PENCILS IN THE HAND OF GOD

[Bayo Afolaranmi]

Dearly Beloved,
PENCILS IN THE HAND OF GOD
“‘O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?’ declares the LORD. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel’” (Jeremiah 18:6 NIV).
Recently, I received an SMS from an online friend that is very inspiring. The SMS was titled “Five Pencil Tips.” These tips are:
1. In everything you do, always leave a mark.
2.You can always correct your mistakes.
3. What is important is what is inside you.
4. In life, you will undergo some painful sharpening that will make you a better pencil.
5. To be the best pencil, you must allow yourself to be held and guided by the hand that holds you.
The SMS ends with these words: Remember! We are nothing but pencils in the hands of our Creator. (Interestingly, this statement is the slogan of the producer of a popular national television drama series here in Nigeria.)
The message of the SMS is self-explanatory. Each of us is indeed like a pencil in the hand of God. God Himself used another analogy to establish this to the people of Israel. The Lord sent Prophet Jeremiah to a potter’s house in order to see the potter as he worked at the wheel. When Jeremiah got to the place, he saw the potter shaping and reshaping the clay till he got a desired result. Then God equated the people of Israel, as well as any other human being, to the clay in the hands of the potter.
God is ready to make good use of you if you can surrender yourself unto Him. No matter the seemingly difficult experience, He is working to bring something good out of you (Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 4:15-17; 1 Peter 1:7-8). Indeed, we are pencils in His hand.
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

[Enitan Onikoyi]

It is a shame that Bayo Afolaran has never have any topic of aspiration on Nigeria for Nigerians apart from those related to the house of Jacob or the Isrealites. We Nigerians are not Isrealites, and definitely I am not a pencil in the hands of anybody. Any man or woman that forgets his source is on the road to perish. Many Nigerians eat and sleep in the god of jews, they woke and do everything in life under the god of arabs. They change their names to german names, jews names, roman names, celtic names yet, the evil in them is worse than you can ever think. If you worship a foreign god for 400 years without any profit, why not return to the gods of your forefathers? But to people like Bayo Afolaran, African god is a shame to them. Infact, everything Africa. So, why are you complaining about Nigeria? If there are people to complaint, not the pastors of christian religion.

Four hundred years ago, some unknown people who called themself Christians arrived on the shore of Nigeria. They gave our forefathers their bibles and took away their children. They stripped them of their names, and their adentities, before they threw them on plantation to plant sugarcane. And since the abolition of slave trade, Nigerians continue to worship the god of the white. Nigerians continue to stripped themselves of African names to take the long old names of the colonia masters. Fela Anikulapo-kuti said,' German man get german name, American man get American name, British man get British name, but African man dey bear Johnson.' So, when will you be released from your psychologically enslavement? When will you be proud to get Nigerian name? When will you be free mentally to give Nigerian names to your children? Or, are you going to be a slave for life? The whites set you free many years ago, Wilberforce fought hard for your Nigerian name. Malcome X refused to bear slave name. Don't tell me that those names you bear are christian names. No! they are not. Many names are German, Celtic, Scottish, and many are derived from the old goltic gods. We Nigerians have lost our adentity and until we have courage to find it, very little will chage.

[Pastor Faith Bankole]

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