Month: February 2026

Something happened in my place of work, someone of got into my personal line and started barking out orders to me so I blocked him. I had a second thought to unblock him, so I did but lost my chat message. What was so funny was this guy used to phones (2) to build chats attaching my name to it screen munched the charts to use as evidence. Quite frankly, I was surprised…to think they believe that someone so high up would do such a thing beats me.

Aside from the fact that I am not an angel, I noticed a couple of things at my new workplace upon my arrival. My mode of transportation became a topic of discussion, and I had to speak directly to the Operations Manager about it, but he went on to report me. Apparently, the spin of the law favors those who have stayed longer in a position over those who question it. In addition, where I lived became a reason for comparison. So, I realized that truth is costly when given to a fool. Proverbs 23:9 says, “Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.”

My mode of transport seems to influence how I am perceived at work, and where I live is seen as a measure of my punctuality, even though I had clearly stated that I struggle with tardiness.

Why am I saying this, I realized that people perception of you is what they try to project on you against the truth of what they see. This brings us to John the Baptist; he told the truth to Herod and Herodias more than once and though Herod was conscience stricken, it didn’t stop him from wanting to kill John the Baptist. Mark 6:26-27 because John courageously confronted Herod, saying, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife”.

I confronted someone in high position in my workplace, and it wasn’t about what he did but about him wanting to be right. The thing is one can deceive the whole world but it’s hard to deceive your own conscience and that where guilty plays. The bible never tells us to live by our conscience, but by FAITH. I am not going to tell you I always live by faith these days, but I certainly don’t live by my conscience but by THE TRUTH that no good dwelleth in me. If giving the truth, it is not what will make you yield a sword against me then you will never get the truth from me. And as King David said, “For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.” Psalm 18: 25-29

²⁵ With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

²⁶ With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

²⁷ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

²⁸ For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹ For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

So even though my heart and flesh fail God is the strength of my life and portion forever. Even if I fail God did not fail. So, when I confronted the person, I realize that’s how John felt, however one should never correct a fool twice. Once is enough to hate you. Proverbs 9:8; I will not be overly righteous as I don’t want to die before my time, and I will not be overly wicked either. Ecclesiastes 7:16–17. It’s precisely because John was trying to be overly righteous, he died, sometimes turn off the truth and live by faith, God did not fail even if I do. I just simply followed King David method with King Achish.

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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

So, yesterday was Valentine’s Day, but much of the talk about Valentine’s was spoken about today in church, being the 15th of February. That the fruit of the Holy Spirit is first love — that is, as I say, the first fruit before joy. And that sometimes the things we look for in physical love often reflect the spiritual ones too. Like you will ask some men why they married their wives, and they will say, “She gives me peace.” It’s an outward manifestation of the inner one. And the query our pastors had was: most of us have been Christians for 15 years or more — when was the last time we spoke to anyone about Christ? And that love is not blind because Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” Of course, the room is always quiet at this point. He says that if you walk with some church people, you are supposed to be recognized with that church, such is the aroma and fragrance of Christ on us — which is His love.

That if we look at the Bible, Jesus did not come to earth to perform miracles; He wasn’t the first person to raise someone from the dead. Some, like Elisha, had done it and done more miracles before Jesus came. The main reason Jesus came to the earth is so that we will be saved from our sins. No man could do that except Jesus, being both God and man, and the mediator of the second covenant spoken of by the prophet Isaiah.

He went on to say that’s why Jesus came — so love moves. Jesus came down to earth (He moved) to show us the way to salvation (His mission). That is why He is our perfect witness of love (Rev. 1:5), our faithful witness. That when God tells us to love our neighbors, it’s no guarantee they will love you back. That just because we don’t eat lions doesn’t mean lions won’t eat us (a Yoruba adage). But why am I going on and on about what he describes love as?

For me, I don’t believe the church is suffering from a lack of love. For anyone to have been a Christian for over 15 years, it’s not because you have not seen the love of God. I mean, if you are in a relationship with Christ, you won’t be there if it’s not benefiting you or you aren’t gaining anything because of human nature in man. By this I mean John 6:26: “Jesus answered them and said, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.’” And His provision is a reflection of His love for us. That is why He is called Jehovah Jireh — He provides His Son, gave manna, and all. So, we have experienced a measure of God’s love for us through His Son.

Now, the idea that we think our sins affect God is laughable because from Habakkuk, we know God cannot look at sin. So as Christians, His Son is a perfect sacrifice for atonement for our sins so we can have access to the Father. So, our sin no longer affects God because His Son mediates for us as Christians, but guess what? It affects other Christians. Job 35:8: “Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.” So, we know that God is too pure to behold iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13). That’s why His Son came — for the Father not to see sin on us and to restore man through salvation. The problem is this:

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

Iniquity will abound in the last days, causing the love of many people to grow cold. Notice God is not bothered by this because His Son atones for this, but the battle is with humans and other humans causing others, by their actions, not to believe in God. The interesting thing about this period is that Jesus describes it as Him returning as a thief in the night (1 Thessalonians 5:2, Revelation 16:15, Matthew 24:43), signifying that people would be caught off guard or unaware.

Matthew 24:37–39 still emphasizes it would be like business as usual:

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so, shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.”

Luke 17:34 further states how this will be subtle: “I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”

Telling you it will be as a normal day — no obvious chaos or distortion. So, when analyzing the church today, the question I would ask is not whether there is love in the church, but whether that love has waxed cold already. As we scream about human love, one wonders about the condition of the human heart toward God. So, I do say Happy Valentine’s, but the first fruit is still the LOVE OF GOD, THEN LOVE FOR MAN.

Proverbs is a very wise book: I went in search of wisdom and found everything worldly is vanity. A passing of the wind and a vexation of the spirit in the words of King Solomon. The only absolute truth is the word of God:

Just as the mouth has a bitter part, bitter words will come out of a person (Job 7:11); sweet words will (flattery) Proverbs 5:3; salty words (Colossians 4:6) the one Jesus recommends we have, sour word spoken (Jeremiah 31: 29) out of jealousy scriptures reveal.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 For everything there is a season, and a time for every ^[a]purpose under heaven: ² a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; ³ a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ⁴ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; ⁵ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ⁶ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; ⁷ a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; ⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. So, I will add mine: A TIME TO SPEAK AND WHEN NOT TO.

JOB 4: 2 says ….but who can withhold himself from speaking? Job 4: 17 says the reason why? that is because mortal man cannot be purer than God? that a man cannot be purer than his maker. For a person, I had learned a long time that a person’s quietness didn’t mean he or she wasn’t a fool, they were just raised or train that way, and it doesn’t mean those who talk are foolish I can just as easily detect where your weak points are as long as you talk (and if you don’t talk you are prone to depression faster). So, find wisdom as pain. The president of America talks does that mean he is a fool, no! It just means we can see his fault from his lips easily James 3: 8 goes on to say it is impossible to tame the tongue “But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” why? Like Jesus says in Matthew 12: 34 the mouth speaks only what the heart is full of. Proverbs 10:11 backs up where the mouth gets these things from “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4: 23. It’s the heart that allows the flow to the mouth.

Does this mean we should stop cautioning our tongue? No, because as far we know each heart knows its own bitterness. As long as the heart has bitterness, the mouth will speak if it’s not guarded making it nearly impossible to tame the tongue.

So, I say “Let my conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” – Colossians 4: 6

Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. – Psalm 141:3.

Some have said LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE – Proverbs 18: 21, but then time and chance happen to everyone right Ecclesiastes 9: 11 “I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.” So, if you like confess all the positive verse, if the appropriate time and chance comes and you don’t recognize it, its vanity even if you do, eventually you will understand it’s still vanity. Moreover, I have seen and witnessed that his grace flows in our weakest areas not in our strengths, so the undeserved will still get more grace? why because God wants them to see his love. So, that where the righteous come into labor for the sinners. You say it’s not fair but then that what Jesus got the righteous for the sinner Barabbas.

I would close today’s write-up with one of my favorite verses: Psalm 45: 1 “For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. A wedding song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.”

Numbers 1:1 says on the 1st day of the second month of the year 2026 after the Jews came out of Egypt. God instructed moses and Aaron to the sum of all the congregation of the children of Isreal (the church).

As we prepare to enter his house and congregation to be counted amongst the living, who survived many battles, of last month and overcame where do you want to be numbered. Number 1: 18 rehashes how the Israelites assembled all the congregation together on the 1st day of the second month. Using their families by the house of their father, with the number of their names, every male by their polls, 20 years upward were to be numbered by their armies.

Reuben was 46,500, Simeon 59,300, Gad 45,650, Judah 14,660, Zebulun 57,400, Ephraim 40,500, Manasseh 32,200, Benjamin 35,400, Dan 62,700 and Asher 41,500, Naphtali 53,400. (I always thought this was the sq boundary each tribe occupied).

With exception of the Levites, who had the tabernacle of testimony to minister. But the beauty is to see how the congregation of the lord (now the church) assemble for battle.