{"id":17877,"date":"2019-05-14T05:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17877"},"modified":"2019-05-14T05:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:59:33","slug":"leah-sharibu-we-celebrate-them-and-desecrate-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17877","title":{"rendered":"[Leah Sharibu]: We celebrate them, and desecrate Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Buti Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n[Leah Shuaibu on my mind]<br \/>\nHeros and heroines are <strong>made, not born<\/strong>. Even those of faith are made.<br \/>\nThey are <strong>made by circumstances<\/strong>, usually adverse circumstances.<br \/>\nThey become heros or heroines <strong>by default<\/strong>, accentuated <strong>by our faults.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhere <strong>they are brave<\/strong>\u00a0to stand, we stoop; <strong>they speak<\/strong>\u00a0when we are silent.<br \/>\nHeros and heroines often defy norms; <strong>they are usually counter-culture<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFor while <strong>we crave for relevance in irrelevancies<\/strong>, they often loathe such.<br \/>\nOthers thrive on <strong>political correctness<\/strong>, they thrive on <strong>moral uprightness<\/strong>.<br \/>\nHeros and heroines of faith are often i<strong>ncurable addicts<\/strong>; God&#8217;s love, word and will being their addiction.<br \/>\nIn the midst of <strong>complacency<\/strong>, they <strong>contend<\/strong>\u00a0earnestly for their faith.<br \/>\nAmidst <strong>compromise<\/strong>, they <strong>confront<\/strong>\u00a0the enemy to preserve their witness.<br \/>\nAnd where <strong>others wallow in fearful self-preservation<\/strong>, &#8220;I shall not die&#8221;, t<strong>hey &#8220;love not their lives\u00a0<\/strong>even unto death&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;It would take too long to recount the stories of the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and all the prophets. By faith these people overthrew kingdoms &#8230;they shut the mouths of lions, quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. <strong>Their weakness was turned to strength. They became strong in battle\u00a0<\/strong>and put whole armies to flight &#8230; <strong>others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection.<\/strong>\u00a0Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons. Some died by stoning, some were sawed in half, and others were killed with the sword. Some went about wearing skins of sheep and goats, destitute and oppressed and mistreated. <strong>They were too good for this world&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeb. 11:32\u202d-\u202c38 NLT<br \/>\nHeros and heroines of faith, like our iconic Leah Shuaibu, are <strong>God&#8217;s hall of famers<\/strong>. They chose to honor The Lord where others would rather desecrate Him for ephemerals and cheap gain.<br \/>\n<strong>They died to death<\/strong>, where we live with a palpable and crippling fear of death.<br \/>\n<strong>They are HEROS and HEROINES<\/strong>, <strong>we are COWARDS and HYPOCRITES.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u25aa<strong>Kputu is the International Director of Calvary Ministries (Capro), and lives in Lagos with his wife, Roli.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buti Sam Kputu &nbsp; [Leah Shuaibu on my mind] Heros and heroines are made, not born. Even those of faith are made. They are made by circumstances, usually adverse circumstances. They become heros or heroines by default, accentuated by our faults. Where they are brave\u00a0to stand, we stoop; they speak\u00a0when we are silent. 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