Thoughts and Other Things

Last week, God reminded me something. He reminded me how when I really desire to do good, He is faithful to provide all the resources to meet that desire. I had a deep desire to do something for a church sister of mine, but my finances weren’t being favourable. I went ahead and made all arrangements, prepared to spend my last in order to do this good deed. On the morning of the day I was planning to go shopping, God provided, with more than what I needed. I ended up not spending my last. I realized after all this that there are so many things we plan to do, and things we claim we want to do but just don’t have enough time, or money, or skill. We postpone and put them off for some unknown time in the future. But one thing this year has thought me, having buried two church members since it began, is that time belongs to no man. If I really want to, I will, regardless of time or money. If it is a good desire, God will grant me what I need to bring it to pass. Take that man in John 5 for...

Heard a pastor say ‘if you’re somewhere and you don’t know how you got there, you’re lost’. He explained his statement saying that God directs (the steps of the righteous), and if you got there by luck and not by direction, it wasn’t God. I liked this statement, made me think of the workings of faith. Just the other day we were doing an autopsy on the faith of those who’ve gone before us (Hebrews 11). We have so many nice but unbiblical beliefs and statements in the church these days, all cause we’re too lazy to read our Bibles. Of course God will blow your mind by taking you to places you only dreamed of, but trust me, you’ll know how you got there, even if He did it overnight like He did for the Israelites. As much as they were in awe of how they came out of Egypt in one night after forty years of slavery, they knew how it happened. They knew about Moses’ talks with Pharaoh, about the plagues, about that Passover meal they had last before the left. They had directions. And whe...

The question is so exhausted I’m not even gonna try answering it. But it’s always so interesting the definitions people give to this four-lettered word. For one, my ten year old sister says ‘love is a happy emotion.’ I’ve once asked my Sunday school class the same question, the answers were hilarious and some very confusing, like ‘love is to love something with your whole heart’. But truth is, some of us, older and supposedly wiser, can’t really define it. Maybe that’s just what it is, undefinable, greater than words, beyond description. What I want to share with you is the different types of love, maybe that will inform your definition. The Bible languages (Hebrew and Greek) speak of different types of love. I’m not too familiar with Hebrew, I only did Greek in school. I've read a little on it and learned that these three loves are pretty much the same in both languages. I’m going to try my best to share my knowledge without giving you a lecture. (Although I’ll be speaking of Gr...