eloquentsilences

I have heard and read many a people’s liturgy and tons of theories about the the end of days, the spiritual gates, the war on our lives, the battle for our souls…Everything tears against our fallible thinking and we are left more confused than when we ventured on this journey…The Journey of Love.. the Journey Of a Salvation…the Salvation.
Christianity today has lost its power, its authority in society and in individuals solely because we misunderstand what it means to grow.

We have pursued everything that is colorful and flaring at the cost of the fundamental truth of this Once Great faith. We want higher things, we seek for deeper revelations, we chant and we runt..we make proclamations and seek knowledge all the while, we loose a grip on all that is our foundation. We forget the One whose name is above all others, the giver of life, the beginning of time, from whom all knowledge comes. The very Mark of our identity!
We make remarks like “the things of the cross and salvation are milk..Lets move on to greater things..the meat”.

I am Persuaded and always will believe that at the Cross, all was laid bare. All biblical mysteries before that time were on public display. They all started and Ended with the bloody man on the Tree.
The message of Salvation and the Cross, are NOT to be mistaken for the elementaries the Hebrew writer was talking about. They are not only fundamental to our Christianity, but they are the very embodiment of our spirituality. They are Central to all we (as Christians) believe. It is not our good works, Not our fervent prayers, or our desire for knowledge about the Mysteries that are no doubt exciting to know.

The most recent intrigue has been the 11.11.11 gate way. To be frank, it has more about what we must do to secure the gates than it has about the The Purpose of Our faith in Christ against all these gates.The Truth is..these gate ways(if we can call them that) have been there since time began

We tried in every way to secure, sanctify and break them all on our own and in our efforts(as is depicted in the old testament). God uses the Old testament to show us what its like to live by the Law…

It nulifies any relationship we have with him..if we think we can attain his love .
Point is, whether or not they are there… our primary aim is to measure them against the standard above all others. The Covenant that erased and nullified all others… the Cross and the Lord!

Ours is to grow deeper in the knowledge of him and in the Understanding of His Word..then we can aptly apply it to the the vast mysteries of the world
A friend of mine said, “its like they are fitting the Word into the whole idea and not the other way around”

This is what happens when we make the mistake of thinking that the cross and salvation are elementary. It is againt This Cross..salvation that all these messages and mysteries are measured. It is the Man Jesus, for whom i identify myself as a Christian. Not my prayer or my deep search for Spiritual Knowledge. In light of all this…we will find Truth.. Truth far beyond the knowledge and wisdom, far beyond the prosperity and good health we pursue. The Truth that will bring us to the very feet of all that is good and true. A culmination of perfection and power. The saving grace of Our Lord. And that is all the truth and Knowledge we need.

(Col 2:8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

(Col 2:9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

It has been a talk as old as time…at least as old as my time. In a country where I have experienced one government for over 25 years (and counting) there has been a brewing of hatred not just for that one man but for his men, his advisors,. it has trickled down to his family, his wife, and his children.

For 25 years I have witnessed judgment upon the family by all that deem him as nothing more than a tyrant that has desecrated the “purity” of a nation under the disguise of bringing peace… peace to the nation. Nostrils flare, as do the tempers at the mention of this family and woe unto them that do so in his defense. Might as well be part of them. He has brought political, social and economic division in a country that was once “soo united” or so we like to think. “Corruption!” We cry… “He must GO!” We resolve… “ he is evil” we judge… “ Hope he dies soon” we condemn. He and all like him… I think I make a well-labored point.

Corruption in my opinion happened long before the era of this dispensation. It happened in Uganda as it did in Eden. It was never the leadership that lacked, it wasn’t the political line that was blurred, nor was it the decline in the economic growth. It wasn’t even the poverty line that seemed to increase, as many would have us believe! Something deeper, something stronger, something more vicious birthed, fed and grew Corruption to the limits it is. I am more convinced now more than ever that the “Office” cannot corrupt a man… He corrupts it. So no… I will not blame the position of leadership for Corruption, and I consider it narrow minded indeed to limit it to the offices of political leadership.

Corruption in its purest form started in the home; the birthplace of our communities, our societies and our nation. When fathers abandoned their sons, and defiled their daughters, where mothers drunk themselves to shame, and cheapened all they ever were, where men devalued their wives, the mothers of their children, and taught the same to the innocent and pure… The boys grew with the knowledge of violence and greed, the girls knew nothing more than to offer of themselves to get what they needed … And these, all yee that read this, are the Leaders we have and we are to have…These are the young men and women that enter into the office of leadership, corrupted by the home, the society and communities that raised them… One of my favorite quotes is from a man known to be an agent of change in this country. He says “

For our nation to be reformed, there must be a transformation in the hearts and minds of Ugandans” Godliness, a sense of goodness must return to the core understanding of every Ugandan and as a result, a restoration of proper moral conduct. If you train and educate a generation in Godlessness, u will most definitely reap a nation rooted in waywardness and total chaos. It is no wonder we are where we are.

Every passing generation taught less and less about virtue and moral uprightness, and emphasized science and technology that haven’t transformed our nation much. We still devalue our sons, our daughters and ourselves and then blame a decayed system and those in leadership. Never do we take responsibility for the demise of this our once great nation. If we are to see Reformation, “ he says, “ it starts with you and me! “

We must reckon with what our nation’s motto and anthem call us to return to:

GOD and my Country.

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