ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME.....

         

Fear not, I've not lost the plot I'm not about to start 'cussing' you guys out!! I appreciate your custom. Don't you just love it though? We've seen it too often many times, blog author gets carried away and feels they are in their comfort zone so they start to cuss out their readers!'

There's a particular Naija blogger, one Aunty based in Germany, she has this habit of getting rather 'verbal' with her readers, there is nothing she will not say when her readers 'express their opinion' she's not happy with, she literally goes for the jugular! When she's yapping them she says she's 'having a rant', but still has quite a few readers. In fact when she's finished yapping her blog visitors they will even usually start pledging their allegiance to her and assuring her, that they are all 'forever loyal to her government!! 

On a slow news day she'll post a random question and ask her readers to have a rant about any topic they choose!! Mind blowing isn't it? Then all of them will start; the aggrieved wife, angry side chic, the oppressed daughter-in-law, the cuckolded 'horzband'. Imagine 30 comments from 30 angry people!!

I used to read and just laugh and laugh and always thought to myself 'there's gotta be more to blogging thingy than this' but I never did anything about it until that random day back in January when I wrote my first post. 

Anyway sorry to go O.P. (Off point) There I was listening to the above captioned tune by Tupac Shakur (It is a masterpiece!!!) last week, it's an old time fav of mine that I had not listened to it in a while. I then had a light bulb moment and thought I should do a review on it, but you know what?? Tupac is totally out of my league!! The more I listened to this tune, the less I understood what he was rapping about! I'll stick to what I know best ie Fela in the future thank you! See here. 

I was tempted to call my rap-obsessed brother to enlighten me, but that wouldn't have been very original would it? And title of this post is self explanatory though, wouldn't you say? 

Well this is how this one goes down, there I was talking with my Sis From Another Mother, we've got to give her name as she's started to feature quite a bit in my posts! So let's call her "Clara" she soooo likes jist and a good gossip! (Who doesn't?) Anyway, this week we started talking about an incident where by we had someone we know trying to play humble pie. Boy oh boy, I wish I could go into details over this 'incident' unfortunately in line with keeping to the 'We must respect your privacy' policy, I can't. 

Anyway one thing led to another before we we knew it we were on that our slippery slope! She was telling me what she had stumbled on one of her contacts Facebook page. This said person had on a t-shirt with the inscription "Jesus is my Sugar Daddy".

As Clara zooms in to make sure she had read right, before the twinkling of an eye the proud wearer of this t-shirt had 20 likes on Facebook!!! And comments followed, 'You killed it babe' "Preach it sister" "Tell them, that's how it's done" 

Clara said she was so tempted to ask the girl "Like seriously? Don't you think this is a bit blasphemous?"  But found herself in a somewhat awkward position as majority of the FB comments saw nothing wrong with the inscripted T-shirt. 

With this Aunty 'purportedly' declaring her love for God and everyone too scared to query the inappropriate blasphemous nature of the message. I mean why would any person liken JESUS to a Sugar daddy?? Let's think about this, what is the definition of a Sugar Daddy?? In a bid to be 'creative' this is a classic example of people being somewhat foolish even if their intentions are good!!

We pondered over these so called messages that 'certain people' feel by doing, they are totally submissive to God. And we have such utterances everywhere, people update their Whatsapp, BBM and whatever social media outlet status with such statements. 

Another example "My Father may I constantly be your Foolish Thing"... This is someone's WhatsApp statement. Discuss-enlighten me please! What does this mean? It's almost like there is a competition to prove who loves God more. 

Can't people keep it simple? Isn't there a more respectful way of putting one's adoration across? This spiritual arrogance really needs to stop. As for those TMI (Too much Information) personal profiles from which we can 'gauge' the posters life situation, Is it 'under must'???" 

Less is really more. It's 'attention seeking' simples! or trying to get people interested in the drama going on in one's life! Phoning a friend is an option or better still take it to The Lord in prayer!

From there myself and Clara move on to 'Those' 'If you love God texts" for the sake of clarity "If you love God texts" are those chain emails, texts, Whatsapp or BB broadcasts that are forwarded to you, consisting of a message that attempts to convince you to copy, paste and then pass on to as many recipients as possible. In reality the chain can never be sustained. 

Common methods used in chain texts include emotionally manipulative stories and they usually end on the note that if you fail to forward the chain text an evil will before 'one'. You find that people out of fear forward these chains on. Sad thing is most of these mail have Christian 'spin' on them, this makes people feel even more obliged to forward. For maximum effect though when these fake chains are being circulated some people will now attribute the name of a 'Daddy Pastor' to the chain for further credence!

Myself and Clara both agree that these junk mail belong in the trash can, we do feel sorry for more vulnerable people though, that just cannot not muster the courage to delete and forget about such chains. Some people live in fear and Clara tells me a colleague of hers, rushes to the toilet as soon as she receives such texts to quickly 'off load' the chain to the first 10 or 20 people on her contacts list!! Sorry for all those her contacts with name beginning with early part of the alphabet! I tell Clara that if that was me I'd call her and warn her seriously to stop cluttering my in-box, but she explains her colleague had a genuine fear. 

Why is it that when it comes to the issue of one's faith 'our people' really feel obliged to explain their actions and to be answerable to mere mortals rather than 'God' 

A friend was telling me on a Sunday that she does not go to church, she feels the pressure. I ask 'Feel the pressure like how?'. She says back in the day on a Sunday if she was unable to go to church, she found every conversation had the casual question, How was church today?' thrown in. She admits that at times she would say 'fine' (even though she hadn't gone!) but has now found a way to deal with such 'enquiries', she has a default reply of 'I did not go' even when she has gone! Some friends, she claims would have the effrontery to ask 'why not' and her reply is now 'personal reasons'. I laugh out loud and ask 'why would you say you've not gone to church when you've gone' she says because she just wants the 'naysayers' out of her business. I'm like 'fair enough'. 

I must admit, that I too on occasion have been known to splutter and splatter when I'm posed with the loaded question 'how was church today?'  So guys any of you asking me this question on a Sunday, mind yourselves ok!

And to further buttress my point as I'm just rounding up this post, I get a call from a friend, she asks me whether I've watched the musical video 'Godwin' by Korede Bello, she's been trying to get me into this song for months, I tell her for the umpteenth time, that the song does nothing for me! It's a victory song giving God all the glory. The lyrics are 'OK', but that's about it, to me it's just another 'funky' Naija artist trying to jump on the Christian music market bandwagon with minimum effort. My friend suggests the reason why I don't like the song is because I don't have a relationship (with God) !!! I gulp and ask her 'Friend, seriously? Because I don't like a particular 'Christian' song that means I don't have a relationship with God?!!' At this point she tells me she was joking. Friend, likewise I hope as you read this squirming on your seat, praying that I don't name-and-shame you, that you likewise know I'm also 'joking' :-)

(Trick of the trade: Throw the shade/insult, insert smiley face emoticon, say 'no offence meant' and/or state you were joking to cover your tracks!!)

On that note guys have a good weekend and make sure you go to church on Sunday <insert smiley face>

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite ~ Unknown