Following
the seeming spread of disinterest among contemporary Christians to help
each other and cooperate to succeed, Akinlosoye Adekunle, has in this
powerful piece, opined on why Christians must become more conscious of
one another and of heaven.
Christians in church
This write up should not be taken with
a view of, maybe, I am a racist or someone who discriminates against
people based on their skin colours and/or religion. I actually am also a
black, I am a core Nigerian, a Christian and so whatever I mention in
this article is for the good of all of us. I do not mean to harm anybody
racially, tribally, nationally, emotionally and in every other ...lly
(ies) existing under the sun.
We the Black Christians, it is only GOD that can come to our
rescue. On so many occasions I have been pushed to take my seat, and
begin to cerebrate if there is ever any possibility that we black
Christians can be found in large quantity in heaven. This happens, not
because I love to subject myself into deep thinking, but because I have
taken valuable time to observe we the black Christians; despite our
claim of servitude to GOD (if that will rhyme with what I am saying),
our black-behaviour still resides in us. This behaviour cannot be
unfound in the so-called Ministers of GOD; the same behaviour lives in
the core of the heart of each congregant. Anyone that has been lifted by
GOD amongst us is always at the risk of being “re-named” or “rebranded”
in association with evil. The only thing we are happy to pursue after
is how that same person will be made to land crash. May GOD Have mercy
on us, we blacks.
I am still in awe and always surprised at the very reason why the
black Christians don’t promote their fellow man, why don’t they want the
good of others. Evil behaviour and unnecessary envy, those behaviour we
should be fighting, had finally thrived amidst us. Yea, the case of the
unbelievers can be understood, but what of the so-called believers-the
ones with whom JESUS is called? Black Christians, hear me clearly, what
is our intellection about heaven?
Why is that we black Christians don’t join forces together to make
our fellow man succeed in life? But if a man is as tall as that building
“Burj Khalifa” in Dubai, it doesn’t cost us black Christians a dime to
bring him down and in less than a second, through our different
machinations; defaming words, through fetish means (don’t be surprised),
through evil conspiracy and every other weapon of ours that we use.
Such man will overcome all these schemes, only if GOD is solidly behind
him. It is still we, the black Christians that dance and celebrate when
an initially-celebrated man later falls. We take delight in the harm of
other people. Black Christians, what is our intellection about heaven?
As part of our evil character, let me refresh our minds with
something that happened in Nigeria few years back; a demon-possessed
fellow was made manifested and this same guy started to give evil
testimonies that he was the one who empowered some mighty men in Christ.
He even mentioned some musicians as well. This guy quickly became
famous because the major promoters of this man were the Pastors. They
were the ones spending huge amount of money to invite him into churches
to come and give such testimonies. What is our benefit and joy in that?
Is that the gospel of JESUS CHRIST we are meant to be propagating? This
is the “tiring phenomenon” I observed. When was it heard among the
Muslims that one person just rose up and started talking evil or
incriminating their mighty ones and leaders? If not for anything else, I
trust them in this one as the accuser will not have achieved any result
before he will begin to regret such action. We the black Christians are
just very insensitive towards heaven.
Let me say this is an orchestration of the devil (as it is usually
said). If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Can I ask us one question? What is our problem? Why do we treat
ourselves as grave enemies? Why has true love gotten lost in our
community? Should this be also termed as one of the devil’s arithmetic
or one of the many end-time plagues? How many Pastors can join forces
together today to intercede for a fallen fellow – so that he can be
restored? But rather than for us to do that, we enjoy crucifying such
person, we are pleased with mockery slanders against him. His fall will
be considered as a selling sermon topics in churches. Now, look at this
one, if a church is being faced with heavy storm from the devil himself,
vigorously shaking them like they should perish, we often resort to not
calling on GOD on their behalf to silence the storm, but we rather
become professional-religious judges, judging them anyhow we deem fit.
At the end of it all, we crucify them to a very heavy cross.
We black Christians better wake up before it’s too late. I am not
asking you to wake up for me, but for heaven. “Iron sharpeneth iron”,
sayeth the Holy Bible. Any mortal man that says he is so complete and
perfect before GOD, please without any further delay, echo it unto his
hearing that he is absolutely deceiving himself. If you come across any
man who is heaven-conscious, the only thing he will be seeking after, on
daily basis, is GOD’s grace. If you think I am lying, as Christians,
can we still remember that Judas Iscariot was once useful to GOD? If
there was anyone that would not get into the Promised Land, should it be
someone like Moses? If not for grace, what do you think would have
become of Simon Peter? If you think you are perfect, should somebody
like John the Baptist be the one to send people to go and make enquiry
from JESUS if he was actually the Messiah or not? My brothers, you need
not to blame all of them, it was because they were faced with some
situations bigger, in fact, greater and weightier than them.
All children and messengers of GOD, both men and women, let us
always get each other’s back – in prayer, in love, in unity and in
mission (Acts 1:8). My prayer for every one of us (black Christians) is
that “may our entrance into the Kingdom of heaven, which we are all seeking after, not be an abomination”…..AMEN.
JEHOVAH bless you all…Amen
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Written by: Akinlosoye, A. Adekunle
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