By Banji Ayoola
Today, mankind needs joy, peace, and harmony instead of the grief and sorrow being experienced almost everywhere on Earth daily.
People generally are going through agony. Economic and social problems are on the rise, throwing many families into distress.
Many marriages are breaking down. Crime is on the increase. Anger and hatred now flare up easily among human beings. Murder, killings, and sudden deaths are being witnessed at an alarming rate.
Road and air crashes are becoming too frequent. Volcanic eruptions, weather catastrophes, floods, fires, and other natural disasters are multiplying. Strange ailments that defy known cure are afflicting peoples across frontiers.
Mankind is witnessing bizarre happenings in dimensions never ever witnessed in history until now.
All these, among others, plunge the world into further chaos and confusion, forcing people to run here and there desperately seeking solutions.
Despite all these and other frightening incidents, before which all earthly powers are powerless and incompetent, there is a general belief that idolatry is wrong.
Amid this confusion, we see idolaters as idol worshipers and those who do not profess faith in the One Almighty Father and Most High. Their idols are their gods which they worship and revere above everything else. So we believed.
But contrary to this belief, anything that man considers uppermost in his life is his god.
Sadly, there are not many men who do not revere money, and who have not made its acquisition and that of material wealth their ultimate goal on Earth.
We also find many men and women who lust for power, position, influence, pleasure, wife, husband, or child, for this or any other human being, man or woman.
The general love for these and other gods supersedes, indeed eclipses that for the Creator, the Only One, despite the professed faith of many in Him.
Still, many cling to these false gods, these golden calves; and this has been so for millions of years.
Who is that man on Earth today that truly has no other gods but the Almighty Father?
Where is the man who is ready to place his love for, and worship of the Lord his Creator above personal desires for material wealth, women, children, friends, pleasure, fame, distinction, power, influence, or everything else?
Where is the man who truly reveres the Lord, and is ready to seek and comply with His Laws expressing His Will?
Yet, the clear demand is that man shall worship only his Creator in volition, thoughts, words, and deeds, in all his activities, as the only guarantee for peace, joy, and happiness here on Earth.
It is now time for every person to sit alone quietly and examine him or herself, and honestly ask: “Who do I serve?”
- This is an excerpt from the newly published book “WHO DO YOU SERVE?” It was written by:
Banji Ayoola
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