HUMILITY

To be humble is like to lie down for another to tremple upon you.It does not matter your status in life, humility can be practised by you. Remember how our saviour, with His highest status as the son of God the creator of the universe, lowered himself even to the cross to win salvation for mankind. Despite the spittings, mockery, persecutions and all the immeritable strokes inflicted on Him, He never spelt out a word. This was undertaking by Christ because He knew what was before Him, and the task He has to accomplish.

It is difficult though to express humility, but it pays everlasting progress. It is very painful to withstand insults, mockery, teases, and other forms of nasty treatments from people all in the name of humility.
Nevertheless, there is only one thing that facilitates the practice of humility.
What is this facilitator? It is priceless but expensive, it is worthy, it is holy, it is ...
It is the FEAR OF THE LORD. The fear of the Lord is the only original key to open the door of humility. It takes having Christ to gain humility.

How then can you acquire the fear of the Lord? Aquisition to this is by studying the scriptures. Read the bible always, at least once a day and see the amount of wisdom you will gain, aside the knowledge you will get from reading the scriptures.
Be a follower of humility and count yourself blessed. For the holy book says, Christ will lift up the humble and lower the proud. Do you want to be elevated or suppressed? Make your choice now, for there is no room for tomorrow.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Can a permanently blind man see clearly even at day time? Economically, can a nation with insufficient and incompetent administration and facilities among apartetic citizens experience total development? It is very patetic to see an independent nation like Ghana suffer destruction and yet yell "we are independent and sovereign".
Should this be the case?!!!

Ghana is over fifty years, but the conditions around its development has shown no improvement.Why do I say this? Though efforts are inputed to make the development state of the nation real, such efforts, excuse me to say seem incapacitated.Clearer illustrations include the bad roads(full of potholes) across the routes, choked gutters, indiscriminate clustering of houses creating slums, and a lot more all over the nation.

Just a month ago,if my mind will serve me right,I heard from a radio station if not mistaken, "City fm" that the government is creating avenues to secure citizens from disastrous floods which might occur owing to the aforecoming rainy season.However, this initiative was to me, a half-way focused motive. The reason being that, the innovation benefited just a section of the population.

I heard about eleven people lot their lives to a flood that occured in an area within Accra. Who knows the number of bodies that would be buried after this natural occurance(rainy season).
Another flooding issue betweem Ashiaman and Kpone barrier managed to carry about 1000 and above birds of a poultry farmer.How pitiful it seems.
My journey to Tema from Nungua on monday 21st june,2010 gave me a fearful hint.A strip of land as road between the sea and a lagoon. The present rain has caused the lagoon to increase profusely to the extent of increasing the elevation of the sea. Imagine a strip of land embedded between two mundane creatures. What do you think is likely to happen? A much headache is the construction of railway line on going.It look very scary when the thought of the sea and lagoon come to mind.

To help secure lives and property in our country, it is best for us to have a change of mind and attitude. This recommendation is to all; the president and its carbinet,the legislature,the judiciary and the citizens as a whole. Proactive actions must be taken by both the government and its administration to ascertain better outputs.
On the other hand, with reference to the situation at Sakumono, I think a bridge like the Adome bridge should be constructed instead of the already destroyed road and the railway line should be relocated to safer place. What do you think?

INTEGRITY:How do you understand it?

Integrity, a word which seem common to all men, but requires a lot. Many people brand themselves as having integrity, but only God knows whether they are aware of the components of integrity. In other words, though almost everyone is conversant with the alarming word integrity,not all adhere to the things that make true integrity.

A web definition explained integrity as a phenomenon which has to do with perceived consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcome. Most people use it as a holistic concept such as judging the integrity of systems in terms of the system's ability to achieve their own goals.
Among the western ethics, integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of Honesty and Truthfulness in relation to the motivations surrounding a person's actions.

Integrity, being the opposite of hypocricy regards internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or
their belifs.Confidently checking ourselves, how many of us can boldly rate our attitudes toward integrity?

Another important aspect of integrity that I think must be considered by all is the root of the word. This pending word is derived from a Latin adjective "integer" which means whole/complete. It is the inner sense of 'wholeness' deriving from honesty and consistency of character as qualities.Two major factors contribute to integrity: a value system's abstraction depth and range of applicable interaction due to their congruence or lack of congruence with empirical observation.

Integrity does not consist of loyalty to one's subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles. One's integrity can be tested both subjectively and objectively, or via scientific methodology or standardized mathematical procedures.
People use the word integrity in reference to a single "absolute" morality rather than in reference to the assumptions of the value system in question.


Stephen L. Carter, a proponent of this phenomenon suggested three steps to integrity: firstly, you discern what is right and what is wrong; then you work hard and act on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; and finally,you try and say openly that you are acting on your understanding of right from wrong.
Note also that, integrity can be defined holding to the region of affairs an individual finds him/herself in.
Frankly speaking, no one is without integrity, but the level of exploitation makes people to have diverse levels of integrity(either high or low)

I think how noble and successful one renders his/her responsibility can have effect on his integrity in a way. What is your mind on this? How perfectly do you understand this wonderful and well-pronounced word 'integrity'? Explain to me!!!

THE "FACILITATOR" OF MAN

Casting my mind on my life and how far I have come factoring the living, it potrays a shadow of the endless cycle of God's creation and the fulfilment of His words to man, "multiply and fill the earth".
God's purpose for having me come to this planet was facilitated by the man who availed himself to be used as an instrument for my production.
It was DADDY who yielded to this divine task.

After the combination of chemicals , which formed a compound in the chemistry laboratory,
He never rejected the result(which is me)
He took me, gave me a name, as God has ordained and promised to take necessary responsibility of me.
With this, I say thank you Dad.
Based on the vowel he made, he ensured that I had good nurturing;working hard on my education and providing shelter over my head.
God bless you daddy, you are truely the overseer of the family.

It is my prayer that, God grant you grace and long life so that you may see the output of your efforts and reap the best of fruits from your germinated seed.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!
(To all God-ordained fathers)

THE WOMAN OF RUBIES

Hail the woman who carried me as a clothe of blood in her womb and brought me forth in due season
Hail the second caretaker apart from God;
She considers my daily bread before hers,
She clothed me when I was naked,
Bathed me when I was dirty
What can I do? than to hail her name, MOTHER!!!
She is to me, the mother among all mothers;
The best thing ever given to me by God
Mother, you are so precious to me.
No earthly man's love can be compared to the love you've shown to me.
Blessed are you among women
And blessed are the fruits of your labour
May your palm not shrink in the harmattan season, and may your feet not tremble in the presence of earthquakes.
I thank God for a mother like you
You are always the pillar of my humane comforts.
Enjoy your moment of special recognition.
(This is to all God-ordained mothers)

READWIDE TO IMPROVE YOURSELF

Many a time, man is faced with cnfronting situations which in actual sense tend to drain even the little liquid in the system(body). These confronting situations can be characterised as the storms, hurricans, earthquakes, cataracts, and rapids that impede the smooth navigation of one's progress in life.

However, these setbacks should not be a hindrance to a determined, focused, and strategic planner's success in life.
Folks, as students aiming high to become better, prominent and competent citizens in our cherished and peaceful nation(Ghana), we ought to work hard and establish our stands very firm in all endeavors.

What do I mean by this?
As students, we ought to take our academics very serious despite any inconvenience. Reading wide to update our knowledge is a good atmosphere to help fit ourselves in the current affairs of both our noble institutions and the nation at large. I might say with great assertiveness that, we are all in the "soup" when it comes to poor attitude towards reading.
There is a common sense saying that, to hide something from an African, is to put it in a book. This saying alone proves that, Africans with you and me inclusive behave reluctantly to reading.

Meanwhile, it is not logic to spend a dozen of income on your education, with the struggles and toils of your significant others to have you being educated, and only for you to graduate from the university as an "educated illiterate".
This would be, if actually happens, a great havoc to three different but related parties(yourself, your society, and the entire nation), even to affect cosmos.

Note that, to be educated is to be disciplined, self-controlled, self-respected, time conscious,...
Above all, to be educated is to be God fearing; for wisdom, knowledge and understanding comes from God. And without Him, your stressful efforts to education will be fruitless.

COMPLETE FAVOUR

The favoured is always in the sight of he that granteth favour.
There are many channels to enjoying favour: Favour with the Self, Favour of Man(others), and the Favour of God.
It is your responsibility to do yourself good by favouring yourself;take good care of yourself while you make sure that you are out of pains, free from sickness and diseases.This would promote good health and make you physically strong.
You can also favour yourself by refraining from bad companies, as the Holy book says "bad company corrupts good mind".
In the light of these, favour with the self entails all the actions and moves one makes in order to secure peace with his or herself.


However, it is also prudent to attain the favour of others. This means winning the hearts of men and provoking them to act in your way.
Meanwhile, you can exercise this kind of favour only when you have something valuable that others seriously and profusely need.
This valuable thing(your talent) may be inherent or acquired.
It is also worth noting that, the talent should be perfected and traded by you so that your call to delivering at any point in time would be
credible, appreciable and excellent in the sight of many.
As a matter of fact, until you become knowledgeable, disciplined and practice hardwork, you can never perfect your talent, left alone trade it.


In spite of these, the most expensive aspect of complete favour is to have the favour of God. This face of favour is priceless but worthy.
To be favoured before God is to have faith in Him, trust and obey in His words, and act by and according to His words.
Know that God is the rewarder of they that diligently seek Him. His reward to them that ernestly seek Him can be in many forms, and one way to show the Father's reward to His sons is through favour.
On account Abraham, Job, Esther, David, Jacob, Jephter, Mary(Jesus' mother), and other biblical heroes enjoyed the true favour of God
in their days, holding to their faith and obedience to the decrees of God the father Almighty.


It is divinely acceptable that, as sons of God we practice these three major facets of favour that we may match forward properly to attaining
the complete favour at all course to the glory of one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN