Suicide At The
Edge
Of Breakthrough
The
world is bleeding and burdened with insurmountable problems. Many
homes have become desolate as a result of preventable disease. Many
children are in the orphanage homes because of the self inflicted
problems and recklessness of others. Many children became
permanently disabled because of the self-centeredness of their
parents. The government is expending billions of dollars on
avoidable diseases and self inflicted problems.
Statistics indicate that smoking related diseases are the major
killers in the countries of the world. Alcoholism has its own share
of tragic deaths on our highways every year. It also has a
deadly effect in the lives of the babies that alcoholic parents are
bringing into this world. These babies have already been turned into
jelly-minded individuals because of the uncontrollable alcohol
consumption of their parents before and during pregnancies. Some of
the offspring of the alcoholic parents are neither living nor dead.
They become problems to themselves, to the community and also to
their wicked parents who were living their own reckless lives of
enjoyment at the expense of the life of their baby. I was watching a
documentary recently where some were discussing the evil of
abortion. One previous medical personnel of an abortion clinic
lamented that he was performing on the average of 45 to 50 abortions
per day before he finally realized the evil he had been doing to
humanity. If a doctor could credit 50 abortions to himself each day,
imagine the number of babies these licensed baby-butchers are
killing each day all over the world. AIDS is more or less
permanently living with mankind today. The death toll of this deadly
disease is on the increase world-wide. Again, we must face cancer
that eats man up alive and rots human muscles and delicate organs.
In
the meditation of King David of the Bible, he said, “I will lift
up my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes
from the Lord the Maker of heaven and earth.” (Psalm 121:1-2)
Could it be said that God is no longer sensitive to the perennial
problems of mankind? To this question, I say, No! God has foreseen
the problems of mankind and in his faithfulness has been providing
an adequate antidote. But our attitude towards his merciful
intervention tends to tell God, “We do not want your help.” Divinity
had smiled to humanity but our self-centeredness has been
frustrating the divine hands of merciful God. Daily, we kill the
solutions when we put pleasure before the precepts of God that
sternly warn us against the destructive and innumerable consequences
associated with an adulterous life. We poison the solution to the
problems of humanity when we give consent to a medical doctor to
turn our wombs into the slaughter house of unborn babies and suck
the life out of the babies in our wombs. Gradually, we put a noose
around the neck of the answer human problems if we do not see
anything wrong in drinking and drug usage while pregnant or while
breast feeding our babies. We participate in murdering the solution
with our addictive smoking that render our lungs weak thereby
preparing them to become the comfort zone of cancerous cells to the
detriment of our health. You or the other non-smoking person who
inhales the deadly poison may likely pass away before realizing the
purpose of God's in your lives. I want you to realize that we are
the ones that turn our backs against the heavenly help of the benign
Father when we live reckless lives or use our body against the will
of God.
I
want you to understand that this is an appeal to the sense of
reasoning of the appreciative minded world and is explicitly not
intended to be a megaphone of a pro-choice or anti-smoking campaign.
This is a reality of life and it is also the mind of God concerning
the way you use your life. If the mother of Bill Gates had consented
to the killing of baby Bill when he was in her womb, the
breakthrough of information technology would have been flushed into
sewage system with his remains. Our lives would have not been
changed by the availability of the internet. His software company
affected the entire globe and revolutionalized communication.
Human beings are never far away from each other. Companies run
their offices more efficiently and profitably. Information is
disseminated through the general populace better and faster, thereby
increasing learning skills and the understanding of the world around
us. If Billy Graham had engaged in alcoholism and thereby lost his
mind or lost his life in the consequences associated with
alcoholism, he would not have become an anchorman of salvation of
our time. Many have found the righteous path of life through the way
this servant of God used his precious talent to advance the kingdom
of God.
Who
knows whether the bearer of breakthrough cure of cancer disease died
few years ago in the abortion clinic and the whole world still seeks
the face of God for replacement. Please do not ignorantly and
selfishly participate in killing another. Who knows whether the
innocent person that was endowed with the cure of the dreadful AID
diseases and was at the edge of his breakthrough when the drunk
driver knocked him off at his prime age? Please do not carelessly
and erroneously kill another solution. Perhaps you are wondering
what must have led to my imagination, the following anecdote will
provide the answer.
A
young Nigerian, Mr. Kanu Nwankwo of 1996 Centennial Olympic Soccer
Star was diagnosed with a serious heart problem immediately after
the Centennial events. The young Kanu, who was just stepping into
the soccer limelight with the entire world before him, was downcast.
He had to choose between living the rest of his life with the weak
aorta and forget his soccer career or face heart surgery to correct
the problem. In order for him to decide on the best professionally
qualified surgeon to perform the delicate operation, a careful
investigations of good heart surgeons was made. The opinion of the
doctors sampled recommended that Dr. Little (name withheld) is a
force to reckon with in the circle of heart surgeon. Reputation
pointed him out as one of the best heart surgeons in the world. Dr.
Little of Cleveland Clinic Foundation was a powerful, charismatic
and unassuming individual. His professional background revealed him
as a man of integrity who is always in the business of saving lives
everyday. He was said to be performing 10-15 heart operations in a
week. As powerful and flamboyant as Dr. Little is, in the medical
world, he was also noted for the simple life he lives. The doctor
did a marvelous job and Kanu had since returned to the active soccer
career because of what God used the doctor to accomplish in his
life.
Suppose Dr. Little, the surgeon who performed the heart operation of
Kanu Nwankwo, had been plagued with any of the self-inflicted social
problems of our time. Definitely, the excellent solution to the
heart problem of Kanu would not have been there when his entire
soccer carrier is hanged on the medical expertise of this amiable
heart surgeon. It is obviously needless to say that Dr. Little
profited with his talents.
We
often think that whatever we do with our body or ourselves is not
the business of anybody. This may be true in the narrow sense of
pride. I believe that these types of people do not understand this
situation from the point of view of God. According to God’s timing
and His divine plan, we are here on earth to touch the inhabitants
of the earth with our potentials, our time, life, wisdom, knowledge
and everything that God had given us in order that the earth may
become a better place to live in. It is my prayer that that God may
open the eyes of their understanding.
I
want you to understand today that your life and the way you live for
the rest of your life, whether happily or otherwise, depends on and
compliments the lives of others. Consequently, whatever you do to
your body or your life is affecting the lives of others even if you
are not sensitive enough to know. Your life is one of the proverbial
gifts of talent mentioned in the parable of Jesus Christ. It is a
precious gift and whatever you do with it is a gift, in return, onto
God. It is also an indication of your appreciation or ingratitude,
as the case may be, unto God. Let us understand today that every one
of us will give account of what we have done with our lives, our
talents, our wisdom and our knowledge in the presence of God at
last. Ask yourself this soul searching question everyday before you
sleep, "Have I justified the gift of life given to me righteously
for the glory of God today?" If not, the window of mercy is still
open and you still have abundant room for repentance. The day of
reckoning is near!
Michael A. Eleyinafe
