THE MAN AND HIS PIPE

Once upon a time there lived a man named Chukwuma.  He lives in his small apartment  and he minds his business in the compound.  The neighbors  know him as a easygoing and quiet person but the only problem they have with him was that he smokes alot.  

When everyone goes about their daily business,  he sits in front of his apartment  with his pack of cigarette on one side and radio on the other side.  He just does his thing without considering how the neighbors felt. Everyone including the landlord of the house warned and cautioned him of his excess smoking but he never listened. 

One faithful day,  he was sitting in front of his apartment and smoking  his cigarette a lady approached him. With her bible,  she walked up to him and shared the gospel with him.  As much as the lady tried to make the gospel simple for him to understand,  he made the matter complicated. 

After much argument ,  he finally yielded to the gospel and gave his life to Jesus. She told him that he has to forsake his old life and embrace the new life.  

He stopped smoking and became a changed person but he still kept his pipe as a memory to remember  those times that he was smoking. 

This is the exact way many of us behave.  We say that i am a changed person but those things that can lure you to your old bad habits are still around you.  Its not just about saying that i am a different and changed person.  Have you forsake your old bad habits? If its a 'no', then i can boldly tell you that you will soon fall back to your old habits 

Burn your 'old bad pipe' and you will be a changed person and replace them with a 'new good pipe'

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Written by Gideon Jaiyeola