All Things are Lawful

All things are lawful, but not everything is expedient...
There are many things the life of a man is filled with,
Myriads of things in this world that look very important,
The targets set for you in the office,
The lots of paraphernalia I need to attend to at home,
The defence of things I need to be engaged in
The memos I need to write
The information and activities I need to prepare and let out
All these and many more are calling for the attention of a man daily
And man spends the last dot of his time,
In pursuing these and many more things alike,
But the question is, which side do these fall - the lawful, or the expedient?

The lawful things are things that urgently demand my attention,
But eternity does not reckon with such things.
They are good and should be done,
But they are not rewardable by heaven's standards.
I will get no crown for the time I spent to perfect my secular engagements,
Neither will there be an additional star or a richer mansion above,
Because I won the prize for the best graduating school student,
Those are just essentials to put body and soul together here below,
They are the rat race man is daily involved in,
So that more cash can flow into his bank account on earth,
But as far as heaven's reward is concerned, those are wasted years...

As I began to think and ruminate on the aforementioned,
Does it mean all these days are but wasted days,
And heaven has neither reward nor reckon for these my life engagements -
Things that are only lawful, but have no spiritual attachments on them,
Will I spend my many years wasted, only to return back empty-handed,
Even though I thought my hands were full of "goods and services"?
I begin to make up my mind, maybe I should drop the lawful,
Because wisdom demands that I should face the expedient duties alone,
That the whole of my life here may be wholly spent for Divine cause alone,
The Lord dropped a sweet principle into my tender soul,
Blessed principle it is, I praise His Holy name.

As men will speak English Language with ease,
But you can easily pick of which tribe they belong to, or hail from,
By the speaking accent they use to pronounce some English words.
A Yoruba man will still speak English Language fluently,
But everyone will easily notice he is a Yoruba man, by his heavy accents
So is it also for a Chinese as he pronounces those English words
His accents will definitely betray him and show him,
He is speaking English, but you can easily tell who he is by his accents -
Yoruba, Hausa, French, Chinese or whichever tribe.

The same principle, I must apply,
For as long as I still remain in the worldly employment,
I must not do the work as if I were in the world,
Since I'm not ready to waste those times of worldly engagements,
Without having a reward in heaven for those days spent on earth,
Whatever I do therefore, I must heavily get them accented,
As I speak English Language with my Yoruba accent,
So I must do my lawful worldly engagements, with my heavenly accent.
As a teacher, I may not be shouting "God", "Jesus" and "heaven" in my class,
Though the language I speak to the students is Mathematics or Geography,
Yet, that language must be heavily accented with Grace and Godliness,
You may be hearing Biology and Economics,
But what you can see in me, is Jesus.

I must reflect and shine Jesus every moment,
Whether I am a Broadcaster or a Doctor,
My secular engagement may be Engineering or Law
Or I may be physically involved in Architecture, Building or Accounting,
Those are just the mere languages I speak,
The speaking accent that releases such speech must be Christ and Holiness.
My goal is to convert everything I do to become 'expedient' from being ordinary 'lawful'
Whatever is not convertible, I simply drop it
And if it were possible to concentrate purely on the divine and leave the secular,
This will simply be joyous and my only delight.
It were better for me to be a pauper in the world, but glorious above
Than waste precious years called "achievement" on earth, but "garbage" in heaven