Recycle Lesson

Whether it is slam-dunk or soft-dunk, it cannot miss the light-blue recycle bag. The recycle law has been passed and implemented. It has become part of our life style. The cans and bottles of assorted sodas and juices will soon end up in recycle. So also the garbage in every home must be analyzed and separated into designated bags. The useless and discarded household and office properties will not be exempted. The plastic containers that hold industrial strength chemicals must obey the law of recycle.

The highly nutritional food we eat both at home and in the classy restaurant usually faces recycle. Our mouths act like grinding mill that grind the food to a processable state for the enzymes in our stomach. The enzymes break down the food into different components. The useful ones go to the blood stream to be absorbed by your body. The useless components end up in sewage recycle that later becomes fertilizer that returns to the soil in order that plants may grow. The water that we drink followed recycles law. It is the vehicle that mingles with the blood to transport nutrients to different part of our body. The kidney separates the blood and the water, the blood continues in its circulatory routine but the impure water that is very rich in urea acid are collected in the bladder which is finally discharged from our body as urine. And finally, the urine connects with clean or unclean waters to return to its original source. The oxygen we breathe in is funneled to our lungs where alveoli provide a forum where carbon dioxide can be exchanged for oxygen.

The beautiful and expensive dresses we wear will eventually go down the way of recycle, so also the discarded electronics and useless properties. They will end up in the recycle of garbage, processed and then separated according to their chemical composition. These will be taken to different places for further processing. Our currency notes and coins travel through many hands following the process of recycle as an instrument of exchange for various kind of services or foods and finally returned to the National Minting Corporation. Devastating weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads that, sadly, once served as symbols of national confidence and strength are now slated for recycling so that the world may once again be at peace.

The thoughtfulness of the leaders that enacted the recycle law points to the fact that man is created in the image of thoughtful God. After all, was it not God who organized the activities of His creatures to follow the processes of recycle in order to complement and benefit one another? Recently, I watched with amazement a documentary on Wild America. A dung-beetle was rolling cow-dung in the field and dug the ground for the dung and its egg in it. The beetle does not know itself as one example of God’s beautiful instrument of thoughtfulness. It does not consciously recycle dung. A few days later new offspring emerge from the dung but the remaining dung continue to fertilize the ground.

Do you realize that leaders who enacted the law of recycle on earth will soon be recycled? The subjects, I mean, the citizens upon whom the law was imposed will also be recycled. The Bible told us in the Book of Genesis 2:7 that, “the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” When a man dies, two things will happen: the body will be returned (recycle) into dust and the spirit that God gave us at the beginning will return (recycle) to God for further separation as a result of His judgment. “The dust returns to the ground it came from and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7) No matter how beautiful, no matter how wealthy, no matter how influential we might have been, whatever our qualification or achievement might have been, it will come to a point after our death that nobody will like to accommodate us. First of all, the body will be taken to the funeral home, from funeral home to the burial ground or where it will be burnt into ashes, whichever way, the dust will surely return to dust.

Even the nature participates in the process of recycling by causing the dead body to decompose. While we are living we can as well participate in the process of recycling of our spirit by guiding it with divine law of God in righteousness. God has endowed man with wisdom and ability to choose the path that our spirit will follow after our death while we are still living. This is the question, which path you want your spirit to follow? Is it the path to eternal heaven, where there is joy and peace, in the bosom of Abraham, in the presence of the Mighty King; or is it the path to eternal doom in the Hell Fire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, in the exclusive home prepared for Satan?

Great is the love that made the Mighty King to set aside His Glory, came into the earth, and offer Himself as a living sacrifice for you. Great is the price He paid for our salvation with His precious blood. This must not be in vain! “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) “The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.” (Romans 6:23) Our positive or negative relationship with God and humanity designs the recycle path of our spirit. If you decide today to believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, obey His commandments and follow the path of righteousness in your relationship with humanity, you will undoubtedly end up in the bosom of Abraham, the place of peace in the eternal heaven at last. If you choose otherwise, the consequence is a recycle of your spirit into the Hell Fire the place of anguish and sorrow. Choose, this day, the path of recycle of your spirit. I believe that you will prefer your spirit to be immersed in everlasting joy in heaven, the place of rest and peace. Hell Fire is meant only for the fallen angels and the children of disobedience. When you toss that empty can of soda into the recycle bin, think of the path of recycle you are creating for your spirit to follow after your death. Due honor unto God’s law, belief that Jesus Christ died for your sins and a love for humanity while you are alive is the only way to have peace in life and after your death!

Michael A. Eleyinafe