Thread by @GbengaWemimo

I know how hard it is for good people to accept the not so good people with bad reputations got saved and forgiven despite how bad they were
I had a pastor once who says "I was always a good person before i became a Christian, I never sinned and I am still that way except that I

confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour many years ago."
The day I invited prostitutes to our monthly vigil, this woman saw them and couldn't concentrate throughout the service
After the service, she called me to the pastor's office for a chat
She was practically as white as

snow
She asked me if i knew what I was doing
I said Yes
She said "You brought those people into the church? You brought harlots into this church?"
I kept quiet
I had thought she was going to praise me when i went into the office to see her
I was very wrong
The smile on my face

evaporated
She said so much and at the end of the day she made me feel bad for bringing such people into the church
She said she had never touched any profane thing in her life or shared her spiritual space with "loathful sinners like that"
She asked me if I am sure they didn't

come into the church to solicit customers and drag the men into sin
It was a tight rope
She didn't know the gospel, what she knew was religious indoctrination
She didn't have the spirit of the gospel
What she has was "self-righteousness"
She has not met the Lord
I have met the

Lord
The gospel has made me a fragrance of Christ to all men
I do not judge one at the expense of another or prefer one to another
I regard all men as fit for the master's use and love all men as Christ loves us all to the point where he died and gave his life for us
Grace is not

always pretty
Religious people in the days of Jesus never got it and many still do not get it now
Jesus saw a lady who had seven demons & she kept her as a close friend and disciple after casting out the demon
He didn't mind the fact that her history will stick to her till today

I remember one day in 2007
A woman came to our house in Ibadan
She had done much evil against my family, especially my mother
I was at home for the mid-semester break
This woman came to see my mother to ask for forgiveness
My mother didn't know this
My mother only knew this

woman was very troublesome and my mother wanted to avoid her trouble as much as possible
As soon as the woman opened our gate, my mother saw her through the window
So my mother pretended she was not at home
The woman knocked and knocked
Wow!
I was asleep in the room
My mother

expected the woman to leave after knocking
The woman didn't
She kept knocking until she got tired
Then she sat down inside our balcony and waited
She was determined to speak with my mother
I heard the Holy Spirit whisper in my ears "Love the unlovable"
I woke up and walked out of

my room
As soon as my mother heard my footsteps, she tiptoed towards me and signalled to me to be silent
I asked why
She said the lady that gave her hell over a business they did together moths before was at the door
She just didn't want to see the lady and she didn't want the

lady to know she was at home
I said "Mummy, the Holy Spirit woke me up now with the words Love the unlovable"
My mother paused for a while, then she walked to the door and opened it
The woman saw her and fell on her knees
She had been told to go and apologize to the person she

offended by a stranger earlier that day
My mother invited her in and we had a long talk
We all ended up praying together after having lunch
A few months later, the woman's husband reached out to her after twelve years of abandoning her in Nigeria
(He was in the UK)
She went to

join him soon after
That is the spirit of Grace
Not willing that any should perish but seeking to reconcile all to the father in love!
I like listening to believers discussing politics and other mundane stuff
I laugh at their ignorance most times because they "hate" others based

on a difference in ideology and orientation
They put their passion in the wrong things and forget that you cannot be a "Christian" in the title and not be a "Christian to everybody in your conduct"
Jesus said if you are good only to those who are good to you, you're not different

from hypocrites and the publicans
A man has tested the faith of many believers all over the world the last few years
Many failed the test
The spirit of grace does not wish any ill
It does not speak ill of any and it repays good for evil always
Have you met the spirit of grace?