Karma builds on the principle of ‘What goes around comes around’. ‘Esan ko gbo’ogun’. This principle defies physical and spiritual manipulations. Though it is right that on justice lies the principle upon which this world was created, I believe in a power that alleviates, mitigates, leverages or even entirely removes the effect of a negative karma, esan or justice, as the case may be. This power is called mercy. Mercy allows one to do anything and get away with it. Mercy is the king of justice. But before you can utilise mercy rightly, you’ll need to acquire love and humility.
The principle of balancing, often called justice, is the foundation upon which the world was found. You find this littered in various scientific postulations. In Physics we say actions and reactions are always equal and opposite. This has translated into many numerical equations, upon which our scientific and technological and economical age has been built. For instance we can tell of the balancing of chemical reactions in Chemistry and balancing of financial statements in Accounting, to name a few. It is on this pedestal of balancing that all the earthly elements and the cosmos principles are built. Whatsoever you sow you shall reap.
Do not be overly jubilant if you are a righteous man, the genius of this numerical similitude is Mammon, no matter the level at which you excel in righteousness, right from when our first parents Mr & Mrs Adam broke the Pandora’s box and ate the apple, we have been incapacitated in the finite world under the conquest of its prince, oga Mammon. Mammon is an adept at cooking up reasons why we should be punished, and no amount of your good deeds is capable of transcending this just punishment. He is not called the Accuser of brethren for nothing. You cannot beat him at his game; he is a genius of the natural laws. As long as you are finite, you are under his shackles. Ogun gun.
Only an Infinite can translate an ideal into the natural. Infinity is needed before an atrocity can be leveraged, mitigated, minimised or completely obliterated, and before an Infinite can be ideally efficient, it has to thrive within a medium of nothingness. This infinity is Love. On that basis is the necessity of Christ, the God-man and Mary, the wo-man. Christ is this love; Mary is this humility that is nothingness. There is a lot I would like to say regarding these two but for the benefit of the topic I shall resist the temptation to digress.
Christ is the Infinite, Mary is the nothingness. Take it or leave it. To gain victory over a negative Karma, you need to bask in the arena of the infinity of love and the nothingness of matter without succumbing to despair, and faith is the capacity to do this. Faith in Christ enables a rectilinear transcendence without subjectivity under the karma effect of your past deeds, for He alone is the holy one. He alone has paid the price that has enabled Mammon’s capability over everything natural to be subjugated and this is what is called mercy. That is the mercy upon which the Abrahamic covenant between God and man was built and was made infinite by the blood of the Lamb.
As we have said, faith in Christ becomes the capacity of transcending a negative karma, but is it an anyhow faith in him? What is this faith? In what depth and breadth should be the capacity to conquer a billionth year old genius who is referred to as the prince of this world? What we are up against is no child’s play. ‘Omode o m’oogun o n pe l’efo’. This world is vast and its deadly ideologies are deep, the accuser is strong, ‘eni ti Sango ba t’oju e yo’da ni…’ Christ called the faith that is needed for this conquest a mustard seed that moves mountains by words, but few have seen mountains moved, much less by mere words.You need a personal encounter with Christ, but be not deceived by going faith solo, you need to belong to a body, His body, the church . A church tested by the universality of its mission and the depth from which its faith thrives… I rest here for a while.
But remember this: In order to escape from the just principle upon which this world was found, that is: esan, karma, justice et al, you need mercy, but to acquire mercy you’ll need the help of Love and humility, but you’ll need to provide a faith in the only conqueror of Mammon: the Christ, Jesus. And you risk calamity if you dare go solo, you need his body, the church to do this. And to what extent and depth is the faith of your church?
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