Posts tagged Love
What's Happening in Nigeria? #EndSARS #SARSMUSTGO

I don’t know everything about this issue, but I wanted to share as much as I can, in hopes that it will help you get an understanding, if you’re unaware, motivate you to find out more on this, and also call you to do your part, if you feel so led. If you’re in the US, you can think about this in a similar way that we’ve spoken about police brutality in the US especially this summer, and just put it in Nigeria.

SARS is the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Nigeria. They’re a branch of the Nigerian Police Force that doesn’t wear badges or uniforms and they were designed to fight kidnapping, banditry, and other crimes alike. As SARS continued, it started to become something a bit different. They began targeting innocent young people across Nigeria.

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From Generation to Generation

Remember when God told Sarah she was going to bear a child in her old age then she laughed and tried to tell God she actually didn’t? Or when Abraham was out in the Negev region and was telling people Sarah was his sister and not his wife?  Something makes me think that these stories were told to Isaac, but ended with something along the lines of “and yet God still showed us favour” so the issue was minimized. Later, Isaac repeated the exact same thing his father did, in the same region, with the same king. WILD. *sings* Do you see what I see?

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Love One Another

Jesus doesn’t tell us to only love other Christians. He doesn’t tell us to only love those who are from the same place as us. He tells us to love everyone with live close to, but not just that everyone we meet as well. The cashier at Safeway, the professor who doesn’t curve grades for their course, Sister Susie that took your parking spot last Sunday at the church lot, the man you pass by on the street asking you for something you walked too fast to hear him even say. Every single person we encounter.

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