Love. This was at the heart of Christ's sacrifice on the cross and it is at the heart of His call to every one who would accept His gift of salvation.
He's paid the price for salvation already. He bought our freedom from sin and obtained mercy for us through His precious blood.
Yooo! His life! He died for us. This was the price He paid for our salvation. Then He put that salvation on offer for FREE.
Because our God made us creatures of free will, the choice will always be ours to accept this offer by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, acknowledging His person as the son of God and His sacrifice.
Indeed, "It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
Just as it was yesterday, and will be everyday, this gift of salvation is on offer today through His son Jesus Christ.
Receive it with an open heart. If you're accepting this offer today, simple pray this simple prayer: šš»
P.S. Iām of Igbo and Yoruba descent, my dad is Igbo and my mum is Yoruba.
I always say that it would be so cool to marry a Hausa man, so my children would have Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa ancestry š
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010 / 100 Todayās video is courtesy of Spotify āØ
It felt amazing reliving some of the songs and sounds that have stayed with me over the years on Spotify, and I thought to share.
Spot any of your favourites in my all time top songs playlist? Let me know š
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007 / 100 One more reason God works in us is so we can reflect His nature more clearly here on earth. The process is not just about changing us, it is about revealing Himself to others, through us.
P.S. Itās officially been one week since I started this one video a day challenge and honestlyā¦ wow. Thank you so much to everyone who has been encouraging me along the way. Your kindness, support, and words genuinely mean so much to me. Iām truly grateful.
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006 / 100 One thing this one video a day challenge is helping me do is weaken the grip perfectionism has had on me for years.
For the longest time, I struggled with creating because I wanted everything to be perfect. Sometimes, I would not even start because I knew I could not yet create at the level I wanted to. So instead of creating imperfectly, I created nothing at all.
But showing up every day to create and share, even in simple ways, has been doing something beautiful to my mind.
It is helping me push past the mental resistance my perfectionist mind puts up.
And today, for the first time in years, I created a pattern again.
It is not perfect.
It does not yet fully match the standard in my head.
But it exists. And Iām going to share it.
I am learning that if you wait until your work fully matches your taste, you may spend years producing nothing.
Ira Glass once said:
āNobody tells this to people who are beginnersā¦ all of us who do creative work get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, itās just not that goodā¦ Itās only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap.ā
So maybe this season is not about creating masterpieces.
Maybe it is about becoming someone who creates again.
Someone who shares again.
Someone who trusts herself enough to begin before she feels ready.
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005 / 100 ( we moving! ) Boy, am I grateful that God gives us opportunities to adjust and realign when we fall short of His standard. One of the ways He does this is through His word.
As we read Scripture, He shows us the ideal, and often, we begin to recognise the ways we have fallen short of it. If we truly love Him, conviction moves us towards change.
This happens to me. Specifically, I remember a particular moment when I allowed inconvenience stop me from helping someone. I did not lack the capacity to help, I simply was not willing to go out of my way for the person.
Later that same day, I read the story of the Good Samaritan, and immediately I saw my error. I saw the standard, and I saw where I had missed it.
The lesson stayed with me: inconvenience should not be the reason I withhold help from someone. The only valid reason not to help should be a genuine lack of capacity.
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