Daily Devotional
Being a good person!
Text: (Luke 7:4-5 ).
And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:St. Luke 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
“I am a good person”, you often say. Yes, experience should have thought you the lesson that the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?
Not just that, viscissitudes of life does not delete the good person from her list of victims, otherwise the Centurion Servant would not have fallen sick.
Worst, been a good person, does not mean the world owes you kindness.
Judas Jesus Accountant General gave Jesus a kiss under the pretence of holy kisses but that signal “This is Him, Kill Him.”
Men often treat others like a walking stick which when a blind man sees, he throws away the walking stick that has been helping him for years.
Plaintain tree is soon cutted down to allow tender cocoa grow though it was plantain that before prevented cocoa from being adversely affected by the heat from the sun.
In the same way, today, family that ate from same pot in the past have became like a FOREST from a distance – all close until you get closer to see how SEPARATED trees are. As if that is not enough, you today need money to become a useful member of your own family! Your past contributions forgotten and disdained.
Man o, man!
When I remember that Jesus, God in the flesh of man walked out on Galilee, cursed Tyre and Sidon, then I lessoned on handling toxic relationship! Quit when the ovation is loudest.
Yes, people shouldn’t ’abandon people they love if not that they are using them, but what do we say or do when the people we love don’t believe we do, instead hate and hurt us to our bone marrow and destructive of our divine purpose?
Now that marriage in the church to so called brethren turns you to instant Satan’s inlaw what is one to do?
Judge yourself.
