Showing posts with label Miracles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miracles. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Miracles

(By Hymar Idibie David) - MIRACLES. 
You stare at the handsome, three-piece suited up man on the telly as he approaches a row of people holding up rectangular sheets that proclaims illnesses, diseases and other physical conditions. His suit is white. He always wears white when ministering to the sick.
As usual, your imagination makes up for the lack of audio. When he speaks, you imagine what he is saying. In your little corner of the world, 'imagination is everything ' is not just a badass quote.
"Healed! " he roars and a woman jerks and goes down.
"Out of her! " he thundered and another woman, a white woman, starts vibrating like powerful volts of electricity were running through her body.
You switch off the television and return to shuffling papers. You are tired of miracles.
Faith this, faith that. Believe this, believe that.
Hey, if you love me, prove it. Don't make me ask you twice. Or three times. Don't tell me something about having faith moving mountains. I just want to use faith to cut some stubborn grass in my own backyard. Leave mountain matter for pro climbers. 
If you love someone, you go out of the way for them. You bend every rule in the book. You bypass every law. It ain't even up for debate. 
Actions speak louder than John 3:16. Burn me. 

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

That Ain't Right: Teachable Moment for the Nigerian Christian


I am getting old. I don't know how I could have forgotten this story, given its relevance to the Nigerian tragedy (a tragedy which shall prevail until we make some progress in rewiring the atrocious psychology of the Nigerian).
My brother from another mother, Bayo Aregbesola, a Director in Canada’s Federal civil service, reminds me of something that happened during our days at the University of British Columbia in the 1990s. Those were our wild oats graduate student days. We crawled the nightclubs of Vancouver to get our beering right between intra and interracial dating.