LEAGUE OF LIFE
This weekend marks the beginning of a new football season: Premier, Bundesliga, League 1. It seems wonderful how we align, as fans, with different clubs in contrast with other rival clubs: Real Madrid fans vs Barcelona fans, Chelsea vs Manchester United. Whenever these clubs contest, tension reeks the air. The more the ball possession and goals from our club, the more hope for victory, the more we associate with our club, and funny enough, the more we ridicule the other club and their fans.

Everyday is a football season in our lives, every hour is a match; you are a new club and God is a fan of your club. You play every day against a negative team that knows ball possession (trial by suffering to lose faith in God) and goal sense (temptation to sin). Sinning is conceding a goal, while losing faith in God is losing ball possession and missing an opportunity to charity is missing a penalty or an open-net-goal.

To win every game, you must defend like Chelsea (determine to stay away from occasions of sin: friends, sites, laziness), possess ball like Barcelona (continuously declare faith in God, despite your challenges) and score goals like Real Madrid (do works of charity, develop yourself and be creative to better the world).

Whenever you are faced with trial or temptation, heaven and hell wait to either cheer or jeer at you respectively. When you overcome, God jumps up, shouting at the top of his voice like an arsenal fan: "This is my beloved son/daughter (Emeka, safarigirl, Mynd44, Repogirl, Lalasticlala, Chinenye, Tunde, HungerBAD, Opeyemi, Ciroma, Aisha) in whom I am well-pleased." He looks at your steadfastness in temptation and faith in trials and brags about you.

To win in a match, you must possess the ball, defend your post and score the goals; so also must you continuously profess your faith as good Christian, good Muslim or the good traditionalist, avoid all occasion of sin, pride and laziness, and finally, help other people to make this world a better place even as an atheist.

God wants to brag about you, he wants to take pride in you; Since he was able to boast to the devil about Job, he also wants to boast about you. You will be HIS reason to brag and like the Abrahamic persuasion, you will be a reason for him to retain faith in the modern world.

May God bless and sustain us all in the new week as we fight to lift our individual trophies at the end of every day.+

Hailing bro.

Nice Write up.

Chelsea until i die.