Revealing His Truth

I will not forget so easily a statement I imbibed from one of my leadership mentors,  "... not until I successfully finish my leadership task, I am not a Leader". These words provoke my thoughts on leadership from time to time, as I came to the understanding that there is no such thing as a 'failed leader', Leadership in itself is successful and without failure in its lexicon; should any one fail as a leader, he was not a leader in the first place. I learnt, leadership is not the position in itself, but a test of it qualification.  In short, the euphoria of a leader is weighed more on his/her ending than beginning. As Ecclesiastes 7:8 puts it, "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof..."  The reality of the close of the present year is much with us than the previous weeks, specifically with the festive mood over the annual celebration of the birth date of the Jesus Christ (God's gift and redemption of the whole universe). However, the lo...

"...not how far, but how well". Borrowing from this aphorism might be a nice way of connecting our thoughts with the previous issue - FINISHING WELL (1). As this particular year winds up before our very eye, you may like to ask yourself, "How far have I gone?" "How well have I fared?" You will find out the different essence of the questions in your attempt answering it. I may ask this way, how far have you gone in pursuing your goals, and how well are your established in the attainment of your goals? May be you heard of this, an athlete whose name I lost in memory represented his country in one of the past global sport fiesta. The runner commenced a race in the competition. O mine, he started well and strong and also ran far beyond his competitors. Along the line, he suffered a heavy fall that gave other racers the advantage to get ahead of him. While he struggled to get up and continue the race, he found out he was the only one left behind, yet he muscle...

While we were in the primary and secondary school, we were quite familiar with the phrase "repeat". This is used to described the measure taken by the school to ensure that pupils and students are taken through the learning experiences and achieve expected outcome they need to navigate from one academic year to the other. A total twist when we got to the higher institution, the usage of the word and act of "repeating" classes suddenly fades away. Students failure at this educational level will no longer retain them in a previous academic class but will puncture the eventual academic attainment of such student at the expected end of the academic programme. I believe you know that between the secondary education and higher education lies certain requirements to be qualified for movement into the next educational level (higher institution); again student that will not finish the first educational level well will not benefit mobility into the second or next level.  Bel...

The term virus is popularly used in computer and health sciences. In computer, it is seen as an hidden program that corrupts and causes damage to system files and documents, while in health it is known as a causative agent of infectious diseases. I have a computer in which a number of my important files are stored. The system developed a fault recently and would not boot at all, when I consulted a repairer, he told me my system might be suffering a virus attack, since then he has embarked on the process of retrieving my files. I just pray it works out, it won't be pleasant missing those documents. In short, the nature of virus is negative and not constructive at all. Sin is that virus that corrupts our lives and damages our relationship with God. When we commit sin, we are already affecting our lives negatively. When a sin is committed and not confessed,  another sin is needed to cover it up. Someone who stole a very little object would need to further adopt lies to cove...