The fact that anyone does not see the point in Jesus dying to save humans from misery and hopelessness is not evidence that the Christian message of deliverance is inadequate. Its a pointer to the fact that he’s gravely in need of being saved himself.
In deep slumber…
Slowly went off the flames of the light
Casting shadows of a heart-breaking sight.
She cried in a broken desperation
because it seemed she and her inhabitants were left to die
In the ugly claws of rejection so she stared in fear
Doom seemed near
While in a deep slumber were God’s own tabernacles
Snoring aloud, head supported by feeble ankles.
In an alarming stillness, she thought them dead
Because all that blurred her vision was red
If only they knew
That her cities were ruined
Her buildings laid desolate, home crushed;
Cries of distress, a blasting tune
Her men in tortured labor, had begun to split up caves
Making spaces to dig up their own graves
If only they knew her enemy!
The man of guile had seized and plagued their streets
Leaving them with shuddering teeth that only grits
All that is left are weary souls grasping for breath
Earnestly longing for an easeful death
So with everyday becoming night
They are weary, white out of plight
Despite the surging wave of thick darkness
There lay no hope of light
Crazy!
She couldn’t understand why!
Were they not the saviors?
Who were supposed to build up the waste places?
The army meant to raise the foundation of many generations?
To repair the breach and restore streets for dwelling in as said the Lord
Through the mouth of prophet Isaiah?
For whom does she wait?
Achan or Zechariah?
Would they leave her in darkness and cold?
Their power and authority exchanged for insatiable vaults
Pleasures and filth the price to the devil they had sold?
Children of God indeed they are
She weeps at the hallowness of their claims
Because right from the beginning the scripture never said it so!
An unbearable shame even as my own tears comes afloat
I weep for a creation whose earnest expectation of manifestation
Is exchanged with devastation.
EVERYDAY JESUS
It was the first day of the month of April.
The day we decide how sober and how drunk we want to be for the rest of the month. What significant changes we wish to achieve. I woke up miserable and not thinking properly so I’m fooled by my younger brother twice! I was weak owing to my three-day medication of anti-malaria and it was the third day. Time passed as chores were completed and the TV was on. Until afternoon, there was no more power supply any more than there was in my body. I had just had lunch while chatting with my friend Uchechi and I never mentioned my condition to him. More importantly, my bones were broken but I was forming Ada* and went to prepare evening bath water for the family.
Power was back, though not yet in my body, so I went ahead to boil some water with the heater. My bones were broken, but I was forming. Unable to remain standing, I found my way to the bedroom and dropped on the bed. I hugged the teddy bears and the bed so much I fell asleep. My younger sister and brother were with me there watching the TV but I was too weak to notice the electronic. Next thing, my mum came in to take my sis with her. They and my dad were going out. So I was left with my brother, and I didn’t even tell anyone about the heater!
Soon, I was sweating and when I noticed power was out again, I cursed under my breath. This time, I didn’t even remember the heater. Towards evening, the rest of my family returned to dark house. I was reminded of the bath water and simultaneously that reminded of the heater. The darkness reminded me.
Finally, it turned out that the heater dried the water and was set to burn the bucket but nothing happened.
*So when mama says never leave the heater unattended, I should take her seriously 🙂 So much for the fourth commandment.
I want to thank God for saving us losses. I wouldn’t like to dismiss those interruptions (in power supply) as mere coincidences. For if they were, most buildings that experienced fire outbreaks could have got as lucky! I’d like to call this a guarantee of the Lord’s protection for my family, and a reminder of how he has loved us and is not quitting yet.
Yes! The darkness reminded me!
-Adaobi Chiemelu
#THANK FULL
I want to praise the name of God for the awesome transformation He is bringing into my life. God has been connecting me to great friends, linking me to treasured books and tapes. Most importantly, the scripture is opening up to me with such depth of revelation like never before. I can’t be grateful enough for the visions God is birthing into my heart. Glory to God!
-Agbaroji Chimeremeze
QUICK QUOTEs
If I do not feel a sense of joy in God’s creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human.
-Kallistos Ware
This is My Plea!
Hi. My name is Yahweh and I come from a State called Forever. I bet you’ve heard my story before so I’ll just give a few lines here just to get straight to the point.
I live just across the street so you can find me anywhere, anytime. However its not been that easy catching up with you. I know you been busy; a lot of times you’ve had to show up and say hi. A lot more times however, you didn’t. I know you’ve had to go through so much stress so often. You’ve got kids, work to do, stuff to attend to, business to manage. The technology that makes life easy ironically makes the world faster and your world harder. Yeah, I know; at least, I guess so. I guess that’s why you’ve not been picking my calls lately either. And then I wait all day long just to hear from you, waiting by my phone, hoping you’d care to call. Dashing my hopes every minute I thought I heard my cell phone ring only to find that there’s not as much as a missed call from you.
Point is, I’m guessing you’ve had old friends to meet, addresses to locate, invitations to honor, assignments to submit, cases to close, colleagues to deal with. That’s not to say I haven’t got any of those but I always have time carved out just for you. Yet I don’t fall in any part of your schedule? I mean, is that it? Cos you haven’t as much time to even at least write and say why you won’t be coming; and I thought we had a relationship.
So I want to ask. I want to lay it down right here, right now, straight as an arrow. What do you say? You know I couldn’t just break up with you even if I wanted to. Why? Cos I love you so much already, I cant! I just cant! So what do you say? One advice: decide for yourself. It wont do you any good to just let the ‘nays’ have it, cos you are your own man. And c’mon, I just want you to be happy.
You know, I’m done guessing cos all this guessing just wont make any sense in our relationship, just as it wouldn’t in any. I’m just saying, talk to me. Just talk. Tell me ’bout your fears, your day, your feelings. Let us talk about faith, about love, about anything you can ever think of! I am saying, learn to talk to me. Just talk. Just come to me anyhow and we’ll talk some more. Beat time and come. I mean, what have you got to lose?
So this is it. My name is Yahweh. I am just, and this, this is my plea.
Signed
Yahweh
QUICK QUOTEs
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
APRIL-FULL!
Wow!
Its almost like a week ago we were sharing the good cheer of Christmas looking forward to a new year. Today, we mark the first day of the fourth month of that same year and the ticking time is still on the move. In what may have seemed like no time, a lot has happened: God has really come through on His word for greater works than any we have ever seen. We have crossed so many milestones together and what’s more, my country now has a new leadership en route.
Amongst a myriad of tasteful word crafts and arts, we want to dedicate the next 30 days to thanking God. The need to give thanks to God Almighty cannot be over-emphasized so we employ you to join us as we all appreciate our God through the month of April.
We would be sharing testimonies, quotes and special pieces towards giving thanks to our God. To join in, you just send any article, poem or testimony to our mailbox at christapoet@gmail.com and we would happily share it on this and other platforms we control.
It’s a month full of praise.
Enjoy the ride!
God bless
Ezeonyeka Godswill
Chief Editor
Christ A Poet Team
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