The Gift Of A Body
So, I visited Ope, a Christian brother from my national service days. His bathroom shower works! If you have lived in some mid and low-cost areas of Enugu, the coal city, you will know that's a big deal. I have lived in houses where we did the bucket method. And it is my birthday today, and I want to make the day special, but I never know how to. I know however that I must write. So, I write - The Gift Of A Body. I got that in Ope's shower! Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a BODY you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, O God.' " - Hebrews 10: 5 - 7, New International Version. The writer of Hebrews was obviously quoting Psalms 40: 6 - 8, with some slight modifications. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings an