#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS!!!!

Its been 31 days since a bunch of cowards invaded a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State and abducted young school girls. Your guess is as good as mine as to the fate of these children. Our nation grieves at this atrocity and I too feel grief. I feel pained, i feel hurt, I feel betrayed by our government and I feel lost and hopeless sometimes.

But I take comfort in one fact, Jesus is with us all. Even now, he is with all those wherever they may be. And he is not hopeless or lost. In his capacity as God and Lord of time; outside of time knowing the end from the beginnning, he knows just how this whole thing is going to end; in glory and redemption. But he's also in our time, living and experiencing now with us and he feels appropriately for now. He is not in the sky looking smug and wondering why we are all sad. He feels just as we feel, he is also saddened and distressed by this and many incidents such as this. He knows the pain the mothers of those girls feel, and he feels it too.

So I pray. That our Father might cause heaven and earth to move in order to bring our girls back. That the God of all comfort may comfort them with the comfort and joy unspeakable that he alone can give. That the Holy Spirit may grant us all comfort in our grief, and that we may be able to grab hold of the faith of Jesus. knowing that somehow, some way, it will all end well, if not now, at the end of this age

TELL ME YOUR RED PILL MOMENT

The scene below is from the first installment of the seminal movie "The Matrix". I love that movie. I was just thinking about that scene and comparing it to my journey into the Hyper-Grace Message.  I remember my first steps into the true Gospel, I call it my red pill moment. It all started from a simple revelation; God has forgiven all my sins, past, present and future through Jesus' death on the cross. That fact led me down the rabbit hole. Little did I know just how deep that hole goes. I have been forced to rethink everything, and I'm still rethinking stuff. I think of some of my friends who also took the red pill and in my opinion have begun to deviate from the true Gospel into some really weird stuff. Others have gone deeper than I have and been a real help and encouragement to me. But it's all good, God is with us all. The base line of all my thoughts is that God loves all of us in a very passionate and unconditional way. That is the fabric of my rabbit hole and its drawing me deeper and deeper

I'd like you to share your own red pill moments in the comments section. When was the wool removed your eyes? And what wool was it? How deep is that moment taking you or have you abandoned it? God bless and enjoy the scene

  

PRETTY HURTS

If you know me, you know I'm not one of those Christians who believe the Devil created certain types of music. I don't believe in listening to only Gospel music (as a matter of fact, many of the Gospel songs promote defeatist mentality and law based theology in my opinion).  With that said, I'm sure many of you will not be surprised by the songs that are promoted on MY blog. 

This morning I saw the video to a beautiful song by Beyonce titled "Pretty Hurts". It's such an insightful song and it addresses one of the biggest problems of our day; self image. We live in a world where everybody is insecure about something; how they look, their weight, their skin colour, the tightness of their clothes... you name it. Take a look around- Television, Radio, talk with your friends and see the pictures of celebrities- they are telling you one simple thing; "you are not good enough, you must-do better, be better, sound better, look better" 

This bombardment leads to us putting all our energies into "bettering ourselves". We take classes, we work on our accent, we do cosmetic surgery, we exercise, we lie about our achievements and so on and so forth. But like the song reveals, you cannot heal the wound of your soul with superficial fixes. No amount of surgery will stop you from feeling indequate, unlovable and ugly. It could mask it and you could bury those feelings really deep, but they will still show up either through blatant self loathing or hateful remarks at others. We fail to realise that these people who keep reminding us of our inadequacies are only projecting their feelings of inadequacy to us. They have found out that it is felt by all and are using it to their advantage; to sell products, set trends and be influential. 

Just to be clear, I have nothing against working on your appearance or educating yourself. What I want is for you to ask yourself 

              "Is my qualification, my appearance e.t.c what I look to determine my worth, or have I      come to realise that I'm worthy, valuable, beautiful, lovely, lovable and loved regardless of            these things?" 

Because that's what the Gospel is about, the Gospel tells us of a God who saw as so worthy, so lovely that he became like us in order to save us. He chose to never be without us and made us partakers of divine nature. We don't have to perform to be valuable, we are valuable because we have been made in the image and likeness of the living God. Yes, we fell, we lost sight of that image, we fell short of the Glory of God and ended up with a distorted image of God and of ourselves. But Jesus came and he saved us and restored the image by making sure that "as he is, so are we in this world". That is the cure to the human condition, that is the assurance of our value. Jesus is our answer.

There is so much more to say about this but i'll just let you enjoy the song. I couldn't get a good copy of the video to add to this blog. But you can watch the official video by clicking on this link. God be with you