09/08/2026
I just started thinking again.
At the Redemption Camp, and everywhere I looked, I saw plastic chairs with "NEW AUDITORIUM" boldly written on them.
I found it interesting.
I was actually sitting in what is now called the OLD AUDITORIUM, yet almost every chair around me still carried the inscription: NEW AUDITORIUM.
Imagine you were coming to camp for the first time and you told a bike man or a maruwa driver, "Please take me to the New Auditorium."
He would probably take you to the new auditorium (3by3) that is now actually called the New Auditorium.
But here I was, sitting in the old auditorium, where almost every chair still carried the inscription: NEW AUDITORIUM.
But this auditorium is no longer new.
Apparently, when it was built, it was the new auditorium. So "NEW AUDITORIUM" was proudly inscribed on them.
Then another, newer auditorium was built. And by nomenclature, the one I'm sitting in has now become the OLD AUDITORIUM.
But the chairs didn't change. They still say NEW AUDITORIUM.
And I thought, hmmm...
Isn't this how life can be sometimes?
You can still carry the inscription of something that has already become old.
As a child of God, every new experience you have with God should quickly become old. Not because it was no longer valuable, but because there should be a newer experience. The Bible says God's mercies are new every morning.
You had a great encounter with God five years ago. Beautiful. But what has God been doing in your life lately?
You learnt a skill five years ago and you are still proudly introducing yourself with it, even though the industry has moved on.
You got a job and became comfortable with what you know, while people in your field are learning new things and adapting to new realities.
There should be something fresh today.
The problem is that sometimes we keep displaying the "new" inscription of yesterday while God is already inviting us into something newer.
The chairs will continue to carry the inscription "NEW AUDITORIUM."
The inscription is not wrong. It simply tells the story of what was once new.
But don't let your life become like those chairs. Don't become new in name but old in experience. Don't settle in a comfort zone simply because what you have is working.
Keep moving.
What is new today will eventually become old.
Make sure you are still becoming new.