surxezdegr8

Christian | Python - Django | CCTV Technician | MUFC❤

[surxezdegr8 @surxez]

As a @ManUtd fan, whichever way this match ends is a win win for me.
The greatest win for me is definitely @Arsenal and @ChelseaFC losing, if you know what that means😂

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

This is one of the many reasons I think it’s so important to have children.

I don’t believe most people truly grow up until they have kids. There are exceptions, but not many that I see.

I hear people say this often, but they usually miss the real reason. The common explanation is: “There’s finally someone more important than you, forcing you to grow up.” That’s true, but that alone doesn’t change your character, it just forces you to take care of someone else.

I have three kids under 4 and a fourth on the way. The reason they’ve forced me to grow up is this: I’ve realized they are almost entirely a reflection of me and my actions.

At this age, my wife and I are basically their whole world. They have friends we see, cousins they talk to, grandparents they love, but 95% of their input is still us.

That means something uncomfortable but important: they reflect my behavior, not my intentions. They reflect my actions, not my opinions. They reflect what I do, not what I say I believe.

The most important thing I can do as a father is create an environment that promotes Jesus and gives them the best chance to join me in heaven one day. That requires my actions to align with my thoughts.

I can have all the right ideas about faith, discipline, patience, humility, and character, but none of that matters if my actions don’t match. They may not always understand my words, but they perfectly understand my example.

That’s why having kids has forced me to grow up. It has made me constantly aware of how I speak, react, treat their mother (my wife), and handle stress, frustration, and responsibility.

It has forced me to ensure my actions match my values, because if they don’t, my kids will grow up with the same flaws and issues I have, and worst of all, they’ll have learned them from me.

That reality is both terrifying and clarifying.

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

I’m reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I came across a fascinating idea I’ve never heard presented before.

Lewis doesn’t state it directly—only its implication—but for his conclusion to hold, it must be inferred.

It appears in the chapter “The Cardinal Virtues,” on the final two pages.

Lewis distinguishes between performing a just or temperate act and actually being a just or temperate person. A poor tennis player might hit a great shot occasionally, but that doesn’t make him a good player. We all agree on that. Therefore, isolated acts of obedience don’t make one virtuous, character is revealed in consistency.

From there, Lewis argues that God wants more than mere obedience. Obedience matters, but God cares far more about our character. He wants us to become people who naturally produce obedient behavior.

Then comes the part I've been contemplating for the last few days.

Lewis notes that we might assume virtues are needed only for this life, because in heaven there will be nothing to quarrel about (so no need for justice) and no danger (so no need for courage). But he adds that while God won’t refuse entry to heaven for lacking certain qualities, heaven offers no further opportunity to develop them. As a result, we will never attain the “deep, strong, unshakable kind of happiness” God intends.

The inference that struck me is this: we may have only our time on earth to become the people God intends us to be. This life forms our capacity for joy, virtue, and glory. Heaven fulfills it but does not expand it through suffering.

In heaven there are no trials to forge bravery, self-control, patience, humility, resilience, integrity, gratitude, or joy in the midst of hardship. Those qualities are shaped here, not there.

So here's the unsettling question: once we die and enter eternity, is our development finished? Is this life our only chance to become the best version of ourselves?

If so, it’s sobering. All the time wasted scrolling Instagram reels or behaving poorly without seeking growth would carry eternal consequences.

I should live each day with urgency, taking massive strides toward becoming the man God intends. The day I die, the work ends. My capacity for joy and virtue can no longer grow.

I’m not sure if this idea is theologically sound. Maybe it's not. I’d love some insight from theologians who could explain why it might not hold.

But if this life truly is our only training ground, delay is far more dangerous than I ever realized.

That thought alone makes me want to live with far greater urgency than yesterday.

[AdeAkogun @AdeAkogun]

Thank you God for Nigeria 🇳🇬

Again, the Nigerian Prophecy is much desireable than a Dream!

Glory to God!

[Big Mummy Gbagada @TheOnlyLSI]

We don’t use our head here!

[Demss|| @jesusgirldems]

To be very honest, history itself rejects the idea that Christianity was ever meant to be a casual inheritance.

If you read history of the early church, you would understand what I mean.

The early Christians called their faith a "way." A deliberate path, a manner of life that required formation. By the second century, the Church used the term professio (a profession). Even the simplest professions require years of apprenticeship. How much more the pursuit of knowing the One from whom all existence flows?

The Apostle Paul, addressing the Ephesians, lamented, “Ye have not so learned Christ.”
The phrasing is telling. Christ is not merely received, He is learned. He is curriculum, wisdom, revelation, and transformation woven into one Person. And Paul’s disappointment shows that to know Christ at all is to embark on study: not dry academicism, but the lifelong education of the soul.

Consider creation. The work of God's fingertips. Humanity has filled libraries trying to understand it. Generations of scholars dedicate their entire lives to plants, or insects, or the physics of stars, or the psychology of the human mind. No one mocks them for difficulty. No one demands simplicity. Even the least of God’s works requires the greatest of human effort to comprehend. Yet some imagine that learning the Creator Himself (the infinite Mind behind the cosmos) should be effortless?

It is not so. And deep down, we know it.

If we understood how impoverished we truly are in knowledge, how “depraved,” we are, we would seek truth with trembling eagerness, not shallow impatience. Christianity has never been the paper-thin thing many have dressed it to be. It has depth enough to drown in, light enough to blind, and wisdom enough to remake a person’s life from its foundations.

I'm not saying this as one speaking from the outside, but as one who once went searching. I read a lot of books in search of the essence of Christianity. I was searching for coherence. For a world that was larger and truer than the narrow routines we are so often boxed into.

And the pieces began to assemble when I joined @GaditesOfficial. Suddenly the fragments of thought, history, Scripture, literature, longing, they braided into something living. Something that breathed. Something that made sense.

If the teachings are uncomfortable for you, then either seek the place where your heart can grow, or better yet, pray earnestly for understanding. But to sit and tear down a ministry that has altered the course of many lives is not something a true Christian does. Critique without humility is merely noise.

But humility seeks understanding; humility wrestles; humility learns not despise what has shaped others simply because it feels too weighty for you to bear.

All great truths do.

[IXIOUS @el_chibs]

I submit this to help anyone and everyone who will be willing to approach this issue with enough sincerity.

https://t.co/3HnZiOKfcm

[Monsieur_Dafe @Monsieur_Dafe]

My brethren,
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables!
The Bible is enough!

There is no way that this world can beat the Bible!
- Rev. Kayode Oyegoke❤️

[Saggy @Saggy_bird]

Listen up everyone!

Romans 2:7 - “To them who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honor and immortality, ETERNAL LIFE”

I just quoted the Bible, and it cannot be clearer than this. You have to do something continually and patiently, to get eternal life.

[Joshua Oluwashanu @KayOmoRKO]

My mum prays one prayer for me every time we talk about God now: "Joshua, you will not lose your understanding of salvation"
Guess when she started praying this? After I met Gadites in 100 level.
My mother saw something, you may think otherwise but you can't tell her otherwise.

[Big Mummy Gbagada @TheOnlyLSI]

22 Days To Christmas

Jesus came to the earth, and made the impossible possible, now we have hope that:

- Man can be made sinless,
- Man can be perfect,
- Man can walk righteousness in the days of his flesh,
- Man can overcome the world and the lust therein,
- Man can inherit the promise of eternal life.

For this we give thanks!
May we come into the fullness of why Jesus came to earth. Amen

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The Reason For The Season

[MattyFC @MattyFC__]

it's clear as day... repost so haters see 🔴

[surxezdegr8 @surxez]

@DeadlineDayLive We are not, so stop this agenda.

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

I want to hear Onana’s contract has been terminated before I go to bed

[surxezdegr8 @surxez]

At this point Amorim leave Sancho, garnacho and the rest for now. First of all sell Onana.

He's a threat to our team.

I can't even weep, seeing Onana in that team is traumatising.

@ManUtd please now!!😪

[surxezdegr8 @surxez]

@UTDTrey @samdycool @WelBeast In*

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

All this talk about Mbeumo and Cunha’s transfer fees is too funny:

Elanga: 6 PL goals- £55M
Joao Pedro: 10 PL goals- £60M
Kudus: 5 PL goals- £60M
Madueke: 7 PL goals- £52M
Gittens: 8 goals- £55M

Cunha- 15 PL goals
Mbeumo- 20 PL goals

CRY HARDER😂😂😂

[Kwesi Babrick @kwesibabrick]

When you asked for a praying man. Now you can’t sleep 😂

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

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