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Title: Grow Where You Are Planted
Author: Saviour Ekere
Year: 2022
Reviewer: Blessed Mudiaga Adjekpagbon
Saviour Ekere's newest
work titled "Grow Where You Are Planted," is an inspirational book
which the author says the Holy Spirit inspired him to write for the benefit of
mankind in this period of global crisis.
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| Mr. Saviour Ekere |
Divided into six
chapters, the topics in the book are: "Grow Where You Are Planted,"
"The Garden ls Your Place," "Adversity ln The Garden,"
"You Are A Fruit Tree," "Everyone Created by God ls Great,"
and "Just Trust And Obey."
The cover title,
"Grow Where You Are Planted" is very insightful as it tends to advise
folks to obey the voice of God by following the direction He asks them to
follow to their promised land, instead of just following or copying others
blindly in a world where many people prefer to listen to the voice of men
instead of God's. Hence, the cover story xrays why some folks fail to prosper
in life. lt however, provides remedies to how one can overcome the spirit of
disobedience to God's voice, so that one can grow where he/she is ordained to
prosper.
"The garden is
your place," is a reminder about where God originally created humans to
live and enjoy. Aside the beauty of the garden, this topic says the garden
nourishes and enriches the body with various herbs and fruits in it. It dwells
on how some folks fall out of their garden of enjoyment into the abyss of
suffering into a "forest of life" that involves pain and sorrow. What
to do to avoid falling from the garden of enjoyment are also pinpointed in the
chapter.
"Adversity in the
garden," portrays a saying that "Life is full of ups and downs."
Here, the author shares his experience about the adversity of life. He refers
to a poem about the adversity of life, which is one of his creative works, to
boost folks moral in the face of adversity. The poem is titled "Press
On." It is a stylistically woven sonnet, crafted with heroic
or even couplet rhymes of aa, bb, cc, dd, ee and so on and so forth. This shows
the creative gift of the author by using poetry in a simplified manner to pass
across a message of encouragement to inspire readers to be hopeful by the grace
of the Holy Spirit. He delves the reader's mind into different situations that
have been overcome by those that positively press on.
"You are a fruit
tree," is a periscope of what Psalm 1: 3, says, "He shall be like a
tree planted by the rivers that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose
leaf also does not wither, and whatever he does shall proper." Using this
as a bedrock, Ekere talks about the folly of being ignorant and pretentious. He
posits that "If you are operating below the benchmark of God's
expectation, there is a problem. You need to go back to God who will recreate,
rebrand and remake you." One could sense his play with alliteration
in his quoted advice to those that want God's immediate intervention in their
life. It is one of the author's hallmarks of writing as a creative scholar with
inspirational light.
Moreover,
"Everyone created by God is great," is an expository of the author's
experience as a teacher in a secondary school. He shares his observation in his
interactions with students, teachers and parents on one hand, and the
underrating of latent skills in students by parents / teachers who give
too much attention to grades, on the other. ln this regard, he avers that
"My concern is this, most of these students we label 'poor' have
potentials of creating something apart from being confined to school subjects
and grades." What the author is simply saying in this chapter is that
"Education should develop the minds and not to confine children to
conventional life style."
He makes reference to
Albert EInstein, Robert Kiyosaki, Thomas Edison, Lao Tzu and Psalm 4:7 to
buttress the need to also develop skills of students instead of focusing only
on the grades they make in subjects.
In "Just trust
and obey," the last but not the least chapter, the author presents a microscopic
and macroscopic analysis of a popular song known as "Trust and obey."
It examines the power of obedience in conjunction with Romans 4: 18 -12 and
various biblical verses to encourage folks about how to become successful by
growing where they are planted, instead of trying to dictate to God what He
should do.
By and large, the
messages in the book are very insightful about how we can overcome different
challenges in life with reliance on scriptural and positive attitude of obeying
the Holy Spirit towards doing things that may not appear significant to our
egos, yet ordained by God to take us to great heights of accomplishing our
individual destinies in life. A versatile reader will certainly observe that
the author carried out commendable sociological, scriptural and scholarly
researches that gave birth to the highly inspiring book. With the situation of
happenings in the world today, the book could help to save many folks from
loosing hope or going astray, and also help those that have already gone astray
to retrace their steps, to embrace salvation and success.
Saviour Ekere has
written various inspirational books over the years. One of them is titled
"Think Outside The Box." "Grow Where You Are Planted"
is available on amazon platform via this link: https://www.amazon.com/GROW-WHERE-YOU-ARE-PLANTED-ebook/dp/B09Y98TYXQ/
Ekere teaches English
Language at a private secondary school in Lagos. He is married and living fine
with his family.
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