If these children are not brought up in a right way; which is pleasing to God; they might fall into the habit and we who are in leadership and knowing the truth will have to respond to that on judgment
The face of poverty in Mozambique. This single mother of two, lives in this reeds houseMozambique is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, yet it is a centre of poverty and corruption.
Talking about corruption; the citizens believe that inorder to make money you need to be involved in corrupt deals.
Most deals happen from the man lying on the street to the Director seated in an upper surburb office by the ocean; from a traffic cop to to a senior ofiicial; from a bar attendence serving liquor to a pastor behind the pulpit.
"This is Mozambique." That statement is widely used in our country to remind the person who want to play an angel and be honest in running of things. While living in this country, most people bealive that you cannot be succesful unless you fall into the habit, and do what most Mozambicans do.
If you don't fall into the habit, then you are an enemy. At your work place you become an enemy to your fellow workmates. They can even teem against you and have you thrown out of your work; at public government departments, you can be attended last or your applications can be kept for a long time without being attended or given any attention at all; on the street, you can end up losing a lot of money than what you have budgeted because you want to follow the right channels.
In this country they make it a must that one gets a piece of what belongs to a fellow brother, rich or poor in a wrong way. It doesn't matter where you come from; whether you are a foreigner or a local.
Ask any foreigner who lives in this country; If he has been in this country for a long time; he has either accepted to suffer the most and live a faithfull life, or has fallen to the habit. Most foreigners I have known has fallen into the bad habit. "If you can't beat them, join them." They would normally say.
Pastor Carlos had been in the country for a while now. He is from Zambia and is married to a Mozambican beautiful wife. I have known him for the past 8 months now. Pastor Carlos had the following to share to me.
"Solomon. I took a project proposal to one of the international funders in Maputo." He said. "Surprisngly the man who received the poject proposal asked me to make a deal with him. He wanted to know how much I could give him if he can approve the proposal. He wanted us to seal a deal in percentage." Said pastor Carlos.
"How did you respond to that?" I asked.
"Solomon, we serve an honest God. No matter what the situation is, we need to live by His word." Said Pastor carlos. "We started arguing with the guy.'Man, how could you say that? What image do you create for this organisation or for this country for that matter?' I asked. He tried to to explain and ended up saying. 'This is Mozambique my friend.' 'There we go again. What Mozambique? Do you know that God can take everything that you owns if you live this way. Do you know that God can bless you if you live an innocent life and fear Him.' I responded. The man seemed to be stubborn. I left my project proposal without sealing a deal." Said Pastor Carlos.
Wow, that is a man of God who leads by example. I wonder how I could have reacted. By the way I came accross the same situation a year ago. I was working for the African Community Development Projects (ACODEP). I was the one who had a responsibility of approving some small scale project proposals. I was mainly working with churches. This means most of the time I was found in the midst of pastors.
Let me make this clear. I respect pastors a lot. God mainly speak His words and teachings through them.
You can't believe this. One day I was invited by three pastors. They were all well prepared to commit sin. They wanted me to approve their project proposals with a promise of having a share to the money they will get. In fact I had to go through some preachings and the scripture was wrongly quoted. All these was done for me to accept their deal.
I failed to understand what the church leaders were up to. I asked to be excussed from their presence. I didn't want to argue with God's chosen Men. I had myself to examine; maybe I didn't no well the scripture, (Exodus 20:15 "Do not steal.").
The reality is, these men needed to be born again or re-visit their salvation. They had fallen to the habit. Instead of leading by faith, in His name they are involved in corruptions.
Inspite of all those bad things, God will not destroy Mozambique. He will not destroy Mozambique for the sake of the innocents who are found in this country like Ps. Carlos.
Genesis 18:23-32 "Abraham aproached the Lord and asked, Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty? If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it inorder to save the fifty? surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That is impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent will be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly."
The Lord answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake."
Abraham spoke again: "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no rights to say anything. But perhaps there will be only forty five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because the are five too few?"
The Lord answered, "I will not destroy the city if I find fiorty five innocent people."
Abraham spoke again: "Perhaps there will be only forty."
He replied, "I will not destroy it if there are forty."
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?"
He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty."
Abraham said, "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. Suppose that only twenty are found?"
He said, "I will not destroy the city if I find twenty."
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak just once more. What if only ten are found?"
He said, "I will not destroy it if there are ten."
Now, our God is a Faithful God to those who fear Him and who abide in His Word. For Mozambique to change it must beging with us, His children, the chosen ones; we Christians. We need to live by faith and practically practise honesty. Let us be faithful to Him and to the eyes of the people. Let us not demand honesty from the people of this world while we easily fall into the practices of this world. Our salvation must be visible and GOD will serve Mozambique.
God bless our country, God bless Mozambique.
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