Impact

 Dear Christian,  How have you fared without the Lord so far?  How have you managed without fellowship with Him? I mean how have you coped without study of the word?  How have you trolled on this road without prayers?  How do you manage the world's affairs without Him in your heart?  What runs through your mind? What things do you desire? What sparks up your imagination?  What excites your body and satisfies its cravings?  How do you cope with the torrent that rages within your flesh? The lust that calls for satisfaction? How have you fared since you backslided? Since you blamed the Lord for all the ills in your life and left Him seeking other options? Seeking freedom?  How free have you been?  What are those chains you've got round your neck, your feet, your heart, your hands?  Boredom, depression, anger, bitterness, lust, unforgiveness, depravity, cloned freedom, emptiness...  Dear Christian,  Where are you now? Like rig...

I guess I was in SSS3 preparing for WAEC and looking forward to taking the JAMB exams that would qualify me for higher institution. On one of those days, I was talking with some people who happened to be brethren about how excited I was to be going to the higher institution soon and how I would love to serve God there.  One of them,  a brother,  said to me, "Joy, even if you carry seven big bibles and go to the university, you go backslide. University is a different world and the things happening there ehn... " He went on and on talking about how it was impossible to go to University and come back a Christian. It was probably because he had seen a few with such experiences. Still as I look back, it is funny that the brother who was saying all of that had never been to the university before. He probably had never even seen the walls. All he had with him were hearsays which he uttered with so much conviction.  Even hearsays are capable of igniting the fire of doubts an...