THE AGONY OF THE DEAD AND OTHER STORIES

By OBI NDUBUISI

The Holy book, in Gen.1:31, the writer said: "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good and in the book of Jeremiah 17:9, the same bible tells that, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it"?At the outset, the work of God was fine. The problem of the earth began with human Free Will, which God had allowed man to exercise as he pleases. Perhaps it was given to mankind to remove restriction to the speed of his growth but from the Garden of Eden when Satan launched man onto the road of disobedience, man's problem has grown in leaps and bounds, trapping himself into a cesspool of strife, hardship, bitterness, envy and hatred. Over time man has fallen down the scale of measurement on the spiritual ladder, though well improved on the physical. Because there is no balance in human growth, we have found ourselves doing the wrong things that get us more ensnared in the vanities of life. Thus the road to the Kingdom of God is becoming narrower every day while the expressway to destruction continues to get broader. For our ego and self-importance, we imprison the soul of our departed in the mortuary for months or years, unwilling to understand that the dead cannot leave this earth until the body has returned to the earth from whence it came. We have carelessly flaunted our possessions in order to miss-direct the steps of others on the same pathway of life but when the consequences return for reaping, we wail and lift up our hands in exasperation. For our selfishness and greed, we preach the gospel of hatred and loveless existence, forgetting to realize that what we sow, we shall also reap. It is foolishness and sheer hatred for our existence and maturity to swim like fishes in the river of adultery, fornication, lies and destabilization of families, ignorantly believing that our seed from that sinful life will compare well with the seed of Abraham.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08W6QD459
• ISBN13: 9798706376543
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"