I Will Come To You, But Will You Wait?

Knowing and Trusting God

Walking with God really is the greatest advantage you can find in life. As far as I know to date  God is the only one whom I know never disappointed anyone. Others may not have wanted to disappoint you, but when unforeseeable or unfavorable circumstance shows up they renege.
When we call God into a situation you are rest assured that He will resolve it perfectly with all concerned getting real satisfaction. In God no one loses. Our problem, though, is that God's solution always seem like a dream; like too good to be true. And so we switch into DIY.
In trying to get our self-baked solution, we go through unnecessary pain and agony, we hurt others, we sear our conscience and live in denial that we are the way we should be. And we hurt God Himself! And when at the end of the day, we come to  the end of our road, we go right back to God where we'd have been all along.
God says to us today that He will come to us when we call on Him. What He wants to know is, would we be patient and trusting to wait for Him until He comes into our situation? Especially, when waiting makes us look brainless or weak?! God will come alright, but do we trust Him; would we wait for Him..?

Getting to the Heart of Love

If one goes by the Bible of the Christians, taken literally, life could be lived like in a fairy tale. However, it just does not make sense. And that itself is what it is really all about, the whole thing not making sense. Simply stated, you get born again, hand over the reins of your life to the Ghost of God, called the Holy Ghost / Spirit, and you are on a roller-coaster ride through life. Right? Anything you want, just ask in the name of Jesus and it's done for you. Right? How desirable such a life would be, but it is just sensibly unimaginable.

Life runs on such a logical level that sometimes it seems so unnecessary to pray. Naturally there are causes and effects in everything we experience in life. There are natural sequences that events follow given  the ideal environment for them. So, growth naturally follows birth, and after attaining maturity depreciation begins to set in. Whether you pray or not, when the seasons come they happen.
Now there are a number of  concerns of daily living that the practitioners of religion make such a big deal of as being the result of divine intervention . These are
Being healed of sickness and disease
Coming into wealthy and property
Having success in business, in a career, in education or any other venture or proposal you may think of.
Having things literally going your way.

The Philosophy of Life

In basic philosophy and logic we find that there is no one correct side to an argument or proposition. There are always other ways, none of them permanently superior to the others. Recall the saying ' one man's poison could be another man’s meat'. So, since life runs on such a predictable level,  how come religion holds such a big sway in the way people view happenings? If you meet the condition for good health you would be healthy. If you meet the condition to acquire wealth you would be wealthy, and if you do your needed preparation towards success you would be successful.
When people leave things to chance, or when they do nothing, they naturally do not want to take responsibility for the outcome. Then they pass it all unto God. I think that if people took the necessary steps to guarantee success  in whatever their venture may be, then being successful would not be such a big deal as to ascribe it to God alone. God's world is made to run straight, and He has equipped us to accomplish a lot of things, great things. However, so very many people are operating under capacity. Since they do not want to be involved or, not wanting to have to keep on registering success which would be demanded of them once they show they can succeed, they drop below the radar where they feel comfortable being unnoticed.
We know that there are always two sides to a coin or anything for that matter. When death occurs there is a bad side to it and there is a good side to it. If one suffers loss in any way there are good and bad sides to it. Equally, when something seemingly good happens, like you find the love of your life or you earn a big sum of money; if you would let yourself but see, these too have their negatives. What often happens therefore is that we keep our hearts latched to what we want without weighing all the sides. And when that happens we stagnate and limit ourselves. It is proper to always keep an open mind on things so that we would keep moving whatever happens.

What then is the Heart of Love?

 Jesus was introduced into God's plan for humanity because of the innate tendency of man to be depraved. Love for one's fellow man cannot be legislated. When a man is operating from the foundation of love nothing will be unachievable to him. That is, he would be finely tuned-up and flows naturally. To be in this way is getting to the heart of love. No miracle is called for and  nothing wows you because you are just being who you are.
You love people because you really do, not because the law says that you should not hurt somebody else. You  want to just do what you are doing without calculating how to run the other people out of the way. Your result flows naturally to you without you being mindful of it.
Getting to the heart of love is having no care for yourself, no anxiety of any sort. It is having the assurance inside of you that everything is well. That no matter how dark the clouds in the sky nor how turbulent the storm, you know you would come out of it safe, complete and unaffected.
To get to the heart of love is to have done all that is customary to do in our time, not looking for any free ride from anybody and not resorting to any black-hat strategy to winning, and then having a cool patience and rest in the knowledge that the perfect result will flow to you naturally.
Getting to the heart of love is to have the confidence that, when you have done all there is to be done, God is on your side telling you well done.
  
Resolving Disputes with the Heart of Love

I often wondered what it would seem like to give up fighting a dispute in which the opposing party clearly is not cooperating in getting it resolved. I have been in an issue like that for some time now and it is looking like it is taking a toll on everything around me. Then I thought perhaps it would be a good idea to just leave it all to God to sort out. And I wondered what it really is I'd be doing if I went on to do that.


Well, here is what I think, naturally. I'd be running away! As I could not get a redress of a wrong done me, I drop it all and move on and the offender smiles away with my benefits converted, my very own sweat. Could this really be an option? A practical option? What if love never prevails on the defaulter to pay me back? He just makes away with my property just because he frustrated my attempts at recovery?

Tell you the truth, it feels like chickening out, being cowardly!  But that would seem an alternate line of action – inaction. Love did say to turn the other cheek. Taking no action after stressing an issue for so long without resolution would be considered as a line of action, right? At least you are released from being locked-down on the issue. Hmm! This is really heavy. But again I ask, does it not amount to giving up? True, but when one's hand is in a lion's mouth it takes time (and I might add guile) to pull it out! Still, leaving the hand in the lion's mouth hoping it will eventually willingly release it is like, to me, wishing for the impossible. Now would this be the heart of love, or just admitting that one has been beaten?!
It's really confusing to me right now, so tell me what you think about this.

When Buying a Safety Motorcycle Helmet Would Have Saved a Man's Life

I saw a man dieing this evening. He was sprawled by the side of the tarred road right in front of my used car

sales spot. I did not know how he came to be dieing, but I saw two motor-bikes lieing on the ground by the road

side. Two motorcycles, two riders, but no motorcycle helmet in sight. It seemed they had collided. I really cannot say. I had driven the last of my cars to my house for the night

and I only happened to be out there because I brought out my salesman. Another man, who is likely to be the second

rider was not too badly wounded. He was trying to revive himself by doing some press-ups.

People quickly gathered round the dieing man but none offered a helping hand. I shone my head lamp at the victim

for them to see him well but still they just stood staring. I shoo-ed them off from him if they would not help.

The man had no motor-bike helmet on. Recently the government had legislated that every rider on a bike should put on a

motorcycle helmet. This one sadly will pay with his life for flouting that law.

A private hospital stood nearby, and a Local Government Health Centre nearly opposite the accident spot. But I know that none of

them could help the dieing man. They are not just equipped to give that level of health care. A shame for this

country's health-care program.

'Get some water to pour on him' I shouted but they said 'No'.
Why, I don't know. Perhaps, it has to do with how you treat people in shock.
'Well, don't just stand around watching him die, move him to the hospital' I said, frustrated.
'You give us your car to take him to the hospital' one of the on-lookers challenged me.
'But the hospital is only a walk away!' I said.
And I imagined blood from the man's cracked skull staining all over the back seat of the car, for it would be

callous to want to move him in the car booth. It is not even my car, in that sense, to use as I pleased. It is a

merchandise that somebody will eventually buy.
Seeing I was not getting through to them, I said this to no one in particular
'Well, suit yourself, do nothing, stand around and watch him die. If your time ever comes, people will stand and

watch you die the same way too'. And I drove away back to my home.

As I drove home I began to wonder at what I had just witnessed. Was it merely crowd mentality or something more

disturbing. In a crowd someone expects someone else to do something, and if no one takes the initiative they'll

all just be there till the man breathes his last. And then they'll begin to walk away one by one muttering to

themselves how unfortunate it had been that the man died. The people were just there, old and young, women and

men, no one willing to lift a hand. No one called any expert help. I must say that this thought did not occured to

me too while there. Not that there was any nearby. The man seemed to need an immediate intervention as there was

no time. There are really much that we are deficient in here.

This night marks the end of the Moslem annual Rahmadan 40-day fast. I am thinking that here in my environment,

when something really, really does not make sense there probably is something else to it. I wondered if the

accident was not pre-programmed by dark powers. Maybe the dieing man is a 'sacrificial meat' determined by the

unseen hands of diabolical powers. Maybe the people crowding him and yet would not lift a hand to help him live

were there to absorb his aura as it parts from him. Think me nuts, but things have been known to happen which you

can't even imagine.

I came home sulking at not being able to help. After I demobilized the cars I sat in the open ground near my

concrete fish pond under construction. I looked up at the sky and it was cloudy and dark all over. Then I had this

seemingly silly idea that if I could just spot a star in the night sky, just a lone star, that it would be an omen

that the dieing man would live. I pleaded with God. Then I looked and saw none. I checked again turning my head

around to really see, just one distant star, but it was gloomy in the skies. After a while I figured I should

really see if God would make a bargain with me and grant me this man's life by showing me just one star, but there are no stars out this night.