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The family is a micro ecclesia community.Put in another way, the family is a micro society.This means that whatever happens in the society is an offshoot of that which once existed in certain families.Whatever virtue or vice that is seen in the family propagates to the larger society if it is not well taken care of.If the cause of any problem is traceable,it should start from the family.Any problem that is checkmated in the family goes a long way in positively affecting the larger society.This is because the family is the taproot of the society.Any problem noticeable in any society emanates from the inapt management of homes.For the project(rebranding Nigeria) to be fruitful the family as a social unit, should not be neglected.It should be taken into account.That is even where we have to start from.
The question is this:who makes up the family and how then can changes be made in the family?
The answer is simple.The family is made up of the father(the head and as well the manager), the mother(the vice president) and the children(the governed).The father as I said, is the governor of the family.He is the head and as such has control over all and sundry.
How can they contribute their own quota in the rebranding Nigeria project? They have to discipline themselves first before they can instil discipline in their wards because you cannot give what you have not.It is true that they may face some problems as they do this but It can be redressed.If, for instance,in the course of instilling discipline in the children, the father is neglected,then he has to report to any nearest law enforcement agency.But inspite of that,it is believed that the okro does not grow taller than the planter.Take for instance a father whose child smokes marijuana or who is into illegal business,instead of protecting such a lad,the father has to alert the security agents and handover the miscreant to them for reformation.He should uncover evil and shun pity in all sincerity.Yes.It is true that the society cannot be rid completely of corruption, but we can make an instinct. For the mothers,as the second managers of homes,they are the nearest to the children.About 70% of the trainings offered to children comes from the mothers.The mothers should be very careful with the kind of training they offer their children.They should watch their wards,teach their children good moral values and at the same time ensure that they grow up not departing from those footsteps.Then the children themselves should hearken to the teachings of their parents.If this is done,then the project will be seen to be feasible.
Responsibility is a thing of the mind.It has to do with animals which includes man and other lower animals.The difference between man and other lower animals is man's ability to organize himself and other creatures.This is even the reason why God created man a little above other animals so as to take of them.Responsibility is human basically because of this innate and unique nature of man.Man cannot avoid it but if often neglected.Though it becomes catastrophic when neglected. A genuine human being is not one who is so affluent that he is publicly proclaimed the richest man but rather one who can always be held responsible for his actions.Man is free but he is always in chains.Man is not completely free.He must be careful the way he behaves towards his creator and also his fellow human beings.Anybody who cannot be held responsible for his character is not worth living.Such a person is termed irresponsible.Irresponsibility is very bad.It is not human.It is made for wild animals.Those animals that far away from man that they are not given training.Such a person is not acknowledged in the society.He is hardly regarded among others.His words are ironically soundless.Even when such a person acts,he is often noticed.Only his actions are noticeable because they do not conform with that of the accepted norms of the society.For a responsible human,he,his actions and words are always noticeable anytime anywhere.He quotes and can be quoted.
WHAT ARE THOSE THING THAT QUALIFY PEOPLE TO RESPONSIBLE
A man who is trustworthy is understood to be responsible.A man who has understanding,wisdom and intellect.A faithful fellow who hardly disappoints.One who has sincerity of purpose.Any man that is truthful to his associates.One who is not easily deformed by ideas contrary to his.Such a man weighs and reweighs the effects of his action before actually exhibiting them.He acknowledges the wisdom and on the other hand what he considers foolishness from others.He does not dominates his system with his ideas alone.He is not infuriated by criticism but rather welcomes them cheerfully.Hen stores in his brain whatever thing that precedes from his mouth.He has so much control over his lips.He does not wait to be reminded of his duties at any time.
This party of human life is made for a purpose.Human knowledge can never surpass God's wisdom.In His omnipotent nature He knows what will happen in one thousand years to come.He has engineered this world the way it should be.
In His mercy He gave man some ordinances to observe in their daily life.This He did to avoid the troubles that may ensue if man para venture flouts His natural laws.Sexuality is an integral part of human life.As long as the task of procreation is concerned,naturally man cannot do without sexuality.But that does not mean that man has to misbehave as it concerns the issue of sexuality.It may interest you to know that the repercussion that follows the committing of such mortal as incest,homosexuality,lesbianism,bisexuality,masturbation e.t.c is unpredictable.
This act of man called sexuality is made for the married mainly for the purpose of procreation.Young people engaging in premature sexual activity is quite immoral.It is abominable in the sights of God.It should be stopped if not for anything but for the sake of the after effect of such.
DANGERS OF PREMARITAL SEX
PREMATURE PREGNANCY Premature pregnancy often called unwanted pregnancy occurs when an unmarried young man impregnates an unmarried girl without the intention of taking care of her as a wife.This sometimes happen because of careless unprotected sexual intercourse between a young man and a young woman.When this happens the guy in question is often persuaded or forced to take the girl as a wife.This,when accepted by the guy due to pressure from the girl's family,leads to unplanned family.Sometimes it may lead to hatred between the duo owing to lack of intimate love between them.One the other hand if the guy happens to reject or refuse the marriage,dejection on the side of the girl occurs.Then the girl seeks another alternative means of getting back to her normal state that is without the pregnancy.
The closest alternative to the modern day youngsters in issues like this is abortion.Abortion we know is a grave sin.Any man born of a woman who values life cannot open his God-given mouth to suggest abortion to anybody.Abortion itself leads to murder.
Education is the backbone of every society.The level of development in a nation is determined by the literacy level of the citizens of that country.For there to be educational development in a country,the government of that country has to invest more in the education industry.Any nation that neglects this will have its education industry be in shambles.Little or lack of technical and managerial know-how can mar the development of a nation thereby rendering such a nation dependent.It breeds immaturity as regards the growth and development of a nation.
Nowadays what is common in the modern day less developed countries of the world is the incessant politicization of the issues in the education industry.This results in the abnormal inserting of a square peg in a round hole and vise-versa.What do I meant by this?
To throw more light on this subject, I would like to cite the observation I made in a typical less developed country in Africa.Cases exist where scholarship which is meant for the extraordinary students in a high school who has performed marvelously well is awarded to dummies.These dummies are trained at the expense of the well to do as long as education is concerned.What comes thereafter is failure or disappointment.If success could occur,it would only be the emergence of half baked technocrats.And from there quackery is tolerated.This is a wastage of resources.What is the major cause of this?It is all political.Just because one belongs to a certain geopolitical zone in the country that is why he or she is denied what accrues to him or her.This does not do any nation any good.People who are supposed to uplift the image of the country after training are denied the opportunity of contributing their own quota to the development of the country.How can such a country move forward when all they know is how to turn things upside down?
Imagine a country whose annual budget maps out less than 20% of her budget to the development regardless of the whooping amount of revenue she derives from her domestic and foreign earnings.How can one expect development to be at their doorsteps.It's almost impossible and of course quite appalling.To politicize the education industry cannot do any country any good rather it retards the velocity at which the country is developing.It is better checkmated before it gets out of hand.
Biologically the tongue is the sense organ for taste.Owing to the functions the tongue performs, it is a multipurpose sense organ.
As it concerns speech-sound, it's functions is often confused with that of the lips.It's functions cuts across communication,preaching of the good news,and proclamation of belief,expression of feelings and emotions,prayers and praises,enthronement,prophecy,pronouncing of blessings,promises,etc.
It is often misused especially when used for gossip,dethronement,curse,excommunication,pronunciation of judgment.The tongue by its nature is fleshy and flexible.It can express mischievous utterances if it is not well controlled.The tongue has to be controlled for man to be strictly responsible generally.Uncontrolled tongue is very dangerous.It (uncontrolled tongue) can put one in a very serious trouble.
Then the question is how the tongue be controlled?
It is very difficult to controlled the tongue due to its flexibility.But this does not mean that it cannot be controlled.It can be controlled but to do that one has to be extremely careful.There are suggested ways by which the tongue can be controlled.Before one aims at the controlling the tongue,one must understand that the tongue is made for good.It is made for godly utterances.In order to eschew troubles one must learn to count his words.
Gossip is one of those unwholesome uses of the tongue.To trace the cause of gossip is a right step in the right direction as long as the quest for control of the tongue is concerned.One of the causes is idleness.Prevention they say, is better than cure.To prevent idleness one has to be busy at all times.One can be physically busy or mentally busy.Physical business involves engaging oneself in a visible venture whereas mental business involves engaging oneself in positive mental reasoning.Mental business also involves one pondering on events so as to make positive beneficial changes that will affect the life of people.
Another way by which the tongue can be controlled is by exhibiting silence in sometimes especially when one is tempted to utter wrongly.Silence they say, is golden.Silence is never misquoted.One can greatly control one's tongue if one tries to be silent when one does not know what to say at any particular point in time.It is better to keep quite instead of making a sound which one cannot be held responsible for.
In addition one can control one's tongue by listening to music and also singing songs.Music they say, is the food of the soul.One's soul is uplifted when one listens to a kind of music of one's choice.
Spoken words are very powerful.They can build and they can also demolish.They can cause war.Spoken words can trigger enmity.Anyone that is addicted to gossips must have a low esteem among his mates.A gossip is always feeling sense of guilt.Gossip is very bad.It kills a person's image.It can kill one and put others in trouble.
Consider the case of David in the bible.When David committed adultery and impregnated Bathsheba,he convicted himself by the judgment he made when prophet Nathan indirectly likened his acts to an imaginary king who committed the same gravity of offense he committed.Even when his son impregnated the sister God pronounced cause upon the family.That cause is what is happening now in the modern day Israel.War has become an integral part of the life of Israelis up til this day.
Jehoshaphat uttered a promise to dedicate anything; man or animal that shall welcome him after his conquest in a war.Behold the person that welcomed him as he stepped his toe inside his compound was his one and only daughter.He had no other option than to fulfill his promise.Even Hannah,after years of barrenness,instead of been barren for life promised to give God the child she will give birth to if only God will bless her with the fruit of the womb.Was it not Isaac's tongue that he used in blessing Jacob and causing Esau which descendants of Esau are suffering till date?Was it not the tongue that Jesus used in causing a fig tree?Was it not the tongue that Elisha used to lay cause on Gehazi which resulted in his seven fold possession of Naaman's leprosy? And most especially,was it not the tongue that GOD used to create the universe? Even Jesus performed so many miracles with just a words that preceded from His mouth.This tells us how powerful this tool is.
One of the greatest benefits of controlling the tongue is that it gives life.A man with a controlled tongue is very much respected in the society than the one who is loquacious.Control of the tongue is a virtue.
From the first Sunday of lent to the last Sundays before Easter,all that is read in the daily catholic readings as well as the Sunday readings indicates that there is injustice in the world.the world could not recognize the good work Jesus did.Instead what they could understand is the ungodly modification of truth.Has truth any form of modification? Even in a law court.What else is sought after truth is revealed?Jesus is truth and the life of those who believe and those who do not believe either.In His time Jesus revealed Himself a thousand and one times as the truth and the life in words and in deed.The world rejected Him.That means that they chose death instead of life when He offered them life.In deed He performed many kinds of miracles that no one else has ever done.In doing so He showed us that He is God made man.The world did not believed Him.Even today.Some Christians do not really worship Him in truth and in spirit.After all the things Jesus did, they devised a means of eliminating Him.They levelled series of allegation on Him.What they could understand well was the Jewish legal implication of His actions rather than the spiritual implications.Allowed by Jesus the world would have crucified or stoned Him before good Friday as is the case in Jon10:31.Where were all those who received healing and deliverance when they accused Him?Weren't they supposed to counter the shouting 'crucify Him' with their own freedom hails 'He is our savior' so that Pilate could release Him?Does it mean that their yearnings would have been unnoticed?It ten calls to mind the behavior of Christians these days.Proclamation of the good news is fast declining.We allow evil to perpetuate because of fear of the Pilates in our day.The well to do in society pervert justice these days.The defenceless is dying silently.Everyday we crucify Christ the second time by the life dirty we live.The food we eat ,the dress we put on,the words we utter,our socio-political system,environmental degradation,economic prejudice,war,communal crisis,regional insurgence,tribal and zonal marginalisation,loothing of public treasury,leadership- is-our-own syndrome,money laundering,examination malpractice, pre-marital sex,immodesty,betrayal to list but a few.There is no doubt about this.
Looking at the state of things in most of the countries in the world today one may begin to wonder why so many things are the way they are.You may ask me how are they? With a special reference to our educational system,we lack sense of professionalism.What we merely regard as the professional disciplines are very few.An average young school leaver for instance knows that courses like medicine and surgery, banking and finance, all sorts of engineering, accountancy exists and as such disregards fields like natural sciences, agricultural sciences and some humanities.They often forget that some courses are product of the metamorphosis of other courses like physics metamorphosized into what we have now as engineering of all sort.Be it mechanical,electrical,chemical,civil,agricultural,petrochemical computer engineering and all-worth-nots.It is pertinent to know that mechanical engineering is an offshoot of the field of mechanics in physics.Also electrical engineering and computer engineering are products of the field of electricity and electronics in physics.The ground works of the fore-fathers of physics like James Clark Maxwell, Michael Faraday Henry Bequerel etc in the field of thermodynamics brought to light the effects of magnetism in an electric field and therefore apparently made the development of electromagnetism thermodynamic engineering a success.
You may wonder why very few students embrace those courses.I cannot but give a single and concise reason for this development.Your guess is as good as mine.
