₦airaland Forum

I welcome back the subsidy. They should subsidise more self.

Before you say to yourself, “I will definitely trade places with him if I can without thinking twice,” consider this: Everybody is carrying a cross and you don’t know the cross that person is carrying. Look at celebrities, with all their fame and money why have a number of them given in to drugs and even suicide? You don’t have the insight into the tragedy of another person’s life. You may think he is rich and successful but you may not know that his relationship with his wife or children is terrible. You may not know he is having a serious health challenge. His son may not even be communicating with him.

Religion Has Value

There are people who are quick to dismiss religion. They see religion as something for the unsophisticated. Some of them, claiming to be woke, see no value in religion and would love to put an end to it. I really believe that those who see no value in religion are not as wise as they think. They have eyes but do not see. It could also be a case of willful blindness.

In school we are taught physics, biology, chemistry, and other subjects. As good as these subjects are, the knowledge they present to us is not as deep as that my Catholic faith or religion brings especially when it comes to how one should conduct himself through life. There is a point we get to in our lives when we ask deep and serious questions such as, “How come I exist?” and “Why am I on earth?” Let me rephrase those two questions: “Who created me?” and “What is my purpose on earth?” You can try all you can to seek the answers to those questions in mathematics and geography but they can’t give you the answers. Those questions are too deep for those subjects. But the bible answers those two questions. Let us go straight to the bible passage where the answer is: Genesis chapter one. And by the way, another word for “Genesis” is “Origin.” The book of Genesis tells you about your origin.

Genesis 1 starts thus, “In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth…” The very first chapter of Genesis tells us God created all things. God reveals this through the author(s) of Genesis. It is a revelation. Had this not been revealed, I am not so sure a lot of us could come to that knowledge just by thinking.

Genesis 1:26-27: “Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth. God created mankind in his image.” The question, “Who created me?” is answered: God created you. Verse 28 goes on: God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.” When you juxtapose this verse with the goodness of God’s creation as mentioned in multiple verses in the same chapter, you find the answer to the question, “What is my purpose on earth?”

In this first chapter of Genesis, after God created light, the bible says, “God saw that the light was good.” He created earth and sea and we read, “God saw that it was good.” The earth brought forth vegetation through God’s Word and “God saw that it was good.” Virtually after each creation, we read, “God saw that it was good.” Everything God created was good. God did not create evil. That is a topic for another post.
We come to God’s creation of man. The bible says, “God created mankind in his image.” He blessed the male and female He created and gave them dominion over the earth. If a man has a son and we speak of the son thus, “This son has the image of his father,” we mean that there is something about the father in the son. The son may therefore look like or act like his father. The bible passes a powerful message to us when it says that we were created in the image of God. There is something about God’s nature in us. You have the image of God. What does this mean?

When you carefully consider the way this creation story is structured, you may find the revelation of man’s purpose. God did His creation. His creation is all good. He created man. In His image. And He gave man dominion over His creation. Man, on earth, has the responsibility of working with God to continue God’s creation. I don’t think we can say that creation has ended. Creation is still ongoing. God is still creating through man. Just one instance of that is child birth. You who are reading this post did not exist 200 years ago. But you do now. You came to this world through your parents. But God was not totally absent in your creation. You may have the body of your parents but your soul came from God and you do have a soul.

Having the image of God, your purpose in this world, in the light of Genesis 1 - I think - is to cooperate with God in bringing about good in this world. That is your God-given responsibility. Good should be happening in this world through you. Why is this message important today? Because a lot of people complain too much and do nothing. They leave the good they should do and would like to see happen to someone else. They surrender personal agency completely. For instance, if every good person who can be a good leader runs away from politics, we leave power to be grabbed by the very people that should be far from power. Everybody cannot be in politics but I believe God has called some good people to go there. Do they respond?

In your world, cooperate with God and do good in your space. You are God’s hands and feet when it comes to doing good. God’s creation is ongoing and you are not just a participant in it but also a co-creator. Because individual talent and situation differ, what we do or engage in will vary but essentially all we do should be aimed at good. If you know your creator and live in alignment with your purpose, fulfillment is yours both now and when you are called to depart from this world. And depart you will – someday.

I really don’t know much of the bible and I am not a good interpreter of the message therein but this is what I partially see in Genesis 1. Imagine what a knowledgeable person can teach about some passages from Genesis to Revelation.

Who says religion has no value?

May Dangote Refinery succeed in local production this year to arrest this ugly price hike in diesel and petrol especially.

There are many things wrong with what is happening in the petroleum industry but please, Dangote refinery should succeed. That is the only good news I have heard for a while on an economic level.

Sad happening.

Overhaul the NNPCL.

I pray you succeed in finding the solutions.

Please start refining as soon as possible. This is good news to me.

So much has been heaped on the Nigerian Masses within four months.

Seems like some key changes are going to be happening with NNPCL.

With the amount I paid for last month's power as a post-paid user, I am positive that my distribution company has increased the cost of power regardless of what the government is saying.

No wonder there has been no power since morning.

When you are 13, there is much about you that is similar to other children who are 13 years of age. Social comparison may be appropriate at that age. But as you get older and clock say 30, you become quite unique and your life becomes quite idiosyncratic. There are multiple dimensions to your life as well as to everyone: family, friends, work, health, intimate relationships, and so on. All of these dimensions place you in a unique place in life such that your life is unlike any other’s life. And so, you see someone else and think he is doing better than you. Really? You are probably seeing and comparing only one dimension of his life to your entire life. You take what you consider the best of him and compare that to the worst you think you have. Both the comparison and the very manner in which you make the comparison is unfair to yourself. That is not reasonable. You don’t have the whole picture. The bitterness and resentment you get as a result of the unfair comparison are emotions that signal to you that there is nothing good about that.

This NLC strike is not having support.

Ok nau...

Social media is designed to be addictive. There are people employed to make that happen.

Just be conscious and intentional about using social media for good. And then you will receive its blessings.

Congratulation!

May more favours come your way.

Is the guy really a Christian guy?

All I will say to you is to have enough self-esteem to know you deserve far better than who or what he respresents.

Call off the relationship - if one could call this a relationship.

The reward for work is more work

States should generate power.

Power generation should be decentralized.

You think to yourself, “Look at that guy. He’s got a good job, a fine car, a beautiful wife, a stable life… Everything is working out for him… But look at me, everything is wrong about me.” And so, you feel terrible. And maybe you should feel terrible for that kind of comparison. The comparison is simply unfair to yourself.

We are our biggest problem!

If the news is true, I hope Nigerians benefit.

Which palliative will work in these highly trying times?

How far can the so-called palliative go given our inflation?

In the first place, that is unbelievable.

Tinubu seems to be working

Be responsible to yourself. Be of help to your family. Be of service at your workplace. Use your leadership position in that group you belong to do good. In short, develop yourself into being the sort of person capable of confronting chaos.

Those are the sort of people God uses to create heaven on earth.

I don't know if this news is really positive.

Alongside the app, let us increase our generated megawatts

I don't understand how a refinery that is clearly not ready for production can be commissioned.

The solution to our currency value is obviously more than fiscal policy.