An abridged version
...Gold, they say can only be purified and adored after it passes through extreme heat; the fire burned, the heat melted but I thank God it was all for me to come out an adorable jewel to this generation.
On the road of life, there are meetings and there are partings. The beginning did not seem to have a clear visibility of what the end would look like. But as the day goes by and weeks after weeks, semesters after semesters and sessions after sessions slowly what the end may look like started to unveil.
...To the church. The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. Don’t confuse a relationship with God for an encounter with Him. Seek after a relationship with Him. Don’t approach Him with a ‘bait attitude’-giving only for what you want to get in return. Instead, approach Him sacrificially. Offer up your life, money, time, love and even yourself as a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable unto Him. You started strong strife to finish strong.
To my friends. Wake up to the reality that we are not parting but moving forward in life with a purpose in mind. Are you more of ‘human doing’ than a human being? Are you so busy in activities and pursuits that you have neglected the work of the Holy Spirit in your character? People are busy, busy, and busy. They are busy doing with little of emphasis on being. If you refocus your life on responding to God’s inner work, you will have more lasting success in the outward visible things you are doing. Being the right person always precedes doing the right thing. Study hard, love God and strengthen relationships.
To my co-graduates. If you remember when we finished primary six, we had to start again with a JSS one; when we concluded JSS three, we started another level with an SSS one. Now we have finished 400level or 500level as the case may be, let me remind you that just as the new levels in the past started with the lowest number after every high number in the former level, this new level puts us at the lowest part of it. Let us enter into it with every sense of humility and willingness to learn.
Don’t contemplate taking life as a sprint of ten seconds; you will miss the details and excitement. Take life as an endurance race, take time to attend and listen to details it helps. This is not to say we should be slow because fast and steady will always win the race.
Meekness is not the same as weakness, but strength under control. Let us choose meekness, it is the way of the Lamb. Money is not everything even if it answers all things. Moreover, having the answer and using it at the wrong time could be more disastrous. Stay with God who makes all things beautiful at its own time.
To all the high fliers. It is true that ‘behold the fowl of the air for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them…’ Mathew 6vs26, but you will agree with me that He doesn’t drop it in their nest. They go out to get it. You are better than they are so go out, put in an effort, fly and get what God has prepared for you. Be patient to get a word from God.
Peter the disciple had the right team, the right skill and even the right tool but yet all to a fruitless catch until he got a word from Jesus. Let me also point out that though his catch was net breaking and boat sinking, yet after a safe landing, Peter didn’t stay or remain with the catch instead, he left with the catcher.
You don’t have to know all things as long as you have a God that knows all things.
Nothing guarantees a great future like a correct picture and also, you cannot feature in a future you cannot picture. Keep your dreams alive. Be careful what you call impossible. God is at work in your life, He has made the idea conceivable, the product achievable, the process endurable and you the person capable.
When it dawned on me that we will be moving forward, I told myself north, south east or west Maranatha is the best.
Valuing friendship is not by seeing each other everyday. What counts is that somehow in our busy lives we remember each other.
Forgetting you is hard for me to do, forgetting me is up to you. You may forget me but please know God and glorify Him as God.
Lastly, I have always asked people a question that I have refused to give my own answer to all this while. The question is “what is life?” I am pleased to tell you that to me life is what you make it. Thank you.
On the road of life, there are meetings and there are partings. The beginning did not seem to have a clear visibility of what the end would look like. But as the day goes by and weeks after weeks, semesters after semesters and sessions after sessions slowly what the end may look like started to unveil.
...To the church. The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. Don’t confuse a relationship with God for an encounter with Him. Seek after a relationship with Him. Don’t approach Him with a ‘bait attitude’-giving only for what you want to get in return. Instead, approach Him sacrificially. Offer up your life, money, time, love and even yourself as a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable unto Him. You started strong strife to finish strong.
To my friends. Wake up to the reality that we are not parting but moving forward in life with a purpose in mind. Are you more of ‘human doing’ than a human being? Are you so busy in activities and pursuits that you have neglected the work of the Holy Spirit in your character? People are busy, busy, and busy. They are busy doing with little of emphasis on being. If you refocus your life on responding to God’s inner work, you will have more lasting success in the outward visible things you are doing. Being the right person always precedes doing the right thing. Study hard, love God and strengthen relationships.
To my co-graduates. If you remember when we finished primary six, we had to start again with a JSS one; when we concluded JSS three, we started another level with an SSS one. Now we have finished 400level or 500level as the case may be, let me remind you that just as the new levels in the past started with the lowest number after every high number in the former level, this new level puts us at the lowest part of it. Let us enter into it with every sense of humility and willingness to learn.
Don’t contemplate taking life as a sprint of ten seconds; you will miss the details and excitement. Take life as an endurance race, take time to attend and listen to details it helps. This is not to say we should be slow because fast and steady will always win the race.
Meekness is not the same as weakness, but strength under control. Let us choose meekness, it is the way of the Lamb. Money is not everything even if it answers all things. Moreover, having the answer and using it at the wrong time could be more disastrous. Stay with God who makes all things beautiful at its own time.
To all the high fliers. It is true that ‘behold the fowl of the air for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them…’ Mathew 6vs26, but you will agree with me that He doesn’t drop it in their nest. They go out to get it. You are better than they are so go out, put in an effort, fly and get what God has prepared for you. Be patient to get a word from God.
Peter the disciple had the right team, the right skill and even the right tool but yet all to a fruitless catch until he got a word from Jesus. Let me also point out that though his catch was net breaking and boat sinking, yet after a safe landing, Peter didn’t stay or remain with the catch instead, he left with the catcher.
You don’t have to know all things as long as you have a God that knows all things.
Nothing guarantees a great future like a correct picture and also, you cannot feature in a future you cannot picture. Keep your dreams alive. Be careful what you call impossible. God is at work in your life, He has made the idea conceivable, the product achievable, the process endurable and you the person capable.
When it dawned on me that we will be moving forward, I told myself north, south east or west Maranatha is the best.
Valuing friendship is not by seeing each other everyday. What counts is that somehow in our busy lives we remember each other.
Forgetting you is hard for me to do, forgetting me is up to you. You may forget me but please know God and glorify Him as God.
Lastly, I have always asked people a question that I have refused to give my own answer to all this while. The question is “what is life?” I am pleased to tell you that to me life is what you make it. Thank you.
