REFERENCE: 1
Peter 2:22(NIV)
He committed
no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.
COMMENT:
It is only
the Lord Jesus who committed no sin and no deceit was found in his life. He was
fully God and fully human and he overcame the human weaknesses. He did not
utter anything that was untrue. Everything he did or said had integrity and was
consistent.
The world
today is dominated by deception in most of the human activities. Kenya in now
struggling with what has come to be labeled “ghost workers”. These are people
who are not real but they draw monthly salaries. They are in the civil service
and it is reported that they are paid a total of Ksh1.8 billion per year. It
is a cartel by senior civil servants who register names in the payroll or
retain names of those who die or retire. Salaries are sent to their bank
accounts and are withdrawn every month. Well guarded deception is actively
working in the civil service in Kenya and I guess it is happening in other
countries as well. It is likely to be a well coordinated conspiracy. The problem
is difficult to solve and it is worrying the leaders in the government. The solution is not easy to come by, unless
new ways of identifying every civil servant is put in place immediately. The
need for PIN numbers to become part of the human body and cannot be removed or
forged will become necessary. It will then be extended to other people everywhere
and security will be cited as the most pressing problem.
In London,
UK, there are street people. They are real people and I saw them with my eyes
in summer of 1991. They are all over the city and they spend their nights in
underground railway stations especially Oxford Railway Station. When we asked
our lecturers at Cranfield University why Britain, a welfare state, was not
concerned about their suffering, we received a shocking answer that they are “out
of the system”. That they are not registered and so it is as if they do not
exist.
To deny the
existence of these street men and women roaming the streets of London, yet you
can see them, is total deception to yourself and others. Where are the human
rights champions who are fighting for rights which are actually not basic needs
at all?
There are a
hundred and one conspiracies in the world today and the world has somewhat accepted
them as the truth. Take for example this global problem of debt. All countries in
the world have borrowed money both externally and internally. Only a few people
are asking the basic question, “To whom
do we owe the money?” In some countries, they erroneously think they owe it to
themselves. This proves how they have been deceived. Unfortunately, they will
soon wake up to find themselves without the basics needed, in order to live.
PRAYER: Holy
Spirit! We need the truth to set us free.
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