Category: Blog posts

What He Did Jesus, take these words and do with them what you will🤍 There’s the guilt you feel when you do things you know you shouldn’t or when you get involved with the wrong things/people. There’s also a quiet guilt lurking at the back of your mind when these things happen to you disregarding… Read more

I Died. Again. Some weeks ago, I died. Again.  I mean, not me, but something in me…Someone in me.  The past few months have brought up an inner wrestling. I’ve found myself detaching from some parts of me that had defined me for the longest time. Before now I would have argued that they didn’t… Read more

Turbulence I’ve noticed that oftentimes, people only speak about challenges when they’re a thing of the past. Scars, not wounds. The latter signifies weakness and a state of vulnerability but the former? We see that as an indication of our strength and proof of the battles we’ve won. Well, I’ve been waiting for this phase to… Read more

mo·tive /ˈmōdiv/ (II) I don’t think I can ever get used to how gentle God is with me. I know that using the word ‘gentle’ to describe God goes against the idea many people have of Him, but it is true. He is gentle and kind, yet firm. Truly, He is a good father. The… Read more

mo·tive /ˈmōdiv/ It’s 2:21 a.m. As a recovering people pleaser, I find it quite tricky to draw the line between serving God because I love Him and trying to please Him for selfish reasons. I’ve noticed that sometimes I put in some extra effort in my devotion and I subconsciously expect a reward or some… Read more

THE FENCE I have struggled a lot with lukewarmness as a Christian. I didn’t really think I was struggling, but I see it now in retrospect. Some days it would feel like I have so much love for Jesus and then a few days later, I would be indifferent, aiming to at least open my… Read more

IT’S A SPADE Sometime in college, I took a literature class and to be honest, I enrolled in that particular class because I saw that the teacher was a Yoruba man. I was fresh out of my home country and naturally gravitated towards this unspoken familiarity I felt bubbling within me. Aside from the fact… Read more

THE GOSPEL TRUTH I used to envy unbelievers. As a child, and until my late teens, I remember wishing I was born into a pagan home. I would hear different renditions of the gospel that focused on how we were all “doing bad things” and Jesus didn’t like that so we must stop and “do… Read more