the years have gone by… Some friends changed schools, some moved, like us to those suburbs we so dreaded… We went to high school and most of us “grew up“(just went through puberty)… We met new people that we’ve lost again… We went to uni and it got worse… Now we have opinions, now we know religion, others have money others don’t.. Others fell in love and actually fell… Now we have walls that were once bridges… Others are broken where others succeeded… And some we only know they’re happy by checking their timeline… And we have loved and lost… We have cried and we have laughed… We have moved on when we thought we had given up…

Yesterday, I probably wrote a few resignation letters to God… Some that I still think I mean..I know maybe you’ve written some yourself too… But I took a walk down that memory lane.. And path has only gotten steeper… And ahead it won’t get any easier….. But I have seen light rekindled on the darkest of days.. I have seen strength renewed on the weariest of plains… I have seen ashes become beautiful… I have had old acquaintance renewed and believed only mountains don’t meet… And I still believe in beautiful things.. So I have made this faithful saying mine:…

In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see what the Lord has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.LS 196.2

And so with a smile so bold, may God bless the broken road!

Sitting right now, I realize the enormity of this word “depression”. You’ve probably heard it so many times, and probably even equally read countless articles on it. I probably fear monotony more than you, but this time, this time I feel like we can’t get enough of this subject. With its growing commonness, depression is slowly underrated…..well, until its your brother going through it, or your sister hanging under that rope…let’s talk about it once more shall we?

So what is depression? According to the American Oxford dictionary: [uncountable] a medical condition in which a person feels very sad and anxious and often has physical symptoms such as being unable to sleep, etc….. Then there is clinical depression:a mental illness that causes feelings of sadness and loss of hope, changes in sleeping and eating habits, loss of interest in your usual activities, and sometimes physical pains.

And of course further there are stages, degrees and causes of depression.. And all these are important, but my focus today is solutions… However, first of course, if any of the above definitions describe anything you might be feeling seek for help! Tell a trusted friend, tell your mother, your father, tell a doctor or psychiatrist… There is abundant help… We start to go wrong the moment we are in denial or underestimate this terrible menace…the moment we entertain the thought that “it can’t happen to me“

So then to my object of discussion… Should Christians be going through depression? First allow me to draw the baseline that should be quite obvious… That there are 2 waring sides..there is a battle raging, for good and for evil… And of course even a 3year old will tell you good is for God and bad is for Satan… Now is depression a good thing or bad thing? Yes, you’re right…of course anything that threatens our mortality, that makes us sad is not good… To be bolder, I’m trying to say, depression is not of God..remember the verse:

James 1
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Previously we saw in Egypt a certain percentage of people are atheists because they don’t believe God would have created us to suffer. Now I completely agree with this fold, not in their belief of no God but in the belief that we were not created to suffer… You see, God’s very exclamation after each day of creation was that “It was good” and when it came to man, “It was very good!” But the moment sin came in, there was fear, anxiety and eventually death as well!

So back on track, down to history we look at the various patriarchs and men of God to answer our question. Did they face depressing times? Behold, Abraham climbing the mountain to sacrifice his son, turn your eye on the famous Job who lost everything, not to mention Elijah desolate in the wilderness and of course the man of sorrows, the word made flesh, at Gethsemane shedding sweat as blood drops among others… These are considered among the strongest in the faith, but behold their situations.. The holy writings themselves say in John16:33 “In this world ye shall have tribulation“. Thus far I believe it is clear, that as the sun shines to both the righteous and the wicked, tribulation/times of deep distress assail all alike. Thus an inspired writer nakedly puts it: Into the experience of all there come times of keen disappointment and utter discouragement—days when sorrow is the portion, and it is hard to believe that God is still the kind benefactor of His earthborn children; days when troubles harass the soul, till death seems preferable to life. {PK 162}

But is there no line to be drawn between the believer and the nonbeliever? And if there be no difference then of what benefit is being called a Christian? It is clear that non is immune to hard times, but dear sister, dear brother, is there no balm in Gilead? Listen to the beautiful words:

Hebrews 4
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

So then oh soul are you weary and troubled, the sweet words come resounding, “Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will you give rest.” Are you not strong enough to walk to him? Well he says then,” Behold, I stand at the door and knock.. “All you need to do is open your heart to Him, to take your requests to Him.. Have you no more faith, behold the man who said ” help thou my unbelief” and make it your prayer…He sends no one away… Have you been here awhile and seen no change, well tonight go pray again, go kneel again, and He says “Test Me“. And do you want to hear Him speak? Pray and listen to that still small voice, read His word and test Him in this! You don’t have to fight alone!

#let’s fight depression! Not just with words this time! May peace and sanity daily find you, and may you be able to maintain!!

With a heart pained, and a pen constrained, we shall not dilly dally, but hit the nail on the head. Shall we?

Has a friend ever betrayed you? And I mean a deliberate betrayal.. But millennialism will lead us to call them *fake friends*. Why are we afraid to call them enemies? But peace! Forgive and walk from that. Let me bring a point home… There is One who does not regard lukewarmness…. There is One who does not have *fake friends*. It is either one or the other(friendship or enmity)

But we have all alike beheld the trampling upon His name,the trifling upon His law and bold jest to His very existence. For whether He exists or not is not a question for me, but for the sake of completely eradicating ignorance, it will be a topic for another day. But in regard to this, the heartrending part is that all this mockery is done by those who claim to bear His name. Look at the causes for atheism (study done in Egypt)

Atheism causes :The previous question asked the non-believers asking them for their biggestreason/event that made them not believe in god. 85.7% of them said that it`s their own thoughts.21.4% had a life shock that made them hate religion, 3.6% were due to family, 25% were due toreligious people and their thoughts and 3.6% said that they don`t believe the idea that god createsus to suffer. This answer indicates that the biggest two reasons for atheism in Egypt are reading,overthinking, religious people and life shocks.

Interesting right? But today, we shall focus on the second largest reason for atheism… As the statistics show, a whooping 25% does not believe in a Deity or God because of religious people.

Honestly, no one is born a believer or nonbeliever.. But once you choose to become a believer, surely, are you believing in God or men? Of course it should be God… So whether or not the claimed believers resonate with the expected lifestyle standard, you should really be focusing on you and God, and whether you are living the faith… So to an extent if someone due to their shortcomings makes you fall, you will still give an account… were you beholding the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, or fallible men equally in need of grace?

Even so, we shall not ignore the part played by others(believers) in the faith of the least of these(new believers). How can we, when according to the above study, its the second biggest reason why people are atheists?… Notably, you will find ample and ample supply of the reason for this cause. Some time back, I watched quite a common figure who apparently had the cause for her not going to church because she had been raped twice, by church members(in leadership positions) at different time frames, meaning at different churches!… Well this broke my heart to tears. God did not feel to her like a good Father. What does He even teach His people in church?!…

Otherwise you will hear so many cases of pastors and church leaders who are crowding the market to thieves, murders etc…

But the goodness of God is really an independent variable to the behaviour of His professed followers. He is not good because His followers are good. But still , it remains that His followers have a standard, well-known to even the heathen. Yet I will say, profession cannot be placed on the balance to weigh Christianity. Actions can. And if they fail the criteria of faith with no actions is dead, of to the law and to the testimony, there is no *fake friends* scenario. For by this we have tarnished the name of genuine believers. Be it known that it is only friendship or enmity. But stay off the judgement seat. It is not yours, neither is it mine… But should these camouflaged individuals go unpunished? As I conclude, this writer puts it best…

There are only two classes in the world today, and only two classes will be recognized in the Judgment,–those who violate God’s law, and those who keep His law. Two great opposing powers are revealed in the last great battle. On one side stands the Creator of heaven and earth. All on His side bear His signet. They are obedient to His commands. On the other side stands the Prince of darkness, with those who have chosen apostasy and rebellion.  {RH, May 7, 1901 par. 10}

Only judge where you stand and stay true to your side. But to side with truth is noble.

Story of my life all through boarding school reached its climax at the moment you had to go home. And not just go but of course with the result transcript. Without further exposing myself, of course I’m sure for most if not all, the joy of going home you would not have if the figures on that transcript were not promising. Especially….. If you have strict parents.. And yes, I know of people who would not go home for such reasons! Imagine!

Its sad, isn’t it? Maybe parents should really look into this…or aspiring parents. Its good to establish a standard for kids, especially based on a previous consistent, performance record.. You will gage their ability and any drop should meet the necessary and appropriate method to redeem the child. Out of ignorance of where you schooled, I presume that majority of us would love to go home after a term/semester of school. I mean, why would I substitute the narrow metallic bunkbed for my conveniently wide and cosy bed..and the dreaded morning porridge with my homemade matoke for breakfast????

You can come home anyway… Oh how sweetly these words resound in my ear.. Despite that result slip, come home anyway… After all, it was never the gate pass to come home, was it? I mean, you were born to this homestead even without your consent… None of your merits earn you a place at the table… Isn’t that how homes work?… Or has it not become their ,( your parents) , obligation to take care of you??

I think all this is simple logic… Yet we all have one time or the other, missed to see. No? But have you never stumbled or fell? And maybe His statutes rebelled… Well I have seen those children, and myself numbered amongst them… Yes I have seen the bar and the standard unshaken… And we have missed the mark. Dost our Father lower the bar? No..not even a jot nor an iota… Out of tyranny or indifference?.. No…But out of an infinite knowledge of what we can do if we take hold of His hand, if we come the dust and wounds of the fall to wipe away, if we come home anyway..

Dear reader, did you stumble again? Did the devil’s whisper not be in vain? Did you hacken to his fluttering again? No, the standard is still the same.. The command still resounds,” Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Yes the retribution still stands, ” The wages of sin is death.” But not to condemnation do I send you today, for I am no better than you, maybe I am the chief of the prodigals.. But I hear our Father’s voice. Allow me to amplify it, for thus it says, ” YOU CAN COME HOME ANYWAY! “… Is it too good to be true?

It is no lie, that the one to whom much was given, much will be required.. But we often forget the Enabler. We flutter ourselves in the standard measure, and the positions we have acquired because men’s eyes perceived that we have there reached. So then, amen to the stumbling and falls that remind us of our inability to stand on our own. Standing ovation to the sins that easily entangle, to bring us to our knees when we forget. And I pray it brings you on knees of prayers and not defeat.

Let not the marred transcript prevent you from coming. Let it remind you that even when the record was clean, it was never the gate pass to His feet. And now the old hymn resounds again..

Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come

Come home anyway, because He is the One that bidst you, come home anyway, with the bold “excuse” that that stain of sin is the reason He shed His blood. Come home anyway, for He has made Your sin His obligation to wipe, Your tears, His duty to dry and your care, in His mercy, away to drive!

Say no more to porridge!..

We can go home anyway!

Has someone ever told you these words? Or better yet, have you ever told someone these exact words? Well maybe not exact.. We will also be told or say ourselves to someone, I can’t live without you. Sometimes we even go a step further and show it. Or have you not heard that someone committed suicide because “waliachwa!”. But perhaps in this case this person should have really said, ” if you leave me, I will kill myself”

But I’m sure you have heard someone died because waliachwa…No? Well, of course not! Either way, people will still say it, lovers will still quote it and some will even show it. But how does it feel? How does it make you feel when someone claims they cannot breathe when you’re not around? That they can’t fall asleep when they think of you? That they cannot taste any other food if its not yours? That they cannot walk if you’re not by there side? Okay, I’m taking this too far… But have you not fallen in love before? You have? Then you must be relating. You haven’t? well be my guest as I unfold this rather absurd, seemingly mythology but actual reality!

The truth is, deep down you feel nice don’t you? To know that someone’s world revolves around you, to know that you’re the one who supplies their flavoured oxygen, that you are the nerve behind the pumping of their heart, the impulse behind every blink of their eye…too much? I think not. For these are the among many vitalities to survival, which apparently you seem to be the giver when someone claims they can’t live without you. Well probably you’ve never thought about it that way. Sounds tedious, right? Where I’m I going with this?

I think I need to shed some sunshine, as I would call it, on this. You see,there are people who love to build on things/relationships, people who will bend over backwards for the sake of love. You will recognize them easily because we tell them, ” you have attachment issues“..this is not the case for everyone, but after giving my all, isn’t it only fair that I hang on regardless?

To be fair, I’m not saying we sit on the fence. I don’t mean that we should be in relationships with one foot out. Rather, give it your best. Give your friends the best of you, your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/ husband etc..give them your all. As long as you’ve well-defined your “space bar”. In a world full of angst and perplexities, show them that there can be bliss and beauty. Someone said love makes the world go round. But of course I need to point out some repercussions…

You realize how temporary life stages are, including life itself. We tend to draw some entitlement to things that we have worked for. I will even adjust to just a society of people and feel that they shouldn’t or I shouldn’t leave merely because I’m used to them and that they should be a constant part of my life experience. No, Its not necessarily because change is scary, but maybe because I don’t want to lose pieces of my heart every time someone has to leave..that, is scary!

But God did not create us to be desperately dependent on each other. And I thank Him for that. Even a new born baby, as helpless as it may be, is not desperately dependent on the mother. We (believers) serve a just God that does not allow us to draw our life from mere mortals. If you’re undergoing a heartbreak, you might feel like that’s the case, and my apologies for how insensitive this may sound. But that’s where reasoning comes in, for feelings are not altogether valid. God is the only life giver and sustainer, and rightly so! Otherwise think of how many would perish because of their source of being is one who can also die or leave.. I think that’s why God is love, the source of love, and so if love makes the world go round, He is the One that makes the world go round.

Cherish and build what you have now as if you will have it forever, you might. But if/when the time is expired and nature takes its course, be ready to let go. And if it hurts bad enough to break you, maybe it wasn’t good for you, I mean, if it hurts that bad, maybe you made it a god, and now that is scary! And no one wants that, right?

There’ll be days..there’ll be days with no sunshine..there’ll be days with no blue skies

There’ll be days, when you will have nothing to say, when you cannot even pray

There’ll be days, when no friend can help, and no hope presents its self

Yes, there’ll be days, when no promise comes to mind, and your vision is dim and blind

There’ll be days, when you will find no stones in your sling, when Goliath draws his sword..

And yes, there’ll be days, when you will have to flee instead of fight

I just came to remind you, those days are there.. They will come as long as we’re here below.

It is true that sometimes you will have to look for help. Sometimes help will not readily avail itself unless you seek it.

And yes, sometimes still, nothing can possibly seem to help on those particular days. And you will sit all day wallowing in pain and sorrow. And at times the help you need is yourself, when you realize that you have failed in your sphere, when all odds were for you. When Divine power was supplied, but you did not meet it with your effort.This is the worst side of those days. When you know that you are the one who can get yourself out of that situation, but you ransack yourself and you find no strength whatsoever. On some of these days, it is okay to “give up”. Maybe, it is okay for you to step back a while. But let your awhile be awhile not forever. On those days let the stepping back last for those days. Maybe it is a sign you need a break.

But on these days, I hope you will remember, that there is One by your side. You may not feel it. You may not see it. But maybe that’s where faith comes in. And it sounds like to much to ask, but on those days, I hope that only this one thing remains.

And when the sun rises again, I hope those days will be behind you. And maybe you cannot trust yourself to venture out, to cast drop of ink to another chapter, but I hope you can trust the One that woke you up, the One that helped you out of those days. For the day is His day, and as the day, so is the strength.

A survey was done on a street recently of free money. So they went with a crew of hidden cameras and tried to offer free money.

With or without the pandemic, money has always been an issue. In fact my fellow economists from the basics we know that generally it is the study of how human beings strive to meet their unlimited wants with the limited resources.

The people however refused the money amazingly. I mean, would you take it? Let me hear your views. Either way, frankly, with the tough economy, its not easy to believe that someone would just handover free money. You’ll probably be wondering, what’s the catch?

With that being said, it is unfortunate to realize how such a mentality could seal us a fatal fate.

We are often stunned with the offer of salvation.
Born and raised in corruption, our retarded understanding cannot comprehend the love of the cross.

Don’t get me wrong.. I have nothing against you earning a paycheck, in fact far from it.. Wasn’t it the decree that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread? And rightly so! For the vice of gambling and cheap money is slowly creeping into our society.

But we need to stop treating salvation as a paycheck. Or is it that God has lacked labourers? Is it that He is in need of our reeking sweat? That He needs our toils and tears, our decency or whatever men offer out of their poor stocks and languishing deeds?

Or is it not He that swung the galaxies into place out of nothingness? Is He not the one that breathed the life into everything that is? Tell me, is He not the One whom glorious, sinless hosts of angels adore and turn their faces at the sight of His majesty? Is He not the One, whom they would readily, swiftly render a faithful service at His utter decree?

But who has lied to us that filthy sweat would deserve the life of God? Who has deceived us to even imagine that He died because of our faithful record of giving? That He should leave His lofty throne, because of your faithful church attendance? That He should make known to us the transcript of His character because of our perceived high intellectual capabilities and talents?

The starting point is grace! Its starts and ends with grace. That the Creator should contend to even be born of a woman. That He should make His dwelling place with wretched, sinful men. That He should sink to such depths of poverty. No! That He should have even assumed the man-made throne of Herod in exchange for His. No obedience nor work, not even an eternity of toil could render one worthy for such a manifestation of this mystery of love! It emptied all that heaven had to offer, but for us it is simply free!

If men would flee from the religion of earning, we would be naturally drawn to Him, we would exclaim with awe ” heaven is cheap” (on our side), this love would constrain us to will and to do of the good pleasure of the One who has loved us!

We cannot earn it. We can only respond to it through faith in Him and faith would wrought good deeds we so readily seemingly want to offer otherwise.