Thread by @GbengaWemimo

I remember the first time i heard the song "Kerewa"
It was such a beautiful song and the video was creative, I didn't know what Kerewa meant
I didn't bother to find out
I didn't even process it through my thought even though the lyrics of the song and the storyline of the song

was plain enough
I was an undergraduate at the time
I was also a Sunday School teacher in the Student Fellowship
I was teaching Sunday School some weeks after I had heard the song
I turned to one of the students in my class and said "Let us assume you and Jesus are dancing Kerewa

right now and the Pharisees see you! They will have an issue with it. They had an issue with everything Jesus did. It wasn't a matter of good deeds and evil deeds, they disliked what Jesus represented! Liberty of worship, anti-law, anti-religious merchandising, and so on
When he

healed the sick, they complained
When he minded his business, they came to test him
When he declared who he was, they wanted to stone him
When he kept quiet, they fabricated lies against him and slapped him so as to provoke him
They saw the good works but it wasn't enough
What

they wanted was conformance
Jesus was a deviant and they had to whip him in line or tear him apart
Jesus questioned their reality and they found that very offensive
Jesus questioned their worldview and mindsets
They, in turn, saw Jesus as a disruptor, a trouble maker
That was why

they felt He had to die...."
After the class, one of the lecturers who was my Sunday School teacher called me aside to say good things about how I taught
Then she said, "Do you think it was appropriate that you used an example of Jesus dancing Kerewa with a female student?"
Oh my

those days I was very idealistic
I thought it didn't matter what I said, what really mattered was what I intended to say or do (Please note that I wasn't born again at this time. I was a student in a Christian school who came from a Christian background and was playing religion)

I tried to explain to the lecturer that "It was just an example"
One shouldn't be so priggish
Look at the context of my discussion
Did I denigrate the person of Christ?
Was I irreverent in any way?
(I hated criticism at that time of my life! I was in my twenties, and I thought

I knew it all
The lecturer realized i was getting worked up and said "I should forget about it"
We went for Sunday Service
After the service, I walked into the Cafeteria
One of the students in my Sunday School class approached me
She said "Thank you for your teaching today, I was

a convert from another religion into Christianity and i had often wondered at how authentic the person of Jesus that was presented in the Bible was.
He was a man
A Jewish man
Do you know the Jews and the Arabs have a lot in common?
The main character of my former religion married

four wives
He was biologically accurate because he followed the nature and custom of his people but Jesus!
How can a grown man not have sex or marry at that age?
It was odd to me
But when i heard you saying Jesus danced Kerewa earlier today, I came to the conclusion that there

are many details of the life of Jesus that had either been edited or cleaned up to give him this strange and odd holy image
Wow.
Alarm bells started ringing in my head
I had done a bad job in my teaching and someone had been misled
I asked if I could buy her lunch
She said yes

The money i had could only buy my own lunch but i had to sacrifice it
We sat down to talk
I said, "Please can you explain to me what Kerewa is?"
She got flustered and lowered her gaze
I didn't let her speak further
I apologized
I also apologized to her about the class and my goof

I told her the lecturer's observation
I was very patient
I made sure she got it
The following Sunday, I apologized to my class
I told them i didn't know what Kerewa meant and using it as an example was misleading
The students laughed at my naivety
I suffered through it
It was

terrible but I learned to look before I leap from that day
After i met the Lord on the 17th of September 2007, I became very of doing anything out of good intentions rather than out of being led
It was a deliberate cultivation of Spiritual awareness
In Genesis 11, men decided to

build a tower
They had all the ingredients
bricks and mortar
A common language, a mutual understanding and a purpose
They were also united
God saw it but God didn't approve of it
Ideas that do not originate from God through the Holy Spirit do not get sanctioned by God
He does not

endorse change that looks good to men
He knows the end of every plan from the beginning
He sees the thoughts and intents of the heart
He knows our frame
Moses sent 12 spies into Canaan
God had promised Canaan to Abraham and it was time to possess the land
10 of the spies returned

with tales of woe
The people heard their report and cried and grumbled
God said "They are not ready"
Moses talked to the people
He stirred their hearts
He reminded them of how powerful their God is
He asked them how small they think God was compared to the giants
They got it but

they got it too late
God had determined that they will not be given Canaan at that time
They woke up and went off to battle without God
They had a promise, they had the men
What they lacked was the presence of God
Moses cautioned them against being led by sentiment and feelings

They didn't listen
They went off to war early the next morning
They were soundly defeated
Years later, Joshua and Caleb led a new generation into the promise land
God led Joshua
The leading must originate from God
God does not do a collaboration with other ideologies
He is God

alone
He does not share His glory
He does not camouflage his agenda
He is God!
I welcome Nigeria to a new dawn
We are all beginning to learn that good is not always God
For those who have not learned this yet
It is fine
God is very patient but He is also never late

-GSW-

Framed gbengawemimo.com/post/framed
She was not even allowed to say a word
they beat her up and stripped her naked
They claimed she was a thief
They said they were going to kill her
She said she really feared for her life and
did everything they demanded