Hope is one tie you should never loose.
– Christ A Poet
#hope
#rhematown iss. 103
EVERYDAYJESUS resolves my trust issues (an update)!
Sometimes when we are just too frugal and “economical”, we often think that we are being wise spenders or may be reserving something for the rainy day. The real truth here may be that we are not seeing Jesus every day. Pour exemplum, if I have just one sachet of tomato paste and four cups of rice, and I know that in every way, two cups of rice is just enough for the day for me, and that one sachet of tomato paste is just sufficient to give me a decent pot of jollof rice for dinner, if I decide to divide that one sachet of tomato paste into two equal halves because I want to reserve a half for the remaining two cups for a “tomorrow”, such that my pot of rice of today becomes what my mother calls ‘win the war’ ( food for survival), then I have simply denied my trust in Jesus as my constant supply. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He encouraged them to ask for their daily bread. He was simply trying to teach us to trust God, Abba Daddy for a one-day-at-a-time life. In the Old Testament, God was called Jehovah Jireh because on the mountain He provided. This is to say that Jehovah Jireh knows how to provide just when we need it. Today, He has not changed His nature but He just changed the relationship with us that makes Him provide. Yesterday, the children of Israel found it difficult to learn that character of God, which their father Abraham learned. They always saved some Manna as a reserve for the next day against Jehovah Jireh’s instructions. They had trust issues and that was very repulsive to Him. Today, He has become Abba Father, our Daddy. Jesus taught that if corrupt human daddies do well at giving, then our Father should do best. He supplies our needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. In fact Jesus taught that food, clothes and the like should not be part of what we should ask for because Daddy knows that we need them, we should bother about seeking His kingdom and His righteousness because all the other survival necessities would follow. Today, Jesus is asking us to trust God-ours and His Father, for supply and abundance every day. Nevertheless, Jesus does not encourage waste or gluttony (remember the gathering after feeding the 5000 to their full). He wants us to enjoy every day, if we have a natural reserve, we may keep them naturally for the next day, or we could share if
necessary, but we must not pass ourselves through a miserly miserable life in the name of being wise- even if that is wisdom, then it must be the wisdom of the world. Every day Jesus provides just as we need it!
By Favouromeje, 2016.
EVERYDAYJESUS’ ‘Other man’s dream?’ (A poem)!
What do you want for you?
Casting off this burden
Chasing the cheapest dream
Yet expecting to meander amidst the richest valleys
All seems vanity
Like it’s a mere desire
So the state of many
What if then I ask that
What do you want for you?
Will the answer solve the wave within?
Or just a common man’s answer?
Severally, it feels like saying am done
When the odds refuses to say ‘I’m gone’
Like a corn, all just fade in solely state
All for a taste, a chase that brings little
Why then living another man’s dream?
Why pretending as if your action is justifiable
When all you are doing is barely for the crowd
As a crow, the cloud of greatness initiates less
What if then I ask
What do you want for you?
Bones are fading
Days nearing to apocalypse
So the eclipse of doubt expands
Thought fails
War is yet raised
In division, so is the mission
What if I get a lamed answer?
What if you are tamed?
Why won’t you then find an answer to this question!
The alchemist (c) 2016
Author note:
What do you want for yourself?
Wish and dream?
Vision and action?
Will you get an answer to this, poets?
©, Tolulope Amao
QUICK QUOTEs
Before you think of a rope, think of a hope.
– Christ A Poet
#hope
#rhematown iss. 102
QUICK QUOTEs
No matter how hopeless, don’t hope less,
– Christ A Poet
#hope
EVERYDAYJESUS is skin-deeper with me! (A poem)
He is with me
When shame covers me until I am choking
When it leaves me feeling like trash
When contempt cuts through my heart
Such that I am bleeding to death
He is with me
He is with me
When I suffer prejudice
When bias makes me question my own good intentions
When the words of my love vocabulary appears to fail me
When I am sorely misunderstood
That I even fail to understand myself
He is with me
He is with me
When ‘neglect’ is just not good enough to say how I feel
When I feel as though I am an ‘after-thought’
When I feel rejection and humiliation
Such that I have a perfect blend of a distasteful ‘emoconcotions’
When the sharp sourness of this emoconcotions cuts through my pride
Sharper than a diamond sword
Until pain makes me weak and speechless
That I fail to rise above the lethargy within
He remains just there with me
He is with me
When human words fails my heart expressions
When I know just a few words to tell exactly how I feel
He groans within me with words deeper than words
Because He forever remains with and in me
He is with me
When pain dries the fountain of my tears
Such that my greatest need becomes to weep
So that my pains might be washed away
I know He is yet with me
He is with me
When I feel lonely and all alone
When I feel as though I have just ‘me’
When ‘me’ is not sure if she should remain with me
He will never fail me
Because He is right there with me
He is with me
Even when I am wrong
When I am unmerciful and finger-pointing
When I stray from the love lane
Such that I feel as though I have failed
His love will never fail
Because He loves to be right with me
He is with me
When the seeming cold hands of death come for me
When I know that my time has come I warm up in child-like excitement
For I know that death has lost its sting on me
So I need not fret or fear
Because He will as always wrap me in His love consuming
Such that my heart quakes and my spirit blushes
In earnest expectation for my great hibernation
Which ushers me to the redeeming consummation
Away from this fallen home that I live in
To that incorruptible home, the kind that Man Jesus lives in
That body which has no limitations and barrier
I know my rejoicing would know no bound
For again He will be with me
He is with you
Even when guilt seems to be blinding your sight
When you are clueless and running away in blind shame
Such that you appear to have fallen into the strong arms of the enemy
Just quit your packing to the ‘no home’ place
You see, He never gives a quit notice
Because even if you still choose to leave
He just can never ever leave you
Jesus will ever be with you through the thick and the thin
He is that friend who sticks closer than a kin
Because He is indeed closer and deeper than your skin
And it definitely will not depend on what you feel or think
He will never leave you or abandon you
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? …No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord – Romans 8: 35-39 (NIV)
By Favouromeje, 2016.
