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skywalker240:
Can I get the t901 Kai os phone? Benin City i base

If you don't have that, I can have make do with

Nokia 6300, Tecno t902 or any Kai Os phone.

Thanks

LajaLaba:
Chest beaters

Gadafii:
Nairaland is a wild crazy place 😂😂😂

See kolo comments above 🤣

abbasajao:
War go start now between Anambra and Northerners

Titto93:
HARIZ is owned by an igboman from Anambra

illicit:
Hmmmm

I think it's d owner that owns it

Flora2Sweet:
It's my Landlord a very Nice man..

He gives us fuel free of charge..

Westerhoffe:
I looked and looked, I almost remembered who owns it but I just realized and remembered I have never been to Jos before, so I didn't actually forget who owns it but I never knew who owns it.

RepoMan007:
the mumu and corrupt discos now have an excuse to justify endless estimated billing and thus theft.
They should build in protective circuits into their metres and spike the power voltage once in a while at random to destroy the gadgets of bypassers of their protected prepaid metres. They could program the metres to go off shortly before spike the voltage too. That will deter bypassers but can they reason out of the box?

ebenhazard:
If there's no darkness, light wouldn't have been important

There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding in the world about who God is. His nature and character are often misunderstood. Here, we will examine a powerful biblical truth which should help us understand His character more clearly. This is the truth that God is light.

1 John 1:5

:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

We get to know God through the Word, and here in 1 John 1:5, we are told a very foundational fact about who He is.

Most Christians would agree with you if you said that God is light. It is generally not one of the issues that gets argued with and debated in the church like some other truths.

However, there are many issues that Christians are confused about and do argue about that could get solved if we would really understood what it means that God is light.
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Knowing God is Light and understanding the depth of this truth are two different things.

There is so much truth in this principle that will strengthen and establish you in your faith in God and that can set people free from confusion and struggles. There are answers to issues the church has debated over for many years right here in this verse of scripture, contained within the truth that ‘God is Light and in Him is no darkness’, if only we would see what this phrase communicates to us.

You may not think right now that there are any great answers to areas people have struggled with in this phrase, but as you read these articles and see what the Bible has to say about this whole issue of light and darkness, you will understand why I say that.

We are going to look at this step-by-step but by the end of it, I hope you will be jumping up and down with excitement at the truth that God is light and there is not darkness in Him, as you see how powerful and liberating this truth is.
Light in the Bible

Light is a word which speaks so much in both natural and spiritual terms. It is used in the Bible to reveal many important truths that are relevant to the Christian life.

Light and life

Light is essential for life
It exposes things that could not be seen (Ephesians 5:13)
Light is connected to warmth
It helps guide people in the dark. To see where you are going you need light.

Jesus is spoken of as ‘The Light’ (John 1; 8:12, 9:5)
We are called ‘sons of light’ (John 16:8, Colossians 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:5).
Jesus said we are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)
We have been called out of darkness and into light (1 Peter 2:9), are told to walk in the light (John 12:35; 1 John 1:7), to walk as children of light (Ephesians 5: and to put on the armour of light (Romans 13:12)
The gospel is referred to as ‘the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ’ (2 Corinthians 4:4)
God’s Word is said to be a Light to our path (Psalm 119:105)
God brings light to our darkness (Psalm 18:28)

Light in the Bible refers to a number of things including revelation of truth, direction from God and understanding of the Word. It is used to refer to the things of God: His kingdom, His people, His ways and His Word.

On the other hand, the Bible speaks of the devil and his cohorts in terms of darkness.
Darkness in the Bible

Colossians 1:13 speaks of us being delivered from the power of darkness.
The way of the wicked is like darkness (Proverbs 4:19)
Darkness causes people to stumble and fall (Proverbs 4:19)
Darkness is connected to trouble and sorrow (Ecclesiastes 5:17, Isaiah 5:30; 8:22)
Darkness is a place of prison (Isaiah 42:7)
Darkness is connected to death

Because of what these words speak, ‘light’ really sums up all that is of God, while ‘darkness’ sums up all that is of the devil.

In the Bible, light is associated with good and dark is associated with bad or evil. Many people have understood this in connection to sin. They know that walking in sin is walking in darkness, but this principle is far broader than that.
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Light and Dark are opposites

Once again, the point I am about to make may seem elementary and obvious, but getting it established in our thinking right at the start of this article will help us as we progress.

Light and Dark are opposites. Like ‘dry’ and ‘wet’, they do not mix!

You cannot say I am so dry right now, but I am also wet! There are some phrases that do not mix together. You cannot be both at the same time. Light and Dark are like that. You can’t say, ‘Wow it is so light in here, but I can’t see anything because of the darkness!’ That statement is nonsense. It does not make any sense at all, because the two cannot and do not exist together in the same place at the same time. When the light comes on, the darkness goes away. Darkness can only exist in the absence of light.
There is NO Darkness In God

Notice the phrase from 1 John 1:5, ‘… in Him is no darkness at all…’

The Amplified Bible puts it this way: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [no, not in any way].

There is a note in the margin of the Amplified Bible which says that last phrase, ‘no, not in any way’ is the literal translation of that phrase. This is making a very clear and blunt point! It does not want to leave us with any uncertainty or confusion on the issue.
How much darkness is there in God?
There is no darkness in God at all, absolutely none in any way whatsoever!

This principle gives us a very foundational and fundamental truth about God. It tells us something about WHO He is and who He is not. It shows us what He is associated with and involved in and what He has nothing to do with.

So let’s think this through clearly:

Does God have a ‘dark side’ to his personality?
Are there aspects of God which are Dark?
Is there any way that God associates, teams up with or works with darkness?
Does He sometimes do dark things?
Is He a combination of good and bad, light and dark, good and evil?
Does God have a dark, naughty and evil side?

All of the above questions can be answered by understanding that God is Light, in Him there is no darkness at all.

No, God does not have a dark side, there are no aspects of him which are dark, He does not associate with darkness and He never does dark things! He is not a combination of light and dark. He is only light. There is no darkness in Him.

If we can identify anything as being of darkness, then we can know for sure that God has nothing to do with it because there is no darkness in Him.

This may be getting a little repetitive, but I want to drive home this point, as it will really set you free in your thinking. We need to understand that anytime we accuse God of bad, we are accusing Him of darkness, and we need to be very careful about claiming God is involved in something that He actually has nothing to do with.
The Bible makes it very clear that there are two sides to this.

There is the side of light and the side of darkness. They are not two parts of the same team!

Light and Darkness do not work together as team mates. They are separate spiritual kingdoms that do different things. In spiritual terms, they are sworn enemies and will never team up. They work completely contradictory to each other, and neither side helps the other. God is not team mates with the devil in your life. God does not work with the enemy ‘to perfect you’.

God’s Kingdom is the Kingdom of Light and there is no darkness in it. Darkness is of the enemy and anything associated with darkness is of the enemy.
Don’t accuse God of darkness

So we have it clear now: there is no darkness in God. This is a defining principle about God that makes it clear what is in Him and what is not. We better watch out what we accuse Him of. When we say things about God, are we accusing Him of darkness?

Be very careful about associating God with anything that is of darkness. If we do say that God is involved in anything that is of darkness, we are saying that He associates with darkness and has darkness in Him.
People who don’t know God accuse Him of darkness all the time.

Anytime we accuse God of bad, we accuse Him of darkness.

We need to get our definition and understanding of Him correct.
When people associate God with death and suffering, they are associating Him with darkness. If they could only see Him for who He really is as light.

It is such a shame when people misunderstand God and His character and accuse Him of making people sick or wanting them to suffer. These are things of darkness, so how could people claim that God is involved in them?
Let me ask it this way:

Is sin connected to darkness?
Most definitely yes! People who walk in sin are said to be walking in darkness.

Well, would God sin? Does God sin?
Does God associate with and team up with sin?

Any person who has the slightest bit of correct theology should easily know the answer to that question! God does not team up with sin. Sin is not of God and has nothing to do with God, because sin is of darkness.

Why is it that we can see so clearly and easily that God and sin do not go together, but when it comes to other things of darkness, we are not so convinced?

Sickness, death, poverty etc are all part of darkness, yet we associate them to God.

We ought to be just as repulsed when God is associated with sickness as we would be if He were associated with sin. People who think God is a mixture of good and evil don’t know Him at all. There is no darkness in Him at all, not even a tiny little bit in one corner of His personality. Oh that people would get the revelation that God is light.

We have so many muddled up ideas about our God.
We cross the boundaries between good and evil and we define it all as God

Guided by light

We look at sickness and suffering and think that God, the Healer is involved in them!

Even some preachers have this idea that ‘somewhere’ in God there is a little corner of darkness at least! They claim that He may be ‘mostly good’ but there is a bad / dark side to Him and that sometimes you see His ‘dark side’. They may not say it exactly like that, but what they do say carries that thought and implication.

That is so far from the Bible. There is no darkness in Him, so we had better be very aware of what we are claiming is Him, when the Bible says ‘that thing’ is darkness.

The truth that God is light is foundational in understanding His character.

IyaebeTheGreat:
It's too long

In the first article we discussed the Biblical truth that God is light. We looked at how the Bible views light and darkness in terms of spiritual kingdoms and activities. Here we will build upon this and discuss how God separated the light from the darkness and how we need to do the same thing in our own belief systems.

In the beginning

In the first four verses of the opening chapter of the first book of the Bible (Genesis) you can get one of the biggest revelations the Bible has about God!

Right at the start of the Bible, God wastes no time at all in telling us that He has separated light from darkness. He wants us to understand this immediately, so that we do not get confused about it later.

Genesis 1:1-4
:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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There are two very important points to see from verse 4:
1) God defined the light as ‘good’

Anyone who has read through the first chapter of Genesis will know that as God created, He would stop, look at what He had created and say, ‘it is good’.
In the beginning

In Genesis 1:10, God made the dry land and the seas and saw that they were good

Then, in Genesis 1:11-12 He made the trees, grass, vegetation etc and saw that it was good.

Right the way through Genesis 1, God creates something then defines it as ‘good’.

However, go back to Genesis 1:4 and notice that when God saw the light, He saw that it was ‘good’ but said no such thing about the darkness.
Light is good, Darkness is not good

Of all the things mentioned in Genesis 1, God never defined darkness as good. It is one thing that He never defined as good. Genesis does not say God saw that the light and darkness were ‘good’. No, He saw the ‘light’ and only called it good. God said nothing about darkness being good.

This is not a side thought or a minor issue. It is actually so important that it goes right to the core of many people’s theology, and if you are muddled on this point, you will be messed up and confused on many other points. If you can get this right, many other things will fall into place.

God saw that the light was good. He defined it that way right at the start and did not say the same about darkness.

This shows us that light is good and darkness is not. Also anything that is part of light and associated with light is good, and anything that is part of, connected to and associated with darkness is not good.

The Lord does not want us to be confused on this issue.

2) God separated (divided) the light from the darkness

The word translated ‘divided’ in Genesis 1:4 is the Hebrew, ‘badal’ meaning, ‘to divide, separate, distinguish, divide asunder, make separate

God divided (separated) light and dark. He split the two and said ‘light’ is on that side, ‘darkness’ is on the other side. He made a division between the light and the dark and He only defined one of them as good (light).

In other words He made a clear dividing line between what is light and what is dark, so that there would be no confusion. He did not leave them mixed, overlapping or muddled.

This shows that in God’s eyes, light and dark do not ‘overlap’ He has separated them, divided them, made a distinction between the two. He put light on one side, dark on the other. He then defined light as good, showing that everything that is on the ‘light side’ of the separation is good, and everything that is on the ‘dark side’ of the separation is not defined as good.

Spiritual light and darkness

There is a principle here that goes beyond just natural light and darkness. It shows us how the Bible views spiritual light and spiritual darkness. God separated them and only classed light as good.

He then told us that He is light (in other words on the good side of the line). He also told us that there is no darkness in him. (See the first article in this series on God is Light). This should be ample information for us to understand His character and nature.

He does not cross over the separation line between the two. He is only on one side of the separation and you will not find Him on the other side. You will never find Him crossing over into the areas of darkness, for any time, on any occasion, for anything!

This separation between light and dark is fundamental to God, and helps define what He does and what He does not do, what He is involved in and what He is not involved in.

If there is ever any question about God’s involvement in something, the way to decide is to separate the light from the darkness like He did.
How to understand God

Ask yourself, ‘what is light and what is darkness in all this’ Once you locate what is darkness, you know, ‘God has nothing to do with that. He is not behind it or involved in it in any way!’

Light = Life = good
Dark = Death = bad
It IS that simple.

Swapping Darkness and Light

Isaiah 5:20

:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Here God says, ‘WOE to those… who put darkness for light…’. In other words, those who swap them around and make them interchangeable.

Those who cross the boundary between the two and remove the dividing line that God placed between them. God wants us to understand that light and dark do not go together and they cannot be switched and substituted for each other.

What is good is good, don’t call it evil, and what is bad is bad, don’t call it good.

The same is so for darkness and light, don’t try to swap them around, and claim that God, who is light, does dark things. Light and dark do not mix, and God is light, so He does not mix with darkness.
Don’t confuse light and dark

Is God confused about the boundaries between good and bad, and between light and dark or is He quite clear in His own understanding what is what?

He defined the boundaries all the way back in Genesis 1, and He has never and will never cross them. He is light and only stays on the side of light.

Does He want us confused about what is good and what is evil?

God quite clearly shows us what is good and bad in connection to performance (morals, ethics), yet in other areas (healing, prosperity) people get all confused and claim we cannot know good and bad! God is not confused, man is! God knows exactly what is on the side of light and good, and He tells us in His Word.
Light and life; Darkness and Death

The Bible shows that light and life are associated, they are partners, and darkness and death are associated. Darkness has partnered up with death.

When we connect God to death, we are connecting Him to darkness. This is where we mess things up in our thinking.

Notice how the following scripture connects life and light:

John 1:4
:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Now notice how the following scriptures connect darkness and death:

Psalm 23:4
:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Shadows are associated with darkness. Here in Psalm 23 it talks about ‘the shadow of death’. Matthew also uses this phrase:

Matthew 4:16

:16 The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

Matthew talks about people who ‘sat in darkness’ and then refers saying they, ‘sat in the region and shadow of death’. He connects darkness and death. Those who sit in darkness are sitting in the realm of death.

The realm of darkness is the realm of death! Luke also shows this:

Luke 1:78-79
:78 Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Day-spring from on high has visited us;
:79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

According to these passages, God’s answer for those in darkness and death is light. Light brings life. Science has only recently discovered this, but God and the Bible have said it all along.

‘day-spring’ here speaks of sunrise, dawn. It is referring to Jesus, THE Light.
What happens when the sun rises?

The light comes.

There is life in the light. If we walk in the light, we will walk in life.
There is death in darkness. If we walk in darkness, we will walk in death and all that death has to offer!

So let us again think about the question we asked in the first article: Is there any darkness in God?

What about: Is there any death in Him?

If there is darkness in God, then there is death in Him.

Now this is where people get muddled, they will say there is no darkness in God, but then they connect God to death! When they do that they are also connecting Him to darkness. When you associate God with death, you associate Him with darkness.

Remember to make a distinction in your understanding between light and dark. Don’t mix and blur the two together. God separated them, now you need to separate them in your understanding (and in your beliefs) and see clearly which side God is on.

God has separated light and darkness. He split them and put them on opposites sides, and said they do not mix.
We need to divide the light from the Darkness

It is about time we separated the light from the darkness just like God did. We really need to define clearly within ourselves what is God and what is not, what is good and what is bad, what is light and what is dark.

God has already separated light from darkness, but in our thinking and in our believing we mix and muddle the two. Large portions of theology have been based upon mixing light and darkness and claiming God is involved in both.

God divided the light from the darkness. We need to do this within ourselves too. In your beliefs learn to separate, divide and make a distinction between light and dark. Then clearly understand and define which side God is on once and for all.

Stop confusing the issue and constantly putting God on the side of darkness. In our understanding of God, understand that He is light, and don’t confuse what He does with darkness.

We get muddled because we have never made the separation between the two in our beliefs and come to the place where we know which side of the line God is on and which side He is not on. We just muddle God into all of it.
How do I know what God is involved in?

He tells you in His Word. He defines light as ‘good’, and then says that He is Light. He clearly lets us know what is of darkness, and that darkness and death are associated. Anything of death is darkness and is not on the same side God is on.

He is the Healer – not the one who makes people sick
He is the Provider, not the one who makes people poor
He is the Saviour, not the one who puts people into captivity
He is the Redeemer, not the One who enslaves people

Make this distinction in your beliefs and stop blurring the boundaries between light and dark. We get confused because we have not put God on one side and the devil on the other. We mix their roles up. The Bible makes a clear distinction.
Jesus made this separation

John 10:10

:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Here Jesus does the same with Himself and ‘the thief’ as God did with light and darkness. He makes a clear distinction between the two, placing the thief on one side and Himself on the other. He shows that there is not a blur between what He is involved in and what the thief does.

Jesus says, the thief is on that side of the line, he kills, steals and destroys; I am on this side of the line, I came to give life. It IS as simple as that

Remember that light and life are connected, so when Jesus said He came to give ‘life’, He is again showing that He is on the side of Light.

Jesus never said there are times He is on the thief’s side, or that you can never really tell what is what, because it is all blurred and mixed! Modern theology tries to say that, but Jesus never did. He made a very clear distinction between the two.

We have failed to do what the first four verses of the Bible did! God did it right away, making a clear dividing line between the two. He defined right from the start the two, light and dark, and which is good.

How can we understand the rest of the Bible if we fail to make this foundational distinction which is defined in the first few verses of the Bible?

God separated the two. Put light on one side, dark on the other. Then He defined the two and told us through His Word which is good.

Also He says, ‘light is good and I am light’. Just so you know which side of the line I am on!
Your turn

Make this separation in your belief system and we will be able to sort out a lot of the confusion in the church. Huge doctrinal debates have arisen and continue to be fueled into full flame, simply because people have not made this foundational and fundamental separation between light and dark, good and bad, God and the devil.

There are still Christians who think God makes people sick or that God is behind suffering. There are still Christians who actually believe suffering glorifies God!
Why do they hold to these beliefs?

Because they have not separated the light from the darkness. They have not done what God Himself did in the first four verses of the Bible.

The Bible does separate the light from the dark. There are no confused or blurred boundaries in the Word. Where there are confused and blurred boundaries is in Christian’s belief systems! We need to get our belief systems lined up with the Word in this area.

Xscape1993:
Is Delta state not in South South? We have Yoruba speaking people in Kogi state. Should they be calming Lagos or Osun state because they speak Yoruba language?

jesusjnr2020:
That's not all though as that revelation yet led to another revelation.

It was after I had been given the answer to that confounding question, that i also came to realize that the answer of the question Jesus asked them, was also the answer to the questions the same people had asked concerning Jesus, when He said He was the Son of God, because they considered such a saying of His to be blasphemous.

John 10:33

The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

So Jesus actually hid the answer to their question about Him, in the question He asked them, using that saying of David about Him in their most revered scriptures as the basis for that.

Hence all they needed to do was to figure it out, and that would once and for all address their confusion about how He could be a man and yet claim to be the Son of God.

So that answer could also have been life-saving for them, as it would make them know the Truth and the Truth shall make them free.

But unfortunately, their hearts were waxed gross and hardened against the Truth, so the knowledge was yet hidden from them to their own peril and destruction.

May we not come so close to the Truth and yet not be able to realize it. In Jesus name!

God bless.

CodeTemplar:
Corruption is in all sectors and taking subsidy removal saving into already corrupt sectors of the system will be worse than what is on ground.

CodeTemplar:
Subsidy is not a fraud. The frauds are the people who could block the border against food smugglers but allow petrol smuggles to go through. Before you reply with an epistle, read about welfare schemes in more advanced nations.

Bfly:
Looking at how subsidy removal may cause hyper-inflation what is the possibility of those lesser Nigerian currency surviving because fuel at almost 750/litres may aswell wipe out #20 downward. This subsidy of a thing is getting real.
Imagine life after subsidy removal.

mizzhathaway:
Happy Sunday people
It's funny to me myself that I'm here to rant about Biros, but really this is coming from a place of frustration. Do you all know how annoying it is to spend money on Biros almost every two days??! Biros these days are just absolutely terrible. You buy a new shiny biro, Avanti and co.. some with strange names sef, use it for one day and the next day, this apparently full inked biro is unconscious.
I don't understand, my purse is always filled with new and dead Biros, lol.
It wasn't until I had to borrow a Biro in a test I decided I was done. I sought out Bic, I remembered using it briefly in secondary school and I also did a mini impromptu campaign for them when they visited my school then, being the SP, I found myself campaigning for a Biro I never even used, I was given some afterwards and I used it well.
Now I'm back to Bic, and you guys, this is the second week now and here I am still writing with my beloved Biro. Goodbye to fake Biros. Lol

Kobojunkie:
1. So, you are not at all interested in spreading the Truth of God. Your focus is instead on pacifying the crowd with disinformation as is the way with your many daddies and mommies. Ok.

Kobojunkie:
Feel free to compare what God said of Abraham's expression of faith and what this devotional is attempting to make you believe. Both of them cannot be true.

Kobojunkie:
1. I can tell from this that the content of even this devotional is filled with gobbledegook since it attempts to explain that which is of God using meaningless analogies. Read Genesis 26 vs 5 to understand, from the mouth of God Himself, what it means to live a faithful life.

Afikoo:
In 2020 I bought Infinix 43 inches Smart TV. That TV has been having screen issues till date even after I have fixed it .
I want to buy another Smart TV.

Please recommend brand Of TV I should go for .

Budget is 190k.
Thanks