It seems to have been my strange lot lately, to be confronted with troubling insights into scriptures, especially passages that, to all appearance, are a contradiction either to themselves or to long-held religious ideals. One of them, Revelation 19:11-13:
Plus GOD minus STONE = …
Can you Drive?
Many years ago, I was walking down the street when I met a brother whose car had stubbornly refused to continue the journey with him. He had been trying all he could to tease it into a start by touching its tender knobs and intestinal wires, his hands greased with frustration. He was glad as I walked up to him. He asked me to take the driver’s seat as he tried one more time to rouse the reluctant engine back to life. I sat in the car, turned on the engine, and it revved into a merry start. The brother was relieved at last and came in to resume his trip, but the engine died as soon as he took over from me. He tried to start the car again, but the engine would not respond to his many pleas. He got out and requested me to I get back into the driver’s seat while he returned to resume his mechanical communications with the adamant engine.
LOCKDOWNS DIDN’T START TODAY
Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in (Joshua 6:1, New Living Translation)
MOSES MY SERVANT IS DEAD…
If any man ever was a servant of the Lord, it was Moses. Like no other in his days, he spoke with God “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend” (Exodus 33:11). He climbed up into God’s smoky presence and was not consumed by the fiery site that scared others miles away.
NUGGETS FROM THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON
The New Testament parable of the Prodigal Son provides insights into the process and principles of forgiveness, or of securing forgiveness. In that parable, a junior son demands his inheritance from the father, and promptly goes off to a very distant land where he wastes everything in debauchery. Sometime later, the hammer of hardship forces his eyes open. He realises his trespass and takes steps to make amends in the frittered relationship with his father.
TIME TO MOVE
1. Reading the Weather
How long you have stayed at and enjoyed a place does not always mean that you can continue to remain there and be safe. ‘Safe hitherto’ in any place may not mean ‘safe forever’ there. Read the weather. Ask Lot (Genesis 19:15). Every future bliss is not guaranteed by every pleasant past. That is one implication of Jeremiah’s prophecy when he said, about Babylon,
PARLIAMENTARY MADNESS: WHEN A BURDEN BECOMES AN OBSESSION
1 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. 2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate…
Tragic Busyness
The wise Solomon tells us that laziness is tragic (Proverbs 6:9; 12:24; 24:33), but the irony is that some busyness is no less tragic than laziness, as we shall presently learn from the prophetic parable to King Ahab. In that account, King Benhadad of Syria had been at war with King Ahab of Israel; Benhadad had been thoroughly defeated but got strangely spared by the king of Israel.
Visions and Voices over Nigeria
Did you read the last post, “The Threatened Storms Over Nigeria”? Well, since that message two days ago, I have received a few corroborations. One pastor sent this message, “Sir, this strongly resonates with signals I have been receiving from the throne room for the past few weeks.”
