the musings of this nigerian gal

I was recently asked what serving in a village was like, and all I could say was that it made me realize the weight of the work we have to do on this earth.

For years, I’d been told about how many people were waiting for me to rise and take my place in Christ, but it wasn’t until I went to Ubulubu that I was able to put faces to it.

I saw firsthand the devastation poverty inflicted on the lives of young children.

On Tuesday, I read a sad book. It was about racism, how white people used poor black people for experiments. As I read about the horrors—from injecting an unapproved birth control to performing an unexplained tubal ligation—my heart broke with every page.

It wasn’t breaking because of the extent of racism. It was breaking because the poor are always the victims.

The reason those girls were used for experiments was simply because their father and grandmother were poor and illiterate. They were so poor and desperate that they reached out to whatever help that presented itself, just so the girls would have a good life. But they lacked the literacy to understand what that so-called help actually entailed.

You might want to rail at the white or the rich or the world. You might want to carry a placard and scream for justice and equality. But the quicker you understand this war is more than flesh and blood, the more equipped you’ll be to fight it.

Jesus said, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

You aren’t just trying to make the world a better place. No, it is more than the goodness of your heart.

It is a calling.

You have been called to bring the kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven. And this isn’t just in church. It is in every pocket of the world. In medicine. In politics. In business and economy. In art and entertainment. In the institution of family. In education.

It is more than activism. You are not an activist. You are the carrier of the kingdom of God and you can’t afford to be swept into the deceit of propaganda.

The devil would rather pit us against our fellow men than let us see him as the true perpetrator of evil. And so, we begin to carry out our work with the wrong mindset: that it’s us against people.

But when we see it for what it really is, your focus will shift from people to advancing the kingdom of God in every sphere of life you enter.

It will change your approach to the pursuit of your career or business. You’ll know I’m not doing this for myself but for those who need to encounter the kingdom of God.

It is why you will not join those who speak against prosperity, because you know that money in your hands will be used to drive the devil mad.

It is why you’ll not stop until you see the kingdom of God on every street in your city.

You’ll know that you aren’t having a career so that you can have a good life and do some good on earth. That will not be your mindset.

Instead it will be, “I have been called to enforce the victory Christ won in every part of the earth.”

This is what will propel you to carry your one talent and not hide it in the ground. Instead, you will use it to gain more ground for your Master.