Ogiri John Ogiri

"Agreed, God can do all things; it is in His nature to do so. But we must be careful not to make God a substitute for our natural efforts.That will amount to an inexcusable laziness. We should not abandon to God what we can do on our own. For instance , it will be foolhardy to abdicate to God my responsibility to light my gas and prepare my dinner because I have faith in the omnipotence of his nature to do all things.  The reality is that what God cannot do exists not because He naturally lacks the power to do it but because it will be a contradiction of His gift of dominion and "Free Will" to man. This is why I find it hard to accept that, the same God who handed the earth to man to dominate and control in Genesis 1:28 would then expect us to give up our duty and wait for Him in everything. " And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creature...

  By Ogiri John Ogiri. Let me use myself as a case study. I haven't made money yet. I still live in a rented apartment. I still trek; I do not own a car even though I desperately need one as I write. I am still struggling to make money but I am patient enough to work with due diligence and wait for my time.  Look, there is a time for everything and everyone. When that time comes and meet you prepared, you will smile and have the last laugh. I believe that as long as I remain committed to doing my little best everyday, I will definitely breakthrough the dark wall of poverty into the green zone of prosperity and secure happiness. I won't take to crime because I want to make money.  This is the conviction that drives my daily life. My fellow Youths,  There are socially-approved gateways to wealth. So, stay in the queue, do your duty and wait for your time. Avoid the temptation to breach the socially-approved protocols in your attempt to make money. You won't...

God is not a Being over whom we should divide and fight one another for relevance, God is definitely not a phenomenon to be debated; He is an unwinnable argument. On the contrary, God is a worthy Being to be accorded perpetual adoration and worship by the examples of mutual love and kindness we show one another. God did not create any religion. He created the community of humans who in turn created religion as a medium for expressing their awe for the omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence of God.  I should suppose, therefore,that it couldn't have been in the nature of God to have encouraged his followers to hate, denigrate, maim and kill one another to prove His supernatural supremacy. Can we therefore see religion as a means to the end, not as an end in itself? © Ogiri John Ogiri.