Saturday, 19 May, 2012
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and The founder of Biblepraise Fellowship Online. He lives in London where he works in the IT industry as a software developer. He has served in various capacities as Teacher, singer and writer in the body of Christ. He currently serves as assisting minister in his local church as well as helping out in the Music Ministry. He also speaks at invited chrurches/forums.
How we perceive God and how we relate with Him is largely dependent on whether we focus on His acts – the things He does, or His ways – His word, instructions and commands.
In a city called Cana in Galilee, which was about four and a half miles northwest of Nazareth, a wedding took place. At that wedding, was Mary the mother of Jesus. Also present at the wedding on invitation was Jesus and His disciples (John 2:1 – 2)
What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear;
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer.
Oh what peace we often forfeit,
Oh, what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry,
Everything to God in prayer
A friend at work brought Tim to see me and introduced us. I looked up at the tall, handsome man standing before me.
“I remember you,” he said, reaching down to give me a hug. I was mystified.
As we talked, I found that I had known his parents while my husband and I were stationed on a missionary center overseas in the late 1970s. Tim, now 41, was in his teens at the time, and since my husband and I were newlyweds in our early thirties, we didn’t really have any contact with the high school crowd. But for some reason, Tim still remembered us.
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding:
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6 (NIV)
In many forms of study, the teachers will challenge and motivate their students to their greatest levels of understanding and achievement. Part of the process usually includes methods that make the student aware of his own limits and weaknesses. When the learner has done all he can do with his own abilities and understanding, he usually comes to the awareness that reason, effort, learning and human ability will only take him so far.
I recently got some pictures of my Aunt’s 86th birthday party. Although I haven’t been able to visit her in many years she looked as happy and beautiful as ever. Her eyes sparkled with the same youth and vitality that I remembered from our Summer visits to her home some 35 years ago.
Gazing at her picture took me back in an instant to those wonderful times once again. Her home was an eight hour drive from ours over mountainous roads so we could only visit during the Summer. When we arrived, though, we were always greeted with hugs, tears, laughter and love. The highlight of our visits was always the early Thanksgiving dinner that we shared.
A couple of years ago, I was watching Christian Broadcasting Network’s Turning Point program, transmitted on one of the local television stations in Nigeria. There was a feature story on one of CBN’s roving reporters.
When asked about one of his remarkable assignments, he referred to one in which he had asked people on the streets of New York the fundamental question, “Who is Jesus Christ?”
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“Why is that man so ugly, and the mommy so pretty?” Five-year-old Nancy tugged on her mother’s arm, and pointed.
“Sh! Sh!” said her mother. “You wouldn’t want them to hear, would you?”
“But Mommy, he’s ugly! How can that pretty lady stand to look at him?”
The mother glanced toward the couple her daughter was pointing at, quickly taking her child away. But every day during the sea cruise, they saw the couple. Whenever they did, Nancy buried her face in her mother’s clothes. “Mommy, I just can’t stand to look at him. He is so ugly,” she would say.
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How many times have you heard people say the words, ‘Let me tell you the gospel truth?’
Quite a number of people who use this figure of speech don’t even know what the gospel is all about but use this phrase to emphasize the fact in what they are trying to pass across.
The gospel means ‘good news’ and the good news is that though we deserved God’s justice through disobedience to his laws, God Himself decided to pay the full price, to satisfy the demands of His own justice, by surrendering Jesus to die for the sins of humankind.
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Making and keeping promises is one of the things that distinguishes humans from animals. It is also what separates good people from bad ones.
Yes, I can imagine some promises that should be broken. What if I am a junior-high kid who promises his buddy to help get even with somebody who hurt his friend’s feelings by trashing his bike or computer? Then I realize that I’ve promised to do something wrong. Break the promise! You had no right to make it. Adults sometimes get in those situations as well. Think first. Then speak.
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I still remember where I was when it happened. I was in my small IT support office in the bank where I worked. I was sitting before my console, ensuring that the branch users where working without problems when my yahoo messenger client began blinking. ‘Who could do that be?’ I wondered, a bit annoyed that I was being distracted from my work. Then I noticed that it was not just one window blinking, then I opened the first one and my blood ran cold. ‘Terrorist attack on America, plane hits World Trade Centre!”
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