About Jide Ajayi

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In the day I am an Industrial Measurement and Controls technologist. Away from that I love to study the word of God, take pictures and improve them after as well as learn as much as I can on the technology of the day in the world of consumer devices and programs partly due to my study in information systems and management.

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COVID-19 and 2020

March 29, 2020 by • Christian Living, Issues • Tags: , •

The New year started with joy and celebration around the world in earnest. The many issues that came to define 2019 were gathering momentum for the new year, the wars in certain regions, the rights-fight for the spectrum of issues from people who see discriminations against them as the tyranny of the majority in what ever issue they felt they were in the minority. The campaign for climate change and good stewardship on the parts of governments and people around the world.

In the midst of the typical issues, some sound bite was gathering momentum, it sounded like something important was happening in China but there was a lot not known because there was no acknowledgment or denial from China.

That was a few months ago. Now as at today, if you are reading this the day of publication, you are probably somewhere in the world under self-isolation or self-quarantine. The Corona Virus Disease 2019 which is the full name of covid-19 is all over the world. The UN WHO came out and called it a pandemic showing the magnitude of the problem posed by the disease. Governments have shutdown their airspaces, their sea and land borders and locked down their cities and countries to minimize and hopefully eliminate the spread of the covid-19 disease.

This shutdown has put people and populations in a situation that many could only dream about or have only read about in novels. There is so much fear about the implication of the disease because every single day, it seems the test just brings to fore someone who already has the disease and may already be exhibiting the symptoms.

The symptoms are dry cough, fever, pneumonia like symptoms just to mention a few. In some locals, the health practitioners have seen patients with pink eye. To mitigate or slow the spread, citizens are asked to do the following, wash their hands often, avoid touching their faces, nose, eyes and mouths with their fingers, do not sneeze or cough into their hands, rather into the sleeves or a tissue, practice social distancing and regularly disinfect surfaces that are in routine use.

It is the time we have found ourselves in. It is also a time to turn to the Lord. Many are dying day by day as at the time of this writing 30,451 people have been declared dead from this disease including this morning a Princess of Spain while many more over 650000 have the disease. The word of the Lord speaks concerning the strength and hope we have in the Lord and the message of the gospel is available at this time. It is obvious that this is a disease that kills the body but does not kill the soul, we know that God is greater that this disease and at the appointed time will remove its sting. In such a trying time, we look unto the Lord the creator of heaven and earth.

While we watch and listen for update and reduction in the cases connected with this pandemic, lest us continue to practice healthy habits, pray for solution and recovery and pray that the Lord will continue to save men and console the bereaved of this crisis.

To God alone be all the glory and honor and praise. Soli Deo Gloria!

Happy New Year and New Decade 2020

January 11, 2020 by • Issues •

Happy New Year to everyone. After the end of 2019, we have come to see the beginning of 2020. We acquired some knowledge about the world around us last year in addition to what we had prior to 2019 and that assisted us one way or the other to navigate the 365 days in 2019. It follows then that the corrections we made in 2019 and the new information we had which increased and allowed us to review previous decisions and conclusions will help make this new year a bountiful one where we are able to focus on those things that we ultimately need.

Being the beginning of a new decade when we made the tens and zeros the start, it means we also have the opportunity to review the last 10 years of life. That is a substantial period of time. It is long enough a period to have acquired 3 or 4 university degrees, entered college and come out with a Ph.D. in the process, enough time to start a business and grow it into a great business. A lot of the internet services that we have come to rely upon heavily today started in the last 10 years. If you were 20 years old at the beginning of the last decade you are now comfortably 30 years old and a different person from 10 years earlier with the added information and experience. Hopefully, it has been a period of time that you have come to know yourself a bit more and closer to God and more introspective as you continue your sojourn in life.

Of course, many of you already had plans for the new year and it is possible some have fallen off the wagon already. Not to lose hope, the year is still young and it is still possible to be deliberate about things. Those things that you want to achieve can be achieved by first writing them down, writing beside them on the list what is required to achieve them and finally how you intend to follow the requirement to get them done. Establish a realistic timeline and work towards it.

I wish you success in the new year and the joy of looking back at the achievement in the next year.

Happy New Year 2020 once again

Father Son Holy Ghost

The Trinity and the Christian

August 31, 2019 by • Bible, Thoughts • Tags: •

I have been thinking about the trinity recently and it is because in the space of a week, I saw two articles, one written by someone whom some address as pastor and another who does not claim to be a Christian but claims to be looking at the issue of the trinity from a “historical” perspective.
I won’t be attempting to refute each of them line by line because there is nothing new about what each of them is saying.
Christianity has suffered and suffers from both within and without. On the matter of internal suffering it is either a case of trying to help the discussion through some ingenious analysis or through a deliberate attempt to deceive. For those outside, the aim is simply to discredit Christ and thereby discredit every other thing that is built on him.
Two issues that amused me about both writings, one from each are, in the first case, the guy who claimed to be Christian and was “telling the truth” about why trinity is a lie and why the early church fathers and Rome and one of the councils decided to impose on all Christians the pagan idea of trinity. My amusement is how does that help his Christian brothers and sisters to grow in grace and in Christ. My answer to him is the Bible speaks of Christ having a divine nature and of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of God. Concerning the son in the Old Testament, Isaiah 9:6 speaks of the name of the child that will be born as Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace whom the government shall be upon his Shoulder. Of the Holy Spirit, Job in his predicament speaks of the spirit of God being his maker, Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in his image”. Any Christian who reads his bible and is growing in the faith knows the Bible does not use the word trinity but the idea of one God and three persons is there. It is something we will never fully comprehend in this side of heaven because our finitely small human minds can never fully grasp the majesty and splendor of God and so we rejoice in that which he has given to us in His Holy word. So to refer to this idea we can call each person by name or follow in the path of those whom have gone before us. The interesting thing is that whenever the issue comes up, everyone listening or reading knows that the issue being referenced is the deity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. From this view, it means the word conveys the idea it seeks to communicate in a language people can understand And do understand when it is used.
The second concern is from the second article, where the author seeks to communicate some element of New Testament criticism and also claimed to look at the issue from the point of an historian and based on his historical analysis, Jesus does not call himself God rather it is something his followers chose to do as a result of the influence of the Roman culture of the time where the emperors were addressed as gods. For him, the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke did not speak of Jesus as such rather it was John that took it upon himself to call Jesus God by some of the statements he made.
Like I said I was amused and the amusement here is that he chose to be historical by selection. Some books he will accept as historical because they see things in the same way, which the Christian church has always known and which is why those gospels are called synoptic. And refuse to accept the fourth as such because it does not see things the way the others do, which the Church has known since the second century and is the only book that records Christ saying he is God which supports his pre-existing bias. Of course he highlighted where they did not agree for they were written with different goals And immediate audience in mind, he did not speak of those areas where they agree and I think it is obvious why. The issue with this view is, following to its logical conclusion, that everything that the book speaks about and is not harmonized in the other books should be rejected. It is like saying because John reports that Jesus attended a wedding a Cana and others did not report it we can conclude that Jesus did not really attend any wedding as only John records it in his gospel.
Paul in Philippians 2:6 says “though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped”, some will say grasped means in this context something to be held on to for an advantage. Christ’s equality with God was not something he was snatching at or seizing or forcibly holding on to it.
This is so because he was always God. Moreover, Paul in his letters greeted the recipients by the grace of the Father and the Lord Jesus, Paul was not confused about the matter. Jesus in Matt 28:18 claimed that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. That is a claim that…

“Now he has received the fullest possible authority, for it is authority in heaven and on earth. He is making clear that the limitations that applied throughout the incarnation no longer apply to him. He has supreme authority throughout the universe”.[^1]

The disciples understood this and what it meant, this was a claim that could only mean one thing, they heard him claim to be God.

On the idea of accepting Jesus to be a good teacher and someone whom can be a source of good and upright teaching but not accepted as God C.S. Lewis has the following to say

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. [^2]

[^1] Leon Morris, The Gospel according to Matthew, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, 1992), 745–746.
[^2] C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 52.

Thought for Today

June 10, 2019 by • Issues • Tags: •

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

1 Ch 28:9

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