An Address Presented At The Interdenominational Service Organised By The University On The 30th Year And Founders’ Day Anniversary Held On 30th August 2023:- Maduebibisi O. Iwe
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This is the Day the
Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it! The Lord God has been with
us, He has been our bulwark, our buckler, our strength and stay over these years.
The hymnist sang “Oh God our help in ages past; our Hope for years to come, our
Shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal Home. Before the hills in order
stood, or earth received its frame, from everlasting Thou art God, to endless
years the same. A thousand ages in Thy sight are like an evening gone, short as
the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling
stream bears all its sons away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the
op’ning day.” These are why God is mysterious and deserves our reverence and
praise. He is a God that should be relied on, trusted to handle events and
change situations.
We must give all the
glory to the Almighty God for bringing us into this season of reflection. Usually
when men sit down to reflect, they come to refreshed vision concerning their
lives. The Almighty has kept this university moving through the years and has
now brought us to our thirtieth year and that is why we are here this morning
to say thank you to Him and then to bring more burdens of our university to Him.
I am not here to trace any history, but to call our minds to the fact that at a
time patriotic men thought is necessary and worthy for this part of the country
to have a center of learning that will help provide academic space for their people
and that was it. I believe that they trusted God that it was possible for the
Federal Government to grant it and it was granted. Many should have prayed,
lobbied, fasted, donated resources to make it happen. This is why we must
reflect on how we have supported such vision or worked against it as staff,
students and friends or enemies of the university.
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MADUEBIBISI, I (2024). An Address Presented At The Interdenominational Service Organised By The University On The 30th Year And Founders’ Day Anniversary Held On 30th August 2023:- Maduebibisi O. Iwe. Repository.mouau.edu.ng: Retrieved Dec 22, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/an-address-presented-at-the-interdenominational-service-organised-by-the-university-on-the-30th-year-and-founders-day-anniversary-held-on-30th-august-2023-maduebibisi-o-iwe-7-2
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