To Be Who You Truly Be, To Dey Honest, To Get Sincere Heart

March 6, 2020
Friday for the First Week of Lent
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“I dey tell una, unless una live right for God eye pass the scribes and Pharisees, una no go enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 5:20

Who wan enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Na all of us, no doubt! Na this suppose be the main goal for our life. And as we dey pursue this goal, make we try carry as many people as we fit along with us.

Too many times, we no dey see this as the highest goal for life. We no dey keep our eyes on Heaven as the main reason why we dey here for Earth. E easy well-well to let the satisfaction wey we dey get every day from wetin we fit call the “small-small goals” of life carry us away. Na goals like entertainment, money, success, and other things like that. And sometimes, we fit make these small-small goals the only goals wey we get.

So, how about you? Wetin be your goal? Wetin you dey work hard for and dey seek throughout your day? If you honestly check wetin you dey do throughout each day, e fit surprise you say na small-small goals wey no too matter and wey no go last you dey pursue pass as you think.

For this passage above, Jesus give us one clear direction on how to reach that highest goal of life—the Kingdom of Heaven. The way wey He point us to na to live right for God eye.

Wetin e mean to live right for God eye? E simply mean to be who you truly be. To be genuine. No be to dey pretend. And most especially, e mean make our love for God be genuine. The Pharisees dey struggle with this matter of pretending say dem holy and dem dey follow God will well. But dem no do am well at all. Dem fit sabi act well, and dem fit don convince themselves and other people, but dem no fit deceive Jesus. Jesus fit see beyond the false front wey dem put up and know wetin dey underneath. He fit see say their “life wey right for God eye” na only show for themselves and other people.

Today, think deeply about how you dey live right for God eye—how honest and sincere you dey as you dey strive to live holy life. If you want make Heaven remain your highest goal every day, then you must also strive to make every small goal for each day be sincere effort to live holy life. Every day, we must seek Christ with sincere heart and truth for all the small-small things of life. Then we must let that sincerity shine out, to show wetin truly dey inside us. To live right for God eye, for the fullest meaning of the word, mean say we dey sincerely seek God throughout our day and make that sincerity the goal wey we dey pursue all the time for our life.

Lord, make me live right for Your eye. Abeg, help me to get sincere heart for everything wey I dey do and everything wey I dey seek for life. Help me to love You and to love You every single moment of the day. Jesus, na You I trust.

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