"When everything fails, try Mathematics" - Adeboye

Pastor Adeboye with faculty members, department of mathematics, University of Lagos.

“Mathematics is the science of life and this principle has helped me in my marriage of over 47 years” - Adeboye

Equation1:            Love is Blind
Equation2:            Marriage is a special miracle worker with an anointing for opening eyes Genesis29:24-25 (Leah & Rachel) When you solve these two equations properly you'll see that while love is blind, marriage has the anointing to open the eyes. 

When your wife adds too much pepper in your soup, instead of shouting and yelling at her just say “my mathematics teacher taught us that the amount of pepper in the soup should be inversely proportional to the temperature in the city” and she will get the message LOL!

Equation3: Angels don't eat jollof rice Judges 6:11-16
Equation4: Angels don't marry  Matthew 22:30
The fact that you're married to her at all means you're  not an angel and your wife is not an angel even though she might have dressed like an angel on your wedding day, she is definitely NOT an angel.

When everything fails in life for you, try mathematics! Yes mathematics! This is because mathematics is the science of living. One way to know is the bible in John 9:5 says; “Jesus is the light of the world” and Mathematics shows us light travels at the speed of 297,600,000 km/secs therefore it means to say if Jesus is the light of the world and you invite him into your life your least progress rate will be at the speed of light.

My mathematics professor once gave me an assignment to do which was naturally beyond me. Upon his arrival, he discovered I had finished it he asked who helped me because I didn’t want to tell him it was Jesus I said Prof Emmanuel (he then said which department is he?) I in turn said ‘department of original science’ he said ‘so we have that department in this school?’ it wasn’t long before he figured I was talking about Jesus and because there’s a thin line between a genius and a mad man he didn’t bother arguing with me any further.

I want to implore you today if you’ve not accepted Jesus into your life to please decide and do so today and your progress will be as the speed of light.
                                                                                                               - Courtesy, @PastorEAAdeboye

Pastor Adeboye was at the University of Lagos, department of mathematics on thursday 19th february 2015 for the first ever inaugural lecture in his honour where he also donated 50 million naira. History has it that he was the first ever MSc student in the department in 1972. A one time academic himself, this is not the first time he will be making such contribution towards the attainment of a world-class education sector.

                                                                                                             

Life is a Cheque

“Some people will throw away a signed blank cheque because they don’t want to spend money to buy a LeoSmart pen” - Unknown.

The above is an acute description of my generation, the generation Y.

I live in a time and generation where the average young person wants to succeed before working hard enough to achieve that success. It baffles me that someone would want to eat his eggs before even laying them! It is only in my generation that someone would beg you for garri (cassava flour), yet ask for the sugar and groundnuts to accompany it!

Two words stand out in the above phrase; “blank cheque” and “pen”. It is very simple, for every measure of greatness to be achieved there is an accompanying measure of investment required. However, we are blinded by the cost of the investment so much we fail to see its benefits.

I remember speaking to a group of final year students on the need to embrace volunteering opportunities immediately after school while looking for jobs and I recall the look on their faces at the mention of “do it for free if need be”. Their consternation only reflected the mentality of the youths of my time. Yet, ask Steve Harris and he’ll tell you working for free was the pen he bought to write on his blank cheque! I remember having to pay through my nose for certain programmes where I could listen to Nigeria’s finest speakers/trainers or even travel long distances, just to learn a thing or two from an event.

Life has presented a blank cheque to you and my dear, it is called LIFE! The pen you need to buy to write on it differs even as your hopes and dreams differ from mine. If it’s a job you need, volunteer. If it’s a relationship with God you desire, study His word and pray often in addition to listening to messages and reading books. If its business, buy the books that relate to the field and study how others excelled in such field. Learn that trade, pay for that class. 

I’ll close with the words of my mentor Steve Harris “invest in yourself as you are your best product”.

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A Walk In The Rain

It had been drizzling all morning and being a Saturday, one thing was sure with the perfect weather condition, sleep!

Lazily I got up and did a few things part of which was to go online and ‘see the world’ there. I also did a little cleaning and was about taking my bath when I figured it best to visit the salon first before having that 30-minute Saturday morning bath (you know it guys). So clutching my grooming kit, I stepped out of the house and my little nephew said he’d come along, he was tired of the ‘koko waves’ on his head, or so was his mother.

The drizzling had stopped so we walked hand-in-hand to the salon; of course the road was messy with the rains and all. As we walked, I noticed how my hand was fully wrapped round his and it struck me, how big is our God? How mighty are his hands that he is able to hold us, our dreams, ambitions and problems, no matter how big they are and lead us through the journey of life?

As we walked on with my hands held on to his, I would guide him as to where to step and where not to considering the road was a mess with potholes, mud and dirt everywhere. Having our hands in God’s is a surety for direction and guidance in life. He knows the path very well and he’s our best bet to getting through life and its situations unscathed. Yes sometimes a little mud spilled onto my slippers but then I remembered His word ‘…when you pass through the fire, it will not burn you, when you pass through the waters they shall not consume you’. The heat might cause you discomfort but it will NEVER burn you. Deep!

Even as we moved closer to the salon, he then pulled his hand away as if to say ‘I can now do this on my own’ then it hit me – sometimes after a walk with God, pride sets in and says ‘you can do this on your own’ and we more often than not, tend to fall for this trick of the enemy. God wants to walk with you ALL THE WAY not some of it, or most of it. There is that tendency to always want to do it ‘my own way’ but then experience has taught me that He wants me to trust in Him with ALL MY HEART, ALL THE WAY!

Writing this I realized, how easy my life would be if I decided to take a walk in the rain with this God and cast all my cares upon Him because he cares for me. Life would be so much easier!!! All He is asking is; would you put your hands in mine and let’s take a walk, through the muddy roads of life? 

Let’s take a walk in the rain.

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