To The Sent Vessels Of Mercy,dont Lose Your Definition Series

Our good is not necessarily Gods good. And above all things we should remember that our definition of everything about us should be that same definition found in Gods mind:

Hence despite wanting good for the nations we live in remember that Jesus lived in Israel but identified himself with his heavenly father and his heavenly fathers calling on his life. Remember there was a colonial master known as Rome that ruled the Jews but there was nowhere that Jesus stood up and attempted politics or tried to mention Pilate. John on the other hand criticized Herod for taking his brothers wife.

Today we lay a lot of emphasis on our earthly identity and assume that that earthly identity is who we are when in reality Jesus reveals something in the garden when He prayed, something that we find too easy to ignore:

John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, even as I am not of the world.

Jesus’s words expressly describe you and i as not being of this world. I am not a Kenyan first, nor are you a Ugandan or a Ghanaian, you are not of this world just as Jesus is not American or Jewish nor is he Iraqi or Ugandan. This is why i find it amusing when christian folks pray for their football team to win against the team of another nation. How do you think God receives such prayer? Does he award a win to the team with the people who are most praying for it? Or does He award a win to the national team with lesser sins? Lol!!!!! God is about a heavenly agenda, not a carnal, earthly, geographical agenda.

You may say policy affects many righteous and unrighteous things in our environment and i would say to you that what if God, like Paul said, made some vessels or some people vessels to ensure that he gets to his goal? God is not a man with a few flailing senses susceptible to error, he is a perfect being with infinite abilities. Its the reason Jesus gave us a glimpse of Gods abilities by teaching us that God personally feeds the birds of the air, yet if we observed the birds they have no sense of horror about having no bank account to rely on for tomorrow, but they will sing in a tree and chirp away yet every single day they will be fully fed, never seen a bird thats starved. Its those kinds of glimpses that we find too easy to meditate about yet Jesus asked us to consider them, or in short i always ask folks if they have ever obeyed Jesus and considered how God feeds the birds of the air:

26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

I mean Jesus gave us an example of Gods work by telling us facts about the birds He feeds, that those birds dont even sow nor do they reap, nor do they gather in barns. These are principles that we as humans espouse greatly, and thats why we take our kids to school, its the reason we have bank accounts, savings accounts and but government bonds or shares in various entitites, its for the sake of tomorrow. Yet jesus doesnt just tell us about the birds but lets us know that the birds dont even do the prerequisites for a better tomorrow but are fed fully and adequately by God himself.

So do you ever consider or look at the birds of the air and how they feed?

Or do you simply just know that scripture?

If we did we would know that Gods hand is intricately woven into our daily lives. I for one live a very miraculous life and dont even share it with every Jack, Peter or Paul because they wouldnt believe it. And a lot of times the way i live is not outrageously miraculous but Gods hand is woven into my daily life, literally.

The same with the righteousness and unrighteousness around us, we ought to pray but it doesnt mean that God can oly achieve righteousness with a democratic or a republican government. Infact in my opinion those of us who have a clear understanding of the introduction of democracy in African societies will agree that to a great degree it has caused the greatest surge of sin and confusion in those societies than when the societies existed in their original form, thats a discussion for another day.

If a president or a leader mentions Jesus it doesnt mean that the person is a man of God at all. While we hope that leaders be men and women who place the Lord first in their lives remember that behind closed doors politicians make tough decisions that even cause small children to lose fathers, mothers and siblings in wars that seem senseless to us but which behind closed doors could be making real sense to the national intelligence services of that president government. A senior intelligence officer once told me that there have been situations where they have had to eliminate persons that were planning major casualties in our national capital and since the persons were in a convoy of vehicles the intelligence officers, with the blessing of the national intelligence committee had to resort to detonating a whole bus that not only included the dangerous fanatic trio they were tracking but that included innocent fathers, mothers and kids going about their daily lives and travelling to and fro in a bus. They even had the news configured to blame the explosion on something else rather than reveal that these individuals had loaded the bus with nuclear matter that they planned to explode once the bus got to the city center.