Day: October 17, 2019

No

~ osasuoviawe

“If I said no to your request over the last few days, please call back.

I now have an explanation to give.”

Most will not call back. They do not really care about your circumstances. You are only useful when you say yes to them.

They believe when they ask, they must receive. They do not believe in giving as a prerequisite to getting.

Entitled people are the most justified in their own eyes. Cracking jokes about your kindness and delaying repayment with more profound stories, that the ones used when they were asking.

My answer to your ask is still no, and will remain so.

– Osasu Oviawe

Grace and faith

~ osasuoviawe

Romans 3:21-30
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.

Homily:

All have sinned. No exceptions.

Remember this, whenever you approach God’s altar.