Three illicit loves

ebola3Perspective Stephen Mpofu
ARE perilous times here at long last, marking the approaching end to an ailing age doodling on crutches? God’s holy scriptures immortalise immutable evidence of end-times and this pen is persuaded that the Ebola virus now  on  a deadly rampage through West and Central African countries is a pestilence that posits J-Day with throng upon throng of the ugly and the beautiful before the judgement throne of Christ to receive their just desserts.

To be sure, it would be foolhardy of even the most ardent believers in a never-ending world to disagree that the world we live in is in turmoil and thanks to three illicit loves, namely self-love, love of pleasure and the love of money.

Juggle these corruptive values up in any order and they will still impact the world in pretty much the same way.

A snapshot of current world events cannot fail to reveal how the trio of loves is turning the world upside down, for the moment in two main prongs, one running from Eastern Europe through the Middle East and down to Asia.

The second line of devastation is the swath cut through North and Central Africa, the Horn and East Africa right down to Lesotho, a country much closer to home, where a coup in the making recently sent the tiny kingdom’s Prime Minister fleeing for dear life to South Africa.

The zealots involved in all these upheavals use violence as a banner of their absurd religiosity and of a façade political superiority over other people’s beliefs, with the result that people are killed or sent fleeing for life into the bush or into neighbouring countries with their homes deserted or left smoking, and their economic activities disrupted in the wake of the demagogic attempts at gratification of the three competing loves.

When it comes to the love of money, or worshipping mammon, perhaps there is no better example of people who practise that than those in a certain well – known Western queen mother of capitalism where the poor are at best regarded as mere afterthoughts or at worst as nonentities in the public domain especially if they wear a black skin.

Here at home and maybe in other countries as well, all three loves congregate and impact people in varying degrees of intensity.

Of late different media in Zimbabwe have been replete with reports of marriages breaking up at frightening rapidity, with statistics showing how that institution has fallen under siege as couples pursue what they probably believe as greater excitement romping with different men or women in the full evil spirit of gallivanting.

Envy, which is an evil spirit, obviously plays no mean role in the bid to satiate self by wresting to one’s self another man’s beautiful wife or handsome Romeo, as the case might be.

It is said envy is “the rottenness of bones”, which suggests, therefore, that envy causes the rottenness of moral rectitude among some of our people.

As for the love of money, one might say that spates of robberies, theft of money by workers, etcetera are driven by the  evil spirit to try to make one happy through ill-gotten riches, with corruption having a big hand in that illicit pecuniary love.

Then comes the really big one, self-love which has seen and continues to see a scramble for the political sky, power, as Zimbabweans, including political cripples, clamber up the ladder in an effort to munch the succulent fruits hanging down there over their heads.

The race for the rosy sky sometimes gets so hot that nagging power hunger causes some people to turn themselves over as Trojan horses to smuggle in sworn enemies of the people of Zimbabwe to help the power seekers enter their cherished office by the back door.

But as the ladder gets too crowded those vying against each other for the office or offices are so blinded by their desires and fail to see Jesus Christ coming down the same ladder, as a light of the lamp – indeed, the light Himself – to illuminate the dark mazes and alleys of this country where with the sanctions – hammer smashed light bulbs in the ceiling so it could sneak into the country under cover of darkness and set up a new regime that kowtows to its every whim.

If to some people this sounds mythical – well – how else would Zimbabweans have survived the West’s satanic economic embargo had this country’s saviour not stepped in when He timeously did so?

Since, as the truism goes, that one good turn deserves another, this pen suggests that the only way that Zimbabweans, all Zimbabweans for that matter, can truly repay their debt of gratitude in the case in point is by converting to Christianity in truth and deed, not by lip only, they MUST become SERVANTS of Jesus.

 

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