Merry Christmas to you

I just want to say Merry Christmas to you all. You know the joy of Christmas is not in receiving gifts but in joining God in giving. We all have so much to give. We can give love to those who need it. Please remember to give love to everybody around you this Christmas. Remember God loved us so much that he gave us his Son. Let us join God in giving. Merry Christmas

We all make poor choices

I am not sure how you are feeling right now. Life challenges force us into making poor choices, especially when things are not going well with us.

It is not that making choices is wrong. After all, God gave us free will to make choices! Making choices, however, is not always easy. Life would have been better if all choices were made for us. Yet life without choices is likely to be too boring!

We are afraid to make choices because when we make choices, we are saying that we are responsible for their outcome. In other words, responsibility brings with it many life challenges. We all know that teenagers are known for making such choices! Imagine a poor girl who left her parents home for drugs! Maybe it is that poor boy who went shooting people or a teen who recently got pregnant. Poor judgment is not the crime of teenagers only. We all make poor choices from time to time!

Next time before we make any choice, remember to ask yourself how that choice will build your relationship with others and God. Next time you are about to make a decision, pause and pray! Prayerfully consider how your actions are going to make you become a better person. After all, the greatest duty that we all have is the duty to worship God.

Why we Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is one of those times of the year when we spend so much time buying presents for those we love. Speaking about presents, I am concerned that Christmas has been commericalized. Christmas dress, cups, music, ring-tone, books; name it and all you have to do is to add Christmas to it! Christmas sale, cake, shopping, shipping and many more. But let us stop and pose for a moment.

Why do we celebrate Christmas? Most of us look to Christmas for the presents! But is this the reason we call him Immanuel: God among us? "O come, O come Immanuel! Why invite God to be with us in the world of pain?

Maybe that is the reason why we should. We need God to influence how we live our lives. After all, he came into this world after one of us accepted to be the instrument of God's love. Least we forget, Jesus was born through Mary; an indication that God acts through us. We are the people God has chosen to actualize his presence in the world. Like Mary, all we need to say is "Let it be to me according to your will."
This Christmas, God wants to give himself to world full of lonely, unloved and uncared for. God wants to reach the children and mothers of the poor world but God is also looking for somebody to use as an instruments of his love and that instrument is you. Please give a gift of life to those who need it this Christmas. Let them understand the meaning if Christmas: God with us!

The powers of injustice

Are among those who are fascinated with the powers of injustice and evil in this world? Why is that evil person seem to be more powerful and receive all divine blessings? I have always wondered why God allows people like Mugabe in Zimbabwe Saddam Husein in Iraq to continue oppressing God's people. But have we forgotten about the Nazis? Well, injustice does not win no matter how long it might take. Remember that God is on the side of the oppressed and will fight for them. He will bring the powers of injustice to justice in his own time.

At times I fail to make sense of Jesus' words, "pray for your enemies and for those who persecute you." Does this mean that I should pray for them to continue persecuting me? Not at all. I pray for their change of heart. I pray that they may change and turn away from evil. I prayed for Mugabe just as I pray for George Bush. I pray for Osama just as I prayed for Saddam Hussein. Not that they may continue with their violent ways but that they might come to realize that life is sacred and it must must be protected at all costs. By the way, even the prophet Jeremiah struggled with this question. In case you do not know:

Jeremiah was a prophet

Who questioned why the unjust prosper

The question asked by millions

Who have suffered injustices?

Those words can hardly tell.

Some died, others are on death rows

In hopeless they ask

And nobody is there to give them a hearing

For the unjust are so powerful

And every word they say

Is believed throughout the world.

The unjust world trusts unjust words

For that is the only word the world knows

Which comes with power of injustice

And knows no boundaries.

But the just God knows it all

Wait until you see their injustice fails

and the powers of injustice are brought to justice

For God's justice is the end of injuctice.