Think first of your Duty post -

By Banji Ayoola

Your activity in the service of the Lord should determine whatever decision you take.

This should be your first consideration. It is first the Duty in which you stand, in which you are permitted to stand for the Lord.

Hence, think of your Duty first.

This should be more important to you than anything, or anybody; more than anything else on Earth. It is your life.

Whatever decision, or step you take should be determined most importantly, by how this will affect your standing faithfully in your Duty.

All your movements should be determined, or decided by your joyful and loyal activity in genuine and humble service to the Light.

You will not want to abandon your Duty for any earthly matter, for any other desire, for any temptation, whatever it may be, even if it offers you material wealth.

Your Duty automatically forms a cloak of Light around you. This is impregnable. It offers you radiant health and well-being. It offers you all-time protection. It is your life.

To abandon your Duty for anything else is to step out, or pull out of this special cloak of Light around you. To withdraw from it, and thus separate, and estrange yourself from the Light.

This step would make you an outcast from the Light; a vagabond, and a spiritual wreck.

It will make you vulnerable to arrows and attacks from hitherto alien forces, an easy prey, a mincemeat of the Darkness.

You will thereby pull out of the protection, the rampart of Light around you. Of the Omnipotence of the Lord, which hitherto always ringed you around; Which has always been with you.

So, think first of your Duty post before anything else. This connects you strongly with the Power of the Lord.

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