Accra, Dec. 4, GNA - The Four-day International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses kick started in Accra on Thursday, with a call on members to reject worldly fantasies and apathy used by the Devil as tools to lure people into spiritual slumber.

Various speakers at the programme called on the Witnesses to fight the Devil's machinations by maintaining their spiritual alertness and to remain focused on guidelines from the scriptures in order to overcome temptations. Speaking to 30, 372 Witnesses and their friends at the Ohene-Djan Sports Stadium in Accra, Mr. Geoffrey Jackson, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses organisation, reminded the conventioneers to keep busy in the Lord's ministry in order to chase spiritual sleep away and to endure the ravages of what many people refer to as the end of the world. "Keeping on the watch is not a matter of being awake. A guard could be awake but may prefer to use the time available to watch a television programme whiles he is at post."

Mr. Jackson said true Christians needed to train their Bible-led conscience to focus on the important things in life and to develop a keen understanding of events of time to remain watchful. He noted that a Christian should strive to defeat physical and spiritual blindness.

Mr. Jackson explained that spiritual blindness was more subtle and very harmful.

He expressed worry that a number of people in the developed countries had become either atheistic or agnostics and professing belief in evolution. Mr. Jackson said belief in a Creator and in creation was fundamentally important in securing a future life for a Christian as well as helping the individual to wake from slumber.