By Femi Aribisala
How often have you heard this kind of testimony in the church? “Praise the Lord, I was blessed yesterday. Someone blessed me with N100,000.”
But is N100,000 a blessing? Can money really be a blessing? What if I use the money to shoot cocaine and end up in the hospital? Would it still be considered a blessing? If a blessing is a blessing, surely it would remain a blessing come rain or shine? It should not be possible for a blessing to end up bringing adversity.
Clearly, many of the things Christians consider to be blessings are nothing of the sort. Solomon…