fromPaul Liyai

Dear Fellow Kenyans,

I was told of a story about King Mumia Nabongo of the Wanga who was invited to Britain by the King of England. He traveled by road to Mombasa and was to board a ship or steamer to Britain. When he arrived at the port, I am not sure if it was Kilindini or Shimoni, but I was told in Mombasa. He is reported to have exclaimed, “Yeah! We have come all the way from Mumias and arrived here very well, but now how are we going to travel over the water? With that, he declined traveling and decided to go back home.

The story of Mumia above may be true or just a fable but I find it to be a narration intended to enforce a useful truth namely; if you can not swim why dive in the water? If you are not religious why delve in matters religion? If you know all the wisdom of the world then you do not need go to school because schools are built for fools. The same applies to Christianity or Islam or for that matter, Religion. It is those who find themselves wanting, that look for something to compensate for their inadequacy. It is the hunger in a boy’s/girl’s stomach that compels him/her to find food and not the sound of the bell”. Therefore, for those who claim to be ‘atheists’- for according to me there are such beings in Africa- you are under no obligation to read these series of reflections because they are heavily hinged on God the Creator’s Manual called the Holy Bible.

As for me, I hesitate to jump into politics, like Nabongo who refused to travel on water, because it is a sea whose waters I can not navigate through. That is why I would want to look at the Kenyan case from a Biblical perspective. You are free to agree to disagree.

Kenya as a nation can NEVER write her History without Christianity, Islam and Religion- in this case African traditional Religions- I say this because I see a lot of parallels in the events of the time of Jeremiah and what is happening now in Kenya. Please read with me the following passage Jeremiah 13

12 “Say to them: ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’ 13 then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. 14 I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’”

For those of you who may have eyes, you may have observed that many religious leaders joined politics because they argued that when they take over from non-religious leaders, they will lead with humility and godly wisdom. Somebody in this forum said, the forest changed but the monkeys remain the same. If an individual is corrupt,he/she is corrupt from the inside, it is his/her nature that has grown for a long time and it takes God, education, training personal will and discipline to unlearn such a behaviour.

That is to say, we keep on saying that we have a new Kenya, a new dispensation etc and the people who are saying these are the same people who in leadership then. There is nothing new when Kibaki, Kalonzo, Kenyatta, Ole Ntimama, Mudavadi, Khaniri, Wekesa, Muthaura, Ruto William, Ongeri and others are still in power. If we want change, then let us have new people.

Where is Bishop Margaret Wanjiru? Where is Mutava Musyimi? Where is Sheikh Dor? Where is their voice? As both religious and political leaders, what does God tell them about Shuttle Diplomacy? What is God’s view of what is happening now in Kenya and even in Africa?

The answer is in those words given to Jeremiah, then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to fill with drunkenness( of power, corruption, selfish ambitions, tribalism, sexual orgies_ Kakamega and Koinange-the love of money and self)all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne,( those who are political leaders like Kalonzo, Raila, Kibaki, William Ruto etc) the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem( religious leaders including pastors, Imams, priests.orkoyiots Laibons and seers of different ethnic communities like the council of elders eg the Kaya ,kalenjin,njuri njeke etc )14 I will smash them one against the other,( see what is happening now between the Rift Valley leaders and others in ODM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSMso53vPVk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HYylzgiSyw&playnext=1&list=PLA91672A68313303C)

Children have killed their own parents and parents killed their own children because of what can not be owned for ever. This also happened during the days of Jeremiah as recorded here that they too will get drunk with envy anger and vengeance; and all these evils are rooted in the heart of man. Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually …,Mark 7:21-23: “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, .,”There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him…For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, … Look at these videos
parents and children alike, declares the LORD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsmHVJXcqM&feature=related

Now if you look at the following passage you will see another parallel with what is happening in the North of Africa. Kenyan traditional leaders went to Libya LOOK AT THESE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkyjM7mkoM NOW read the following

18 Say to the king and to the queen mother,
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns
will fall from your heads.”
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
20 Look up and see
those who are coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
21 What will you say when the LORD sets over you
those you cultivated as your special allies?
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?
22 And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?”—
it is because of your many sins
that your skirts have been torn off
and your body mistreated.
23 Can an Ethiopian[b] change his skin
or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
who are accustomed to doing evil.
24 “I will scatter you like chaff
driven by the desert wind.
25 This is your lot,
the portion I have decreed for you,”
declares the LORD,
“because you have forgotten me
and trusted in false gods.
26 I will pull up your skirts over your face
that your shame may be seen—
27 your adulteries and lustful neighings,
your shameless prostitution!
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”

The next commentary will be short and will deal with religious leaders. Remember “he whose mouth is full never speaks”
Paul

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