SET APART [What Does It Matter]

Yup, standing alone different and distinctively apart in this world could be most awkward and lonesome, but surely, what does it matter when you stand for the glory of your Maker and Father, for the One who's plans and designs and purposes for you are true and sure. By whom your Light, Jesus, has come, beckoning you to arise, shine, that the world may know you are His own, that you are the one the nations must come to "and the kings to the brightness of your dawn". Yes, what does it matter?

You are to be holy to Me because I, The Lord, Am holy, and I have set you apart from the Nations to be my own. - Leviticus 20:26

Photo Courtesy of NOTW (Not of This World)

Apologies

Baby Me With A Guilty Look

Hi Folks, 

I am sorry, indeed remorseful, for the long, long hiatus. Just as one who’s been rightly measured and found wanting, I am guilty. For since the middle of December I have been unable to ensure the flow of blog posts, not for lack of enthusiasm but a tight schedule, comprising of my work, my distance learning program and my church commitments. 

However, as I have come to decide, The Liv’2ROCK Company is as important, and for that I have devised, through mastery of time and planning, a way to a good comeback, with the continuity and unbroken service that you deserve.

Here is looking forward to an awesome 2012 as we continue in the adventure of discovering our better selves in Christ Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of Our Faith!

Yours sincerely,

Samuel

Here Is My Heart - A Thousand Times

Since 2am, today, I have been hooked on this particular song, Here Is My Heart, by the band Jesus Culture. I have played it incessantly and sung along more than I can count - most of the time with my hands raised up to the heavens.

I can’t explain why, except that this song ignites the desperate longing to give all of my heart, my soul, my strength, and my mind to my Father and God who loved me first.

Though it is a very simple, short song, it is very true to the heart. I hope you enjoy listening, and I hope it means something to you too:

Artist: Jesus Culture
Album: Your Love Never Fails
Song: Here Is My Heart by Kim Walker

*Video, Courtesy Youtube.

The Kabiesi's Complaint: We Too Are Spirits

May the truth of our inner selves show us some tolerance. For either of ignorance or forgetfulness we've acted with apathy in regard to our origin and identity. We've acted as though we are nothing of the spirit.

Frantically we go about speaking out our fear of *Abiku. We accuse her of being alien. We say she' s a foreigner with no bearing in our midst. For what! All because she's labeled Abiku, the spirit child?

Yes, she's spirit with all her oddities. But what else could she be other than what we are. You villagers, hold your peace and leave the little one alone. If you think her strange, you too are strange. For like her, you are spirits born of a spirit God.

"Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..." - Gen 1:26a

*Abiku, "predestined to death", is a Yoruba word used to mean the spirit of children who die before reaching puberty (precisely before the age of 12), and also a class of evil spirits who cause children to die. In my own view, it is a superstition that has cause a lot of psychological pain to familiars because of the stigma associated with the spirit child. (Reference and Source from WWW.SACRED-TEXTS.COM

Trials, As We Face Them

It’s been said to the brink of definite belief that God has an awful sense of humour. And unsurprisingly, it is hard to argue when you see God and his ways through the eyes of logic. More so, if you try to reason out the sense in seemingly undeserved trials that He allows to happen to us - trials that we’d all be more than happy to do without. 

However, the truth is, difficulties come to everyone of us, in different shades, for different reasons. Still, I think for many of us it isn’t just a matter of life not being a bed of roses; I believe that more than that, there is a purpose and a reason why God would permit trials in our lives. 

And it is God’s will that we rejoice in the face of those varying challenges by no other way but by the way of faith. For it is only through faith – not logic – that we can truly see His wisdom in the whole scheme of things.

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who have been called according to His purpose." - Romans 8:28

*Image from www.Heartlight.org