ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

 

A popular saying that goes like this, "One good turn deserves another". This means that it is good to repay someone that has done you good with good. All human beings need one another, and this makes the world a better place to live in. 

In the bible, Rahab the prostitute helped the two spies sent by Joshua and when the time was right, both she and her family were spared from the calamity that befell the city of Jericho. No matter the situation we are, there is always someone out there that needs our help, and this should be reciprocated. 

David was helped by Abigail when he was hungry, and her husband Nabal had insulted him and refused to help him. David repaid her by marrying her after the death of her husband Nabal. Even when he was about to die, he told his son Solomon to repay the sons of Barzillai of Gilead, who had helped him when he fled from Absalom his son. He also helped Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son because of what his friend Jonathan had done for him when he was alive. He gave him Saul's inheritance, permitted him to live in the palace at Jerusalem and allowed him to eat at his table. 

Proverbs 3:17 says that if you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.

Always strive hard to repay good with good. By doing this, God will bless you and good will never leave your house. It is a way to thank the person who have helped you and this can make the person help you again when you ask for help.

GOD IS OUR HOME

 

A home is where we rest and put all our belongings in. All human beings were created by God in His own image and likeness. We all should submit to Him and recognize Him in all we do. At the end of our lives, we are going to answer to Him. We should feel free with Him and open our hearts to Him to come in and take His place. God is our home, and we need to rest in Him.

Satan tries His best to take us away from God, but we should always remember that God is our home, no matter what. The place where our souls find true joy, peace, contentment and happiness.

In John Chapter 14 verse 6, Jesus Christ said to His disciples, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me". This means that if we want to seek God's face and make heaven, we should go through Jesus, His Son. God is our final resting place and there is no fear with Him. Despite all our challenges in life, we must always seek rest in God and He will comfort us from all our troubles. In Matthew 11 vs 28 - 30, Jesus Christ encourages us to come unto Him, with all our troubles and problems and He will give us rest.

There is no rest outside of God and all Satan gives are troubles. Submission to God is a major thing which everybody must do, and this will keep us safe and happy. Acknowledging His place in our lives will keep a place for us in heaven and our lives on earth will be protected by Him. 

A TIME FOR EVERYTHING

There is a time for everything under the sun. In Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, it is said that there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time for silence and a time to talk. At the right time, God perfects everything.

When God chose David as King of Israel, David did not become king immediately, he waited for years to assume that position. He was anointed as a teen, but he waited till he was thirty years old before he became king of Israel. He was afraid that Saul would kill him, so he ran and hid himself. He passed through a lot of challenges before he finally took what God had kept for him. 

When God made a promise to Abraham to make him a father of many nations, Abraham had to wait for twenty-five years to get Isaac for the promise to be fulfilled. He even had a son named Ishmael from Hagar his wife's maid, but that was not the promised son. God eventually brought Isaac through Sarah at the right time, which eventually fulfilled the promise and today, there is Israel.

Every pregnancy lasts for months before the baby is born, mostly nine months. If a woman tries to push out a baby before the right time, this may lead to a miscarriage and the whole pregnancy will be futile. 

If we rush a promise God made to us, we'll ruin it and that means we're trying to play God. we should have patience to wait for God's promise to happen at the time He chooses.                                                                                                  

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

Who is God?

God is the creator of the whole world. He is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. He made all things, and He commands all things.

In Genesis Chapter 1 vs 26, God said, "And now, we will make human beings in Our image and likeness". He took dust from the ground and made the first man: Adam. God made the woman, Eve out of Adam. From them came the rest of human race.

So many people have no knowledge of God, so they live in complete ignorance. In the bible, God said in Hosea 4 vs 6, "My people perish for lack of wisdom". The truth is that so many people have not heard about God before in their lives. This is why Jesus Christ instructed His apostles in Mark 16 vs 15, to go into the world and preach the word to all peoples.

We have a duty as Christians to preach the word of God to the whole world through different ways: by actually preaching the word, our own attitudes, singing about God or writing about God. This will help the gospel spread round the world and draw souls closer to God. The most important One anybody can know is God. No one should die without the knowledge of God.

                                                                                                                                                   

MAKE THE BEST USE OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU

God gives each of us different gifts and opportunities in life, we have to make the best use of them to the glory of God. If not, they will be taken away from us. 

In the bible, we are told that Adam lived a total of 930 years. Today, a human being does not live that long. We should make the best use of the time God has given us on earth. Be it 10 years, 100 years or 130 years, we should make the best use of it to give glory to God. One day, we shall die, and God will judge us for how we lived our lives with the time He has given us on earth. 

In the bible, 1 Samuel Chapter 15 vs 3, God commanded Saul to destroy all the Amalekites. But Saul decided to spare the choicest animals, valuable items and King Agag. This made God angry, and He rejected Him as King of Israel. Also, God chose a teenager to replace him as king. 

In the bible, Matthew Chapter 25 vs. 14 - 30, a man was travelling, and he gave his 3 servants different bags of silver, depending on their abilities. To the first, he gave five bags, the second had two bags and the last had one bag. The ones with five bags and two bags respectively, doubled their bags. But the one with one bag buried it. When their master returned, he was happy with the two servants who doubled their bags and he gave them more responsibilities, but he was displeased with the last one that buried his bag. He ordered that servant to be thrown in the outer darkness.

In Matthew Chapter 25 vs 29, it is written that everyone who has will be given even more in abundance, but those who have not, even the little they have will be taken away from them. 

We should make sure that we are not idle, but we should make use of our talents, gifts and different opportunities that God has placed in our paths to use and serve the Lord because, we do not know tomorrow.                                                                                                  

THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT

Nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happens to everyone (Ecclesiastes 9 vs 11). In life, ironical things happen every day and this baffles us. 

Sometimes, it is not the person who has first class degree that gets the job, nor the most beautiful woman that wins the pageant. It just happens that people are lucky at different times.

The most beautiful woman in the pageant might have the least confidence and the one who ends up winning might have no parents. Whatever opportunity you get in life, make the best use of it because a lot of people more qualified than you desired that position but you were chosen instead. A man who worked hard in school may have a great degree and still be jobless for a long time while a man who never attended school will play a lottery and win millions of dollars.

There are times when shocking things happened in the bible like that of David and Goliath. David was not the most skilled warrior nor among King Saul's army, but he ended up defeating Goliath with a sling and a stone. There were men there who had trained for years in King Saul's army but couldn't face Goliath. 

There may be an urgency for a job in a place and all the qualified ones are busy making excuses but an average skilled man who is willing to offer help will do that job and even be made the manager in charge of all others who are actually more skilled than him. A rich man who disguised himself and wants to marry may eventually marry a maid because the queens felt too proud for him. 

God can place you in a position you actually didn't qualify for, and He can make you qualified just to prove to the world that He uses people that other people don't expect, to do great things. In a race, the fastest runner who everyone thought would end up winning could fall a few meters to the finish line while the one at the last takes the lead and wins the race. Expect the unexpected. Time and chance happen to everyone on earth. Bad luck also happens to everyone. Make the best use of every opportunity you have in this life.

EASTER SUNDAY

Today is Easter Sunday, also known as Resurrection Sunday or Pascha in Greek, when Jesus Christ arose from the dead. It is a wonderful celebration, and many people are joyous and happy to witness a day like this. It commemorates what Jesus said while He was still on earth, in Matthew 20:18-19.

There are many passages in the bible that talks about the Resurrection of Christ on the third day after His death on the cross. When Jesus was still on earth, He told His disciples as they were on their way to Jerusalem, that He was going to be handed over to the chief priests and teachers of the law. He said He would be condemned to death, mocked, flogged and crucified on the cross but on the third day, He would arise from the dead to life.

Years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote that the Messiah would come to the world, suffer and die for our sins but will be raised to life on the third day.

If Jesus did not rise from the dead, as He had promised to His disciples, then His sermons about forgiveness and hope for eternity in Heaven would have been in vain. Jesus Christ proved His own words by His resurrection from the dead.

Christians all over the world celebrate this day as they believe that Christ has arisen from the dead, and this proves that there is life after death. Life with God in Heaven.