CAMP NOU: A Million Voices, One Truth


There is a popular casting crown song with titled 'the voice of truth.' The song is a soft rock gospel song that tells the listeners the troubles that surround them, the voices that will seek to gain godlike authority in their heads and which voice to believe and listen to. Life is not a bed of roses, some will say, others will say it is a world filled with ups and downs, I agree, partially. The reality of your life is dependent on the voices that gain power in your head.


The voices in the world are those silent, sometimes loud words that echo in our hearts, our heads and on some other days our ears. Life is like a football pitch and we are the players. In a football pitch, when one teams is dueling against another, the ball moving swiftly from one player to the other, sweat dripping from bodies, feet running, muscles straining, their minds trying very hard to keep up, to win, there are lots of voices in and around the stadium that might either buoy the players to better play or leave them deflated to a defeat.



A typical example of voices in a football team is found at FC BARCELONA’S stadium, NOU CAMP. Opponents have complained that the spectators at Nou Camp, their home stadium, are always screaming at the top of their voices whenever Barcelona is playing. Van Persie, in 2013, was given a yellow card that led to his sending off after he played the ball even after the referee had blown the whistle for offside play. Van Persie was surprised at the second yellow because he was not aware the referee had blown the whistle seconds earlier. When he was interviewed after Arsenal lost the match successfully, all thanks to the only footballer alive, Lionel Messi who scored double braces (four goals), he complained of not hearing the whistle. The fans of Barcelona drowned out every other sound that was in the stadium.


Their voices were loud, but theirs were not the only voices in the stadium. The arsenal fans were also shouting, the managers of both clubs must have been dishing out instructions as they played and there was the sound of the refs’ whistle, but Robin Van Persie only listened to the voices of the Barca fans. Some might want to argue that the voices drowned the other voices, but I will disagree with them. The other players on the pitch heard the whistle go off, so it was not the drowning effect of the fans chants that was the problem, instead it was the voice that he chose to listen to.
In life, we go through tough times.



There are lots of voices in the stadium, but there are those the players choose to listen to: the one that will motivate them and spur them on. You should also choose which you will listen to. The voice of God is always speaking to the spirits of His children, telling them this is the way, go. We either choose to listen or we choose not to.
How well we get out of situations is very dependent on the voices that we choose to listen to. The voice that saturates our ears, fill our souls and envelops our spirits is the voice whose words we will eventually become. Which voices are you listening to? Voices of doubts will scream loud in your ears; voices of unbelief will yelp endlessly in your face; there will be voices of ne’er do wellness pushing its ugly face at you; and there would be voices that will reassure you of the victory in Christ.


' The voice of truth
Tells me a different story
The voice of truth, says do not be afraid
The voice of truth
Says this is for my glory
And out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen
And believe
The voice of truth'


                                               By Emeka Umesi.
       

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