HEADS OR TAILS

In a span of 24 hours of a single day; a pastor drives a point home aimed at encouraging his congregants to live holy lives worth the calling to sepation from a stained universe. Elsewhere, a lady is working tirelessly to feed the orphans she’s dedicated her life to and by choice, she does. A father rushes home early after work and spends the rest of the day playing with his kids. A president signs a deal with a foreign state to have them finance a major infrastructural project. A man quits the brown bottle to be able to spend more time with the family and better perform his family responsibilities. And good and good, the blessed sons and daughters of the universe rise and rise to perform good deeds to make the world a better place.

On another corner of the world; a man breaks into someone’s car within town centre and does away with valuables including laptops and phones. A sixty year old man has a new catch, a 21 year old university student to spend good times with. Members of parliament collude to award themselves hefty allowance packages or a car grant for every member. Within the same fraction of a lifetime; some bank employees collude with some hooligans to defraud big time cash from their employer. Somewhere in a remote upcountry village, men are drinking themselves silly and neglecting their duties to provide for their families and make love to their hardworking wives. The heinous yet; some guy runs his car off the road into a crowd killing several on the spot. The driver is completely drunk. Another woman torches her hut killing herself and her four children. Their will or not to do evil, the ugly deeds goes on unabated so to speak.

A Christian is called for higher purpose which is to affect the world positively by the good deeds that would drive away the darkness from our beautiful world. The good works from Christian circles ought to overshadow the ugly acts in the world as men and women of faith work to bring the world to know Christ who’s the savior of the world.

Sadly though, Christians are more often than not caught up in the very acts of the sinful nature which they ought to work against. The reason why this happens is because the Holy Spirit has not worked through the dough that is our bodies so we could be even enough to represent God. A simple truth is that we manifest what is stored up in our hearts be it bad or be it good. That means that if we assess our tendencies for good or evil, it reflects what is stored up within us, good or evil and that's why we are encouraged to store up God's word in our hearts to defeat evil.

Another interesting portion of the scripture, Rev 22:11-12, encourages people to continue to do what they have committed to do, good or bad. It says, "Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy. Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done."

The biggest power that God bestowed on human kind is the power of choice. He doesn't force anyone but He advises us in Deut 30:19, "This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."

So, the choice is always 2 sides of a coin. Heads or tails. Good or evil. Life or death. Blessings or curses.

But we are already advised to choose what is right. Shall we?

@Stephen Mungai