A Dose Of Smile

  Putting God in a box is like setting parameters or building a fence round him. God is unpredictable and incomprehensible. Looking through the scriptures, we can see that the presence of God moved from a one place to the other. From the ark of covenant to living in us by the reason of Jesus did on the cross. Often times, we turn our relationship with God into a routine. Our human mind begins to put God in a box such that we think he can only reach out to us in a particular manner. As much as God is able to do anything and everything, what limits us when we put constraints on our relationship is not His ability but ours. We limit our ability to partner with God, work with him, to see Him do miracles, and to experience how big He really is. Our view on our situation and our perspective of who God is are responsible for how we box him up. The dimension of him that we see in our lives correlates to our view of who God is. When we see Him as the Almighty creator of the universe,...

  Before dropping my "church goer" status all in the name of being a Christian, whenever I heard the story of 'Ruth', there's only one thing that comes to my mind - "The woman who was willing to die with her husband's family". In my (Yoruba) tribe we call such person 'Abokoku'. Somehow, I didn't see anything worth studying or emulating about the life of Ruth - because it felt stupid for one to leave her entire family all in the name of commitment (Well, my subtle hatred for men was responsible for this thinking). Coming into Christ, I have not only seen the beauty in the life of Ruth but I have also learnt very important things that can be applied in our every day life. Ruth was a initially a widow who made a lifetime decision to forsake her people, country, gods etc. In my view, it takes someone to have tasted a better life for them to abandon his/her people, country etc. Ruth was a Moabite, these people committed several atrocities and ...