Have you ever wondered
why it is so easy to promote evil or immorality, yet so difficult to share and
promote morality and any good form of experiences or things, tangibles and
intangibles?
For the past couple of weeks,
I have been holding back not to write anything about the ‘’hallelujah
challenge’’ by Nathaniel Bassey which trended so awesomely in a magical way all
through the month of June.
Before you start
getting it twisted, let me clear the air. First of all, I’m not a member of Nathaniel Bassey’s family or
a member of his church neither am
a personal friend of his or even a friend to his friend. It would also
interest you to know that I didn’t even take part in the challenge until three
days before it ended.
And guess what? I wish
took part in it all through the month and not just for three days .
Nevertheless, I didn’t miss
out on the blessings of the month neither did I miss out on the blessings of
the midnight praise because I was involved in my own daily/nightly prayers and
praise sessions as organized by my local church. Yes! I am a Christian. Just in
case you didn’t know.
So the month of June
was indeed a month of daily mighty praise of God from millions of people across
the globe. Believe it or not, many testified and are still testifying about the
wonders that came out of all the praise
challenge(s.)
Now with that out of
the way, dear reader, let’s move on.
Every move of God
normally moves people forward and I believe that just concluded hallelujah
challenge and all other challenges of night praise, prayer and worship which no
doubts were moves of God moved a lot of people, individuals, families and
businesses forward.
And so it was
disheartening to see posts and comments on the posts on social media from
individuals including Christians who were condemning the hallelujah challenge
by Nathaniel Bassey claiming it was just a strategic PR for his next album or
song. Phew! How condescending can people get when they see good things. When a
few of these negative posts and comments were attacked by those who saw it as
“uncalled for” the posters and communicators of course quickly moved to try in
defending themselves.
That’s by the way
though, even though it was what gave rise to this write up.
After seeing such
comments the one thing I could ‘deduce’ from all such comments was sheer
“envy”.
Yes I say envy or else
how can you find it so easy to ‘okay ’ programs and reality shows that promote all kinds of
immorality including sex and nudity but shout when people spend their data
praising God for just one hour or more every night for just a month? Yet we complain
about how decayed the society has now become; including politicians stealing public funds on a daily
basis while robbers, kidnappers and ritualists are carrying out their
activities all around the place at their various levels unperturbed, not
leaving out the rapists, perverts and peadophites whose victims are also
getting on high by the day.
So it’s okay when 90%
of men go online on a daily basis to watch pornography for hours on social
media and data is used for all these.
Some “enjoyers” of the
bad news are quick to Google on the latest couples who are breaking up, who is
cheating on their spouses, how one person was disgraced or who was rich and now
broke and many more.
People or should I resound
that “man” is naturally wicked and that it takes a lot of discipline to push down
and suppress the spirit of envy and thereafter wish good for others?
Alas! It’s not always
so with many individuals as the quest for always wanting to remain ahead of a
friend or next person, seeks for ways to continuously put down every one of perceived
their “competitor”.
Why am I not surprised at
the negative remarks from many especially the co-Christians?
Imagine a Pastor or Christian
artist/minister who’s been in the ministry for a couple of “donkey” years and yet still
struggling, only for this “small boy” or “rookie” Nathaniel Bassey to come from "nowhere" and
take all the “shine” with a small idea as “Halleluyah Challenge”. Kai! What a “whipping”!!
I can only imagine how many of the “bad belles” bit and are still biting their
fingers with expressions and thoughts such as “if only I had thought of this
strategy and acted upon it earlier”.
Well deal with it dear,
move on, join the challenge next time, ask God for your own “one small idea”
and be rest assured that without any grudges against those whose bread have
been “buttered”, your own bread will also be “buttered”. Just be patient and
think positive.
Enough said already and
you may be wondering why I’m just writing about that “Halleluyah challenge”
when it’s been many weeks over. Yes it’s because many are still talking about
it and testimonies are still coming out.
When next any such
praise challenges come up, I will take full part in it even as I know millions
of participants from across the world are gearing up for the next challenge.
Nathaniel Bassey broke ranks with his Halleluyah challenge and it was a good ‘rank
breaking’ let others follow in his step perhaps it could become a leeway in sanitizing
what we do on social media with our data.
Carry on Nathaniel
Bassey and by the way ‘Olowogbogboro’ is really trending already and of course,
Gods culture is on the verge of taking over ‘pop culture’.
Olowogbogboro is truly
turning things around!
STELLA ENE-INYANG
STELLA ENE-INYANG
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