By: Agsoba (Chief) Femi Akinfolarinwa
Primarily, I wish to concede my incapacitation to offer anything materially o r spiritually tangible. But like Christ told the woman by the well in John 4 13-14 on quote; “Everyone that drinks of this well water will remain thirsty but whoever drinks of the water I will give him, will never be thirsty again. The water I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to everlasting life”. The above quote was from Christ. No living being is at the level of Christ, but the Merciful God has made His g race our common heritage, provided we are ready to offer the required sacrifice to access it and as it is well known, gold is not found on the surface of the earth. He who truly wants gold must dig deep. No other way. This message is aimed at assisting us to have peace of mind that seems elusive to mankind and the pursuit of it appears to be our main occupation. The truth of the matter is that we are generally restless because we have let go the hands of the Lord. Worse still, nothing in the creation can and will ever give us lasting happiness. This is because we are imperceptibly souls, and being originally pure souls that we are, our real self is of divinit y and imperishable. Therefore nothing in this world can ever give our soul any lasting happiness, because everything the ordinary eyes can see is perishable, beneath and inferior to the soul. The cosmic law is, our soul c an neve r find any enduring happiness in anything beneath it. Thus; seeking a lasting happiness in a world of duality is equated to seeking of nectar in a cobra’s venom. It is an utter impossibility The ready question then is: how did we let go the hands of the Lord? The answer is not far-fetched. it is simply for the fact that we have reduced the Lord to a mere doctor that we only remember when we have health challenges. Perhaps we are deeming the Lord as a lawyer that we only need when we have a case to answer, or a mechanic that is only relevant whenever our vehicle develops faults. THE LIST IS ENDLESS. Being our common pedigree, the Lord is the very core of our being that we must be in touch with every moment of our lives. Were it not so, the Messiah wouldn’t have stressed on the importance of ceaseless prayers as He admonished in the parable of the ten virgins narrated in mark 13 vs35 thus: “Watch ye therefore for you can never tell when the husband man will come calling”. In forgetfulness of this injunction, we are compared with a child that follows the parent to a fair. At the fair, the child holding the parent’s hands or having the parent in view is fascinated by the lightings, dollies, games, lollies, candies and other trappings the fair has to offer. He continually feels the fun it is getting is all coming from the fair. Fine we will say. Now let us imagine if by happenstance, the child lets go the parent’s hands, obviously, the child will become miserable at once. All the trappings of the fair are still there, but they have now become insipid to the child, upon letting go the parent’s hands. So with the situation with mankind. We are generally restless because, we have let go the Lord’s hands. No respite for any of us, until we get a grip of our Father-Lord once again.
The good news is that the way about this is not lacking in any religion, provided we search for the truth in all the religions and embrace their truths only, as it is taught by the Messiah in John 8 vs 32 that: “Only the truth shall set you free” Searching for the truth is very vital and is an individual thing. We should try to avoid what Jesus cautioned against in Matthew 15 vs 14 as: “A case of the blind leading the blind” While we individuality search for the truth for the purpose of adopting the truth only, it is not out of place to in the interim place at our disposal some axioms about life, until we are able to individuality access the unchanging truth. This is our goal in the coarse material plane. No more no less. GOD IS REAL To start with and to assist us, it is of essence for our peace of mind that we accept there is a Creator and the world is going on according to His Grand Design. In other words, God has not created this world and lost the control of it. on and to gain the right direction
To Be Continued In The Next Edition
