“…to
guide our feet into the way of peace” LUKE 1:79c.
The
world is gradually turned into a battle ground where lives are wasted without
due consideration to the Creator or the Owner of these lives. The world is now
a jungle where stronger animals eat up the weaker ones, the rich oppress the
poor, the educated feed on the uneducated, the privileged despitefully use the
less-privilege; all these negate the principles of God. He is watching, and his
anger is kindled, his displeasure is expressed. Man has totally deviated from
God’s precepts and teachings about how man should live. The original purposes
of man on earth are to do the will of God, and to co-habit peacefully with one
another. The Psalmist said, “Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue
it.” Psalms
34:14.
Beloved,
consider all these and let us cease from wasting the good resources God had
blessed us with, because I know for sure that the end is so near. Where the
devil who is the originator and father of confusion will be disgraced and
revealed. And the God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you; Amen! Roman 16:20.
My
people, to say the truth, there is only one man through which love and peace
can be obtained and sustained and that man is Jesus Christ. If you have not met
Him, there is no way you can enjoy His gift of peace to the fullest. This is so
because; He is the owner of meaningful positive peace. Kindly say this
sincerely and mean it: “Lord Jesus, I come unto
you, I know I am a sinner; have mercy upon me and forgive all my sins, I
confess you as my Lord and Personal Savior, henceforth, I renounce the works of
the devil and I have decided to follow you forever; Amen! (If you have done
this, very good; congratulation. Begin to read your Bible with an open heart
and pray to Jesus Christ always. Also, locate a Christian group to fellowship
with).
“…Seek
peace and pursue it” As people who
understand the precept of God, peace is to be sought after and encouraged among
brethren and extended to the society at large. God wants the love He gave from
the beginning to be shared with everyone. Hatred, jealousy, evil imagination
and the like are the root of crises in the world today. Inordinate desire for
meaningless worldly things, inability to delay gratification and above all, lack
of fear of God, is the bane of our world today. How sweet would the world be if
we understand that it is expected of us to move in one direction and to have
respect for one another’s opinions and ideas. God understood that we cannot
live in isolation that is why he encouraged us to live in unity of Faith. If
this is understood by men that we have one Father, the world would have been
better place. That is why the preacher said: “there is one body and one spirit
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one Faith and
baptism, one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you
all”
Ephesians 4:4-6.
The
royal road to peaceful living is to go back to the first love; Revelation
2:4-5. It is high time we revisit the laws of God and discover where we
have got it wrong and amend our ways otherwise the anger of God will not tarry
anymore. The only way to coexist peacefully, irrespective of our religion,
ethnic, socio-economic differences is to understand that the Creator {God} is
not the man that makes mistakes; he created everything beautiful in His time.
Regards: Friday Ofem. (drop
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Article submitted by Moses Ohiomo
(ohiomo.moses@yahoo.com)
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