Just Saying....
I know I don’t make sense to
some people. I know they dismiss what I write as some religious blabs and go
on to the next site and I understand why they do that, because I sometimes
wonder how it is for one who doesn’t know God the way I do to believe some of
the things that I write. Some things can’t be comprehended. If I wasn’t saved,
and if I haven’t seen the obvious hand of God at work in my life in situations
that couldn’t have been luck or magic but just God, I may scoff at some of the
things I write and some of the hope I hold on to. They’re unbelievable until
you’re right in it.
I hear people make fun of
falling under the anointing in church… you wouldn’t joke about it when you’ve
fallen under the anointing away from the pastor laying hands on you, right in
your bedroom as you worship… now that can’t be faking. You would make fun of people seeing
visions of heaven and having one on one conversations with Jesus, until one day
you find yourself sitting in your room and it lights up and every other thing
from then on is a daze because you’re living in a vision and smiling in the
face of Jesus. Have you watched nollywood and some of their ridiculous story-lines of witchcraft et co? I have been one of those to mock Nigerians and their beliefs... Until I knew for a fact that there's such a reality to all that. I could give true stories that would seem like just another script.
I read how people jeered at the lady who gave a testimony on
Bella Naija about going to heaven and her journey to finding her husband… people
mocked her and made all sorts of jokes about it, people who boldly declared
they were Christians before delving in to tear her testimony apart. I believe
as much as she was mocked, those who she was led to share that story for caught
what they were meant to… People go through loads of stuff with God, and if they
tell their stories, the internet would have such materials for jokes for ages,
because when your mind is limited and closed, it’s hard for you to believe what
you don’t understand, and what you don’t understand you make jokes out of.
There’s a deeper level than just going to church on Sundays and tagging
yourself Christians, the bible isn’t fiction or something that happened…
there’s such a revival going on in people’s lives like it did in the lives of
the disciples.
This Kind of hope and faith
that I share, this kind of trust I feel led to encourage would be just another
set of religious writing if I haven't through situations that needed
nothing but faith and trust even when all seemed lost… they’re real and I
believe them so much that I write to encourage the next person. I haven’t gone
to church and taken the pastor’s sermons to drop here… this is my life! I’m
going through a process, I didn’t just wake up one morning and get into my
private jet and all I want and decide to spend my spare time telling every
other person that their time would come. I’m going through a process where I
need this encouragement as much as the next person reading this and sending me
a mail or dropping a comment of how much they needed to hear it. I know first
hand what it’s like to be joyful in the midst of pain, to have peace when
you’re bumped around on the waves of chaos, to hope when a situation is
hopeless. And because I know what it is, I’m able to ignore those who mock.
It’s just like a situation
where the little girl you grew up with, the one down the road who ate your
remnants and wore your old clothes… the one who had one pair of shoe and never
had money for ice cream suddenly becomes the girl living the
lifestyle of glitz and glam, wearing more expensive designer gears than you
can ever dream of having, so you tell her she’s wearing a fake…. There’s a
lifestyle of some rich people that seem out of this world… and she has access
to it, and tells you stories of the private jets and the yachts and all that….
As much as you see her living it, you snigger at her and say ‘girl, you is a liar’. Because what you see on your
TV and Hollywood feels so far off, that its impossible for someone you know to
wine and dine in it.
The glory of the Lord upon a
person transforms and breaks the boundary of the mind and what it hopes for and
imagines. The glory of the Lord upon a person makes him/her believe in the
impossible and walk in the extraordinary. The glory of the Lord upon a person
gives him/her a calming peace and unexplainable joy in situations that dictates
otherwise for another person.
Sometimes, God allows certain situations to happen so
that you can speak from your experience and not speak on behalf of your
intellect. @A1BARZ
Even when the world scoffs at
your testimony and your faith… give it to them anyway. It may seem like a
hundred people are mocking you, but there are twenty of them in that crowd that
believe in what you’re saying and need to hear your testimony. When you’ve lived
it, and survived it…. Share it. Your word may just be the defibrillator the next
person needs to wake up and live!
Well said! I can definite relate to what you have written in this post. TY for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteAwesome!
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