Usher in the Kingdom

The Situation

Kenya is world famous especially because of our long distant runners who year after year continue to dominate headlines in major cities of the world as they win marathon after marathon. This popularity has since been replicated in other areas and we are now a country also feared for our heightened levels of corruption.

When I try to escape the collective stereotyping, I’m told my name betrays me and our ancestral mother who is currently also known by the name of the God of heavens turned into a cannibal by eating her own children. Too drunk and too confused from the intoxicating wine she bought with the children’s inheritance she calls out ‘kuku’, for her toddlers to carry and enthrone her come 2017.

Down at the lakeside where the music never stops there’s a new mourning as a son of the lake has been bewitched and he now blares a new song of how to fry children instead of the delicacies of the glorious lake. Instead of making music, he’s resorted to the culinary arts but alas, his dishes are his own siblings, his ‘people’!

In a nutshell, that’s the fate of our youth under NYS and Youth Fund managers.  It goes to show and I pray this makes us to stop and think,  there are only two tribes in Kenya, the Tribe of the Cannibals whose staple food is every member of the second tribe, the Tribe of the Blind.

The members of Tribe of the Blind grope in the dark as screams rock their ‘night’ every time the first tribe strikes. The ‘Blind’ always think that enemy is one of them and so they grapple with each other and chant of how wonderful it must be to be a member of the Cannibals because there never seems to be any chaos in their camp. Without knowledge they elect their enemies and enthrone them as chiefs and kings.

The youth of this country have no future because of such people and others with the same gargantuan appetites that have made the state of our nation to be as in the days of Ahab where ‘shameless idolatry and gross degeneracy’ ruled.  Here people worship money on altars smoking from the sacrifices of their own children.

The Solution

People who have good will for this country are facing enemies who bent on destruction and whose only concern is to live for now and to live like kings. These enemies are worse than terrorists for they kill in the millions as they deprive the youth of their inheritance.

To fight these enemies’ calls for new strategies, for when we tried the police, they corrupted them, when we tried the law, they bought the lawyers, the magistrates, the judges and the supreme judges when we tried using commissions, they gave them chicken and so now we are left to liberate ourselves without looking to anyone for help.

The first thing we need to do is to find the salve that will open the eyes of the Tribe of the Blind. The Tribe of the Blind is the majority of us who do not see the big picture. Most of us who do not understand who the real enemies are, but continue to fight each other, calling each other names according to a nomenclature invented by those who divide and rule.

Time has come to discard segregation by use of vernacular what and should inform any such judgement is the character of the person. 

We need to inform so as to open the eyes of our people, and this then begs the question; who are ‘Our People’?

  

These are the men and women of this country whose desires are first, to build a cohesive nation, a nation where there is no discrimination and where one is ensured peaceful existence. Secondly is that we build a nation with a vision for posterity, which means that we put the aspirations and dreams of our youths as priority.

Myles Munroe once said “As a pregnant mother is responsible for the welfare and health of the child she carries, so is every nation responsible for the generation within its national womb”

‘Our people’ desire a corruption free nation and a Kenya where people value humanity above stolen prosperity and where every person’s dream can come true.

From the pulpit to the dais we need to point out the real enemies of our nation. We need to pull down everyone who is a vision killer and who has a record of stealing from the public by ensuring that they do not hold any public office.  Thieves cannot continue to become leaders in this nation. It is time for that change and this change will not be effected by laws but the consciousness of the electorate who will look at track records of those vying and put the right people in positions of service.

The church has the biggest share of this work and it has to fold its sleeves for as they say “it’s time to swallow the bone”. We have an agenda, an agenda to make Christians; that is, people who have a thinking, a doing and a heart similar to that of Christ. Christ is all about love; love for others and love for God.

The church then cannot continue to expect change in the mind-sets of the already blinded, adulterated adherents, especially within the youth by serving them for two hours only on Sundays then for rest of the six days of the week they are bombarded with messages of hate from deviant politicians and all manner of indecencies especially from social media with new projects that advocate for ‘self-release’ like the one which has come to be known as X.

If there is going to be any meaningful change in our society, there has to be a rethink of how we teach the next generation of citizens of this country.  Being the spiritual government, the church cannot abdicate this task to the political government. The church’s core mandate is to ensure elimination of retrogressive thought patterns in the society by educating through discipleship on Christian good practise and belief.

Everyone likes to exonerate himself from blame and that’s what the church has been doing, distancing itself from its responsibilities and blaming politicians of the decay in society but the politicians have not done by themselves, the members of the church are guilty too of propagating  ethnic hatred and when not, their silence speaks volumes.

The church has to understand that it is the one that holds the salve that will open the eyes of the Tribe of the Blind and it can only do so by ensuring that first the leadership  in the church is above board and is well trained on Kingdom principles.

Jesus did not take the message of the Kingdom of God to the world alone; he recruited twelve people and for three years taught them in theory and in practice of how to ‘change the world’. How then, can we expect to change the world without properly training our leaders?

Trained leaders will then come up with an informed church curriculum that will train its members of on Kingdom Principles especially those concerning leadership.  The teaching plan(s) has to be ambitious enough so as to counter the six day a week deception that members are exposed to and this calls for incorporation of all current technological platforms as tools for discipleship. We have to use what the generation of today are using i.e. Social Media, Television and the Radio.

The teachings should aim at making everyone who engages in them teachers tapping into the power of oral traditions.

When I look at Nehemiah’s rebuilding process, it teaches that before embarking on any project, we need to:-

         i.            Seek the face of God through PRAYER  and seek for favour and success

       ii.            Need not be shy to ASK for  help from those who can provide the resources we need to build

      iii.            Go ahead and START rebuilding without necessarily waiting for numbers

     iv.            When others join in, SHARE the workload so as to finish faster

       v.            DON’T  listen to distractors

     vi.            Be CONFIDENT that God is able to give your victory in your endeavours

    vii.            Be ready to PROTECT what you are building

For as the Presidency and other people of good will continue to fight against the current breed of vision killers we have a job to ensure that the future generations never again fall prey to such.   

The next generation has to be equipped and empowered by first being made to understand who they are in Christ. It is our job to teach them and to protect the future of our great nation. 

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