Realities and Truth

PUT ON THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS As individuals we go through things, positive and negative. Everything works together for good for those that love God and are called according to His purpose. Life is a school with different phases and so many ups and downs. In a school, when you are taught, you will sit for exam. Not everybody that goes to school make the most of it. The lessons of life can be through experiential knowledge (what you go through) or through the experiences of others, which has the ability of living you better or bitter. Some processes may be tough but we just have to go through them. Jesus too wished the cup could pass over. This article was inspired by a write up on the intention of Ibidun Ighodalo of blessed memory for her 40th birthday. A woman who went through IVF 11 times and none was successful and she eventually settled for adoption. She planned to help 40 families to have their babies. What a laudable project and I know God will bless 40 families with miracle childr

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS We are all blessed one way or the other. I see relationship as one of those blessedness. It’s important to God so it is very important to me. Some people will come your way for a short period and some for long periods almost a life time. When they go down memory lane in another ten years, would they be grateful they met you or otherwise? It is possible to be good and do a wrong thing that wipes out the good due to the extent of hurt it brings. I know there are people that you’re nice to that will forget and hold on to little wrong. There’s nothing you can do about that, just be good. Forgive, forgive and forgive. Applaud people when you can. Encourage them, help them, inspire them, appreciate them, love them, check up on them. These things have a way of coming back to you cos they are seeds. Relationships are resources, you may need to draw from, some time or maybe your children. You definitely will need people at every phase of your life. Don’t thin

WE’RE PRODUCTS OF OUR BACKGROUND  What did you notice in relationships between your parents, guardians, siblings, friends etc when you were growing up? Maybe anger, possessiveness, fighting, hatred, bitterness, injustice, cheating, fault finding, jealousy, criticism and a whole lot. They are poisons that contaminate relationships and cause resentment. These things register in our subconscious subtly. Your environment has a way of affecting your thoughts and actions. It is garbage in garbage out. There’s a tendency to reproduce those things unconsciously even when you don’t like them, unless you intentionally do something about them. They are like weeds that choke the good seeds planted. You don’t wish them out of your life. You do something about them now not when you get married or get older. Constantly pull them out. Nature abhors vacuum so when you pull them out, you plant what you want to see. It takes effort to work on these things but they can be changed if you are deliberate and

APPRECIATING GOD’S FAITHFULNESS  Today’s article is dedicated to appreciating God for my 25 years in marriage. Precisely 3rd of June 1995, I got married. It hasn’t been hitch free. It has been full of good times and otherwise but in    everything I give God thanks. Everybody goes through the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s now dependent on the individual to know which replay button to press. Whichever one that is chosen, if we look deeply, we will see God in it. It’s only by His mercy that we’re not consumed. I choose to stand on what Apostle Paul said in Phil 4:8 that we should think on the things that are pure, lovely and of good report. Everything we think about has a way of injecting strength/weakness or joy/unhappiness in us. Every phase has its own challenge. Looking back today, I can only thank God for His faithfulness and grace that is always sufficient. Tomorrow by God’s grace I’ll be 50years. If it had not been for the Lord who was on my side I can’t be putting pen on paper.