How about a 30 day Sabbath?

What can one give to the Lord in thanksgiving?

He is our Maker and King!

Can we give ourselves and our paths?

How about a 30 day Sabbath?

30 days of doing only the Will of the Lord!

No sin in thought and word

30 days of the Lord

30 days of pure accord

30 days of prayers and thanksgiving

Welfare of all we keep seeking.

Unyielding to base desires

Lustful desires cast in fires

Looking up to God for strength to fulfill

Pleasing Him in thought, word and deed

Watching and praying

In gardens of God alone serving

The 30 days shall become a lesson of songs!

A rehearsal of heavenly songs

Then the Sabbath shall outlive 30 days-

And become Sabbath till the end of days!

Sola Adeyegbe

Abuja, 4.55 p.m. 29^th June 2006.

Animals as our friends.

In their answer to the question of whether animals really have a sixth sense, Readers Digest informs us that a box jellyfish has 24 eyes, an earthworm’s entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movement 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom — and your dog’s sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancers). It’s safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do.

Yet, the foregoing is just scratching the surface! Have you heard of animals leaving an area just before the occurrence of what we describe as natural disasters? When you inquire further perhaps you too will come to realise that animals have a similar origin as that of the servants of our Creator that work with Nature. When occurrences such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods are imminent, these servants warn and the animals more easily perceive these warnings and act accordingly. However, man runs into the danger and thereby suffers great harm or even perish. 

We should therefore pay closer attention to animals and learn to understand them. We will then thankfully recognise that animals are our friends and form a useful link in the chain of helpers that always surround us!

What did Jesus mean by: ‘If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also'?

The meaning of "turning the other cheek" is that we should endeavor not to react in a vengeful manner when we perceive that we have been wrongly treated by others.

All the actions that proceed from us must be borne out of love instead of an evil intent which includes taking revenge by taking some actions meant to harm the other person who has perpetrated a wrong against us.

In addition, it also means that we must forgive those who offend us. That is the way we ourselves can be free. If we do not forgive those who trespass against us our own sins too cannot be forgiven! We should always remember a portion of the Lord’s Prayer that says: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. If we forgive others, we will not intentionally harm them in retaliation. Acting in retaliation only heaps up a burden of guilt on us regardless of the temporary satisfaction that the vengeful act may bring.

However, the foregoing does not mean that we should encourage others to treat us shabbily. That will be promoting evil and this is not the meaning of Christ’s Teaching. We should be fearless and face others with dignity and firmness. We should demand the same respect we voluntarily give to others and seek to be treated fairly but we should not commit a sin in that process.

Balm for the wounded spirit.

Are you disturbed by your own actions or the actions of your neighbor? Are you oppressed by a particular bad habit? This might be an evidence of a weak spirit too weak to bring to fruition its own inner desires or too weak to understand that it is responsible for its own happiness and this does not depend on the action or inaction of others. Such spirit has been suffering from the whip of the intellect a product of his own flesh. A poor wounded spirit this is!

There is good news however! There is a balm for the wounded spirit. This balm is Truth. Truth revitalizes and heals. Truth however is not what the earthly senses can grasp for it is eternal. Earthly senses are only familiar with forms which keeps changing! So for us to grasp the Truth and heal our spirits we have to become spiritual, free from all earthly thoughts. Then we will stand in the Truth and be surrounded by its pure Light. We make a start in this by finding out the Laws of God and striving to live accordingly.

…Are you now a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ?

On Christmas day, I got this message from a childhood friend of mine:

Q: Hi … trust that you and your family are fine. Compliments of the season. I noticed that recently you've been posting a lot of bible passages on Facebook. I used to think that you are of the grail message. Do you guys also quote scriptures? Or are you now a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. No offence intended my brother. Just being inquisitive. God bless you.

Here is my answer:

A: Hello ... Thanks for checking on me. We are fine and I trust you had a very beautiful Christmas as well. Adhering to the Grail Message does not preclude one from reading, following or sharing the Scriptures with loved ones! The Grail Message indeed makes the Scriptures clearer. It is a key as it were to unlocking the rich abundance of the spiritual teachings of the Bible. Without this key, the Bible remains a book with seven seals! I remain a firm believer in the Son of God our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. A reader and adherent of the Grail Message is faithfully led from his believe in Jesus to victorious conviction of the Truth of the Word of Life brought by the Son of God. On this point, I will like to share with you a quote from the Author of the Grail Message: "With my words I lead to God and also to Jesus! However, in a more vital way than has been known in the past, and not as people have trimmed it through their propensity for spiritual comfort! I point to the fact that God wishes to have spirits in Creation who are alive and conscious of their personal responsibility, such as lies in the Primordial Laws of Creation! That everyone must personally and fully account for everything he thinks, speaks and does, and that this could not be effaced for mankind by the murder of the Son of God at that time!”

Many thanks again and God bless you and all yours.

LIVING NATURALLY!

You work solely with your frontal brain and you think you are normal? You are not! Very limited is the capacity of the frontal brain. It can only deduce from what it can observe with the five senses! Very useful as an instrument, yet it needs to be guided by our inner core, the spirit. How?

The spirit works through the back brain (intuitive brain) which like an antenna receives spiritual impressions. These spiritual impressions are to be passed on to the frontal brain for use or outward implementation. The essence of the spirit being love, nothing evil can emanate from the process. On the other hand, the frontal brain is to pass on what it experiences from the outside to the back brain so that it can be used for the growth and maturing of the spirit. Thus the two brains are meant to work together harmoniously.

Presently this is not the case. Man today relies mainly on the frontal brain and that is why it can be said that the man of today is not normal. By leaving everything to the frontal brain which only understands what is earthly, man too is bound to consider only material things as paramount! Even when he hears spiritual guidance or teaching, he will remodel it and drag it down to dust!

Let us be more spiritual therefore by ensuring that all we think, say or do align with the Laws of God. This will make us think in a more far reaching and comprehensive way. We will then be living as we should. Life can then really be enjoyed without the eccentricities common today.

Christmas 2015

It is Christmas time! I am very grateful that The Almighty mercifully sent us the Savior Jesus Christ to give us the Message that leads to the redemption of sins and to everlasting life.

It is also a good time to reflect: The Son of God was born and it so happened that there was not a place available for the earthly birth except a stable! It also happened that one of  the first earthly rulers that got wind of the birth promptly ordered the killing of new born babies with the aim of destroying the Envoy from on High! Even the wise ones who were carefully and faithfully led to the stable in Bethlehem only gave their gifts and left the Messenger of Truth unprotected. Little did they know that they were to do much more than presenting the symbolic gifts.

How do we stand today in relation to the Message of Christ? Is there a place in our hearts to receive and retain His Word? Let us not let His Word remain in a stable or in a glass shrine but we should let His Word be in our hearts to guide and lead us. Are we among those who still see the eventual killing of Jesus as the work of redemption? Let us leave the side of the Herods of this world and start to the see only the Word of the Lord and living it as salvation. Are we among those who think that once we give and continue to give in money and in kind to our church we have secured a place in Heaven? Let us realise that the so called wise men acted like this 2000 years ago and missed their real mission of using their earthly position and power to protect and serve the Light Envoy! Having had the privilege of having the Word we have the duty to live by It.

At this very solemn celebration of the Holy Night may the Lord grant us the strength finally to pull ourselves together for permanent improvement. May we henceforth humbly strive to throw off all former stubbornness, and joyfully greet the Word of Truth from the Light as redemption!