I kept looking so pretty in the bathroom mirror, day in, day out and it seemed as though my pimples have largely disappeared. Then today I snapped out of the deception and cleaned the mirror a little more.

The light that served the bathroom was also minimal.

You can keep looking good to yourself even though your ways are not right, because you serve yourself with minimum light. When you are unsure whether to go to Church or not, the people you ask are not people that will chastise you. You ask people who are less serious than you are. People who would say, “Did you not attend last week?”

You know when you are failing in school, there are some friends who are far behind, who you are a local Champion to, and when you check with them, they tell you, “If you don’t like your result, abeg make we exchange.” So you pat yourself on the back again unto your downfall.

Your mirror is dirty.

The light in you is not pure enough.

Don’t let anyone spare you on the subject of sin and holiness. They were reiterated in the bible.

Don’t have premarital sex with a woman and check with a friend who will say, “Sebi she is not pregnant”. Or even console yourself that you are not pregnant if you are the lady.

Growing up as a believer, we were asked why we would not have premarital sex: is it as a mark of obedience to God or for fear of teenage pregnancy?

The New Living Translation puts Matthew 6:23b this way...

‘And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how great is that darkness.’

We are going to get before God finally, and many people will find out the light -the one their Pastors and Prophets preached endlessly and vigorously with sweat- they presumed to have was darkness. They will find out it was a scam after all: that confessing Jesus Christ and not renouncing evil works is a total sham! That their supposed mentor -their perfect example of light- is the darkest thing that can happen to darkness after the devil. That the rhemas were darkness, since they were too lazy to study the Scriptures; they got the expected outcome.

Nobody dies of discipline. You will only become great for it.

Be sure your mirror is fully flooded with the light of the gospel!

It does not matter how much you struggle to align to them, He will not compromise on His standard!