Ezekiel 28: 1-10)
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, . . . . . . . . . . . . .by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth —. . . . . . . . . . . . You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord God.”
Excerpts, First Reading, Tuesday 29th August 2024 – EZEKIEL 28:1-10.
So, the Almighty God abhors pride in its entirety.
A line in one of the songs Hit ‘Em Up, by the late Hip-hop music icon 2Pac Shakur, goes, ‘I am a self made millionaire.”
Dear friend, that ☝️is not true. Such a claim is just a fallacy.
Since no man is an island, then, there cannot be anyone who is self made anything.
Once we start having those haughty airs about being self made, there and then, we start getting it all wrong.
It is such airs that get us to resign God to the background and carry on with such fallacious impression that our wisdom, intelligence, strength and hard work got us the level of success we have achieved.
The King of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has achieved so much success in developing that country that he is now capable of creating artificial rain as well as snow in that desert region.
Yet, King Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan remains a devoted Muslim who still observes his Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha daily prayers.
The day he starts thinking of himself a self made, God, though, tolerant and slow to act, would however not hesitate to remind him.
Some billionaires from around the world are beginning to carry on such airs of self made and the feeling of being gods.
These people are therefore clandestinely creating a new world order by devoting a huge chunk of their wealth to sponsor Stem Cell Research.
Their action, in as much as it seems so distant and very far away from us, is yet near and catching up on us very furiously.
My dear friend, such conspiracy is the reason why some of our sisters and daughters are been cowed to sell their eggs – ovaries.
The eggs extracted from these young girls is one of the major raw material required for this research.
This is spreading really fast and wide in third world countries where the margin of exchange rate of the local currencies are marginally kept wide against leading world currencies.
Most of these targeted countries have internal crisis that has grossly affected the cost of living.
Nevertheless, my dear friend, despite the conspiracies of the new world order, you and I must be weary of not allowing our small success to get into our head.
One can go on in aeons writing about this, nonetheless, we must watch our pride.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
-Akase F. Agabo.
20th Aug. 2024.