Don’t the well-educated extremely rich Ghanaian with a chain of supermarkets at Accra Central and a fleet of cars in an overcrowded garage feel huge enough for himself already? He believes he has the perfect reason for everything that happens in his life. REASON. But maybe if you took a stroll along the busy but perfect lanes in his world, he may surely have a reason. He knows how his finances are stable and how they may become unstable. He understands inflation, GDP, HDI and the other silly economic jargons that even I, a college student living in the US can’t comprehend; don’t ever ask the illiterates.
He doesn’t have to pray for his daughter to get admission to Legon or further find a job; he knows the right people to talk to. He has an App on his smart phone that gives him almost accurate weather updates every thirty minutes. He pays a young and smart Barrister to defend him when the need arises. He defines poverty as the ineffective use of the mind, and believes people are poor because they are lazy. He reads road signs and follows safety rules and also trusts in his SRS Airbags to save his life when his car crushes. His body first, insurance takes care of his automobile damages. He has only two kids (thanks to birth control), so he doesn’t complain about school fees hikes or feeding them. He believes in what goes round comes back around, so when nothing goes round, nothing comes back around. Simple.
He has no reason to believe in God or a demon for that matter. He knows why everything happens in his life so he needs no spiritual explanations. He has never seen God. He has never met a ghost or seen an angel flying, except of course in African movies.
The question is how do you expect to see God? Dressed in heavenly white clothes with a halo on his head? If so then won’t God whom we can’t comprehend be exposed? Or how do you want to see the devil? Dressed in demonic red and black gowns, with long crooked fingernails and a pair of horns sitting on his head, breathing red hot fire from his nostrils? If so then how will this qualify the devil being deceitful?
God is a spirit, and so are all his angels. In Revelation Chapter 12, Angel Michael and his army defeated a rebellious angel and dragged him out of heaven to this earth. This rebellious angel dragged a third (1/3) of the angels with him down to earth. This rebellious angel is called the Devil; the ancient serpent called Satan, the one who deceives the whole world (Rev. 12:9).
Thus saying, both God and the remaining two-thirds (2/3) of his angels, and Satan and his one-third (1/3) of angels are all spirits. A spirit however needs a body to live in and operate in the realm in which it finds itself. Genesis records an incident when Jacob struggled with a man in the night till it was dawn. Jacob later realized that he had struggled with God (Gen. 32:24). God who is a spirit showed himself in a human body.
Sometimes the first degree or Phd or the numerous books we’ve read written by authors who’s profiles we don’t know, or the three huge bank accounts blind us. So we argue about the existence of God or other spirits.
Julie calls her brother and says “Kwame do you remember Paul back from school days? I met him this morning, we talked and laughed” Then Kwame replies and says “Julie are you really sure cos Paul died two days ago” So Kwame starts thinking if his twin sister is going crazy. But he knows perfectly well she’s not. Elsewhere Julie thinks she’s hallucinating. But she knows perfectly well that she’s not. My guess is a spirit has found a body. You’re thinking that’s a funny story.
I think you should believe in something; because you are the played one.
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