No Servant is greater than his Master

no servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, then bear in mind that you too shall be persecuted' john 15 :19 the best part comes at the end of this verse, " if they obeyed my teachings, they will obey yours too"
There's one great lesson we learn from this reading, that real disciples of Christ synonymously suffer persecution. The words of Christ to his disciples are made clear to what eventually happens to peter, Stephen, Paul n the other disciples of Christ. Just like Christ, they were hated in equal measures n persecuted just like their master Jesus.
But let's find out those that persecute the true church of Christ, who are they and what are they up to. Biblically they r reffered to as the world, which is synonymously associated with darkness. Now we know that there's no fellowship between light n darkness as Paul says in the book of 2 cor 6:14. This explains why the world is zealous to hate  n persecute Christ n his body. For Christ is the light of the world, the light that gives life n brings hope to mankind. The world has seen a great light but since people love evil they have chosen to stay in darkness.
In Genesis 1:2 God said let there be light and there was light n he saw that the light was good, so he separated it from darkness. But the chronology of creation that this light of Genesis 1:2 is a special kind of light. It is not the light of brightness from heavenly bodies. The light that we know n we have seen that which is disemminated from the sun, the moon, and the stars is created later in Genesis 1:16. This begs a question which light was created in verses one.
There r two components of the earth. The world n the church. The world is formless n with no life. It is full of evil, deceit and hate. But God loves the light, which embodies Christ n the church. From the word go during creation, the church should have no fellowship with the world.
Accordingly an order of distinction has been set from the beginning n any marging or harmonization of this two compartments is against the wish of the author of creation.
If the world fabricated miniskirts, the church should reject the same for this is the initiation of sexual immorality. If the world introduced open chest in the name of cleavage, then the church should remember that our God is a holy God. When we gather at places of worship, we go with an intension to meet the father. He is not interested with a woman's chest. He has no time to give compliments like those idlers in the street. Please young lady, present your self to the father with fear n reverence not as if you r going to a birthday party.
The church should have nothing to do with homosexuality, with politics, with alcohol and any other thing that does not glorify the father. Reader beware, there's no fellowship between light n darkness. God loves the light n he hates darkness. If you love Christ then you should stop persecuting his church.

Remember that person

A few minutes while we were glued on the TV watching the prime time news, the survivor series to be precise on KTN we were drown into a conversation that was very emotional but at the same a reality check.
For those who saw the ordeal of the women suffering from the condition of fistula must agree with me that it is an urgly chapter that should never happen to anyone. In the quest for children n raising of families, these women find themselves in a world of isolation n shame that cannot be measured. In our conversation my friend opens up on what most women undergo especially those affected with fibroid n fitsula.
Hey man, people a suffer. God's people are suffering. Some tears are not worthy holding back regardless of whether the victim is a loved one or a stranger. It is so sad that some conditions happen to our sisters.
This reminds me one of the Sundays while we were listening to testimonies in my church, a young lady confessed of being haunted by a strange phenomena. After her long calls, a red element, probably part of her lower intestines could come out and hung around. Imagine each time you go for long calls, your intestine come calling, how sad, how dreadful, how urgly, how sorrowful. But our God is faithful, she received her healing even without any medical operations.
Now you the reader, maybe you are there complaining on how God has not answered your prayers or how he hasn't given you your dream job like your contemporary. You complain about why you were born short, slim or black. Remember this, out there there's an adult who still uses Pampers on a daily basis. There's a woman whose flow of blood since her first menstruation, has never stopped. There's another whose uterus has already been removed citing health issues. Remember there's a man who cannot have kids. Remember there's a woman whose every pregnancy result into a miscarriage.
Remember that street family in the cold of Nairobi with an infant in their custody. Remember the street children who are eating from the dungeons of dandora damp site. Remember that very bright classmate of yours whose intelligence was thrown out of the window citing lack of fees.
Has God not been gracious enough to you. To the children of Israel in the wilderness, while he gave them manna from heaven, they still complained. Give thanks for the little you have. Look at Jesus, in his ministry, before anything, he thanked the father. And God listened. Give thanks for the little you have, complaining is equivalent to disobedience, both of which the lord hates.

The Baptism of JOHN

John 3:3 in reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again" in this context Jesus makes it clear to Nicodemus, one of the senior members of the Jewish ruling council, the threshold that affords admission into the kingdom. You must be born again.
Jesus continues to explain to Nicodemus, in verse 5 of john 3 that unless you are born of water n the spirit, you can never see the kingdom of God. There are therefore two components of salvation. The baptism of water and the baptism of the spirit. Both of which are necessary for our entry into the kingdom. Are you baptized through immersion into water? If not, then you haven't fulfilled one of the righteousness that gives you the ticket to heaven.
Remember the encounter between Christ n john the Baptist, when the lord went to the Jordan, where john was baptizing. John tried to deter Jesus saying it was Jesus who was supposed to baptize him. In Mathews 3:15 Jesus replies' let us do this now, it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness' then john consented.
In this scenario, Jesus makes it clear that even himself he had to pass through the baptism of water to fulfill the righteousness of the heavenly kingdom. And remember it is baptism with water, immersion in water. Do not be cheated, fire is not the baptism that Jesus tells Nicodemus in JOHN 3 neither is the act of pouring water on the heads of the faithful. In Mathews 3:16 we see Jesus being immersed in water. It says,  "as soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water......' This means he had been immersed in water.
And what is the significance of this immersion, it is symbolically, the death of our sinful self and the resurrection of our new self. The immersion means we are dying into sin while our coming out of the water is the resurrection in the body of Christ. At baptism we are united with christ, we now graduate to share in his inheritance as sons of God.
By the way at baptism, the spirit of God will testify and will promote us into sons of God. In Mathews 3:16 -17 immediately Jesus came out of the water, the spirit of the lord descended upon him and it testified saying 'this is my son whom I love, with him I am well pleased'.
This illustration is indeed enough to explain the chronology of the birth Jesus talks about in john 3. The birth of water n the spirit. In the life of Jesus, we see the encounter of Jesus with the holy spirit at baptism, for the first time. That means the lord opens heavens and pours his spirit when we undergo the baptism of immersion.
The baptism of the spirit therefore comes almost immediately when we resurrect out of the water and here God the father loves us and he recruits us as his sons to share in the inheritance of Christ.
Now remember after baptism, we open doors to temptations. The 40 days of hunger and really sufferation r ushered in. But just like Jesus we r called upon to stand firm in our faith. Paul reminds us in romans 6 from verses 1, now that we have become a new, we need to act in the spirit of Christ, resist evil and demands of our sinful self. We must remember our bodies are now the temples of the holy spirit, by which we need to act to the decrees of the father. We need to walk in the light of the lord and make our ways pure, for our God is a perfect God.
To my beloved reader, unless your born of water n the spirit, you can never inherit the kingdom of God. If you are not baptized then this is your time. And if you did and you think it was not in accordance with the baptism of john the Baptist, I mean the baptism of immersion, please get in touch with me for Jesus is coming and he should find you ready. Shalom

I really loved the spirit

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Why the Presidential Facebook Status Update was pulled down

Yesterday I was perplexed to learn that President Uhuru's Facebook account managers had the Audacity to pull down a post where by the  president had acknowledged the appointment of one Mr. Githinji as the Director General of the National Youth Service. Being a keen observer of the Jubilee government, I spent the better part of my morning going through updates on social media on the unfolding events both in the social and political arenas around the country.
The post that was pulled down had elicited emotions and hate speech among Kenyans. I was even surprised to learn that the president himself follows the comments keenly. However, I understand it was for all good that the status update was pulled down since the exchanges were bitter and shaming in this time and era. While people from the larger Mt. Kenya region justified the appointment of Mr. Githinji on rather obvious reasons, the rift valley fraternity felt short changed and intimidated. Some were regretting the choices they made at the 2013 march 4th election. I remember many were raising issues with how the powerful secretary, Anne Waiguru was handling her dockets and how she was sending home purportedly members of other community within her ministry and replacing them with her cronies.
For sometimes, on matters politics I have been silent, but Martin Luther King Jnr tells me, sometimes silence is betrayal. I had to speak up my mind because I too am party to this issues.Of all the ministers in the Jubilee government, ask me and I will tell you, Anne Waiguru is the Moses Kenyans have been waiting for. Maybe to be Biblically correct, let me call her Esther, because Moses was greater than any other prophet in the bible. The reforms she is formulating are just masterpieces and commendable. For those who have come across the Huduma center strategy paper, know that with the Huduma center, fully dispensed across the counties, our public service will be transformed into havens of service delivery.
By the way did you watch yesterday on Television, the new structure of the Central government. How it has streamlined itself within the new devolved system? Of course I have my reservations, about the power tussles that will result between the county commissioners and the county governors, but if I heard it right, the county commissioners were empowered to carry out the functions of the national government at the county level. If they will live within that mandate, then I do not have any reason to worry, I will be happy that Kenyans at the county level will enjoy the same services Nairobians visiting Huduma Center next to GPO are enjoying. If the county commissioners live to the words of the president, then this is the time we are going to curb corruption to levels that never before have been realised.
It is for our own good that service delivery to Wanainchis like me and you is being elevated. Politics aside, give credit where it deserves, Anne Waiguru is doing what I could call the game changing play. Leave alone the county governments, they are struggling to build their capacity, but their undoing does not mean the central government should sit back and wait, we must reform where need be and we must elevate accountability to the next level and we must also realize that demonizing the central government does not make the county governments holier, instead it makes them vulnerable.
Remember also that those hating on Anne Waiguru for firing Evans Gor selemango and Rugut and terming that as a tribal reallignment are speaking for their communities and not for the good of Kenyans. I do not justify her appointments but neither do I justify those who rebuke this appointments. If Kalenjins are protesting that one of their own has been replaced by the Mt. Kenya Mafia and terming that as tribal, then it means they too use tribal prisms to perceive issues. By the way, am Luyha, and guess what, in this government, we are nowhere and I mean nowhere, but what about that, we live with that, we were told to accept and move on, and that is exactly what we are doing. I choose not to protest tribal appointments, I will choose to comment superb service delivery.

Grandmothers Day

I remember during holidays, I used to join my cousins Paul Otido and Soita at grandma's place. We used to look after the cattle all week long, the best part of it being the bull fights and how our favorite Nyundo, used to rule whenever we could take the cattle to the river. On a certain occassion, immediately we returned the cattle from the river, we usually found launch ready, a delicacy of 'mabwondi' sweet potatoes and 'sturinky', black tea. Grand ma' would help in tying the animals while we enjoyed her cookings. But on this occasions, one of her own bulls maritati turned against her and threw her over its back, she was wailing and I remember my uncle mark running to save our grand ma.' I was greatly depressed as a young boy, I thought my grand ma' was going to die. but thank God she was a very strong woman.
Being young and clumsy, I loved hanging out with my cousins. In most cases I could spent the night at akina Paulo's place & just come back to her place to take breakfast. This was not surprising by the fact that my cousins were my contemporaries and we had a lot in common. More so, at least their I could eat mandazis and chapatis occasionally. However, grand ma' loved it when I slept by her side. However, I didn't like sleeping by her side. Her snoring was too loud and unending, the prayers were full with the 'riswaaa' punchline, with saliva jumping over to me. Plus I usually wet her bed and she could wake up in the morning furious and lamenting. I did not want my uncles and cousins to know this but I was a little kid had no option but to abide. Whenever i wet her bed, for following night she could prepare an animal skin for me as my beddings, but since i loved drinking a lot of milk before bed time, I could not fail to wet animal skin also.
On sundays she always woke us early in the morning prepare tea and head us to church. She was well known, a soloist and a drum-mist. On such occasion she always stood to testify how God was gracious because of us her grand children. In fact she always had song items to present and on this special occassion, she invited the grand children to join her. You can imagine, the ordeal singing a song in which you do not know the lyrics and the drum beats consumed our voices.
On most sundays the service was an outreach programme. It could often begin in the market centers with a word of prayer. We could form a line with grand ma' on the forefront. She led the song as we moved a long with other church members singing and going around the village homesteads blowing the trumpet of Christ. She was a talented soloist and drum-mist. I still remember this episodes clearly and I really wish at such like times technology was as it is now. I could have recorded these events, and you could have loved to see my humble background.
That was the best part of my childhood spending time with my sweet grand ma'. Being washed with a stone, you can imagine the friction, but she believed that that was the best way to remove the hard stains. Bathing became an ordeal that we wished could never reach on each single day. But I miss those days, I miss the adventure, I miss her. RIP grand ma' rachel, I know you are in heaven, that am sure you are. and just as you always prayed that we could grow up into God fearing and responsible men, God is our witness, we surely will meet in heaven. #happymothersday