About Pride.

The Diary of an Igbo Girl the Lord is Making.

Two phrases stand out in this title: Igbo girl and the Lord is making.

If you know the Igbo people, you can attest that one thing we have in common is pride, the uncanny desire to lead rather than submit to authority. The Igbo people dislike subjugation in any form, and this often shows itself in our arrogance and our fear of appearing needy.

You may know this to be true because the Igbo people were among the few groups who fiercely resisted colonial rule. They were eventually subdued by force. A popular saying goes, "Igbo enwe eze," which means, "The Igbo have no king."

In all our pride, we have managed to achieve a few things for ourselves, such as wealth and affluence, but we have not attained the character of humility. If you ask me, that is far from a worthy achievement.

Dear Igbo people, Now that you are a Christian and have a King, you must be careful to cast down your own crown and bow before Him.

Revelation 4:10 ICB

[10] the 24 elders bow down before the One who sits on the throne. The elders worship him who lives forever and ever. They put their crowns down before the throne and say:

Dear Igbo people, we must cast down our crowns 👑 and bow before the only true King. We must allow Him to rule over us according to the laws of His Kingdom. One of the foundational laws of His Kingdom is humility, and therefore we must submit to it.

I know it is difficult to accept being overlooked, humiliated, or even mistreated by others. But let us consider Jesus, who was God, yet allowed Himself to be mistreated by mere men. His story is far more hopeless than ours.

Imagine a man who created mosquitoes, then became a mosquito to save mosquitoes, only to be killed by the very mosquitoes He came to save. This again is a more hopeless case than our will ever be. Whatever the circumstances.

Yes, we may consider ourselves kingly and above humiliation, but let us look to Jesus and endure it. Let us also remember that we serve God and not men. Therefore, even when men humiliate us, the end should be what our king is making out of us. So in essence it Is God that we bow to, this mindset will make endurance easy. Don't look at men's face, it is God that you serve so do what he tells you with a smile.

My dear Igbo brother and sister, humility, when perfected in us, will become a more shinier crown than the one we have now on our heads. This crown will not fade away. It will not rust. It is eternal. This crown is worth more than our name, our reputation and our fame. No matter what we loose on the way to submitting to this new king, it will be nothing compared to the very treasure of knowing him. In him is our identity. Our true identity

So let us labour, my dear clansmen, for a crown 👑 that will last forever.

Ps. In all my poetic rumblings what I mean to say is that there's no Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa in christ. We must submit to our king and lay down our crowns. We must come down from our high horses and do his bidding. We must desire to be like Jesus christ alone, not like an igbo man or so. Thank you for reading.

Philippians 3:7-8 NIV

[7] But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. [8] What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ