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The problem with the youth of this generation and nation is not the lack of the knowledge of our own  HISTORY, it is the unwillingness to KNOW anything about our HISTORY. Our attitude towards learning the past is appaulling. We like to think whatever is not adventurous or yield incentives within a short time frame is boring. We cast away history like a useless old relic. In a classic Naija youth's remark "Who E Epp?" Right? Perhaps those who banished history from the classrooms did the present youth populace a favour they were too cowardly inclined to ask. Since we can't talk explicitly about the Old how can we distinguish what is New. If we can't tell the basic composition of what the old nation consists, on what grounds, what quantitative measurement, or quality control shall be used in our analysis to avoiding past pitfalls. To restructure you must consider the existing structure. Considering the existing structure unavoidably places us on the path of...

I have found prayer and devotion does not bar unpleasant situations from happening to us all the time... Paul AremoOluwa My loyalty to the word of God is unshaken. More than ever, recently my appreciation for the Word of God has increased in an unprecedented way. The word of God can never be wrong. This year has been nothing short of trying and difficult challenges staring me in the face. It's like a surfer's experience against tidal waves. As you scurry through one upsurge the next is incoming. Then it's like your Christianity is shallow or your prayer life is weak, else why do you have to go through difficulties? Are we more or less of a Christian by the hurdles we face and scale? If Christians are heirs and sons of a living and all knowing God why do we encounter ugly situations? Where is God when you need Him? Why do we devote our lives to him only to encounter some unpalatable situation? Questions on my mind.

Paul AremoOluwa Arlington cemetery graveyard white tombstones           When I am dead. And my body lay in a temporal home.    All may seem lost and gloom may abound. “ Death is inevitable, ” I hear them say with shrill voices of agony and pain.

My disobedience wounded Him My wickedness bruised Him By my hate I grieved Him His saving hands I nailed Yet unrelenting His love became  

Solomon's war in the time of peace was the elusiveness of life's meaning... he unofficially became the founder of nihilistic thinking...  the purveyor of existential philosophy In Nigeria suicide attempt is a criminal act with a one year jail term penalty, but it has not stopped people from trying and others from succeeding. March 19, 2017, a medical doctor jumped into his watery grave from the top of the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge. October 16, 2017, a Kogi State civil servant owed months of salary hanged himself on a tree after ten days his barren wife delivered triplets. Uk, June 11 last year, Ceri Sheehan , 15, took his own life than have his parents tore him apart from his iPad. All these leave us, the living, to ponder the rationale behind suicide as we try to deal with the loss. Why do people take their own lives? Does the Bible offer explanations?

What is our excuse for not having great relationships with unbelievers or fetish people at the workplace... The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to DO and TEACH .  Acts 1:1 A believer fully understands Lord Jesus’ teachings by juxtaposing how the Lord lived with what He preached. He wouldn't say we do things that Himself didn't practice.  He rebuked the Pharisees because they say, and do not . They lay heavy burdens on men’s shoulders that they wouldn’t dare touch with their fingers. A He described them as hypocrites for doing that. How Jesus lived in the circumference of His relationships became His doctrine on relationships. It is important because we are not greater than our master but we are expected to be like Him. We can’t pay a price greater than the Lord’s in our Christian walk. If we neglect this view we would unavoidably misinterpret the Lord's teachings.

We were forced to finally learn the lessons of the first pages of the Bible –creation exists upon the framework of healthy relationships. The Good News is the good deal because God cannot do without man. Though a bold statement, it is a humbling thought. Angels and other celestial bodies are part of His eternal purpose as ministers and spectators . We however are not just part but at the centre of the eternal counsel of God. God is the author of relationship and we know from the design of His creation.