Tag: Jesus
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Righteous Rebellion
One morning, I came across a message shared in a WhatsApp group, and it made me pause. The writer was talking about resisting the constraints that society and culture place on us as human beings. About how no one should decide the “appropriate” dress code, or tell us what to do with our lives; that…
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Face to Face with Reality
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,…
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Past Sins Are Blotted Out…What about Present Sins?
Then Jesus said, “he who is forgiven much, loves much.“ You were forgiven before you sinned I was reading a book, and the author was talking about how amputees usually feel pain or sensations in the places where their limbs used to be — phantom pain, it is called. Then he likened how the memories…
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The Paradox of Living
Littered all across scripture are paradoxes upon paradoxes. Matthew 11:28&29. Jesus call the heavy-ladened to come and pick up his yoke. Ephesians 2:8&9 and James 2:14, 17&26. One claims that faith, not works, is what saved us, and the other claim that faith without works is dead. Ephesians 1:19-23 talks about Christ conquering principalities and…
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Psyching God
I can’t really remember what I was doing but I was busy. I think I was either washing plates or clothes, or I was cooking. Something that required me stepping out of the room. I had just come in to grab something quickly when I heard the tiktok video my roommate was watching. In the…
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Normal Does NOT Mean Okay
I’ve had this post idea for a long while, and yet, for the life of me, I just couldn’t bring myself to write. In between NYSC and another job of mine, I am almost always frazzled out. So much so that when faced with choosing between writing or escaping into a novel, escape always win.…
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Midnight Ramblings
Network went off as usual. Just at it’s bedtime. I had the perfect excuse to finish reading this novel by the author that enjoys tying her readers into a knot. My roommate suffered, because I keep exclaiming out loud, insulting the characters and literally stopping whatever she was doing so that I could explain the…
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