Son of EL (New testament preacher)

My brothers and sisters, I'm sorry for being gone for soooooo long (I don't have excuses but I must say that I'm strategizing on how to manage time to deliver the words of My Father) It's Nigeria's Independence day (two days ago) as declared by the Federal Government of my beloved country (Nigeria).  Hmm! INDEPENDENCE according to 'wikipedia the free encyclopedia' is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory. But for me, I will define it as a complete state of freedom. Our independence remains a castle in the air if our souls find pleasure in the works of the flesh that wrestle against our expression of the redeemed life. The world calls the freedom of the expressive life of the flesh as INDEPENDENCE but we still are not freed from little lust, pilfering, backbiting, negative sabotaging, false-witnesses, lies, mocking, envy, ...

The atmosphere glitters as the firmament cools off the day (even in the far north-west); the birds fly with confidence with their wings spread in happiness about a new dawn as their hunters have taken away all snares; the donkeys carry wares and grasses in smaller quantity as their riders give them a long rope (at least for today); the expressways and routes remain relatively silent as many vehicles are getting some rests at their owners' haven; there're sudden appearances of colour green and white across the streets and highways like house-flies during my last days at the NYSC orientation camp in Dakingari; faces appear on television across national stations discussing with the word "INDEPENDENCE" fusing all of them together, and I began to ruminate about the truth of it. I see that all that are written above are ephemeral as the weather will still do what it does best; the hunters will place their snares strategically again; the expressways and routes will start lam...