Whether cradled in opulence or incarcerated in desititution, mortality is one debt we all must settle. And grief. On dear grief, it devours you raw with the hungriness of a lioness and spits you out until all that is left of you are bones and goodbyes.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
There’s a phase you get to in life life,
all those hymns you sang in your childhood as mere songs , starts making total sense
Because what a friend we really have in Jesus ?
We don’t talk about this enough, but we should.
Temptation does not begin in the body. It begins in the mind, and then it settles into the heart. What you look at, what you linger on, what you allow yourself to entertain… it shapes you.
“Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” (Matthew 5:28)
This is not about shame. This is about truth.
We live in a world where temptation is constant. It is marketed, normalized, and placed in your hand. Strip clubs, online platforms, images, videos, artificial realities… all of it forming habits, quietly, over time.
Saint Augustine knew this battle well. He did not pretend he was above it. He cried out, asking God to free him, to reorder his desires, to heal what had become disordered within him. And that is where we begin.
Not with pretending. Not with excuses. But with honesty.
If you are struggling, say it. Say it to God.
If you fall, do not stay there. Get up. Return. Ask for mercy again.
Pray. Even when you do not feel like it. Especially then.
Guard what you see. Put distance between yourself and what pulls you down. That may mean changing habits, changing environments, even changing who or what you allow into your life.
“Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Romans 13:14)
You are not powerless. But you do have to fight.
And you do not fight alone.
The same God who sees your struggle also offers you grace. Not just to forgive, but to strengthen, to reorder, to restore.
So tonight, examine your heart.
Be honest.
Ask for mercy.
And begin again.