So we should stop praying?
I've followed the conversation resulting from the recent killings in Plateau State and the Lagos Tanker fire incidence and all I keep seeing is post relating to the need for us to stop PRAYING and get down to WORK.
I have a few questions about that:
When did WORK and PRAYER become mutually exclusive?
Is there a prove that the problems we are having in Nigeria as a result of the fact that we have been 'praying too much'?
Could God possibly be angry with us for 'disturbing him' with our prayers?
How has our prayers become responsible for the killings or the accidents?
Brethren, please let's not err on this, this narrative can only be the handiwork of the enemy. As a nation I know we have committed so many sins but I don't think prayer is one of them and I have never heard of a single place where prayer proved to be an inhibitor to success and national development.
The government must take responsibility and put the right policy frameworks and structures that are enforceable to avert a reoccurrence of such ugly incidences.
As individuals we must also ask ourselves where have we contributed in our little ways to this decay, rottenness and corruption in the system.
This question has become very necessary because last night as I listened to my friends based in the UK analyse obvious facts showing how things work in countries that 'work', I get very angry within me. My anger is not that I am envious or not happy for those countries, but my anger is that I know (I mean I heard and I believed it), that Nigeria was once good - that things once 'worked better' here.
I heard there was a time people came from UK to school in Ile-ife, and Kaduna, I heard there was a time one naira was equal to 1.25 dollars, I heard there was a time people came from India to be treated at the teaching hospital in Ibadan, I heard there was a time Nigerian Airways was better than British Airways.
Now the system is so corrupt and routine that it is now difficult to find a way to fix it.
Then my question in all this, is WHO SPOILT NIGERIA and when did this our backward movement start?
I have not given up on Nigeria and I never will, even though it is extremely difficult to find positives with the everyday development. I don't blame people who have officially declared Nigeria unsafe for human habitation, I think to an extent they are right, because one can actually just die within a blink of an eye. If Boko Haram don't kill you, it will be Herdsmen, or Militants, or Political Thugs, or Plane Crash or Road Accident or Malaria (from mosquito bites).
But despite all these I still think that Nigeria will be great again. Rather than question HOW and WHEN that will be, rather than question WHO the Messiah will be I suggest you start the revolution in your little corner. I have a clear picture of the country of my dream and I will sure contribute to its realization. But no matter how hard I work, no matter the plans I put in place, no matter who our leaders are, I still believe that we can never pray too much and I know that God will answer us.
