Fight For What’s Right

Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow (Isaiah 1:17).

As a country, we’ve been very fortunate to have achieved many things on a platter of gold. Our independence from colonial masters for example, attained on a relatively peaceful note, unlike some nations that had to fight to gain theirs. For this reason not many in our country know what it means to fight for a course.

Fighting here doesn’t connote the hostile meeting of opposing forces. Rather, it more aptly refers to the continuous, vigorous, and obtrusive exertion of an individual or group to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person. As a nation, we need to learn to fight for what’s right. Some are fighting but are unwittingly engaged in the wrong fight. An example is when people passionately canvass for their ethnic groups, forgetting theirs is a bigger picture: Nigeria.

We’ll all be fighting for what’s right when we are more concerned about the entire country, rather than just our ethnic groups. We have to be interested in the future of our nation. But we must accommodate our difference. We have to engage legally, the activities of those who have taken on the mission of hindering the preaching of the Gospel. We can’t afford to be quiet; we have to take a stand for what’s right and speak out.

Never forget that you have the right to self-determination; the right to determine your own destiny. That means life becomes for you what you decide to be.

So be bold and learn to challenge the status quo when you have to.