WORDS OF WISDOM

Do you still remember what people were worried about beginning of last year? I will tell you; 1) R11 petrol, 2) high interest rates, 3) electricity ‘load shading,’ and 4) Polokwane. Because of fear of these issues many people packed their bags and left South Africa. But if look again at these issues, ALL of them seems to be sorted somehow. One respected professional actually predicted that by 2015 there will be no car in the roads because fuel prices will be beyond the reach of many people. But today petrol and interest rates are down. By the way when did you last experience loading shading. It seems suddenly we have enough electricity. For those not happy with the Polokwane conference a new party came in!

I am asking myself this question, “Was there any real reason to be afraid?” Why were these things so hot issues last year? Maybe we should ask ourselves who were we listening to? The media makes more money from bad news. Last year I realized that each time after watching evening news bulletins on a certain TV station I would not feel happy. It was like the news had a depressing effect on me. One day we decided with my wife to count the headlines on their news bulleting and classify them either as good news or bad news. The results were amazing. Mind you this did not include sports news and the weather. There were 11 news headlines, 9 of them were BAD and ONLY two were good. Immediately we decided to change news station. I considered that guarding MY FAITH was of paramount importance.

Ladies and gentlemen, GOD IS IN CHARGE OF SOUTH AFRICA! I know this because I am praying for South Africa. My friends are praying for SA. And I believe many people are also praying for this country all over the world. South Africa will not fall, but God in his power is working in unfamiliar ways.

Let’s go North of the Limpopo. God is in charge of Zimbabwe. I know this because I am praying for Zimbabwe. My friends are also praying for Zimbabwe. And I believe many people are also praying for Zimbabwe all over the world. We do not support Mugabe or Tsvangirai, we do not look to the east or the west, ANC, COPE , Hellen etc. If politicians were able to cause a nation to prosper, then why are people still poor, all over the world, considering the fact that every country has a whole lot of politicians. It is God put who up leaders and he put the down again.

As Christians, we are looking ABOVE to God, for divine intervention. For God himself to save mankind. We enforce the kingdom of God by our faith and prayer in love. Because we have the love of God, our father, we love our enemies i.e. people who hate us. We desire good things to happen even to bad people, because our father gives jobs, food, rain and goodies both to the good and the evil. This is what we do, displaying the glory of our father!

We must pay more attention to voice of God than to the voice of the media. Jesus himself said ‘in the world you will have many trouble’ but he add on and said but ‘take heart I have overcome.’ Problems will come and go but our faith MUST remain unshaken. Like the seeds which fall on thorns, the world can choke our faith.

We are ready to FORGIVE those who do wrong to us or do wrong to our friends. We see other people as God see them. After all they are made in the image of God. In image may not be coming not so right, but we pray for them so that the true image of God is reflected as they take in Jesus. The life of person who broke into your house is more evaluable to God than the stuff he/she stole from you. Our primary source of information is the Holy Spirit reinforced by the Word of God. Jesus said ‘when He come (the Holy Spirit), he will reveal to you ALL things.’ In this time, the ones who listen to the Holy Spirit will stand firm. But those who follow the media will be tossed from here and there (James 1:6-8)

Ladies and gentlemen our attitudes are like this. The glass is either half full or half empty. If you are looking from above, using God perspective, it’s half full because our target is to fill it. If you use the world’s earthly view point, from below, it is half empty because we are afraid of it getting empty.

If you look in history or right in the Bible, people of God faced many adversities; famines, natural disasters, wars etc, but in these time the HAND OF GOD WAS MIGHTY TO SAVE. Even if things don’t go the way we want or expected, know that our father, THE POTTER, has bigger plans. With time, whether we are still here on earth or in heaven, we will see and understand the BIGGER PICTURE. Be still and KNOW THAT HE IS GOD!

By Taka Sande