THE DIRTY BROOM

WHEN THE BROOM IS DIRTY THE HOUSE CANNOT BE CLEAN
The Coalition Government is hardly a year old and has shown the world very clearly how divided it is despite the outward appearances of unity by it's two major top leadership teams. The gross corruption and fraud cases coming out openly, warring for top positions and tribal balancing acts throw all sanity and integrity outside its realm. We can only logically conclude that Kenya is in a seroius crisis brought about by rampant spiritual, social, economic, political and moral failure.
Too many leaders from both the divides sadly lack the wisdom, the courage, or moral authority to solve this dilema. Our leaders are more concerned about personal position, wealth, and authority, more than the good of the people, governance, and economic development of the country. The crux of the matter in the coalition is not that they want to define who is the greatest of them all but also who is the cleanest of all. Most of them detest being the cleanest of them all. Whenever there is trouble over who is the holiest, the cleanest and the greatest, there is also trouble over who is the most evil, the dirtiest, and the most unworthy of them all. Some of our leaders have come a long way, yes, all the way from corruption, sexual immorality breaking marriages, lining up on Koinange street to pick sexual workers, men known of raping the youth and relatives, stealing left and light, killing one another worse than animals. They need someone to wash their dirty linens in secrecy of true repentance and remission of sins. Let them take a leaf from King David in Psalms 51, as he cries in anguish for his sins, " Create in me a clean heart Oh Lord and renew the right Spirit within me---------Let there be no sacrifial lambs nor the untouchables if we want God to transform our nation because sin is sin. We have very hard questions without answers.
At the hieght of the elections the ODM Pentagon possed as the cleanest broom Kenya has ever seen. Some members were so inspired of their self-righteousness that the battle to unseat PNU went beyond overboard inside Parliament. They were ready to kneel and worship their king maker now the Prime Minister. However their fire and their inspiration was to be the most short lived. The question everybody is asking is what happened, why so soon they have become equally corrupt. The many scandals and corruptions have become the eye opener to reveal that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? All men's hearts are desperately in need of a saviour. Who could think the name of Hon. Namwamba, the PM Raila Odinga, his son, his aids could be among the list of shame because of the maize scandal? I am not saying that they are guilty, I am only wondering what happened, what went wrong to the clean broom? how did it become dirty?
You come to learn a lot about a person by the friends he selects, he keeps and the people he uses as his reutenants. And nothing proves more deadly and evil than the choice of companions, the hand - picked objects of intimacy our party heads pick. Talk of change some of these generals and youths have no fear of God in their lifestyles, in their mouth, and in their brains. If you ask why, you will be expossing yourself to condemnation by the God fearless who would be more than happy to give you infallable proofs how some of them recked churches even before joined their party. It is a lifelong goal and desire for some politician to burn churches, and to destroy the work of God in Kenya. For such a politician and criminal to be the spokesman for a party and to take the position of the adviser is to dig the party's graveyard.
Those who know some of the political generals shrink and feel insulted because they should be in jail. The worst crime commited in Kenya is for politicians to inspire, fund, and plan how to make the youth, the poor, and others responsible for their choices. For example, the poor youths in police custodies allowed themselves to be manipulated by their generals and went about killing other innocent citizens. They all made choices. Purchased by money, not freely given, but a choice nonetheless. They all gave their time to their generals out of their own free will. The youth could be tempted to tell their generals, "You made me kill" The generals did act manipulatively, but they could never be manipulated without their permission. Killing innocent citizens was simply their choice. This is invariably the fruit of passive-agressive people the likes of -let me spare them. These untouchables resisted demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibilty for their own choices; instead, they turned around and let the youth be blamed for making them kill. It is the same way for abuse. We cannot stop someone from being abusive but we can stop expossing ourselves or our youth from being abused. Therefore to convict the youths to life sentense or death while those who manipulated them are considered the untouchable elite will leave poor and hopelessly broken families breeding in endless pain. This is the worst form of corruption and violation of human rights. Any judge who will sit in court to give the vedict must think twice before destroying the lives of these innocent youths. They are innocent in the manner I have explained that they are the victims of high voltage manipulation. However that is not the route I would want us to follow. Let us go by God's word and examples found in the bible.The selection of persons God selected as His companions and those of some parties have some similarities.
Jesus knew that Saul, though a murderer and Church persecuter was the most suited student of the kingdom lacking training and empowerment. St Paul graduated as the most powerful and effective leader and transformer of all times. Who knows if these generals and the youth given a chance to be transformed can develop to become the most suited defender of justice and transformer of corruption and insecurity in the near future? Jesus the teacher had developed a passion to communicate the gospel, the power of God.The effective teacher always teaches from the overflow of a full life.The law of the teacher simply stated is this: If you stop growing in wisdom and understanding today, you stop teaching tomorrow. Neither beauty, personality, wealth nor methodology can subtitute for this principle. You cannot communicate out of a vacuum. You can not impart what you do not possess. If you don't know it, truly know it, you can't give it.
The reality of teaching is that all great teachers primarily are learners, and students among students perpetuating the learning process; They are still en route. And by becoming students again, they seek to develop and improve the education process through a radically new and uniquely personal set of eyes. They must keep growing and changing. The word of God of course, does not change; but their understanding of it does change, because every one is a changing and developing individual."We really have to relay the moral foundations of governance in this country. Many Politicians have not been fathered, so they become 'posers'—they are just looking to impress people.'" Pride, is a primary reason why so many leaders in Parliament, government and society have fallen in recent years—including mature patriotic fathers who had years of successful leadership trates behind them but stumbled in their later years. "You look at leaders in the Bible like king David, king Solomon, king Saul, or like Samson, and you find that years of success can lead a person into pride. And when pride comes, it brings a lack of accountability and lack of accountability leads to failure in the political career, in marriage and family life and pain. Therefore it is good to understand that except the Lord build a ministry using you, the minister labour in vain, except the Lord guards a nation the leaders labor in vain.
You come to learn a lot about a person by the friends he selects, and nothing about God proves more surprising than his choice of companions, the hand - picked objects of his intimacy. Abraham pimped for his wife, Jacob cheated his brother, Moses murdered. David murdered and committed adultery. Yet all of these ended up on God’s list of favorites because they all chose God to be on their team and they had a great desire to change. Jacob got his new name Israel (God-struggler) after an all-night wrestling match with God, and ever since the name for God’s people have harked back to the contest. God’s people are literally, the children of struggle. The company that God keeps will always determine victory and not failure, because He is always within His team. God knows that the choices He has made will be developed and transformed, into great men and women of God. They must graduate with the ability to deliver and to transform others irrespective of their historical background.
However it is not the case with political leaders. They have no ability to live a moral life nor the power to transform others even though their desire, and their gospel is to bring the desired change in others. When the broom is dirty, the house cannot be clean. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked who can know it?. All men's hearts are desperately weered and wicked.