10/11/2025
RESOURCES, SURVIVORS, & THE GOSPEL
Those of us who can talk and/or who are talking are those of us who survived. You will never hear the personal story of Enyo who was butchered in March of this year, or the stories of the many thousands now silenced against their will.
'Resources' mean nothing to the dead. And when the dead are needlessly dead, the resources become a positive curse on the society that let them die so needlessly.
According to Jesus, one human life is worth more that the 'whole world', so that there is no profit in gaining the whole world and then losing one's soul. The soul is worth more. The reason is because the value of a human life in grounded in the imago dei. Poor, rich, male, female, religious, irreligious, able, disabled, educate, uneducated... notwithstanding, every human life is invested with intrinsic value simply because God made humanity in His image. Nothing else matters. The senator does not have more 'life', does not have more intrinsic value than the janitor at his office.
A Christian knows that all the resources is this world pales in value, beside a single human soul. But here, thousands, thousands are being gruesomely slaughtered for their faith. How can a man of God, if he be one, how can a man of God bring resources into the conversation? At least, it is insensitive, and at most it is ungodly.
If Nigeria has stood up to the genocidal maniacs plundering our lands and slaughtering our people, would "genocide against Christians" be an available excuse for the USA to exploit as pretext for whatever resource they truly want to come and steal? That is, assuming the resource narrative has merit.
See, some of you should just stick to your motivational speaking business, and leave the persecuted church alone, if you can not help. If you can not help, don't add insult to our pain.
There is so much to say, but I will post a video - accompanied with two stories, then, I will take a short break.
© Gideon Odoma Official
