“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.”

Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Friday 13th September 2024 – LUKE 6:39-42.

So, some of us in Nigeria have been nagging and complaining about the seeming insensitivity of the authority people in government.

Our complaints have been directed mostly to the President @OfficialPBAT.

We talk about how the president requests of us to make sacrifices, yet, he, as well as other authority people in government have refused to make any sacrifices.

We nag about and truly so, how amidst hunger and starvation, the whopping sum N150miliion was expended for importing one 4 wheel drive SUV vehicles for each of the over 450 legislators in the National Assembly.

We also talk about how a teary sum of over N21billion was expended for the renovation of the Vice President’s official residence.

There are several of such vexatious expenditures that truly make nonsense of the plea by the president for the masses to make sacrifices.

However, the most notorious of them is the acquisition of a yacht, a bullet proof 4 wheel drive SUV and a new Presidential jet outside of the budget by a President who wants the masses to make sacrifices so that the country can prosper.

Nevertheless, while the actions of the president could be called to question and they are actually frustrating, we must first narrow down the expected or supposed uprightness and point the finger to ourselves before wanting to cast aspersions on some one else.

As a man, how fair have we been with our hard earned resources for the overall benefit of our immediate (nuclear) family?

Do we prioritise ourselves first, second, third and our family come a distant eleventh or something?

As a men, do we really love and cherish the woman God has put in our life to be by our side or we have other assistant wife(s) that compete for our love and other resources with her?

As an employer or a boss at the place of work, how upright have we been seeing to our employees or subordinates getting their rightful obligations as and when due?

Kudos to those of us who are uprightly upright as well as to those of us who go the extra mile.

While we must complain about the supposed ‘inhuman’ face of the @OfficialPBAT policies, we too, must first look inwards so that when we seemingly moan and groan under the bulk of the strain of the current situation in our country, we shouldn’t equally attract the ire of God for the strain we, too, subject to those under us.

This☝️ is the message of today’s teaching.

Folks, have a fantastic day and a pleasant weekend.

SAINT_JOHN_CHRYSOSTOM! #Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!

• Akase F. Agabo
  13th Sept. 2024.