The Oscar Ajoku Blog: Daily Vitamin Devotional

    DAILY VITAMIN  - Who Are You Trying To Please? "With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men." (Ephesians 6:7) If I may ask, why are you a Christian? Really I want to know, because I've figured a lot of people don't even know why they are what they are. A lot presume they are Christians because it's the only way to not get judged by their family members who are predominantly Christians. For some, it's because they don't want to go to hell. But as nice as that sounds, it's wrong. Being a Christian is beyond just pleasing people or avoiding hell. These come with the actions we take as Christians, at least the latter surely will.  Anyway, being Christian is first about knowing God. Knowing Christ Himself. Peter says all the virtues and glory of this life comes from that knowledge (2 Peter 1:3). Paul showed that this was all that mattered when he said "That I may know Him..." (Philippians 3:10). So the aim of being Christian i...

DAILY VITAMIN - Overcoming Worry "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." (John 14:1) The remedy to worry is faith.  Trusting that everything will be as God said it would be. If you notice you'd see that I never referred to how you feel, because your feelings will betray you. The reason why you worry in the first place is because of your feelings. Your natural response to all the stimuli affecting you right now. You're sad because you feel everything is choking you. And you're happy when you feel you are beginning to sense relief. It's all about your feelings. But now, I'm talking about something that goes beyond feelings. Something that is constant regardless of what happens around you. And that's faith. The scripture calls faith the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). It's like a promissory note that assures you that your bill will be paid no matter what you order. Faith i...