By Banji Ayoola
Just one virus; and we are down in the dust, forced down on our knees; in consequence of our serial wanton disregard over many ages, of the wise and wonderful provisions for our well being here on earth. Provisions lovingly sent down continuously from ages ago and brought specially by many teachers, helpers and guides; and lavished on us as special gifts from On High.
Gifts which we should gratefully accept, use for our upkeep, and to polish us into better human beings; to ennoble ourselves, our neighbours and surroundings; to build this earth into a monument flourishing in love, peace and harmony; in abundance of everything good; into a realm abounding in exquisite beauty and raised in honour only of the Lord, in reverence of His wise Laws governing every part of His beautiful Creation. These Laws are unchangeable, unbending and incorruptible as they express and manifest His Holy Will on earth, as in every other part of the whole Creation.
Unfortunately, we have trampled on these most wonderful provisions and ways. We have disregarded them. We have strayed off far away from the right path into hostile arms that lead only to further pain, suffering and horrors, to destruction. What we were given we distorted and channeled to wrong use, to sow confusion, pain, suffering and horrors rather than blessing for ourselves and fellowmen. The helpers sent repeatedly over the years we persecuted, rejected and murdered as common criminals.
Now this tiny virus has shaken us off our precarious perch on the height of our conceit of knowing everything better, flung us off and pressed us down in the dust. Until purged of arrogance, we recognise that we are now endangered human beings in great need of helping words, and we humbly supplicate for help.
Hopefully we would now listen and turn from our wicked ways. We caused the horrors that we have seen, that we are experiencing and that are still coming, by our wrong ways. Hopefully we would now listen and change our wrong ways.
Prayerfully what we rejected from the chain of helpers, teachers, prophets, forerunners of the Word of Truth as specially blessed and called ones, and closely on their heels even the Light Incarnate, the Son of God Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ in His unimaginable Love, will now sink in.
