Yes We Can (But In Reality We cannot)
When Barack Hussein Obama started his campaign of becoming American president, there was one slogan that he used to sway and to convince the people, “Yes We Can”.
Those phrases quickly caught up like a never ending burning fire in the minds of the people.
Any where you go, you can see people saying the same thing, “Yes We Can”, but after his election as the president of the USA, to the total surprise and amazement of the people, it was quickly discovered that those words were nothing but mere empty political human jargon.
The truth of the whole matter is that in reality there is nothing we as human can do without God’s divine help, all our efforts without him are stupid, nonsense and nonsensical idiocy.
There is no way a people can achieve greater things without the unending support, we human are so limited that we daily need the help of God of, anyone saying that we can, is just like a fool who said he could swim the ocean, one of the greatest problems facing our society is man’s aspiration for self independency and reliance, and this defiance has cost us a lot.
There is no way one could be successful in life without the internal backing of Jehovah.
It is a thing of uselessness to attempt greater things while putting God aside; it would be a futile and fruitless effort trying to climb to the greater heights of life without putting God first.
There is only one source of help, and that is God, as the scripture puts it:
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:1-2)
Yes our help and succour comes from God, it is a big lie to say that we can, "we can’t", because with our human resources and whatever they entail, we are nothing but worm and miserable, we can only go forward when God is in total control, our life, the fullness of our life depends on our total and willing submissive obedience to God, apart from this, we are headed to total failure, those who in the past attempted to change the world while ignoring God paid a painful price and ended up leaving behind them a bitter and horrifying history, serving as an example of man’s idiotic and stupid attempt trying to change what God has in his eternal purpose putting place, just as the wisest man (Solomon) said in his predications:
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14)
All the days are not equal in references and events, there are sweet days, there are also days of bitter experiences, God has made them like that, to the end that we human should find nothing after him, it is not in our duty to change them, our duty is to submit to the will of God and allow him to run our individual life for us, failure to do this will result in conflict.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us (Psalm 123:1-2).
A master has authority over his servants, so also does God has authority over us, a servant looks unto the hands of his master, so are we to God, as a master provides for his servants, so God provides for them that trust in him, a servant has no say of his own, he does daily depend on his master for his provisions, so also in like manner should every sensible human being daily and totally depend on God, everything we own and would have all come from God.
Without the help of the LORD it is useless to build a home or to guard a city. It is useless to get up early and stay up late in order to earn a living. God takes care of his own, even while they sleep, Psalm 127:1-2 (Contemporary English Version)
Who said we can? It is a lie from the pits of hell to turn man away from keeping focus on God; it is nothing but the Devil’s way of contradicting God before man (Genesis 3:1-3).
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13).
Well the truth is clear; our refusal to recognize God and make him the priority of everything we do and own has resulted in miserable and degrading failures in all our human endeavours.
One need ought not to be told that the major problems the nations of the world is facing today is as a result of their total refusal to make God the priority in their national and sociopolitical
and economic affairs, especially in the areas of decision making and moral obligations.
Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people, Proverbs 14:34 (Amplified Bible)
There is no ending to the truth of God’s inspirational word, sin brings disaster and catastrophe to any nation and people whose ways are in defiance to God’s governing moral and righteous authority and principles, we are daily seeing the consequences of such defiance, we saw it in the destruction of the twin tower, the untold sufferings, poverty, diseases, sickness, ethnic cleansing, tribal and national wars, rebellion, hunger, prostitution of all kinds perverse and epidemic in Africa and other parts of the world, who have refused to make God a priority.
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God (Psalm 9:17).
Well those who think that they can do without God are big time jokers, from past to the present there is no nation on earth that ever put aside in the national affairs that ended well.
But unfortunately, man is too lazy to learn and correct his mistakes, we are seeing history repeating itself over and over again, we can see the hand writing on the wall, but we fail to take heed and repent of our disobedience to God, we should expect nothing but the worst.
So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish, Job 8:13 (Amplified Bible).
History is full of remarkable lessons, we read in historical records how nations, kingdoms, empires great and mighty men fail, because of godlessness, when any nation reaches her zenith of evil, her fall becomes imminent and disastrous, such nations should serve as an example to people of this generation, look the Roman empire, one of the most powerful empires that ever existed on the surface of the earth, but when Rome reached the zenith of her evil, she crumbled and failed and disappeared into the thin air, evil never succeeds.
People without God can produce nothing. Fire will destroy the tents of those who take money to do evil, Job 15:34 (New Century Version).
Well said, people without God will produce nothing but disaster, we saw it in the lives of people like Adolph Hitler of Germany, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini of Italy, Francisco Franco Bahamonde of Spain, and Joseph Stalin of Russia, the list can go on, but these should serve as an example of what godless people can produce, their legacy is nothing but horror.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought (Job 8:22).
How did these dictators and self proclaimed reformist ended? Their end was a gory one, in fact they stand as a warning to others saying, please don’t go that way, wickedness has never triumphed, and evil always destroys itself, the truth is that we cannot, anyone saying to you, “Yes We Can”, is just deceiving you, believe that you cannot and help will come from God to you.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock (Psalms 27:4).
Only in God is safety found in the time of trouble, there is a sure refuge in him, those who trust him are never disappointed and put to shame, they triumph in every situation, and they are radiant in afflictions and victorious in the midst of adversities, (Romans 8:37).
We are not confident in ourselves because we do not have confidence in the arms of the flesh, which are incapable in saving those who trust in them in days of trouble and evil, that was why David said:
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies (Psalms 60:11).
One more final word:
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me .I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing (John 15:4-5).
In conclusion, apart from God, we are nothing, so stop believing the lies of, “Yes We Can” jargon from the pit of hell.
God bless you real good.
Evangelist Ilona Henry Afamefuna
