In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (including Nigeria)…and God saw that it was good. Nigeria is not an accident. We have gone (and still going) through a lot: wars, famine, endemic corruption, the menace of kidnapping, poverty, and the plague of bad leadership yet, God has not given up on us.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (including Nigeria)…and God saw that it was good. Nigeria is not an accident. We have gone (and still going) through a lot: wars, famine, endemic corruption, the menace of kidnapping, poverty, and the plague of bad leadership yet, God has not given up on us.
To most of her inhabitants, there is no hope of light at the end of the dark tunnel; things are looking so bleak with the continuity of a united Nigeria in jeopardy. Power drunken old politicians are turning the Nigerian turf into their battle ground, so greedy they are that they care less about the future of the next generations of Nigeria but I believe in hope that things will not continue this way, I believe in hope that God’s quiver is full of a new breed of leaders who will refuse to sell their conscience for a morsel of bread nor short change the destiny of this nation to gratify their craze and crave for power. I believe in hope that someday this nation will rise and live up to His true destiny because she is in God’s heart. Nigeria maybe down but she is not out, we might have an appellation as the ‘sleeping giant of Africa’ but we are not dead. There is still hope of a new Nigeria rising from the present quandary; a Nigeria we all can be proud of. There are nations that have not been through a quarter of what we have experienced and yet they have collapsed; the burning, maiming and killing of innocent citizens were flashed on the pages of newspapers and television screens across the globe and here we are still together, not entangled in another war. We are truly in God’s heart.
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Nigeria will once again become a place of peace. Her inhabitants will be able to go to sleep at night without fear of being harassed. A time will come when the ‘wild beasts’ will be gotten ride of. Wars will be eliminated. Enemies will be chased out and defeated. Nigeria will gain the full attention of the world (on a positive note) and will become the cynosure of all eyes because she is in God’s heart.
The huge cataclysm that has bedeviled this nation will know respite; a wonderful life of prosperity will resonate all over the land. Men of integrity will rise once again. Yes, in this very country that you assume is going to end up desolate - left to the voracious lion, unlivable, wrecked by the wolves in sheep clothing. Yes, there will be restoration in Nigeria because she is in God’s heart.
Nigeria is on the path for a fresh start. She'll burst into bloom like a crocus in the spring. She'll put down deep oak tree roots that will withstand the raging storm that have continually threatened our glory as a nation. She'll become splendid - like a giant sequoia, with a fragrance like that of a grove of cedars. Nigeria will prosper again. Everyone will be talking about her as the vintage nation where equity, probity and tranquility are ensconced. This is the Nigeria we should see; this is the Nigeria we should believe in because she is in God’s heart.
Leaders and Kings that should have the interest of our nation at heart had gone ahead to connive with institutions of oppression turning our rivers into wasteland, soils are turned into sun baked mud; luscious orchards becoming alkali flats because of the evil perpetrated by this gluttonous people who have held the nation hostage. There is hope for Nigeria. She is not finished yet. I see wasteland turning into fresh pools of water, arid earth into fertile grounds once again because Nigeria is in God’s heart.
Gbenga Owotoki
Florida, USA
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