WOULD YOU FORGIVE
THEM???
Today is Sunday, the 17th day of September,
2017 which kept me wondering what the priest would be preaching today during
homily.
Well, the sermon today was centered on forgiveness which I magnanimously
decided to bring up today (on this forgiving faithful day). Christians say “The
Lord’s prayer” on daily basis or at least every week which touches on our ways
of life. We must forgive every trespasser that comes our way.
Let me share briefly a story the priest used in driving his”forgiveness
sermon” home. He shared a story about an evil woman who came to him in tears
and agony confessing her sins on how she had rendered one of her children
useless by turning the male child into an imbecile with a lot of other deformities
and also killing her husband with the aid of administering poison into his food
that led to his early demise. Now it has been five (5) years since her deformed
son had been locked up in a store like bags of rice, beans, tubers of yam and
other food condiments are been stored in our various homes. The priest saw this
himself, went back to the woman and wept bitterly in her presence as they both
almost drowned in their own tears. Now, the priest had a task of telling the
remaining children of their mother’s excesses and evil diabolical ways as
instructed by her. In as much as the priest did not disclose if he told the
woman’s children or not, he summarized by asking the evil woman why she was so
comfortable being a monster to her kids. She replied by saying, “the
confraternity where I belonged said I should not see them as my kids and that
one of them would drop dead soon; that’s why I came here to see if you could
save me and my lovely children”. The priest replied with pity thus, “God have
mercy on you”. The priest was silent for a moment and asked the congregation, “if
that was your mother, would you forgive her?’
Honestly, the question came like a bomb about to detonate to
me as I decided to share with you. My own question is “would you forgive our
South-East leaders when they finally come to change the South-East for good?”
In as much as we still wait to see that day, we should be
ready to forgive and pray for our leaders. As we forgive and pray for them, we
also expect to be loved in return. We are all humans and mortals. No one shall remain
in power forever!
No one on earth has the right to judge anybody morally, as we
are all servants of the almighty God.
Presently, the South-East is the least developed in Nigeria
but I believe that if the people forgive and pray for their leaders and in
return their leaders selflessly love and cherish them, the South-East would be
transformed in no distant time.
The United States of America didn’t become great just in one
day. A lot of sacrifices were done by their leaders and their people. From one
revolution and restructuring to another. Now Nigerians and other nationalities
go there for greener pastures.
A stitch in time saves nine. This, our leaders must know to
actualize a great South-Eastern Nigeria.
God bless Nigeria..
I will forgive them
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