Consistent spiritual uplift

URGENT CALL FOR CONSISTENT SPIRITUAL UPLIFTMENT
IN OUR VARIOUS CHURCHES
Yes, today is brighter. Who knows how tomorrow would be or would look like; maybe it could be the brightest. But that shouldn’t call for celebration because tomorrow remains pregnant, therefore, it can beget anything.
The above stated fact calls for constant prayers among mankind to ensure that our tomorrow becomes the brightest day in existence. For those of us who are far from prayers, how do you ascertain that the subsequent days you’re meant to encounter are bound to showcase extreme brightness, or brightness to say the least?
To be frank, personally I don’t take prayers for granted nor do I play around with my religious faith. Mind you praying is not when one stands on the street and begins to lament over his ordeals or loudly ask for his wants from his creator. Also, praying is not when one shouts amidst intense tears to the hearing of his neighbours/friends. Prayer lies in the heart of the bearer. In a nutshell, prayer is a spiritual phenomenon; it’s a tool that goes or operates with one’s spirit.
Having noted prayer, let’s digress to faith. I’ve earlier written on ‘Fate and Faith” which I tagged as two fancy facts in one of my previous editions. And I categorically made it clear that the aforementioned tools exist. I further stated that, fate without faith was meaningless. Surely, that fact still holds. You can read up any of the previous editions on http://frednwaozor.blogspot.com. Let’s ride on!
You must endeavour to believe in He that created you and as well what He can do at any given moment. Faithfulness shares the greatest percentage while discussing one’s blessings/successes. Pathetically, most of us is yet to embrace the efficacy of faith in their day-to-day stride towards survival or attainment of an impeccable height. More pathetically or disgustingly, most times they even mix it up or misplace it with other religious tools which could be more disastrous. In other words, they don’t even know what it (faith) represents or when it’s meant to be embraced or applied. On this note, I put it up to you that faith is also a spiritual phenomenon.
The last on my list but not the least is thanksgiving. Do you thank your creator at all; or have you been robbing Him? To be sincere, you can’t run away from thanksgiving, else you stand to mess it up thereby encroaching your state of doom. Beware, thanksgiving is not when you carry all you have in your household to your place of worship; or when you give all your belongings to God. Rather, thanksgiving simply means thanking your creator through praises/eulogies for what He has done for you. If not for anything, the life He has granted to you is enough reason to say “Thank you!” Believe me, it’s mandatory to thank your creator; it’s not optional or elective. And don’t forget, thanksgiving includes tithe. Mind you, tithe is not meant for only income earners. From my individual interpretation, tithe simply means sharing part of what you have with your creator; therefore you can share anything provided they’re your belongings/accomplishments. This shows that even a child/kid is entitled to pay tithe. The gesture signifies appreciation to your creator in a practical term. Summarily, one can pay his/her tithe in so many ways provided they’re coming from the heart. Thus, tithe-paying or thanksgiving generally begins with the heart of the giver. In other words, thanksgiving is no doubt a spiritual attribute.
The above facts are the basic doctrines that are meant to be practiced in our various churches. The leaders of the existing religious organizations/institutions are expected to continually uplift the spiritual attributes of their respective congregations. On the contrary, most of the aforementioned leaders have chosen to preach finances/economy thereby ignoring salvation.
For crying out loud, the paramount object of any religious group ought to be nothing but attainment of salvation. According to the context of this edition, in a concise term, salvation is the saving of someone from harm or from the consequences of sin. And to actualize this, one must embrace prayers, faith and above all thanksgiving to the fullness. Honestly there’s no two ways about it; therefore there’s no “short cut” towards attaining salvation. Q.E.D.
Brethren, we must constantly endeavour to acknowledge where precisely we came from or our origin, else an unpredictable downfall awaits us. Think about it!

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COMR. FRED NWAOZOR
Social analyst & activist