THE LONELY SEED

A seed
A lonely seed
Hustling for a place
In mother earth’s base

He grows
Fending for himself
Attacked
By pest
By drought
By every agent of hazard

Will he die?
Will he faint?

He grows
Seizing not a chance to cease
With much endurance
And such perseverance
That overwhelm

He counts
Days in, days out
Months in, months out
Years in, years out
Seasons come, seasons go

Alas!
The radicle is now root
The stem is now trunk
The seed is now tree
Thus is born a tree

PS: A Nigerian graduate like the seed is subjected to all forms of conditions in trying to secure a job. He finds himself being tossed from one fake employment agency to another under the scorching sun and freezing rain. He has written nearly all types of graduate test available; attended uncountable number of interviews. He looks his life over, nobody to help. He remembers how ashamed he feels every time he meets any of his old friends. The good news is that no particular condition can remain for ever. There is somebody who will never fail you even when men have turned their backs on you. He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. He is Lord Jesus. Invite Him today into your situation and let Him bear that burden for you. And just like the seed you will become established.

ORDER FROM CHAOS

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 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 surface of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light – Gen 1:1 -3

The present condition of the human society looks like that which may crash at any moment. Living a normal healthy life these days seems like an illusion. Managing work and family simultaneously has become a task which only the angels could handle. People are really finding it hard to cope.

Unemployment and underemployment are factors that are forever tightening their leash on the neck of the youths. This has seriously affected the marriage institution; who wants to add another to his overweighed burden? Politics, the lion roaring in every sphere of human endeavor, is not left out of the issue. The truth cannot be farfetched that the human society is in chaos.

The Scripture makes us to understand that when the heaven and the earth were created, the earth was without form and void; the earth was in a chaotic state. The interesting thing in this account is that in that chaotic situation, God saw a beautiful earth. God saw an earth with awesome vegetation, perfect landscape and wonderful creatures. Even though man has really tried to desecrate it through pollution and other un-environmental practices, this beautiful planet came out of a chaos.

We must come to the realization that no matter how chaotic and threatening our condition may be, something beautiful can still come out of it. Just as the darkness preceded light, chaos is the herald of peace in our lives. We can only experience a breakthrough after we have passed through the dark phase. All the mighty men of old that did exploits for the Lord also experienced the dark phase at one time or the other in their lives.

The only one that can bring about a change in our situation is God. Human wisdom is totally out of the question. We can never amount to anything in this mortality without God. Except God intervenes in our situation, darkness would continue to overwhelm us. The light can only come at God’s command: when it comes, it’s so powerful that even the darkness is confused (Jn 1:5).

Don’t ever allow the enemy to deceive you that all is lost. God can still do it. It is never too late. Invite Him into your situation and allow Him make possible that impossible.

MY VILLAGE

In a village called Poverty

In a state called Hunger

In a country called Corruption

There I live

The north side

Of my village is bounded by

Insecurity village

While the south side is bounded by

Unemployment village

My village is ruled by

An awesome and fearsome fellow

A character called

Chief Bad Leadership

As an administrator

With whips and guns

He rules us

Pauperizing and traumatizing us

Lest we have the courage

To challenge his leadership

As a physician

Our youths he experiments on

Constantly altering their brain composition

Making of them creatures

Whose thoughts and actions

Are worse than mere animals’

Because of this, you see

Our youths are often into

All forms of vice and crime

While the elders watch

To the detriment of my village

Our village

Where we all live

PS: The form of leadership we run in this country has succeeded in producing all types of deviant characters. People are only thinking of crimes they can commit to enrich themselves. Until the Christians, whom God has appointed as elders and watchmen over the city do something about it through intercession and evangelism, the situation will only continue to get worse

Tomorrow

Who is tomorrow

Will he ever come

If every man I know

Adores tomorrow

Loves tomorrow

Romances tomorrow

Then tomorrow must be a woman

What will tomorrow bring

Will it summon a bullet

To my head

Will it become a bully

To my rest

Will it become a death

To my health

Who is tomorrow

Will she ever come?

If every woman I know

Adores tomorrow

Loves tomorrow

Romances tomorrow

Then tomorrow must be a man

What will tomorrow bring

Will it summon a child

To the childless

Will it become hope

To the hopeless

Will it become a heart

To the heartless

Who is tomorrow

Will it ever come

Even I know not

What tomorrow brings for me

Even I know not

How tomorrow comes to me

Even I know

Tomorrow may be a bomb

Destroying every man and woman

Even I know

Tomorrow may be a prostitute

Satisfying every man and woman

I confess

I always will

Adore tomorrow

Love tomorrow

Romance tomorrow

Tomorrow is what I live for

Tomorrow is what I hope for

PS: The subject called tomorrow has really been a problem to so many. A lot of people have been led into the occult and other unimaginable ‘unions’ because they want to peep into tomorrow. The desire to control tomorrow is what has also led many to early grave. The world is really interested in knowing everything possible about tomorrow. For Christians, we rejoice because we already know tomorrow. Christ has told us everything that will happen tomorrow because He is our hope and our future. If any man can be in union with Christ, he has no need to worry or fear anything because Christ is our tomorrow!

Permanence

It shall rot away

That which you call a body

It shall fade away

That which you call friendship

It shall fall away

That which you call a home

It shall blow away

That which you gather today

It shall pass away

That which you are reading now

But the day

Only time will tell

PS: Everything about this life; this world will pass away. God has said in His word that this world we love so much would be destroyed by fire. The only sure thing we can have forever is eternal life in the kingdom of Christ. So why don’t you focus your attention on that and care less about this perverse and wicked world?