S.O.S. ALIEME

Recently, a popular Ibadan based musician commissioned his new home which was a glamour to behold. But what really surprised me is the provision of a football pitch which was situated right inside his bedroom.  You can imagine the space that is covered by that bedroom which housed a football pitch. The bedroom can host a community meeting.  The cost of the mansion according to reports was over 1 billion naira.  Surprisingly, he is a gospel musician. 

I am not jealous about the mansion or by the man who made this happen but I am jealous about the cost put into it. King Solomon had everything he wanted, including wisdom, riches, etc but when he analyzed and pondered on the human living and the human existence, his conclusion was that all is vanity of vanities. The true condition of the entire human life on earth without God can be summed up in one word, VANITY. Man was created by God and for God to fill him and be his content and reality. But today all men have lost God as their possession and they all have no real dwelling place. 

All human beings are drifting about searching for a home. Man is wandering because he has lost God. God is our real dwelling place and our real possession. We need to see the real condition of the human life without God, as the Bible reveals it to us.  Every human being is filled with so many other things that he/she thinks will bring satisfaction and peace, but these things are the wrong content. When we come to the Word of God and we pray over His Word, when His Word shines on us, we are exposed and emptied of any other thing. All the things in the human life are vanity. They are like pursuing after shadows and chasing after wind.

The human life itself is short, fleeting, short-lived, and filled with labour and sorrow. The strong ones among us live until 80-90 years old, but most people finish their course somewhere at the age of 70. If one lives on the earth, though he may live up until the age of eighty or ninety, if he lives without the Lord Jesus, his life is filled with labour and sorrow, and the years fly away just like that. Why is it this way? Why all is vanity in the human life? It is simply because man was created for God, and man’s real satisfaction, man’s real peace, and man’s real pleasure is God Himself. God is man’s blessing, but man has left God and was lost. Now, all men try to fill their need for pleasure and satisfaction by doing things, accumulating things, being in relationships, etc all these things are empty and even worse, they bring us in a bondage. Because man does not have God as the meaning and center of his life, he struggles to obtain enjoyment. The result of man’s struggle and strife is that he falls into all kinds of bondage. All man’s seeking of pleasure and satisfaction apart from God brings man into bondage.

Even our family and our relatives can become a bondage to us, even seemingly necessary and positive things and situations can enslave us. If our inward being is occupied by any person or thing, the Lord has no ground in us. When Christ comes in and fills your heart, when you enjoy the Lord in His word in your personal time with Him or in the meetings with the saints, your heart is filled with God and you have a meaning in your human life. Man’s real pleasure, satisfaction, and blessing is God Himself filling man’s vessel. Man was really made to contain God and be filled with God, any other endeavours or seeking to be filled with other things that seemingly bring us satisfaction result in bondage and eventually death.

The Lord today wants us to be filled with Him, He wants more room in our heart for Him so that God may fill us, occupy our being, and saturate us. Come to the Lord and open to Him to be filled with Him, be filled with reality, peace, satisfaction, and meaning. Remember and be informed that this worldly life is only temporary enjoyment, and indeed, the Hereafter - that is the home of permanent settlement.

Do you remember in 1979, those politicians who were in charge of ruling this country? They were those who ruled Nigeria and dominated the news wave like no other person. President: Alhaji Shehu Shagari (dead), Vice President: Dr. Alex Ekwueme (dead). The 19 Governors:  Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa - Kaduna (dead), Abubakar Barde - Gongola (dead), Abubakar Rimi - Kano (dead), Abubakar Tatari Ali - Bauchi (dead), Adamu Attah - Kwara (dead), Ambrose Alli - Bendel (dead),  Aper Aku - Benue (dead), Auwal Ibrahim - Niger (Alive), Bola Ige - Oyo (dead), Bisi Onabanjo - Ogun (dead), Clement Isong – Cross River (dead),  Jim Nwobodo - Enugu (alive), Lateef Jakande - Lagos (dead),  Melford Okilo - Rivers (dead), Michael Ajasin - Ondo (dead),  Muhammadu Goni - Borno (dead), Sam Mbakwe - Imo (dead), Shehu Kangiwa - Sokoto (dead) and Solomon Lar - Plateau (dead).

It's just 42 years ago and among those powerful men only two of them are still alive. Even the remaining no longer make news. This is the story of life. You are here today, you are gone tomorrow. 

 

God Bless Nigeria!!!