Perfidious

Mounted picture start to be put on the walls, insights, comprehensions that must be documented in writings, our ambivalent feeling where we want to express ourselves through music and compositions.

Yes, we can write, we can dictate, we can emphasize, but not all of us can influence. If given a chance to speak about our society, all of us are big-mouthed about it. There are many things I want to stress out. As I have marked in my recent article, that "the predominant issue in our society today is not poverty, but the inability to raise up men of honor, integrity and character (see Affordaboy). In this piece, my focal point is the minor details that most people made inattentions. We tend to see the bigger picture yet we fail to notice the crucial points.

Jesus said in Matthew 7:3-5 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."

In this verse, God stated that change starts from within us. We don’t have the right to dictate people to do this and that if we ourselves are not in that level. The change in your environment depends on the inner change of yourself, as Ps. Cesar Castellanos implies "If I change, everything changes". We focus so much on people's disability to develop them yet we forgot our own agenda. Little knowing, we can be labeled as "hypocrites". Change is from the inside out, and the truth is you can't do it on your own. It is beyond our ability to do it. Change is just an overflow if we partner ourselves with God.

David stated in this verse: "How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. Psalms 19:12-13. David understood that without God, he can't be cleansed nor can be changed. David implied that the magnitude of sin is so powerful that not a single person can control it. It is in our fellowship with God that we can overcome these things.

Now the world is dying, time pass by and it’s getting worse and the love of many will grow cold. People have become perfidious, unloyal and unreliable. "Their loyalty is divided between God and the world and they are unstable in everything they do." James 1:8. People have become unstable in everything they do and they perish for lack of vision.

During my college days, I grew up in an environment of engineering discipline, my parents and one of my brothers is an engineer. I took up a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and by the grace of God I finished and learned the entire curriculum. Engineering was never easy for me. It's a competition of learning. You need to have a laser like focus in studies in order to learn every course (not just finishing but learning, you can finish even without learning). You need to have an undivided attention to digest every discipline and training offered in your way. But unfortunately some of my colleague didn't finish at the said time, some of them shifted to another degree; most of them kept repeating a course. They have divided attention; they played allot and studied a little. They become perfidious. It makes them unstable in everything they do. We can be like them, but because of God's vision embedded in our hearts; it gives us the attitude to be virtuous.

Your society brings so much demand of a man that has fear of the Lord, with integrity and with leadership ability. It’s not about how good you were in writing, speaking, dancing or whatever built in performance. But it’s about the integrity that you must develop. In Psalms 78:72 "And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them." Your society needs you. They need leaders. Stop being perfidious, leave your comforts, be a challenge chaser, It is easy to change a degree than to change your lifestyle. Connect to a church that promotes godliness. Receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. Face it, you can’t do it on your own, you can’t save yourself. You need a savior. There’s no expanse for doubt in this evil generation.  We are born for this.