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| Is God Tired Of Nigeria? by gbolahan85(m): 5:18pm On Jan 05, 2012 |
Hi nairalanders , I saw this article today and want to share it. [b]by ade otu [adeotubusin@yahoo.co.uk] GOD IS TIRED OF US: In the typical Nigerian brand of pentecostalism, I have seen a few postings on some friends' walls asking Nigerians to 'look up to God and pray for a solution to this fuel price hike'. One interesting post read ' I am living in Goshen and my supply comes from above not from GEJ'. Before you brand me anti-God, let me put my cards on the table- I am a Pentecostal Christian but one of the greatest ills associated with this unique Nigerian brand of Pentecostalism is the inability of adherents to maximise the use of their brains. Is petrol made or used in heaven? And before you think it is only petrol, wait for this: price of rice will go up because the duty will be increased, price of wheat (and hence bread) will go up because the duty will be increased in spite of the fact that there are no viable alternatives! It is very unfortunate that Nigerians don't know that GOD IS TIRED OF US. How can the Almighty waste His precious time on idiots ruled by fools? Why will God answer the empty prayers of those who know the right thing to do and simply refuse to do it? Some think God is a casino. They think they can dictate to God which prayers to answer and how to answer. My Friends, I can tell you authoritatively that God has moved on because He is tired of us. God has moved on and left us to our foolishness and idiocy. He has moved on to saner nations like Ghana. Oh Charlie, you need to see what Ghana has become! I was at Ohene Djan Accra Sports Stadium for the CrossOver Service led by Dr Mensa Otabil and you need to see him challenging Ghanaians not to give or take bribes. He declared this year as the YEAR OF PURITY. He told them God will only bless them if they have CLEAN HEARTS, CLEAN THOUGHTS AND CLEAN HANDS. He even gave out cards with a PURITY PLEDGE for all Ghanaians to sign and commit to. Our Nigerian Bishops will declare 2012 as the YEAR OF BREAKTHROUGH or THE YEAR OF DOUBLE DOUBLE. And you said God is never tired of us? We sleep in churches but wickedness is our running mate. We are a nation of bribe-takers and bribe-givers. And yet we cry to God for deliverance! God is tired of us. The same rulers who have looted us blind come to our places of worship to do 'thanksgiving' and you think God is still interested in the sacrifice of fools? God is tired of us. Picture GEJ kneeling down and hands were laid on him. Dear God, did YOU lay YOUR HANDS on him? I am not asking about the human hands but YOUR OWN hands. I sincerely doubt it because YOU ARE TIRED OF US. This same man has started eating breakfast daily at an average rate of N800,000! And he deceives us that he is eating cassava bread! Does cassava bread cost this much? But has it always been this way? There was a time when GOD was really interested in us. He saw the potential and HE sent messengers to us. We killed one in 1966, killed another in 1975, rejected your messenger in 1979 and 1983 while asking for Barnabas, forced out another messenger in 1985, killed another dream on June 12 1993, voted for GEJ and not PDP in 2011. How many more chances can a nation have? You have been more than fair to Nigeria but now you are tired of us. Who won't be? Just about an hour ago, I heard a Ghanaian playing a Nigerian prayer tape at Osu market in Accra. The woman dictating the prayer requests said ' God, save my husband from witches and wizards. Save my wife from witches and wizards. Save Nigeria from witches and wizards'. I stopped in my tracks and I noted that the real witches and wizards Nigeria needs to be saved from are not the ones flying by night. Those ones can be conquered with the right knowledge. The real witches and wizards are the ones who fly by day, led by convoys and seated in jeeps, sequestered within the four walls of Aso Villa, fed fat by the tax payers money, fedora hats well-placed upon their thick-set heads and their women expensively dressed in the latest George fabric. In a real country, the main fight against this ignoble hike would have been led by the clergy, the General Overseers, the Lord Bishops and the Sheiks. The sacrifice of people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa can never be forgotten anytime the history of the fall of aprtheid is written. But in my beloved Nigeria, our Bishops will call for prayer meetings and tell us 'to cry to God for deliverance' even when they know in their hearts that GOD IS TIRED OF US. I am sure some of them were jolted when the churches in Abuja and Lagos were empty on New Year's Eve because of security threats. A bigger threat is here and it is the security of our pockets. How will people get to church when transport fare will be increased by over 100%? How will I increase my offering? Requests for benevolence will increase. It remains to be seen how our Lord Bishops will respond. Just imagine if all Bishops and GOs were to lead their members on a demonstration? That will signal our own brand of 'Arab Spring'. Sirs, when the cookie crumbles, all of us will be affected. My facebook friends and activists, our activism must go beyond venting our anger on social media. We need to map out strategies, dig out trenches and move to the streets. We have to leave behind our i-pads and smart phones and plan to out-smart this wicked government. We need to be ready for the long haul. Can we sustain a demonstration for 3 months? To the major Opposition party in Nigeria, the Action Congress, this is a major test for you. Bola Tinubu, Bisi Akande, Lai Mohammed, Lam Adesina, Ogbeni Aregbe, Abiola Ajimobi, Kayode Fayemi and Raji Fashola, you canvassed populist and welfarist ideas. Where do you stand and what will you do? But I have a fair idea of how this whole thing will pan out. Labour will organize a few half-hearted strikes, they will 'negotiate' with government, filling stations will hoard fuel, there will be long queues, visits will be made by CAN to GEJ and then our listening President will reduce the price to N100 which is the main target. And then life goes on. And you say God is not yet tired of us? |
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