Truth Memoirs

I had pondered whether the Christian belief forbiding cultural practices that acknowledge ancestors was intended to block me as an African to know my true identity. I come from a denominational church and in my family we did not perform any ancestral cultural practices. This was normal to me because the people in my social circles had the same upbringing,but as I entered adulthood my social circles grew and I started socializing with people who had a different upbringing. This issue on true identity initially started to bother me when I realised that in my denominational church ancestral cultural pratices were not strictly forbidden, it was a personal choice. I started to consider it deeply when people in my social circles who acknowledged ancestral cultural practices associated them with true identity as an African. In all this time these were just thoughts with no action but when I came up on difficult life situations I was really tempted to follow through with action. The only reaso...

God commands us not to worship other gods but him, which means he commands us not to consult any other spiritual being/entity but himself even when we get overwhelmed by life's difficulties. This commandment seems unreasonable when you face life difficulties where nothing seems to go your way and you are forced to watch your family suffer. When in a dark season it looks like the only person who benefits from this commandment is God himself, it seems God is demanding too much from you. When life gets hard and painful the natural response is to do whatever it takes to ease the pain for yourself and your loved ones , even society expects us to do whatever it takes to get ourselves out of difficult situations. As an African man doing whatever it takes could also mean calling on ancestors or consulting prophets/mediums and perform cleansing ceremonies. As I walk in this journey of faith it has become clear to me that God’s commandment not to worship other gods including ancestors is no...