THE WORD

***************LOVE***********

I remember when I was pretty young, my mum would always tell me to bathe my younger sisters and have them ready for school.


I was a teenager then,  vile and wild. I was subject to the normal Nigerian "home training".
I would rebel a little back and forth. Most of the time I clandestinely do my thing, leaving my parents in their own world.

...so she would say "Tobenna ga sa umunne gi ahu".
It bothered me,  "why me?" I mean it is 5am,  plus they are your kids not mine!

I would reluctantly spank my sisters to reality from their sleep and drag them like slaves awaiting execution to the bathroom and give them the scrub  of their lives.

I forgot they were kids,  I would scrub hard and if they wailed I would shove foam into their mouth just to keep them shut.

I was angry,  not at them,  but at everything. My life,  my emotions,  my parents... "Why me?"

The truth is that,  I responded like that because that was all I knew... I didn't know love

See how Jesus puts it:
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

This simple formula is the answer...my father loves me,  that same love the father loved me with is what I have loved you with so continue in my love.

Forget what we have learnt in the past,  forcing us to love when we don't even have it.
 we cant love God talk more of our brothers if we don't know love...we have to receive it to give it.

See how John puts it:
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

We cant give what we don't have.

I couldn't give my sisters what I didn't have. I didn't know how to. In my mind I thought I was doing them the favor of helping them grow...

See how Jesus put it:

John 16:2 You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor.

I battered them thinking I was doing them a favor. I didn't know how to love.

It took a revelation of God's love to love them unconditionally. The truth is that you can't have a revelation of love and not love.

John will help me end this... "Apostle John,  over to you! "

1 John 3:16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

"well said sir, so I should perceive his love and that should make me love? Thank you apostle sir for this revelation"

"the pleasure is mine Mr Tobe"