The unsophisticated faith

Every carnival season in my country, I always get a word from God.This carnival was no different.I took a job to collect people from our airport and drop them off to their hotels.It was a good hustle but the spirit of God do not sleep and I couldn't help the thought that evaded my mind,thinking of all these people coming to our shores to be at their worst behaviour. Enjoyable! Yes! But their conversations betrayed their want of serious drink ,drunkenness to the max, sex,wild parties and as one put it "to party hard as the last day on earth." Here they were in the airport,some half naked,ready and set to enjoy the moment of freedom the season offers, to indulge in acts that is surely not pure or pleasing to God our Father. How did we move from a Carnival filled with creativity, innovation and fun ? I am not against Carnival as what God makes is always Good.This here is another example, how we as people turn what is good to something that leads to self-indulge,self- bo...

For a long time now I have been faced with the word SIN. It came up again recently when I was reading the book of Jeremiah.It is a scary book but also one of hope.I felt the holy spirit guiding me to read chapter 32  for I were able to make a connection with the sin of the people in that time and the reason behind Jesus pained words on the cross. To start,I decided to find out the definition of sin.Here goes my explanation as it came to me: Sin according to the  WebBibleEncyclopedia  is the word used to "denote the willful breaking of God's law." Another source  gotquestions.org   described sin as transgression of the law of God and rebellion against God. We sometimes do not understand the word SIN in all its entirety.What I do know is that it is something very serious and terrible for Jesus to have died on the cross to absorb the punishment. According to the bible all SINs are and must be punished because of who Yahweh God is;  PERFECTLY (a...