If It Isn’t RICE, It Is Not Nice

By Dr jalarth Uche Opara

Rice has become a staple food, a menu that graces the pot of almost every home.
No restaurant worth its name lacks rice on its menu.

Birthday parties, funeral services, marriage celebrations, and virtually every gathering whether small or grand always have rice, either as the only menu or as the chief among many dishes.

For politicians scouting for votes, rice is always a handy tool to win the electorate. It serves all purposes, and humanity has come to fall deeply in love with it.

Rice has become a meal that often defines the beauty or otherwise of Sundays, Christmas, Easter, and other festive occasions.

Once it is absent, such celebrations are considered dry, incomplete, and gloomy.
This, however, is physical rice.

Beyond it lies another RICE , not physical, yet one that should be even more indispensable in the spiritual menu of every human being. Anyone who partakes of this RICE lives above hunger and basks in abundance of spirit and mind.

This RICE does not come in grains. It comes in disposition, submission, trust, and surrender. It means Resting In Christ Exclusively (RICE).

Until one learns to eat this RICE daily, every other rice remains perishable. The pleasure and satisfaction it gives are temporary, fleeting, and unable to satisfy the deepest hunger of the soul.

When a person truly rests in Christ exclusively, anxiety gives way to peace, confusion to clarity, fear to faith, and scarcity to divine sufficiency.

The tragedy of many lives is that while they feast daily on physical rice, they starve spiritually because they have neglected the RICE that truly sustains.

And when RICE is absent, another meal quickly takes its place: BEANS—(Bewitched Every Time, Addictively, Notoriously Sinful)

The one who refuses to rest in Christ often becomes vulnerable to the influences of sin, temptation, worldly distractions, and spiritual deception.

Such a person is constantly tossed about by circumstances and controlled by appetites that never satisfy.

Therefore, while we continue to enjoy the rice that nourishes the body, let us never neglect the RICE that nourishes the soul.
For if it isn’t RICE—(Resting In Christ Exclusively ) it is truly not nice.

“Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:

This place explains what one gets by having this spiritual RICE. Get it and eat it at all times.

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