DON'T STARE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUY.

Stuck in a traffic jam along presidential Road yesterday, I was not in a very pleasant mood. I had  a very important appointment to catch up with and I had no intention of appearing late. At least 30 hawkers lined the different sides of the road selling from minty bubble gums to paintings. Usually if I was bored enough I would use the opportunity to test my haggling  prowress on hawkers or just simply get on their nerves by staring long and hard at their ware  when I know I have no intention of buying anything. Within seconds, as if I called each of them telepathically, they would all break into a mad run for my car
'Madam, gala'
'Loolo, buy lacasera'
'Fine woman , buy this kaajad glasses, madamu kajara akaja'
'Wiper' , 'dryfish' , 'soup container'
'Buy rat poison' that one always annoyed me
'I dont have rat in my house' I would retort
Then he would give me that 'yea right' look.

But yesterday I maintained my best poker face. I looked forward and didn't give any of them any attention .
I then noticed that non of them asked me more than ones if I wanted to buy anything. Some would glance at me from a distance and decide I wasn't worth the energy they would spend to walk down to my car. That was when I had another one of my eureka moments.

It's so amazing how the Holy Spirit uses the simple things of life to teach us when we walk daily with him. Actually earlier that day I had bumped into some deeply disturbing things on the net. One of them being a video of a family of 6 that where murdered in Ogun state. When I saw one of the kids, a girl of 2  lying dead on the bed,  her innocent life snuffed out for something she had no clue of, I just lost it. I remembered my daughters and tears welled up in my eyes. It almost ruined my entire day.

I ignore , as a matter of principle, posts that I suspect have violent or sexual content but some how strangely this one sucked me in.
My reason for ignoring such posts are not only spiritual. It's just that I don't ever want to get to the point in my existence that I am desensitized to the value of any human life and dignity. Someone showed me a video of a decapitation some years back that traumatized me deeply. I had nightmares and would break into tears randomly. From that day I took a vow, 'never again'! .So even when the video of the Aluu Four was a red hot trend I was among the few that refused to watch it till today.

So the Holy Spirit used the hawkers careful avoidance of my car to teach me.
DON'T STARE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUY!
Devils are constantly bombarding us with forbidden knowledge and information that if we take in would eventually destroy or damn our souls.

You see a young lady peddling her 'wares' with that low cut blouse , that ridiculously tight dress that looks like it was sprayed or painted on her body or that short shorts ,(I call them shoopbadoop shorts after that infamous salt n pepper music video)  Don't stare if you dont want to buy.
You see that smooth guy in an even smoother ride giving you that look that stops your heart for 3 seconds, don't look if you don't want to buy.

You're scrolling through facebook and you bump into a post that is guaranteed to release and empty your sex hormones, don't look if you don't want to buy no matter how interestingly its captioned . Don't stare , because if you stare long enough you would invite the spirits peddling those wares to come running to your corner...
'Bros buy nice porn'
'Sis buy fornication in print...its such an adventure'
'oga if you buy this lusty post it is guaranteed to change your life'
'Nwanyi oma all these fashion pages will introduce you to an astonishing level of greed and coveteousness'
'Hey people see all the bad news, please buyoooooo, like Wike the devil is working , buy fear, buy discouragement, if God is alive why all the terror and suffering, in short buy hopelessness!'

Didn't the scriptures say we should guard our hearts with all diligence? What you see can surely enter you heart and what enters your heart has entered you life.

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. James 1:14-16.

Don't do that double take. Walk on by. Ignore it. Whatever catches your attention would soon give you direction.