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My people, you don hear am before? Jesus wan yan about eye for eye keep us right. E don join vex vex wey plenty humans dey carry come, but wetin Him dey talk na serious matter wey fit change level. If person slap you for one side, e say make you turn the other cheek. Omo, na wah! How many of us go fit do dat one?
No be lie, as we dey yan, Jesus dey try tell us say vengeance no dey solve problem. Instead, e dey bring more wahala. E be like say na for 2025 we need am pass! See, people dey shoot back and forth like movie shooting. War dey everywhere, and instead of sense, na more violence dem dey give each other.
Imagine say for this world wey everybody wan show muscle, sabi say Jesus dey come tell us say the better way na to show mercy. Person wrong you, instead of make you do strong arm, just show love? E sound like say na wetin cartoon character go talk, but na so e be.
This whole matter dey pain Jesus heart. E dey see the world wey dey turn upside down, and all Him want na for us to chill small and do better. Jesus gree say if dem collect your cloth for court, abeg, just carry your jacket join am. (Wetin you fit do? Embarrass yourself?) This na true strength, not the type wey dey come from anger.
For the painting wey Robert Henderson Blyth draw titled ‘In the Image of Man’, we see the spiritual and physical damage from the old war wey don scatter plenty things. Na wetin we don face in the world today, where destruction dey reign, and hope dey hard to find. The painting dey show us say humanity don forget wetin e mean to be created in God’s image, instead we dey live like say na beast.
Blyth paint this one after war, from the gory sight wey e see while e dey serve. E sweet my belle to think say, “E go really help if we fit change our ways.” But, instead, wetin we dey see na d same old story. We no fit see the way forward if we dey hold on to hate.
Abeg, make we join hand no dey do revenge beta. E go sweet for our lives if we come together, push love, and face forgiveness. If na so God work, why we go dey do otherwise? Make we all just try to change small, we fit start from our homes, our friends, and go everywhere we go!
