Nigeria ranked the most prayerful country on earth and most sinful.
Nigeria has more Catholic Knights than Italy.
Nigeria has more Anglican Knights than England.
Nigeria has more Alhajis than all Arab countries combined.
This is not entirely bad.
Ironically, this our religiosity does not reflect in the religious and moral fabric of the nation!
Each year, we budget billions of Naira sending our people on pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem to pray.
We pray for development.
We pray for long life and good health.
We pray against sudden death.
We pray against accident of any kind.
We pray for employment.
We pray for peace.
Above all, we pray to make heaven!
In the year of the Lord Two thousand and eighteen (2018), we will spend 250 Billion Naira to sponsor pilgrims to pray for the development of Nigeria among others.
250 billion Naira can build 250 model schools.
250 Billion can build 100 modern Health centres.
250 billion can immunize all children in Nigeria.
250 Billion can build 250 brand new roads.
250 Billion can build 1000 new housing estates.
250 billion can create 100,000 new jobs.
We choose not to do any of these.
Rather,
We choose to spend that amount to go pray for development!
We choose not to spend that amount to take care of our health, Rather, we choose to spend it to go and pray for our health!
We choose not to spend that amount to build schools and train our children to be wise, we choose to use it to go and pray for wisdom!
We choose not to spend that amount to build good roads to avoid and reduce car accidents, we choose to spend it to pray against accidents.
These are our choices. We will live with them.
Close your eyes and imagine!
How much resources have we spent over these years to pray instead of using them to develop our country??
There is nothing wrong going on pilgrimage to pray and seek the face of God. But, it should be entirely a private affair!!!
BOTTOM LINE
Solutions to man’s problems, be they natural or man-made, demand more than cries of men and women whose hands are lazy and brains are laid back, towards heaven. Unfortunately, the invocation of the powers of the divine to solve what are evidently human problems is a near default indulgence of the vast majority of Nigerians. However, that is not to suggest that prayers are not efficacious or that miracles do not exist. That would be totally foolhardy because prayers actually do work, miracles do exist and God still intervenes in the affairs of men.
Also Read India Exports technology While Nigeria Exports Religion by Azuka Onwuka
Nigeria has more Catholic Knights than Italy.
Nigeria has more Anglican Knights than England.
Nigeria has more Alhajis than all Arab countries combined.
This is not entirely bad.
Ironically, this our religiosity does not reflect in the religious and moral fabric of the nation!
Each year, we budget billions of Naira sending our people on pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem to pray.
We pray for development.
We pray for long life and good health.
We pray against sudden death.
We pray against accident of any kind.
We pray for employment.
We pray for peace.
Above all, we pray to make heaven!
In the year of the Lord Two thousand and eighteen (2018), we will spend 250 Billion Naira to sponsor pilgrims to pray for the development of Nigeria among others.
250 billion Naira can build 250 model schools.
250 Billion can build 100 modern Health centres.
250 billion can immunize all children in Nigeria.
250 Billion can build 250 brand new roads.
250 Billion can build 1000 new housing estates.
250 billion can create 100,000 new jobs.
We choose not to do any of these.
Rather,
We choose to spend that amount to go pray for development!
We choose not to spend that amount to take care of our health, Rather, we choose to spend it to go and pray for our health!
We choose not to spend that amount to build schools and train our children to be wise, we choose to use it to go and pray for wisdom!
We choose not to spend that amount to build good roads to avoid and reduce car accidents, we choose to spend it to pray against accidents.
These are our choices. We will live with them.
Close your eyes and imagine!
How much resources have we spent over these years to pray instead of using them to develop our country??
There is nothing wrong going on pilgrimage to pray and seek the face of God. But, it should be entirely a private affair!!!
BOTTOM LINE
Solutions to man’s problems, be they natural or man-made, demand more than cries of men and women whose hands are lazy and brains are laid back, towards heaven. Unfortunately, the invocation of the powers of the divine to solve what are evidently human problems is a near default indulgence of the vast majority of Nigerians. However, that is not to suggest that prayers are not efficacious or that miracles do not exist. That would be totally foolhardy because prayers actually do work, miracles do exist and God still intervenes in the affairs of men.
Also Read India Exports technology While Nigeria Exports Religion by Azuka Onwuka
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