By Abdullahi Muhammad
Barely six days into the New Year, Nigerians have been encouraged to remain steadfast in their faith in God’s absolute love for humanity, even in the face of the current economic recession.
Resident Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), Masaka Central, Pastor Johnson Ameh, made the call recently during at a special Christmas service.
Delivering a sermon on the topic “The Joy of Christmas,” he told the congregation that Jesus Christ, among other things, came to end all forms of depression on earth.
According to him, the birth of Jesus Christ is the greatest event on the planet earth, which continues to shape the world’s history.
Explaining that the birth of Jesus was the arrival of solution to challenges facing humanity, the cleric said it was the kind that “defies established earthly knowledge and principles,” adding that it ended bareness on earth.
He noted that Christ’s birth “brings hope, expectation, direction, divine visitation and presence as well as the arrival of celebration and jubilation on earth.
“Above all, Christ’s birth means the arrival of restoration, as He came and reconciled man with God,” he said.
He reminded Christians that the joy of Christmas was all about propagating God’s “absolute love, by daily practising it through giving and forgiving wrongs,” adding that “the birth of Christ brings direction to humanity, such that there is no more confusion in life.”
