Day 24 (24th of May)

It is wonderful to be woken up by God each morning. There is so much to be thankful to God for. I’m counting down to the return day to Southie. There is still so much to do but some would have to be postponed for another time.

I did some running around in the morning using a chartered taxi. It’s so expensive without a personal car however its convenient to be driven round Lagos with our traffic system.

I started or should I say re-started reading the book by C.S. Lewis titled ‘ The Screwtape Letters’. This book is listed by John Maxwell amongst the top 100 must read books. It takes a bit getting used to. Essentially, it is a masterpiece satire of the portrayal of the human life from the point of view of demon Screwtape, through a series of letters to his nephew. It is an interesting book. I saw myself in some of the situations that Screwtape adviced his nephew to exploit, examples are the posture we maintain in prayer and how important this is. We learnt about posture in school of disciples, how different postur.es signifies various level of submission.

 I also learnt about the danger in focusing on specific objects (as s symbol of God) during prayer, for example some people focus on the image of the cross. I remember asking some more matured Christian what they focus on when they pray. I got some very interesting responses. Some said an image of light as the bible tells us that God dwells in light. I used to have an image of a figure in a long white gown, could not put a face to the head though. Now, as I mature my focus is more on His presence than an image. The Presence is so real and active.

The other reflection from this book was on the importance of knowledge. One of their approaches is to keep knowledge out of the mind of humans in particular Christian. This immediately got me to think about the word of God that says ‘My people perish for lack of knowledge’. Without the word of God, we die spiritually. If the enemy can keep us from this, he is happy.

I’m looking forward to reading more of this book. It got me thinking about my attitude as a Christian

Nothing much today except sitting for 4 hours getting my hair braided. What we women do.

Thank You Jehovah for blessing me with another wonderful day.