HANGING ON GOD’S DP ( DISPLAY PICTURE)

How would you feel if all your contacts on social media ( bbm & whats app) updated their display picture with your best selfie? Thrilled, excited, honoured and feeling on top of the world i guess. This brings to mind the special treat we get on our birthday's when our picture graces every ones DP. Let me share the source of inspiration for this write up. It was during leisure at work, i tried to check my unread messages only to notice that my friend had updated his DP with my picture. I felt so good about it and to return his kind gesture i sent him a prayer, may God use you on His DP. The prayer i sent not long after got me thinking. What would it look like to be on Gods DP? (assuming he has one). The result of my soul searching is what i thought to share in this piece.
     To start with, it would be helpful to find out the essence of a display picture? Google couldn’t help much so i resorted to asking myself the simple question, why do people change their DP ? Some reasons soon surfaced as i mused over the question in my mind. The first discovery is to reveal and display our identity in looks, beauty, gender e.t.c . if this is true in any way it means that anyone who hangs on Gods DP would most likely be used to reveal his identity as God. With few exceptions most people update their DP with their personal pictures. This implies that you get to know people by their display picture. A man on God’s DP is one whose life shows God’s character and attitude. The best example we find is Jesus.
     Aside from revealing identity, display pictures are used to celebrate people and advertise products. How many contacts do you think God will have if He truly was on social media? I doubt if any platform can accommodate his followers, number of likes and retweets without slowing down or crashing the server. Now imagine the popularity that will be attracted by the face on God’s DP. Such would barely walk the street in any major city of the world without being spotted and duly recognised. Brands like Coca cola and other telecom giant would keep the chase for endorsing such person as a brand ambassador. The fortune that comes with such will almost be invaluable.
     Lastly for the sake of brevity, the display pictures also come in form of short written text intending to inspire and motivate. They conveys messages. If Solomon was on Gods DP he would probably convey wisdom while Abraham would convey Faith. Both of them put together would also convey prosperity. Whoever rocks Gods DP would convey all the messages God stands for, like Holiness, Purity, Prosperity, Healing, Grace, Mercy, Abundance e.t.c. I close with the same prayer, May God use you on His DP.  

WAITING

How long will it take till I get there
I Have been tiresomely chilling here
with nothing seeming to show for
Do I really need to wait this more

Looking around doesn't help the matter
See the pace of those we raced as a starter
I seem not to feel like one of a kind
Taking two steps ahead and four behind

Life answered me back saying
My waiting shall be for a training
Denial will not be the result of delay
A great tomorrow is birthed today

Shall I not learn before I earn
Shall I not train before i attain
Shall I not be made before I trade
Shall I not know the art before i act.

Waiting in my pain will bring my gain
Making my story will command the glory
I would rather wait and get it straight
Than be in haste and go astray.

ROD OF LIFE

As a little boy, I always anticipated that period when I would access freedom from the rod of my parents. The practice was such that when you attain a certain age you automatically get exempted from punishment (flogging). It is assumed that one would have attained a level of maturity with a good sense of reasoning and that of decision making. For me the worst stage to be in is when Daddy and mummy still beats and subject you to various punishments. I remember getting into trouble with my sister one day when we both went out to play with our friends. Obviously my mum needed us to run certain errands but we were nowhere around to lend a helping hand. This heightened her frustration and her resolve to deal with us mercilessly. Eventually she found us and lured us home as though nothing was wrong, but as soon as we got home she unleashed terror on us. She was angrier with my Sister because more expectations were on her for kitchen work. Moved with compassion on how she flogged her I intervened saying “do you want to kill her", this provoked her to divert the whole flogging on me. That was one experience out of many that characterised childhood. It is needful to add that my parents loved us, just that one way they expressed their love was through the rod of correction. This accounted for why I anxiously anticipated a graduation from that state of childhood. Little did I know that life (in adulthood) has its own rod that beats tougher. Truly I got freedom from my parent’s rod but was launched into the invisible rod of life. This rod beats harshly with consequences for wrong choices and decisions made, even also for harmful habits that we indulge in as adult. What would you call the end result of a deteriorating health on a drug addict or chain smoker, what would you call poverty that looms from reckless spending and other poor financial decisions , what about the stigma and complexities that comes with unwanted pregnancy of a teenager , or a school truant who ends up an illiterate. These are few examples of life's rod. It then dawned on me that I wasn't actually free from the rod; I only graduated from that of childhood to adulthood. The childhood spanking, scolding and its like is designed to shield us from that of adulthood. The summary of this piece is that we need to come to a place of maturity where we take responsibility for our lives bearing the consequence of our decisions in mind.