MAKING SENSE OUT OF NONSENSE IN NIGERIA!
Many priests were saying Christians should react to incessant bombing by Boko Haram. Bishop Ayo Oritjafor asked Government to give people the freedom to carry guns. Bishop David Oyedepo demanded for the country to be divided, and so many unimaginable comments from people. My question is; will all these solve our problems in Nigeria? How did we get to this level? I remember those days when we used to hear about suicide bombers and bombing we quickly think about Afghanistan. Now bombing is synonymous to Nigeria, what a shame! I really love to make sense out of nonsense that is going on here Nigeria.
Could we just stop and think for a moment perhaps God is the One punishing the people for their persistent unfaithfulness because the word of God says; “when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.” –Ezekiel 14:13. I do not subscribe to Boko Haram activities but they might be the hand God said He will stretch forth? They might be the whip/rod in His Hand to correct the people/church madness in Nigeria.
Innocent bloods are being shed daily. Corruption has reached it peak. Family life has been disintegrated. It seems people don’t have respect for life and blood any more. Evil is all over and the church seems to be weaken and blinded by its so called prosperity. What prosperity? We had forgotten that prosperity without purpose is worst than Hurricane. Church has left her duty and serving tables. Pastors succeeded creating greed in people. They continue to strengthen the hands of the wicked so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life (Isaiah 13:22). They keep giving feign hope to people saying; peace when there is no peace. Can a nation have peace outside the Prince of Peace?
However, What do we need to do? I believe as a people and as a country we need REPENTANCE! God is ready and able to purge and heal our land – II Chronicles 7:14. We need to humble ourselves as a church of the living God. The state of the church is the state of a nation. Only righteousness exalts a nation not corruption (Proverbs 14:34). Let the people return to the Lord. Church needs to go back to her first love. God has no business fixing the society/nation when His house is in mess. Let the true revival begins Lord. May the good God grant us a servant leader like David who will understand that government exists for the security and welfare of the people.
Conclusively, “There is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease, though its root may grow old in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant” – Job 147-9. There is hope for Nigeria! All hope is not gone. Nigeria will conquer her conquerors. This country is not going to be divided! God is in Nigeria. There shall be a New Nigeria! God has not abandoned His people. All will be well.
God bless the federal republic of Nigeria!
