DEATH

by Simeon Nkola Matamba ( Follow on Twitter )

Last Sunday I came across the news that a person I knew, a quite beautiful girl, was shot dead by robbers. This news was saddening and up to now I still think about it and it's really touching and shocking. In this I came to realize once again that human life is so fragile. I compare it to a man walking on a very small rope, without being certain of how long he'll go, being quite aware that he can either make a mistake and fall down, or the rope can break, making him wander in void space and fall on the ground in terrible destruction. That's the image I think is suitable to describe our fragile existence.

The lesson I learn from this event and that I'd like to share with you is that we don't know when we'll be leaving this place. We came here on earth without our will as we were never asked wheter we wanted to be born or  not. Dad and Mum decided to bring us. So it is for death. We don't have a word to say about it, but the One who controls it can direct it our way whenever He wants.

The main concern is for us to be ready to meet the unknown reality that unfolds after death. To be sure that we're not dying like cowards, that we're not flies vanishing, but we're the supreme form of life that exists. There's a supreme condition awaiting us if we have lived right all the way and have made ourselves ready to face death. With courage, strength, we can leave behind us footprints that others can follow, memorial to the world around us. That's the only way death will be precious to us, a deliverance from sufferings and struggles in this difficult life.
                               
                         

Happy New Year

by Simeon Nkola Matamba ( Follow on Twitter )

May this new year 2014 bring what Heaven has in store for you. May you face the new year with much hope and faith, go through the challenges ahead being more decided and resolved. "New year" doesn't mean turning a new page or changing the calendar, "new year" means turning to God, the only Master of time to Whom we owe our devotion and all we are. Let's get closer to Him in this 2014 so we'll be sure when time and years are gone, Eternity is insured for us, as we'll be living with Him FOREVER. I love you. Simeon Nkola M

  A CERTAIN DAY IN NOVEMBER

by Simeon Nkola Matamba ( Follow on Twitter )

  A certain day in November
  Little queen was tired having to suffer
  She carried in her young body
  A being that the world wanted to see.                            
  Tired but with much love and care
  She gave birth late in the evening
  A small boy to his mother dear
  Whose fate was decided in God's thinking.

  Dad the hero learnt about the event
  What a joy and what an excitement
  That again he had brought one more being
  In the great and big world of the living.

  Then he said "His name is Simeon"
  Luke chapter 2, the prophet Simeon
  And he said this one too will not die
  Until he comes to meet God's Messiah
      
  Life started with uncertainties but faith
  Unconscious, God watching over his fate
  As he grew in stature and in force
  Untill today when he's plus one year old

  That day in November,
  This day in November
  Remains the greatest day on the calendar
  For little boy whose life is led and guided
  By the God who holds it in His Hand.


                         

WELCOME

Hello, I am Simeon Nkola Matamba. Human's mind is able to conceive and develop ideas and thoughts, human's mouth expresses what the mind conceived and cooked. But still words spoken fly and one does not always remember what they said. That is why the invention of writing has been of great help to preserving ideas and thoughts by writing them down on solid materials, seeing to it that what is written is kept available to readers for a long time. In this regard, I have decided to create this blog as I intend to be sharing my thoughts. Welcome, and I wish you a great time as you will be going through my lines.

                            by Simeon Nkola Matamba ( Follow on Twitter )