Inspiration God is not mocked...you reap what you sow

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Rev. Yomi Kasali info@yomikasali.com

My teenage daughter has been overtly passionate about the End SARS movement and seriously challenged me into sharing my thoughts a few days ago before the Government decided to Disband the terrible crime fighting organization. It seems like nobody had any good thing to say about SARS but horrible stories and frightening experiences.

The protests have gotten worldwide attention with global celebrities joining through their social media handles and international news organizations doing special reports on the stories emanating from the cruelty of SARS. My son narrowly escaped the jaws of death in the hands of those monsters that call themselves Anti robbery policemen a few months back, I remembered shedding tears (I usually don’t cry) when he narrated his gory experience in their hands.

Let me quickly say that I’m sure that there will be exceptional anti robbery policemen in SARS that are equally bruised at this point, it’s like the bad apples have poisoned the other ones. Suffice it to say that those ones are now stained as well because they didn’t stop the menace of their colleagues in the past. It’s very clear that they are some of the most hated men in Nigeria now.

However, we have to take a look at scriptures and draw Inspiration about the Way Forward for our great nation when you consider the fact that we just celebrated our 60 years of independence about some days ago and now protesting about Police Brutality in the land that has become a scourge of some sort. The scriptures that comes to mind is from Gal 6 v 7, ‘Be Not Deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.’

My daughter sent me a video footage of some beautiful believers praying for Nigeria and using 2 Chron. 7 v 14 as scripture reference, a very apt one for repentance and healing for any land...the part that we all conveniently skip in that passage is, ‘…if my people... shall humble themselves pray... TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS...’ I don’t know what gives us the impression that we can throw scriptures at God and He will just accede to our requests even if we don’t fulfill His conditions.

Nigerians need to learn that until we ‘Turn from Our Wicked Ways’, things may continue to be like they are now. Ending SARS is one of the good things that has happened but there are many more things we must End after SARS...

5 THINGS TO END AFTER SARS End prayers for corrupt politicians:

We must question the clergy men that pray for corrupt politicians and help them launder their loot. God is not mocked, whatever we sow is what we shall reap. We can’t continue to play lip service worship with God and do not hate corruption yet expect healing in the land.

End reckless driving and lawlessness: Most of those who break traffic laws in Lagos and beyond are religious people, yet we are hoping the country will be as good as Dubai. What an expectation! We need to be more honest in our evaluation of our lawlessness and End Reckless and Lawless driving after we End SARS.

End tribal sentiments and ethnic bigotry: This is the most appalling in my opinion, it is even evident in the house of God, we seem to have perfected the art of tribalism to the point that we have Igbo only church, Yoruba only Assembly etc. I hope we all know that there is only One Heaven and there is no denomination and tribalism there. Let us joyfully End Tribalism in Nigeria after Ending SARS.

End legislative recklessness and impunity: My father in the Lord shared his pain with me earlier on the phone about what the protesters should really be doing, he feels like I do, that we should March 1 million Nigerians to the National Assembly to protest their impunity and demand a cut in their wages. The police are poorly funded and grossly underfunded, yet we put AK47 rifles in their hands to protect us while the legislators live large in the same country. We must End Legislative Recklessness after we End SARS.

End social media madness: This is the controversial point, but I’ll share it as perhaps the most potent one. We need to End Social Media Madness where anything goes in the name of freedom of speech. I’m totally for Freedom of Speech in this country but frown at Hate Speech with all my strength. Don’t let us burn this country with Hate Speech in the name of Freedom of Speech. End Social Media Madness after Ending SARS.

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Rev Yomi Kasali is Senior Pastor, Foundation of Truth Assembly (FOTA), Surulere, Lagos.