GENERAL REFLECTION ON LIFE
In the beginning there was a word, the word is with God and the word was God. God created everything under the universe with the word and after creating everything, he rested on the seventh day and after seeing that all he has created were good, he now created human beings in his own image and likeness and breath into it to give life in order to be the head, control and dominate all God has created, In other words, to add dominion on all what God has created. As it has been seen from the creation and as God himself has said it,
All he has created have been found to be good. In other words, God has always been good and his works are always good. As god has created us in his own image according to the scripture and breath into us and made us the best of his creation and the dominion of all his creation.so by our creation and all that god desires of us is nothing but the best. The creation he made of us which is of his{God likeness and image} and breathing into us the breath of life, he wants us to be like him in terms of goodness and he wants this to be demonstrated in all our activities behaviours and attitudes towards God and neigbours and make the world which he has given us to dominate and be a better place for all.God has created us and given us life as the best creation to love him above all things and to love our neighbors as ourselves as exemplified in the bible. Hence, God has not created us as animals,stones,trees and not as inordinate object who who may not be able to appreciate what God has done by his creation. God has created and given us a beautiful life and therefore wants us to maintain this beauty of our life and all the beautiful and good things of his creation to maintain them at all times throughout our sojourn in life. In order to maintain this status for eternity, God put our fore parent in the garden of Eden where life was beautiful and abundant but because of the sins of our parents Adam and eve in the garden of Eden which made them to fall short of the glory of God, we the generations from this parent have inherited the sins from them. Hence, we are all sinners by birth. In order to erase this original sin from every human being born by a woman, every human being must be baptized and receive the holy spirit so as to receive a new status of holiness{without the original sin to a new life}.So by our baptism our original sin are forgiven because of the human nature{mortals}.however, we fall into sin because of our nature as humans, therefore the causes of our sins are many and they vary, some of which are listed below
Inordinate ambition
Greed
Uncontentment
lust
Unfaithfulness
Love of money
Murder
Slander
Dishonesty, Drunkenness e.t.c
To avoid sin is to do the opposite of the above that is to live the life of a good Christian or muslim, to live a good lifestyle, to be moderate in everything, to be prayerful to God/Allah and to live the way God wants us to live so as to be able to live a purposeful, beautiful, happy and sinless life which will lead us to heaven at the end of our lives here on earth. Anything short of this is a life and living which will lead one to hell at the end of our journey in life. So my advice to every human being is to have the fear of God in all that we do, to love God/Allah and our neighbors’ as ourselves and to live a simple and holy life in all ramifications and striving hard at all times to make this life a better place for oneself and all others irrespective of gender, tribe, race, religion or political consideration. Life is sacred therefore no one should take another persons life for no reason whatsoever including abortion. It is only God that gives and takes life, we should remember this at all times. When we do all this our life and living will tally and comply with the purpose{es} by which God has created us in this world. In other words, God does not want us to sin because when we are in sin we fall short of the glory of god and because of the love of god for us that we may not die in sin, God sent his only begotten son into the world as a sacrificial lamb for our sins. By this decision to send his only begotten son to the world, Christ was born by the divine intervention of God {by angel Gabriel} through Mary. By his birth and death on the cross of cavalry as our redeemer, we as mortals often fall into sin but as Christ has provided a platform to confess and repent from our sins as well as ask for forgiveness and receive the body and blood of Christ which Christ instituted through the last supper and those who truly believe in this sacrament of reconciliation and also about the dead and risen Christ, sinners are forgiven. God does not want us to fall into sin, god has always wanted us to have a pure and beautiful life or a purity of life because we are fallable.so why do we fall into sin? What causes our sins? Here now we need to pause and review our life and living and give answers to this questions so that we can know which way to go whether heaven or hell at the end of our life here on earth.
cc Michael Godson
