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
