THE KINGDOM HERALD

NB: This article was first published about a year ago. I was prompted by a crisis in the Nigerian financial sector that involved some prominent Christians. The message is still very much relevant to us today and is being published for our instruction and edification. Three weeks ago, I mentioned the “Boko Haram” crisis that rocked parts of Northern Nigeria. A newspaper article on the incident had forced me to send a “beware” to kingdom citizens about the dangers of becoming inappropriately obsessed with the promised kingdom of our Lord to the detriment of our fortunes in the present time. But it is evident that we’ve been having a hard time achieving the balanced attitude proposed in the article. Why do I say that? Another “tsunami” – as it has been dubbed in the media – has ripped through Nigeria, leaving in its wake the necessity of yet another warning. This time around, it is about the dangers of getting unduly entangled “with the affairs of

We talk and sing about it, but do we really understand what we say? When we talk about the hereafter, or “making Heaven,” some have the idea of a wonderful place somewhere “beyond the sunset,” where we’ll sing praises and strum harps day without end. Well, that’s what we learnt in Christian kindergarten. But as mature men, we should know better. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (I Corinthians 13:11). How many Christians know that the eternal life we talk about so much is going to be spent here on earth? Even among those who do, there’s a blur in the vision. Yes, this great “terrestrial ball” is where we’ll spend eternity with our Lord. But it would have been refined and rebuilt – a restoration of Eden! It will, however, not be just an Eden of flora and fauna, but also of brick, steel and glass structures, of super-highways and other breathtaking creations! It’s a really big pict