The president’s third chief minister, David Sengeh, said even with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, Sierra Leone will not change. We are sure that the Lord was and still is not pleased with David’s lack of faith in his ability to change things.
Many people have said the Lord should pay a visit to the committee to assure them that he is with them and that their recommendations will be the best for the country.
Meanwhile, the Lord is with the committee, whether or not the members including Minister Sengeh know and believe this.
Speaking to his faithful disciples, the Lord said in Matthew 18:19-20, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”…King James Version (KJV).
Since we have Christian members of the committee we are confident that when they gather to do their work, and before doing so call on the name of the Lord, he is there in their midst.
The struggling people of Sierra Leone that are looking up to the work of the committee to wrap things up and make recommendations that will bring healing and sanity to our electoral processes are here encouraged to believe and know that the Lord is actively working with the committee and the president to make sure that the right thing is done by them: the committee and His Excellency.
We must remember that it is the Lord that elects our leaders through our votes, and it is also the Lord that deposes them through our votes and any other means designed to end a leader’s tenure. This can also be done through a vote, through the courts, jail or social or civil conflict. By any means necessary, the Lord intervenes in the affairs of our governments in the interest of his beloved people and land.
The Christians in the Tripartite Committee believe in the coming of the Lord; they also believe that he is at work with them to come up with free, fair and credible recommendations that will make our democracy the envy of the world.
If anyone doubts that the Lord can and will change things for Sierra Leone like the Chief Minister, then the Lord will remind them that he was able to feed thousands of people with the meagre food sources he was given.
The Lord will remind the committee of his feeding of the 5,000. The absolute truth of this miracle evident is the mere fact that it is the only miracle of Jesus that shows up in all four Gospels. In fact, it shows up six times in four Gospels because Matthew and Mark have both a feeding of five thousand and a feeding of four thousand. Any story repeated so many times must be important.
The feeding of the 5,000 is one of the first miracles of the Lord. As mentioned earlier, this feeding of the 5,000, is the only miracle—aside from the resurrection—recorded in all four gospels (Matthew 14:13–21; Mark 6:31–44; Luke 9:12–17; John 6:1–14).
The importance of such a story is especially for people like our Chief Minister who has shown himself to be a doubting Thomas.
Meanwhile, the Lord is working with the Tripartite Committee. Jesus’s work in the Tripartite Committee is being done expressively in the interest of his struggling people and abused land. The Lord is working for the people to encourage and remind them that better things are on the way and that their struggles that are the result of our electoral impasse will soon come to an end. He is also working in the interest of the land because he does not want to see any more blood spilled on the land in the interest of propping an oppressive and thieving regime in power to the detriment of the struggling masses.
The Tripartite Committee works in the interest of the nation and their recommendations will be for same, not in the interest of any political party or personality.
Ultimately the recommendations that will be proffered for the president’s consideration do not belong to any party. They belong to the people and any president that cares about the people and this country, as the president has been claiming all along, will do what the committee recommends.
If Christ were to let his presence in the committee known outright, we expect him to have a few words for the unbelieving Chief Minister.
David Sengeh’s doubt that the Lord can change things for Sierra Leone would be the focus of the Lord’s banter with the committee as it is ironic for a regime that promised to change things for the people with the help of God not to believe in his ability to do as expected or hope for.
David’s comment attempts to strip the Lord of his power to feed and defend the people’s votes. Unlike the common saying by contesting candidates that they will protect the people’s votes, it is actually the work of the Lord to protect the people’s votes through the workings of the electoral commission, as this is the most effective agency the Lord uses in the establishment and deposing of governments.
In the meantime, the Lord will forgive David’s comment and view is as the utterance of a hard-pressed government worker who is frustrated that the change he is hoping to see is slow at coming. The Lord would remind David to be as faithful as his “torma” in the Bible, the blessed King David, who the Lord loves because of his unchanging faith in the ability of the Lord to accomplish anything, especially what seems impossible to man.
In closing the Lord would tell the teary eyed minister that: “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Lonta!