Life is so short. How the journey started and ended we don’t know but we all know right in our inner mind that one day the journey will terminate. How, when, where we don’t have that idea neither is it written in the heart of me .It is beyond our understanding and comprehension. All that is required is to beat the storm by serving God and humanity. Serving God means be righteous with your creator . Your faith or religious belief is a function of understanding what the holy documents provided. God is mythical that we cannot explain the nature of God. When early philosophers tried to speculate on the nature of God they could not reach a consistent conclusion. Consequently their volume of brainstorming never earned any genuine conclusion. No body can tell if God is a Christian or a Muslim or a pagan or a Jew or Hindustan etc but we hold into the assumptions that God is every where the same. That is a perfect assumptions that keep us one as an entity and a refined product of his creation.
Many theologians have come out with several theories on the activity of man on the planet called the earth. These activities evolved several belief systems which conscientize man to belief the existence of super natural being that controls, manage and can remove that power within us.That power when removed away we said that the individual is dead. As human we are endowed the power to create and bring to an end that which we created. In the book of Genesis chapter one 1:26-27 (KJV) it is aptly reported that “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”. This and other provision give us insight on the nature of God who created all things including man in his own image. On the nature of humanity, God was unique in creating man. Man was created to relate with each other. That relationship led to increase in human population and expanded epistemology. Humanity will extinct if there is no relationship. Before the tower of Babel it was reported that the human population was one language which implies increased wisdom, unity of purpose and hence high level zeal discover the nature of God. . With that relationship man was able to create a new world for his own convinces. He manipulate the world and all that God created at his own will and desire. He earn credit for any production and generates laws to safe guide what he produced. Life is moving on and never stop a second. Today a new child is born , last two minutes ago some one passed on. What theory can we use to explain the phenomenon of who is God. Our theories must have failed us and kept us empty. One thing is certain we are all together in a journey that will terminate some where. Where, when, how, what etc we lack empirical knowledge to generate responses. Also have it behind our mind that the journey is so short and cannot be estimated. That underscore why many die and many are born to see the new sun and moon each day. The years roll in and roll out with wide variety of human activities. that tend to generate new concepts in us. I read through works of many philosophers, theologian and scientific abstractions to unearth the mystery of the nature of life, nature of man, nature of God,nature of human knowledge etc but l could not be drawn to precise conclusion. All the speculations from all fields are inadequate to give a convincing conclusion. I tend to uphold the biblical speculation which tend to give the mystery of life and man involvement in every aspect of life. We have it in our minds that we are created by a being called different names but meaning the same thing GOD. That one day we will cease to metaphysically stop manipulating that mechanism of life. Oh we concluded that Mr. ABC have left the world and cannot be seen any more. All religious institutions and human dogma upheld to this process of life. These ontology remains with us for many years up till tomorrow. May l conclude this way to save time and generate a better understanding of our journey of life. We must accept the fact that we came differently and will leave at different time. We shall all die to bring to an end our journey of staying together and that a replacement process goes on and on. A simple analysis is for us to refocus our mind to ultimate nature of humanity. That while in our sojourn of life we must fear God and do his will always. We need to fear Him who knows the begining and the end of all matter. Be good to whoever we meet in our journey of life and most significantly do the will of God who created us. The will of God is above all our belief systems and hierarchical needs. To redeem man back to God he send his only beloved son to die in our place who was born through the biological nature of man. Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ have come to redeemed us back to God as we all have lost our track and allow ourself to be guided by our emotional intelligence. By 12.00am we shall be celebrating the birth of a new year which marked an end of 2024. That is a natural phenomena in human history. Within the process some life’s must have been given birth towhile some have gone to rest as well. What then is the begining and end of our journey in life? .
Samuel Shiaka
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