AROUND THE BEND

Fear seems a part of living. Humans seem like ordinary people, faced daily with far beyond ordinary forces. Sleep? Yes, Wake up? Hope so. Hope seems like all we have.  With little thought, realization dawns that life is a battlefield, humans against forces. Have you read the newspapers recently? Something bad is always happening to someone or people. Why can’t life drift smoothly along, all well and rosy? What forces cause accidents and Wars, natural disasters and sickness, poverty and bad leadership? Why? What exactly have humans done to deserve pain?

A normalized fear results from the uncertain nature of life. It springs up when you consider the fact that some slept quietly in their houses and got killed by others who did not think they deserved to live, for whatever reason. Others got smashed, walking along a road.

What really is around the bend? So fear takes root, causing panic when mysterious sounds are heard at night or when the tyres of a vehicle screeches. Even when a person touches another unexpectedly, there is a jolt of the body as gory history of human tragedy flashes across the mind. What really is around the bend?

A smoothening comfort comes when someone or something offers insight into the likely events around the bend. People pay and do all they can, from scientific research to spiritualist, in a bid to catch a glimpse of the future.  I said earlier that fear seems a part of living. Rightly so, and this is for no other reason than that at every point, humans approach a bend with no knowledge of what to expect around it. Stand on your toes, get a ladder, climb a tree or a tall building and still thick fog blurs vision of the details of tomorrow.

If tomorrow could hold only but goodies, everyone would merry, sleep would be sound. The jolt of the body would not be of fear but of excitement when a person touches another unexpectedly. What a shame however, tomorrow is capable of more.

Many have clung to hope that what goes around would stay afar and not come around as it is said. Others would rather not think about it, deciding to live everyday as it comes. Some others wrestle it. They do all they can do with their limited ability.

Are humans doomed by a curse of ignorance? Are humans sentenced to the fear of tomorrow?

Little wonder why some toy around with the idea of such an invention as a time machine. They want to jump in and remain in the rosy past or ensure today never goes away. For now, the time machine has proved elusive. Consequently, in the midst of merry, cold shivers run down spines at the thought of “later”, for the mere ignorance of what “latter” holds.

How about this thought: that someone made the world and its contents and the events that occur in it. This I describe as popular truth, wrapped in lies. Various versions of the story of a God, who made the earth and a place where He lives called Heaven, exist. Many have made a trade of it, demanding money in His name; calming to have been empowered by Him to foretell the future.

In all versions of the story of this God however, a fact seems clear: He knows what lies around the bend. Don’t give up on this lead. I believe the way out starts here. It is only a truth wrapped in lies. But like anything else of real value, it should be unravelled. Join me and many others as we unwrap, one lie at a time. From the little I have unwrapped, I can tell you this much: God is real and He knows what lies around the bend. For those who trust Him, life is not uncertain. He has good plans for them and watches constantly over them to protect them.  One more thing, you could join this league by believing and saying this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I believe you died for my sins that I might be made righteous. I accept you today as my Saviour and my Lord. Cleanse me from all my sins and make me a new creature. In Jesus precious name, Amen.”