The glue is a powerful liquid that can make anything stick together, but there is something a glue cannot do no matter how lard it is applied. It cannot heal a broken heart; when promises are not kept, no matter its form, or pledges are not fulfilled, it can result to a broken heart and no amount of glue can bring it back except the grace of God.
As humans, we make promises and pledges, but majority of us never keep to them because of our human weakness. But for Him who has created us, He is forever faithful to His promises, no matter the condition or situation. He may seem to delay in granting request, but he will never deny us when the time comes.
He promises through His prophet greatness for all. We are told, at the appointed time, he sent his Son born of a woman (the Blessed Virgin Mary) to save us from all our sins. (cf. Is. 7:14).
To us a king has been given, a prince of peace, a saviour to free us from the bondage of sin God is with us, Yes, God is with us, but the majority among his creatures still wonder why some go to bed without food in their stomach, why people (dear ones) travel and never return back to us, why will He allow people to commit electoral fraud without striking them down, why injustice are bound all around us, why peace and hatred has become a paradigm for us as a people of God.
Christians, the name we call ourselves and the identity we want to be acknowledge with in name and not in practice may be because of fear of the unknown or not to become a loner in a world where sincerity and spirituality only lies in the mind and not in actions.
We must understand that God can be found in three ways in our lives. First, He is a God of Puzzle. When we are faced with a Puzzle game or question, it takes a quiet mind to put one and two together to solve a Puzzle. So is God, in our state of confusion and misunderstanding, we tend to see God working out thing in our lives, His ways are not our ways and His thoughts not our thought. Yet in our confused state, He is always with us.
Secondly, He is a God of troubles. Those who are willing to serve God should be prepared for an ordeal. His birth was a sign of contradiction to so many of His time. Even Joseph his earthly father was troubled because he was told that his wife to be Mary, is with a child. Unlike many Africans, if not all African men, will not think twice before giving their wives a local visa to pack to her parent's house, if such is held, Joseph a man of honour humbled himself and welcomed the will of God the father in his life.
As Christians, many troubles will come to us because of our faith, let us not be discouraged, God is with us.
Thirdly, God is a God of presents (gifts). He offers us his gift of SALVATION. He is always with us in our sorrows, he is with us in our joy, he is with us in our struggles God is always with us, making us feel each moments of our life that we should be saved.
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