Lord, Lord

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:3)

I want us to look at something I read a politician saying concerning another one. That someone should stop behaving like a deputy Jesus.

What was the beef, if we may call it that?

The said person was carrying a Bible to church and quoting verses.

If that is a crime, some of us probably should probably be rotting in their jails since that has described some of us (like me) for the longest time (me for close to four decades).

I have severally dispensed the do not judge error on my blog by saying equivocally that the Bible was written to guide us to judge.

It therefore gives us the guidelines for the same since we are naturally very selfish in our judgment if left to ourselves.

Do you realise that there is no place for the person who does not say, Lord, Lord, in that favourite verse?

The ones not saying Lord, Lord are outside, already condemned.

The judgment the passage is talking about is of believers, those not ashamed of calling Christ Lord openly.

There is no place for secret admirers and practitioners.

Incidentally, even the verses people quote about looking for fruit is on the same plane. It is the confessors who are being addressed. We are being asked to look beyond the words to the fruit, not replace the words with the fruit.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)

Nobody called them deputy devil when they were caught in the bush with a ‘celibate’ man of the cloth. Nobody called them deputy Satan when they proudly called themselves witchdoctor.

Why should they be so offended when somebody openly confesses his faith?

Let me go to another passage before winding up this discourse.

Do you also realise that in Matthew 25 Christ was also addressing His people? There was no place for outsiders.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? (1Corinthians 5: 11, 12)

What am I saying?

Please politician, do not try to use the Bible you do not believe in to bash those who believe in it.

2010 is not that long ago. We remember the insults the church endured as we sought to make sense of those agendas you pushed in that constitution you are now fighting to change. You openly hated and poured scorn on the church at every forum you got.

Not so long ago you were so offended by someone going to church. Remember not so long ago pouring cold water on someone being prayed for. And recently promising to close small churches.

You have killed the faith of those around you that were known for the same before.

Now that you need votes from the church you want to behave as if you changed. Yet change is occasioned by repentance. And it must be as public as those insults were.

Let me repeat.

No one who does not say Lord, Lord is being addressed in those passages you are quoting. And you have no business judging people in a house you do not belong.

Join the house first by repenting and accepting Christ as Lord and Saviour and those verses will apply to you as well.

Otherwise, look for other ways to search for votes.

Do not pretend to love the church by taking handouts to bribe members to vote for you. That for me is worse hypocrisy because you are pretending to be part of a house you do not belong.

Yet you can belong. John 3: 16 can still apply to you.

Still on politics, are our politicians living in Kenya?

Why is none of them raising an uproar on the ballooning food prices.

Let me go a few years ago at a season like this.

One side was screaming that food was becoming too expensive because it was, though nowhere near where it is today. And it was said that some leaders were hoarding maize to make a kill.

Then the government stepped in (because the big man was looking for votes also) and in a very short time the price of unga became lower than the place it rose from.

Does it mean that since the big man is not on the ballot Kenya and Kenyans can starve to death? Was his job completed when he won? Has his retirement already commenced?

Should he then not just resign and leave us without a leader instead of pretending to be one?

A father goes without food so that his children can eat. What kind of leader looks for excuses instead of food for his people?

This is the shame that I want addressed by the people looking for political positions.

Otherwise, they also have no business asking for votes, because they are not worth any of those votes.

The sycophants can start bashing me now. Karibu.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. (Proverbs 21:13)