Being Like Jesus

‘Uncle Tuoyo, thank you,’ Shalom, my little niece appreciated. I didn’t know what she was thanking me for, though I replied her, ‘Thank God,’ and continued unpegging and taking off the clothes from the line. It was evening, and I didn’t trust the weather for a dry night. ‘Uncle Tuoyo,’ she called out my name again, ‘I want to take my clothes inside.’ Was that what she was thanking me for? Well, I didn’t ask her, I gave her her clothes to take inside. Then, I learned something from her. She decided to take up the responsibility. And so, I will be sharing with you on TAKING RESPONSIBILITY. I must confess, I sometimes get away from responsibilities, but what this little girl did, make me; or should I say challenge me, to always take up responsibilities. At the time I was writing this article, I read an article from a blog about Jesus, ‘When he was 12 he hurried off to the temple to be about His Father's business. At any early age he recognized his responsibility a

The Bible says, ‘Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.’ (2 Pet. 1:20, 21─KJV). So it means that Apostle Paul had a great intimacy with the Holy Spirit, because he wrote about half of the New Testament. Yet he said, ‘I want to know Christ─ yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.’ (Phil. 3:10-12 ─NIV). Apostle Paul? He wasn’t satisfied with the knowledge he had about the power of Christ’s resurrection? That’s astonishing! That’s how these my little niece and nephew (Seyifunmi and Segunfunmi) are; wanting to know more and mor