A TEMPORAL TREASURE BY OLUWABUNMI AREGBESOLA

A TEMPORAL TREASURE BY OLUWABUNMI AREGBESOLA

This mortal body we carry can deceive us sometimes. There is a way it can make us think we might die when we don't give it, its needs per time.

Why is it that the time when we desire to deny ourselves of physical pleasures is when we begin to feel discomfort?

Why is it that the time when we desire to deny ourselves of physical food is when we begin to remember the sweet aroma of the food we once cooked? We wished we could just eat at that moment and feel comfortable. This body needs to be disciplined my friend.

People call you a glutton and you really love the name. Where are all the foods you have been consuming since? Our body need physical food to sustain it though, but a place of discipline is needed. You don't consume everything that comes your way.

The only thing that this body love is comfort and pleasure. It doesn't like it when you expose it to tough things. When you feel like staying awake in the night to pray is when you will be baptised with sleep from no where. The sleep will suit you like sugar. You sleep back only to discover it's a new dawn. The deed has been done, you can't reverse the time again.

God please have mercy on us.

I remembered some years ago when I started marathon fasting in my local church. When it gets to the second day of the fast, i would go and meet my mum and order some foods from her. I would ask her to please help me get banana, first thing (smiles), tea, milk, bread, garri etc. She would ask me the stomach that would contain all the mentioned foods and I would tell her not to bother about it.

But to my greatest surprise, whenever it was time to break the fast, I would not even be able to finish my bread and tea let alone remembering other stuffs. After sometimes, she never gave in to my requests (Smiles)..

Are you on fasting and you feel like devouring every food that comes your way immediately after the fast? You can't sir. This is to tell that this body is fading away. Food can't keep it, sleep can't preserve it, only the LIFE OF GOD (ETERNAL LIFE)  can preserve it.

Do not yield to the temptation of this body because though is perishing, our inward man is renewed day by day after the knowledge of Him that created him.