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Before, we watched with inscrutable faces. Vivacious smiles - veneer to malcontented minds. Sometimes we heaved our shoulders in a shrug. Whose business is it anyway? Certainly not mine!
Honesty can turn out to be much of an egregious incubus, that anyone should risk his peace of mind. Or at least a miserable substitute for peace. Precisely, more of a frith for cowardly Christians. A petty tenement shielding us from the price of Pristine Childlike Faith. The type that compels Honesty. Risky Honesty.
Very Risky. Almost murderous. So it would seem to a man whose myopia roused at the brink of eternity.
And so we basked in our mediocrity, allowing our profession of Jesus to push us only as far as the cold old pew, of our traditional church, that was now worn out by our languid sitting rears. But refusing the Power of His Ressurection to douse us in divine living. We were too comfortable in our own coats. Filthy dirty rags. Stained with secret sin. Tainted with resentment and unconciliated grudges against our very own brethren. Defiled by unruly, selfish passions for which we were slaves to. Tarnished by our base and depraved nature.
Still, we were unwilling to yield to the purifying water of God's Spirit and Word.
The Preachers knew that too, so they dumped the Real McCoy Gospel. Then they went on a spree about a Get-Rich-Quick god that demanded oblation of our assets. In exchange, he promised satisfaction for our avaricious hunger. He didn't need our hearts though, we could keep that! He didn't care how enslaved to Darkness and deathly customs we were!
Our Pastors heaped on title upon another, in tandem to the wealth they ammased. Properties that were supposedly given to God.
Our faith was only strong in acquisition, but never moved us to oblation of our entirety to the Spirit that lusteth to envy to have us only for Himself, consecrated to His pleasure.
We sang Hallelujah from emptied and petty souls. In concession to the evanescent embers of a Life now forlorn, we settled to a programmed routine of religious accouterments.
To assuage the guilt and as epicurean remedy to atrophied souls, we exchanged the Gospel for musical frenzies and hedonistic feasts. We enjoyed the charade of feigned anointing on the pulpit. We were pros in the game! We knew our cue! When to shout Hallelujah! or Amen! Or when to shed tears or do the 'holy roller' even when we were aware that the irreplaceable and priciest presence of the Holy Spirit was now departed.
Our youth were lost in the conundrum, helplessly cavorting friskily with Satan beguiled. Satan who now sang his mirthless song of feat over us.
But no one dared to speak forth or ask questions, the cabal said to shut up till you were spoken to. So in and out of church, we iterated the tacit but iron-rigid custom for years. Till we were empty and emptied!
But now, somethings cannot be ignored. Keeping mum is not an option. This time, Silence cannot be bought. It's time to faithfully choose what you stand for. There's a Time to speak forth and the time is now!
0„8Dorcas Agbogun 2014
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