Ruth of God (Of the root of Jesse)

I plan on making Jesus super proud. You can join me or leave me, your choice.

@AttorneyF_ This is beautiful. I've never seen the account of Jesus telling the rich man to sell all he had and follow Him from this perspective before. Absolutely beautiful.

People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why. The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it. He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen. This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed. Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it. Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade. As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed. The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible. You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.

I saw this TikTok of a girl completing famous phrases and went to look the others up, I’m using number 3 against my mother like mad😭 1. Curiosity killed the cat is actually “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” 2. Great minds think alike is “Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ.” 3. Jack of all trades is actually “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” 4. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is way longer, it’s “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” 5. The customer is always right is “The customer is always right, in matters of taste.” Do you guys know any other half famous quotes??

Ever wondered why you suddenly feel sleepy the moment you start reading or studying? It’s more than just 'being tired'. Your brain is reacting based on physiology and psychology. If you often study in bed or when tired, your brain forms a Pavlovian association (a learned link formed through repeated experience) between book + quiet + stillness and sleep, so the hippocampus (memory center of the brain) and prefrontal cortex (responsible for focus and decision-making) trigger a familiar routine and signal the Reticular Activating System-RAS (the brainstem structure that controls wakefulness) to lower alertness. Studying also places a high cognitive demand on the prefrontal cortex, quickly exhausting glucose and oxygen, leading the brain to conserve energy by inducing drowsiness. Stress from difficult material may cause a short cortisol spike followed by a parasympathetic crash (when the body shifts into a calm, relaxed 'rest and digest' state), slowing the body into relaxation. Reading is low-stimulation and repetitive, reducing sensory input to the brain, which tells it it's safe to relax. Circadian dips (natural daily energy drop, especially 2–4 pm or late at night) increase melatonin (sleep-inducing hormone), making you even sleepier. Low dopamine (motivation and reward chemical) from boring or overwhelming content reduces alertness, making sleep more attractive. All of these create a cycle: pick book → association with sleep → cognitive fatigue → monotony → drowsiness → giving up, reinforcing the habit. To break this, change your study environment, use a desk instead of bed, increase lighting, try Pomodoro sessions (study for 25 minutes, rest 5 minutes), take active notes instead of passive reading, chew gum or stretch during breaks and avoid studying during peak sleep times. Change the cues and you change the reaction.

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I have earlier responded to you that it is a belief system in your other comment. For the purpose of clarity, I will explain again. And if you’re an atheist, this may very well be water off a duck’s back, but I’ll explain regardless. The idea that atheism is a “default” position because newborns lack belief is, at best, a semantic sleight of hand. A baby’s lack of belief isn’t atheism, it’s ignorance. Atheism, as we understand it, is not a state of not knowing; it’s a conscious rejection of belief. The moment you reason your way into unbelief, defend it, identify with it, and debate from it, you have moved from absence to ideology. That’s no longer default, that’s a position. And that position, in the African context, is a borrowed one. Because in traditional African cosmology, there was never such a thing as a man without spirit. Life, death, morality, and ancestry were all tied to the divine. Every action was (and is still) linked to something greater. The Western idea of atheism, the intellectual rebellion against institutional religion, was imported here through colonial education and Enlightenment thought. That’s what I mean when I say it’s a Western construct. It’s not native to our worldview. Atheism may claim to be the absence of belief, but its modern form behaves like one; with doctrines (scientific materialism), communities, spokesmen, and even evangelists. It is belief in disbelief. It’s not an empty space; it’s a replacement structure. The same way religion organizes life around faith, atheism organizes it around doubt. Both offer a lens through which people interpret existence, purpose, and morality. I agree , atheism is not a monolith, but neither is it neutral. It’s an identity, a worldview, and in practice, a belief system. The irony, of course, is that it preaches liberation from faith while quietly building one of its own.

In a country where there is 1 Neurosurgeon to 1 million Nigerians. They just kidnapped A Consultant Neurosurgeon in Anambra state. Nigeria, where exactly are we heading to?

As we bemoan the dearth of medical doctors in Nigeria, a consultant neurosurgeon at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teachin Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra state, Dr. Mbanugo Tochukwu was kidnapped 2 days ago in front of his house on the 30th of October 2025. The kidnappers are yet to establish any contact with his family It's important to note that Dr. Mbanugo had spent nearly the entire day on that fateful day operating several cases in the theatre, including resecting a really complex brain tumour that took hours. He's said to have finished around 8 pm and headed home, exhausted and hungry, in the hope of relaxing at home after a long day and having a decent meal, only to be kidnapped in front of his gate by armed men. Neurosurgeons are very, very scarce specialists in Nigeria. Dr. Mbanugo chose to stay back and give back to his country even when he possesses a rare skillet that will automatically put him in the top 1% anywhere else in the world, and this is how he is rewarded. The Anambra state government needs to act very quickly to avert the worst possible outcome in this case. No campaign activity is more important than the life of any Anambrarian.

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When has it never worked out with God? He keeps coming up with new ways to leave me amazed.🤭

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