THE BUG ON THE DOG

“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” 1 Corinthians 3:18

They were both living in the same compound as tenant. They frequently mingle together as tenant. Everybody kept to his apartment. Good morning neighbor, that was all they owe each other.

Their landlord was a cruel person who didn’t respect humanity or any opinion of anybody. All he is after was money and oppression.

The situation of the house was not encouraging yet, these two tenants had no option rather than cooping with unpalatable condition.

The situation got worsened that they could not pay for their house rent and the landlord asked them to leave his house.

However, this situation forced them to come together and appeal to their landlord to give them few weeks to raise the money.

For the first time these two tenants experienced the power of unity and cordiality.

They approached their landlord and got their request granted. They became closer neighbor and cordial family friend.

In the process of time, one of the tenants got a business breakthrough which led to his complete life transformation. He became wealthy and public figure in business industry.

One day he remembered his old co-tenant and decided to help him out of poverty. He searched for him, find him and offered him a lucrative employment in one of his conglomerates.

Life turned good. He too became wealthy while he was still working in the company of his friend. God has a way of blessing people. He mostly use relationship to bring fortune.

On a faithful day the wife of the man who was working in his friend’s company said to him, “my dear, thank God our dreams are coming through. We are crossing the poverty line into prosperity zone by the help of God through our friend. But for how long would you be serving your friend? Don’t you think you need to start planning to stand alone”

The husband answered, “let us be patient. After all this man gave us absolute autonomy to run the company and things are moving positively in our favour.”

The woman refused to agree to her husband’s ideology. She convinced him and made him began to mismanaging the company’s fund.

After few years, while they were at golf pitch the rich man said to his friend, “my dear friend, it’s being a while I asked you about the situation in the company I believe you are doing fine and can see that your leadership has brought great fortunes to the company and now I have to open up to you that right from the inception of the company I made the company document in your name and legally the company is yours but for you to work I kept this secret away from you. Now I am going to release the document to you and introduce you to the management as the new chairman of the company”

It was a surprise news to him. He was dumbfounded and couldn’t utter a statement.

Meanwhile, within him he knew he had finished the company’s capital and even at the verge of bankruptcy. He went home sad and frustrated.

This ungrateful friend was a bug on the dog. He thought he was driving the business of his friend into bankruptcy not knowing that the company belongs to him. The scripture above says “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” 1 Corinthians 3:18

He thought he was deceiving his friend and do wickedly to destroy his company in order to start his own. He did not know he was deceiving himself and destroying his own future source of wealth.

Whatever you do against your neighbor is indirectly coming back to you. It is written, “…love your neighbor as yourself” Jesus Christ told a parable said, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:40

Whatever you do to others you do unto God. When you wish others good the good will come to you. When you pray for your country, you will eat the good of the land. When you speak good of others, others will rate you as a good person.

We live in the world we created. Therefore, let the word of God guide our hearts so we can live in a better world of peace and prosperity.

If you are yet to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, kindly do so today. God bless you.