If in this age and time, with all the sound warnings saturating the internet, someone still tells you to drop one million naira before God can bless you and you believe it, you don't have anyone to blame. You are being fueled by your greed.
Nigerians need to understand that wealth is a function of work; hence, to make Nigeria work, Nigerians must work!
The ethics of work is so dead in our society – the reason people who get paid without work tag is sweat-less money.
Those who don't work make far more than those who work; hence, the racketeering and manipulation of the system.
This same bad behaviour and ethical failure is what many churches are propounding as "grace."
Some often sermonize that if all you have is traceable to work, you are miserable. It is this mentality that is destroying Nigeria.
We have more people destroying the system than those who are working to build it up.
We must teach Christians to work. Our faith in God is not a bypass to the principle of work. The dignity of labour is a biblical phenomenon.
Paul told us about how he worked to cater to his needs. He told us to work so we can have and to help others.
The Scripture is against laziness, wealth without source, overnight prosperity, etc.
We have too many people who have no respect for time and people because they do not have any appreciable understanding of the value of work.
We have serious ethical issues in our society. The statistics of our so-called "big men" who spend every night in wild rioting and debauchery is a reflection of how low we are with work.
People don't work in Nigeria, including the politicians and army generals. They all engage prostitutes and runs girls at night.
What about a pastor who neither labour in doctrine nor in teaching but has so much money for cajoling people to sow so God can bless them?
We have a lot to do, Nigerians.
MM
