On media periscope on the useful importance of enemies, Egede Lawrence divulges the mysteries behind his choice in considering his foes as being helpful in life.
Let's discuss global realities which I need to tell us about the mysteries, behind considering enemies as very important to people, whether rich or poor.
People talk about enemies and for a long I was not aware that I could one day have them in my life, but over time they surfaced.
I love them because they taught or teach me very bitter lessons through their actions, to prove that I have enemies.
I trotted around some parts of the universe at my reach and felt safe, without knowing that unsuspected enemies abound.
It could be that I didn't know how foes operate around people, that's the reason I didn't know they can also strike me.
I am not talking of the criminals who are self-declared enemies of the general public anywhere.
I am talking about unidentified enemies lurking around people without visibly noticing them.
They possess many colours of deceptive characteristics more than the tentative cover-ups.
From childhood, I lived without thinking that enemies can come across me.
This is because for once I didn't know who is exactly my enemy amongst those around me, and knew not that somebody could become an enemy to someone.
I lived my life like a little child, whose innocence level cannot sense out any meaning of an enemy. Children are a stock of free-minded semi godly Angels.
My view of human beings did not allow me to be aware there is any enemy in existence, apart from seeing the word in some books including the holy bible.
Primarily, we were taught by our religious teachers that the devil is an enemy, but I did not figure out one devil physically around me to be convinced about the story. I only took mental note of it with mere vague imagination.
At times I fell into trance and in the process talked with the spirits, that sent messages through me and across to different people.
But it never occurred to me that enemies exist as human beings around us in daisy camouflage.
People may not believe that till I clocked more than fifty years of age, my conscience never said to me there are enemies around me. So, I simply lived innocently just as if enemies do not exist.
Let me quickly say that one of the reasons that blindfolded me is that I was never desperate to be rich, as to invite enemies.
I did not regard poverty as anything to worry about, as to have rich friends of the same colour as a feather, as to generate envious lots of foes because I am rich through them over time.
I didn't generate general public sympathy for who can help me become rich, to attract the attention of human enemies, not even the spiritual ones. This is a mystery of global realities.
Another one is that my life in the spirit realm was given an assignment to make people rich, happy and fulfilled and I will also feel accomplished.
That's why I love to bless people rather than curse them, including my so-called enemies who I don't notice except now.
God has given me a spiritual gift of nature, which makes it possible for me to love everybody more than myself. It is so wonderful.
I even love my enemies who scare me away and still love doing good to them, as though they are my bosom friends if I see them in dire need of help.
I put people first before me and want them to make progress in all their genuine ways of living.
But I can quickly run away from mingling with greedy people immediately after I discover them.
I hate greed so much, loath tight fist habit and don't enjoy making people face austere economic conditions of living.
But on the whole, I don't know why I can now physically see those who call themselves my enemies. Only God knows why.
On the whole, still, I don't know why I have not become rich to attract enemies around me or invite more friends to myself.
But can riches attract enemies that poverty generates them more, or that both can conspire to create enemies for people, or that riches beget more friends?
On the whole, I don't know why I do not see poverty as anything, neither do l have any worry nor anxiety about it, yet I am hunted by poverty as if I am attractive.
No desperation to become rich, yet poverty has been trailing me and my enemies think I am rich.
Some free-minded people also think I am rich, some think I am poor and in all of it they cannot prove it but I am rich with God.
This is quite a mystery not easy to explain, but God knows it far better than any human being.
My appearance in the heart, soul, spirit and body reflects that God has blessed me so much, which reinforces my joy and strength. It keeps me very healthy and highly humbled.
At least I can now know my enemies physically to be mere mortals and then economically as poverty, the two are a huge lesson to me and it's fantastic.
It is fantastic because at least they have helped me to avoid the pitfalls of pride, arrogance, pretence, forgery and fallacy.
It is fantastic because God is my riches in glory for mankind, who are my friends and are not poor. This is a great mystery.
It is fantastic because all my enemies are important to me for many good reasons, yet I am not in any way better than others. This is also a mystery.
So, be bold, courageous, strong, confident, happy, content and kind with what you have under any situation of things, whether in poverty or riches provided you are not a criminal, and no matter the actions of the foes around you, with God you are rich without regretting anything in your life. It is quite realistic.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our Guest Writer and Phoenix Public Affairs Analyst.
