Of God and Mankind

James 4:13-17 (AMPC) “ Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.   14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].   15 You ought instead to say, If the Lord is willing, we shall live and we shall do this or that [thing].   16 But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.   17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.”   Dear people of God, in the evening of Friday May 21, 2021, Nigerians were informed of a tragic event, the death in a plane crash of the nation’s most senior army officer, the Chief of Army Staff along with 10...

PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 “Do all things without grumbling and fault-finding and complaining [against God] and questioning and doubting [among yourselves],   15 That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world,   16 Holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may have something of which exultantly to rejoice and glory in that I did not run my race in vain or spend my labor to no purpose.”       Dear people of God, there is nobody born into this world that is not destined to die physically.   Majority of humans are afraid of death but majority are not afraid of life after death.   W...