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2024- 30 days to go!

You see that headline for today’s post? I got it off the top of my head from one childish thing I said with my friends at one point in my life. Truth is I don’t exactly know what it means

But yeah! 2024 is coming to an end, no too long ago, I read this thing I had typed out on my “2024 demands” and even though not all have been fulfilled, I saw one I had repeated twice and truly, it has happened in this year.

This thing was an unconscious prayer in my heart, but my Daddy has done the necessary and He is still doing because the work never finish.

But I must ask you, how has this year been up till this point for you? I was on a call with one of my guys yesterday and we were doing catch up and crazy things that happened this year and good God was to us even in those times, we spoke about feats we hoped to have accomplished by the end of this year but we couldn’t or let me say we haven’t…. Technically anything can still happen before the year runs out…. If you have faith.

Then in our conversation, we hit ground on the matter of choices and decisions, why we did and tolerated some of the things we did this year. And we started asking ourselves questions like

• Was God teaching us lessons?

• Is God preparing us for what is to come?

• What is the true message of the Gospel in relation with love?

• Are we truly practicing love as believers?

Etc…

And my friend drew my attention to 1 Corinthians 13 again, the chapter that speaks on what love really is, and he said “Until we truly understand what that chapter speaks on, we may never really understand love the way God requires it of us”. He further added that this is the reason why we can do a lot of things in the body of Christ and love will not be the motive for why we did those things.

Hmmm

That’s deep

Then I remembered that it that same chapter, verse 3 says “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”

‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Haaaaaa

I was telling my friend and thinking to myself that how can I give my body to be burned (that’s death for crying out loud) and love was not the reason as to why I did it.

And then we touched the subject of pride lightly, and a few manifestations of pride in an individual. And yes! We spoke on forgiveness. He said it’s one thing to forget the occurrence and another thing for it not to cause offense in your heart again whenever you remember it.

Above all

I want you to do a self check

There are things I wish I didn’t do this year, situations I wish I had handled differently, people I hurt, people who hurt me…. But should I carry these things with me along to 2025? Or no scrap 2025, should I carry these things with me to sleep tonight?

Jesus said He will come like a thief in the night, what if that night is really sooner than we think, what if it’s closer than we expect??

For this reason, I beckon on you do to a cross examination of things you should do away with not for the sake of the new year but for your salvation and heavenly race and it is my prayer that God will help us all in Jesus name.

I love you dearly sibling

It is my prayer that for the remaining days to go in this year, God keeps you and your loved ones safe, in good health and in sound mind.

And I pray that when we finally go to rest at last or get caught up with Jesus , we will see ourselves on the other side, our eternal home, Heaven!

PS: You should read 1st Corinthians 13 if you haven’t and again if you have.