How I love Mondays so much.....Hehehe, don´t mind me. When I was a student, I dislike Monday and I will begin to feel the hatred on Sunday evening because of the lectures I would be having from morning till evening and would drain the hell out of me, but right now, I feel that my love for Mondays is beginning to grow. So, for someone who has nowhere to go, the likeness will surely grow.

I really want to appreciate everyone who did wished my sister a happy birthday yesterday, she is indeed grateful. It was the best day to her because according to her "we all made her day with the beautiful wishes." One was even shocked seeing a female engineer and android developer not using glasses to look nerdy as he said, but my sister doesn´t use glasses and she is so pretty. Some were complimenting her beauty and saying to my very face that I am not as beautiful as others but a dark person. I told her I took after my dad with the complexion. In all, it was all to catch fun and I am happy. I know I am beautiful and wonderful too, Am I not pretty too?😎

The above topic would be based on my own opinion and if you have any idea or opinion about it, kindly give a comment too.

Yesterday in Church, we were having our second quarterly review of our Sunday School and the previous topics been taught us were revised again. Then a question was raised "Is there any difference between self-defense and retaliation?"

I remembered we were taught this topic "self-defense" in Sunday school then but as I wanted to explain, a guy already raised his hand and he gave the perfect explanation. He said Self-defense is when you are trying to protect yourself from physical attack coming to you and you find ways to dodge it so you aren´t hurt. While Retaliation is when you attack someone who has done you harm before. Retaliation is also revenge. When someone hurt you, and you have such person in mind to hurt back is called Retaliation.

The difference in the explanation is that self-defense is when you want to save yourself from being hurt while retaliation is when the deed has been done and you are trying to fight back.

When we want to talk about self-defense, we won´t exclude safety from it because it´s like trying to save yourself from danger. You, wanting to prepare ahead for a trouble that may occur later. When a problem is coming to you, when you aren´t prepared for it, it will surely sweep you of the ground. It is like a warrior going to the battlefield without being prepared, the war will kill such person, but when he has taken all days, weeks, months to prepare, it will be easier for him to win the battle because he already known what he needs to do ahead of the war.

Self-defense is using a force to protect yourself from someone attempting to injure you.

It is important to defend ourselves from any threat posed at us because we would be seen as a weak person if we do not take any step to stop such threat. We need to be prepared for any problem coming to us in the future by finding all techniques to stop it. It´s like been proactive- preparing ahead of danger.

Also, there is need to apply wisdom when involving in self-defense. Though most times, it can require you taking someone´s life at the verge of someone taking yours. It is important to have some instruments in handy in such situation and when you are so confused and disoriented about the situation, it is good to defend yourself by attacking but not killing which could be used against you according to the law of the Nation.

In a situation where thieves breaks-in to your house and you are trying to protect your family and properties, self-defense is very required thereby finding all means to attack and targeting a weaker point in them, then handing them over to the police. In the process of defending yourself, it is necessary to be careful so blood do not split on the ground thereby killing another fellow.

Also, we may notice a danger coming to us, we need to be observant especially when it involves spiritual attack, we must be sensitive enough to know when to pray and stop such danger as soon as possible or else, it might be too late when the deed has been done.

Retaliation on the other hand may be dangerous at some point because when you are trying to retaliate back, it may affect you in a negative way and making you to regret.

Even the Bible warns us not to take judgement into our hands but to leave vengeance to the Lord. It is very possible that humans will hurt us, no one is perfect but we need to learn to leave everything to God and allow Him fight on your behalf. Many of us, we tend not to wait for His judgement because we feel God delays, but the best thing to do is allowing God take over and just sit down while you watch the interesting part of Him fighting for you because that will be the best result and a worst moment for the one who hurt you.

Thanks for reading

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[February 28, 2022] (No 59 article for the year)