OUR COUNTRY, OUR LIFE

As one of the elders said “The works of nature must all be accounted good” Land is a nature that God has blessed us with. The bible says “the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it” Psalm 24:1. This shows that the land is a habitation for us living things. The land existed before anything right from the beginning. The bible says “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” Genesis 1:1.

The peace of the land brings peace to everything in it. It makes the land habitable; progresses are made, successes are achieved, developments take place, the world becomes interesting and lovely.

CORRUPTION! CORRUPTION!! The land was flowing with milk and honey and bathed in the light of God’s good grace; then the greedy heart, the meaning look that demands in secret, have curdled the milk and saddened the honey and turned the land to desolation. The land is now a dunghill with air filled with a smell of rot and feast of maggot in it.

Really, many things are happening around us, politically, socially and morally in our land. The universal principle says that “every action, thought or word is a seed that will produce a corresponding action, word, thought of an expected bigger magnitude. Simply put, whatever you sow will reap also means what goes around comes around”.

One cannot but wonder at the height of thoughtlessness and insensitivity that some people exhibit in the course of running their lives forgetting that there is a ‘reaping’ at the end. can you imagine a politician ‘running’ for a particular position in government killing people for rituals so he can be elected, after being elected he goes around stealing public funds that are meant for the people and not doing anything for them. Does he think he is going to live a peaceful life? Capital NO! There is a reward for such a person. Also imagine the level of greed people have when they take other peoples’ earnings, properties even life forcefully. Do they think they would go scot free? I say NO! Even a student cheating in exams hall cannot go free; there is always a REWARD.

I see a household stricken by sin, five men are dead another dying. A little child sits by the door, lone and forlorn weeping at a desolation he cannot understand, faced with situation he cannot resolve. The results of these bad acts are the BOMBINGS, KIDNAPPINGS, ACCIDENTS, DISASTERS (Natural and Artificial), TERRORISM, etc in the Land (country). It is not a surface problem, all these things started gradually from the beginning of our CORRUPTION, DISHONEST, WICKEDNESS, PRIDE and NEGLECTING OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

Let us look at the bible, when God wanted to destroy the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, he told Abraham; but Abraham had to ask God some questions; Genesis 18:20-33. Abraham asked God “if some particular numbers of people are righteous in that land, will he save the land?” God answered “to as many as 50 and less, he would save the land”. The results of peoples’ sin in our country has caused so  many innocent lives to suffer and even die; it has made destruction to our identity, our religion, our rights even our hope for the country; I want to believe we have more than 50 righteous people in our country, therefore it can be saved. We just have to do some things God ordered us to do. Let’s see!

Thanks to God Almighty, he said in his words to us all in II Chronicles 7:14-15 that “if my people who are called by my name, will HUMBLE themselves and PRAY and SEEK my face and TURN from their WICKED ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive your sin and will heal your land; then my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in your country”. God has given us instruction; it is left to us to obey him.

First we were asked to HUMBLE ourselves; this entails us to bring ourselves down to the level of people around us. Let us take Jesus as an example, Jesus with no doubt is a great man, but he was a servant leader that led great people with equality and loyalty. We have to start living like Jesus to learn how to be humble. The opposite of humility is pride and what do they say about pride, “pride comes before a fall” the only reason pride lifts up is to drop us fall forcefully and shamefully. Our leaders, Government individuals have to start treating their people with respect and equality. If a leader treats his people with humility, he would not even think not to talk of stealing public finds; he would not cause problem for people to battle with; he would count himself as one of his people; he would act like them, live like them, work like them, etc. even Jesus, the messiah was not different from his disciple and people he lives with. In Matthew 26:48, “Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them; ‘The one I kiss is the man; arrest him’”. When Jesus to be arrested, Judas had to give a sign in order for them to know exactly who they were to arrest. This shows that Jesus was just other people around, no difference! He was that simple with all his power and might. That is called HUMILITY. We as a person can exercise that character if we decide to. Just think of yourself and put it in others’ position.