When trials,tribulations and anything else that removes us from our comfort zones come in our life, we need not worry because God uses all these to make us stronger and to affirm His presence in our lives. Going without food, going to school without proper uniform, bare foot, and lack of school fees are things we grew up with and none gives gives us a surprise. I for one, I know how to maneuver through them because God through my mother taught me how to handle them.
However, there are some tribulations and suffering that befall us when we are least prepared. These tribulations have made many a men fall into temptations that have removed them from the path and now they are wondering in the desert of sin. I have personally been there seen it and done it. Our greatest problem is not falling into sin, it is the failure to identify and know that the circumstances and the situations we allow ourselves in when we are vulnerable or hurting, are the avenues through which satan entices us. He gives us plenty of man made solutions that bring short term reprieve including lying, pretending not to see what is happening, trying out on pseudo-medical treatments, yoga,transcendental meditation, witchcraft, atheism,taking to a binge, using drugs, joining a new church or religion, believing in a "new prophet",joining a gang, marrying another wife/husband and other enticing indulgences. All these are like setting off a sail around the world along the equator only to come to the point at which you began your voyage!.
Nothing solved. MONEY LOST.
Nothing learnt.TIME LOST.
Nothing gained.LIFE LOST.
FAMILY LOST.
ETERNITY LOST.
In Jesus Christ however, things are different and I am a living testimony. Whereas some of us would testify about God's goodness because we live in comfort and we can go wherever we want, we can own the car we want, we can choose what to eat, we can choose where to live, we can go to a hospital of our choice and we can take our children to schools of our choice,there are others who cannot even afford an opportunity to choose what food to eat. When they walk around a market, they do not look for quality, they look for quantity. When they walk around in the supermarket, they are not looking for the best things but for the things that fit the money in the pocket. Jesus Christ makes a difference in a person's life when it comes to contentment because Jesus Christ walks with us even when hungry, He walks with us even when we are in torn clothes. He never leaves us even if our friends and spouses leave us.
Majority of People in Kenya are poor, there are no jobs, the crime rate is high, tribalism or negative ethnicity is a boiling hotter and hotter and we are destroying the economy of our country because of greed. How can one person with or without a degree earn Kshs. 800,000 and the other with a degree earn Kshs. 23,000 or even Kshs. 50,000? Why should a retired president get Kshs 200,000 as entertainment when that amount can pay for four 3 high school teachers? Gas is so expensive in Kenya, paraffin or kerosin is expensive too. Now most families cannot even afford charcoal or even firewood because firewood comes from the forests and there are no forests now, the remaining forests are now a no go zones. The rich are felling trees for timber and exporting to the western nations whose ships are docked in Mombasa and other big ports in Africa. It is so ironical that our political leaders earn a lot yet they cannot see that teachers too have families that need to be educated, clothed, and housed. My encouragement to the teachers is to learn from the Apostle Paul who underwent some of the unbearable tribulations. in his letter to the Romans 5:3-4 ,he tells that all these are beneficial. He says..."And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
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