“If any one says, “I love God” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.”
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 9th January 2025 – 1 JOHN 4:19 -5:4.
So, we are all familiar with the part of the Holy Bible that says and I quote, “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; . . . . . . . . . . . . So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them.” – GENESIS 1:26-28.
Wait o! After God must have created you and I in His own image and likeness, He was yet not done o! God Almighty still went ahead to bless what He has created.
Therefore, if I should decide on my own to hate my fellow man, am I not choosing to embark on a futile expedition?
I cannot claim to love God Whom is not visible to me, whereas I am busy hating on fellow men created in the image and likeness (and on top of that also blessed) of Him Whom I claim to love.
Even you sef, if all man claim to love you but dem come hate your pikin, how you wan come take swallow dat kind type of thing?
Although, some of us are so vile that human self control may not be enough not to get to hate their ways.
But that should do. We may just hate their ways and not the person themselves, even if we are direct recipient of their vile ways.
However, my dear friend, we mustn’t play God or some kind of an assistant God by taking things into our hands. We can only pray to God concerning the ways of that His creation.
As it has now become popular, what God cannot do does not exist.
Remember, Christ Himself instructed us that the first and greatest commandment is to love with all our mind, all our strength and all our soul. Even when he wasn’t asked about the second, he added that, the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbour as yourself.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
9th Jan. 2025.