“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic
value of human life”…Charles W. Colson
The ‘God’ factor!
Believe it or not, the world
is as mysterious as can be; so much that you could go nuts trying to figure it
all out, you just try asking the mad scientists.
It is also however really
interesting perhaps due to the surprises and unexplainable stunts that nature
usually comes up with.
It is several other things to
us all being as unique as we are, from having a perspective of the world being
a beautiful playground and also to picturing it as a cruel battleground.
The point here is we always
have to realize at some point in our lives that the less we worry and make the
most of life, the better for us.
We are meant to let go of
stuff we have no control over and enjoy the ride.
I don’t mean to be carefree,
but just think about it, doesn’t it make all the sense in the world to build a
castle out of the rocks that life throws at you constantly?
And where does God come in
here? Well, a school of thought says it’s in the wisdom in knowing what to do,
how to do it, and the virtue of actually doing it with the right attitude.
It’s quite inexhaustible by
the way, even as infinite as time is, the value and the mystery of the human
life cannot be over-emphasized.
“Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is
weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is
baloney.. ”…Jaime Cardinal Sin, speaking at a Prison Fellowship International
conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1986.
The ‘Government’ factor!
Who really are the government?
They say after God is government, and if the government is on your case, there
is a slim chance of survival. What if the government is wrong, who saves the
day? Trust me, I don’t have all the answers, and perhaps this is where you join
the parade when of course you can’t beat them. Saddening right? But we are the government;
the attitudes of our leaders and our representatives in high offices are the
reflections of our private lives and character.
If they are greedy, it is
because while they were in our midst we wallowed in apparent lack hence
preached discontent, if they are wicked and insensitive, it is because when we
hung out together, we were cruel and unforgiving of our brothers even in little
things.
In as much as the wrong acts
are no justification, its only we that are without sin that have the right to
cast the first stone, else we might as well apply wisdom ranging from turning
the other ear, or just criticize ourselves constructively and not get carried
away by the apparent leniency of stereotyped diplomacy.
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He
therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to
promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not
suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise
and virtuous man.”…Samuel Adams 1722-1803 (Signer of American Declaration of
Independence and father of the American Revolution)
The ‘You’ factor!
Who are you?
This is perhaps the most
difficult question ever, as we daily seek to discover whom we really are due to
the dehydrating thirst for the knowledge of self that has proved abortive and
evasive for as long as we can remember.
We are the architects of our
own faith, and if we give in to extreme sentiments and religious fanatics, we
shall surely fail.
Look around you, the most
successful people and nations took their destinies in their own hands and
blazed their own trails, told their own stories, blew their own trumpets, saved
their own kinds and charted their own territories.
You are who you want to be,
you are who you say you are.
“And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of
the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves
than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of
tyrants may be broken to pieces, and oppressed made free again…”Samuel Adams
1722-1803 (Signer of American Declaration of Independence and father of the
American Revolution)
It all comes together!
Believe
it or not, in as much as the world is mysterious, some people have dared to be
different, they have charted paths in the most unlikely places, they have
challenged the norm, proving the there is no such thing as impossible.
Naturally,
as a patriot and as predictable as can be, Nigeria is the special case study in
this blog post, and I am seizing this opportunity to inspire us that the
strengths embedded in us by God can make us surpass the box called government,
and we can surely soar like the eagle, with hard work, the right attitude and a
good heart of course. We have to choose to be positive and we have no choice
but to be nice.
We
can make our power sector work, our roads, hospitals, schools, health sectors,
transportation employment can be fantastic, we just have to believe in
ourselves and genuinely love ourselves.
We
can have made in Nigeria TVs, cars, phones, rice, toothpicks etc. and stop
letting China embarrass our lot.
We
are smart and we know it, why not use it for good?
We
can only get better in what we do constantly with joy and conviction.
We
need to stop flaunting other nations’ things over ours, it makes us inferior,
and guess what, they are not only smiling to the bank, they are also calling us
stupid.
They sure have guts dumping inferior products on our land, and even introducing 'ponzi' schemes like MMM into our economy to rip us off even further.
I
pledge to encourage made in Nigeria products from today on, so help me God.
What about you?
Merry
Christmas and a happy new year.
Happy
holidays and thank you for reading.
Akin Abimbola. (akinzogee@yahoo.com, akinzogee@gmail.com)
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