WHAT'S IN A NAME?
In one beautiful country not very far from here, there existed a corporate body charged with the task of providing electric power for the nation. It's name used to be NATIONAL ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY or N.E.P.A for short. An appropriate and wonderful name you would think. However, due to the dismal performance of it's duty and it's failure to provide adequate electricity for the nation, some people transmuted the acronym N.E.P.A to mean:
1) Never Expect Power Always (N.E.P.A)
2) National Eccentric Punishment Authority (N.E.P.A)
Recently, the government owned corporate bodywas privatised, ostensibly to promote efficency andinject some sanity into it's operation. It was given anew name to reflect it's new status. There was greatexpectation that this giant the people love to hatewould be radically reformed. Pungent optimism filledthe air as people waited with bated breath for aglorious new dawn of electric utopia.
No sooner had N.E.P.A been given the newglorious name of POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF THE NATION than performance deterioriated sharply! Black-outs for days on end, low voltage and ultra-low stabiliser-resistant current became the norm. The consequence?The nation experienced tremendous business losses, untimely deaths in hosptials, unbearable hardships in the home, at school, in hotel facilities, on the farms, in offices, in factories and in many recreational centres.
Inevitably, some people in the nation felt bitter. In the bid to express their frustration and disappointment, they waxed eloquent. They turned onthe new, more glorious name and mutilated it. They needed to vent their spleen on something. There was nothing else they could turn on but the name. Nothing, just the name. Below is a short list ofthe mutilations that are making the rounds.
1) Power Has Collapsed Nationwide (P.H.C.N)
2) Privatise, Horrify, Crucify and Neutralise(P.H.C.N)
3) Proclaim it, Here Comes Nonsense!! (P.H.C.N)
4) Pray Hard for Commonsense Now (P.H.C.N)
5) Prepare to Harvest Calamity Next (P.H.C.N)
6) Please Hold the Candle Nearer (P.H.C.N)
7) Power Hoodwinks and Corrupts Naturally (P.H.C.N)
8) Pandemonium,Hooliganism & Catalysm Network(P.H.C.N)
9) Power that Hurts and Cripples the Nation (P.H.C.N)
10) Pure Hatred Cloaked as Noblilty (P.H.C.N)
11) Perpertual Half Current is Nice! (P.H.C.N)
12) Powerless, Heartless and Careless Nitwits(P.H.C.N)
13) Photo-trick has Confused the Nation (P.H.C.N)
14) Power Hoarding Company of the Nation (P.H.C.N)
There is no end to the permutation,combination and mutation of the elements that make up"P.H.C.N"; attesting to the fact that great wrath breeds caustic poetry. Come to think of it, what's really in a name?
If say you are unfortunate to have a beautiful name or worse still a really glorious name,could it ever be a burden too heavy to bear? Look at your name for a minute, Think about it for two minutes! Amazing isn't it! If friends, foes, neighbours, classmates, associates or some busybodies were to attempt to twist your name because they somewhat perceive a mismatch between your name and your character, could you live to make it impossible for them to do so?What would it take to make your name match your character? Check the following passages for the answer.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
Phillipians 4:12-13
Colossians 1:9-112
Thesselonians 3:3
Isaiah 40:29-31
Revelations 3:12.