WISDOM'S ARENA

There is a popular maxim in my local parlance that goes like this “He who sells his sickness, will definitely find a cure for it” it means that knowing your problems and seeking to resolve it , is actually solving the problem in itself, and choosing to sell your sickness means that you know your exact sickness. There is a difference between knowing that you have a problem and doing nothing about it on one hand, and knowing the problem and doing something about it on the other hand. I have met people who know that they a have problem yet they choose not to do anything about it and I have equally met people who have come to terms with the problems confronting them and then decided to do something about the problem. The latter always have the problem solved, whereas the former is continually plagued by their problems. The bibles says that “ The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” Psalm 34:18(KJV) In the case of the...

I believe you are familiar with the saying “A Square Peg In a Round Hole” or “ A Round Peg in a Square Hole”? That is the kind of situation we will have when we find ourselves doing things just because of what people will say about us. I am not in any way suggesting that we should go around disrespecting the authorities or disregarding laid down rules, but all I am saying is that one should do what God has wired him to do irrespective of what society will think about him.   We should also be bold enough to challenge the Status Quo. What matters in life is what God says about us, I remember what the scriptures says in Luke 2:40(GNB) “The child grew and became strong; he was full of wisdom, and God's blessings were upon him.” And Luke_2:52(KJV) “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.”   From this scripture, Jesus Christ found favour before God first, in other words he gave what God has called him to do a priority. Once we do tha...

                      I am sure some of my readers are not very clear about what I meant by Jonah’s Kind of reputation. So I want to take my time to explain it in a definite term. But before we look at Jonah’s kind of reputation, it will be instructive for us to understand the meaning of the word reputation. Reputation by general definition, means views that are generally held about somebody or something, it also among other definitions, means a high opinion people or society hold about somebody or a thing.  For example there was a Philistine named Goliath and he was called a champion because the people held him in high esteem as an unconquerable man of war from his youth -  1 Samuel 17:4(KJV)  “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span” and 1 Samuel 17:33(KJV) “And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this ...