The Fall from VIP (Very Important People) to VHI (Very High-Risk People)

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Hellen Keller, a poet and author once said, “The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Yesterday it was fashionable to live in the big cosmopolitan cities of the world, travel across international lines by air and feel so important. People lived with the thought that living in affluent cities turned them into heroes who could overcome anything. The people living in small towns and villages were considered to be living in the diaspora of poverty, struggle, and weakness.

When news of city folks’ escapades in cities like Rome, New York, Paris, etc. even my own city Lusaka, it was always a Wow, factor to those in the imagined internal underprivileged Diasporas. In my country, because you live in the capital city and you happen to visit family and friends in smaller towns and villages, you are treated with VIP (Very Important Person) status. How lovely it feels to be bestowed with such unsolicited honor.

However, in recent times, how the tables seem to have turned by one little, tiny and invisible creature called CORVID 19 teaching us a big unsolicited lesson that all we thought we were was just an illusion. CORVID19 has just transformed people living in big cities with the perceived affluent lives, from being VIP (Very Important People) to VHI (Very High-Risk People). Living in the epicenter of the CORVID19 outbreak just canceled every human formula that categorizes populations into classes and renamed all with one title, which is not even pleasant. I hope we don't get to the point where city folks are barred from visiting villages or get chased from the villages because of suspicion of being CORVID 19 carriers. That will be tragic 

What is the lesson? Whatever you think you are is not important, but how you treat others. It's not how you met someone but how you leave them that is paramount. People will not remember what you gave them or not but how you made them feel in your presence. We are all humans with the same body biology, which entails that we will all decay the same way. You may be living in a big city, don’t insult those living in the remote village because as CORVID 19 has taught us, the village may just be the safest place while your big city might just be one big hospital requiring you to wash your hands every hour and wearing a face mask.

Life is fragile let us be one another’s keeper and continue helping each other at all times. Above all whether you live in a big city and have everything expensive to your name, you are just human and let being human be your value to others

You Scream, Yet Your Voice is not Loud Enough

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." ~ Steve Jobs

More often than not we are time and again trapped in the mediocre perception of ourselves as not being good enough. We tend to believe that anything we can do will always fall short of the required standard. The question then is, what is that standard which we are always falling short? We judge our own capacities by other people's opinions. It is amazing that you are the only one in this world and yet you are trying to beat a standard set by another person. Your only competition is you and not anybody else. Who has told the so-called standard setters that you are only the best when compared to another person. There is non-like you now, before and after you. You are the same yesterday, today and forever beautifully crafted in the creator's image. When you look in the mirror the only one you see is you. You may wear make-up but all you will still see is you. The only important issue is what you call the one you see in the mirror Great or Minion, it's your choice

You wake up every morning putting up every effort to smile, yet you are deeply morning in your heart because the world has convinced you that nothing better will ever come your way or out of you. You have believed such lies, hence, you have set out to gain society's approval. But you realize that the standard you are trying to meet does not fit your DNA and at the end of every effort, you are worse than you were before. Your inner voice has kept crying out for more of you and the God essence of being more than a conquerer invested in your soul, yet you do everything to silence that authentic voice just to follow other people's lies upon your life and destiny.

Look! enough of those lies and its time to wake up the champion in you. You carry diamonds within you, yet society's lies have made you think diamonds are somewhere else. You are the greener pastures the world has been waiting for yet you have spent a lifetime looking for greener pastures God knows where. You carry God, yet you are asked to look for and find God. In fact, you are a god. therefore, if you are looking for something you already possess, then you will never find it. This is the reason people move from one prophet to another for the sole purpose of finding God and themselves, who they already are. What a shame!

Its time to change the strategy and find you by you. Don't you think?

Resurrection from the Grave of Lies

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Literally Not much (Nothing)." -~Jim Rohn

In the three years of Jesus Christ's ministry on earth, I have not found any scripture in the Christian Bible that gives an account of Jesus starting an orphanage or vulnerable group establishment. This aspect of the Jesus story may help us to understand that He did not come to find the vulnerable groups to leave them vulnerable so as to make them a source of compassionate giving towards his ministry. Every person Jesus touched was transformed into a champion.

Just picture some of the highlights of the Bible; When a group of mourners meets Jesus on their way to the burial site, that was the end of the funeral procession because the dead met the resurrection power and had no time remaining dead. Even if Lazarus had been dead and buried four (4) days ago and Jesus showed up at his grave, the tomb had no choice but to gave up the dead and produced a live Lazarus. In the presence of Jesus, sickness and disease did not even need an announcement but left people's bodies noiseless. The bottom line is that Jesus did not give any form of tribulation the pleasure of being named such as the disease of the year to the extent of naming movements or events by the names of troubles such as Lazarus Ressurection day, Cancer day, Aids day, etc. Jesus was able to extend festivities without an additional budget for beer during one wedding celebration he attended. In fact, we could easily say that Jesus disrupted companies that preyed on people in that biblical time, the professional mourners' associations, funeral services, who could not continue as funerals prematurely got disrupted with unexpected resurrections

Contrary to the Jesus style, Today, we want to identify the orphans or widows and we want to ensure that they keep that title forever possibly engraved on their foreheads for easy identification. We have given diseases such honor that we dare anyone to forget their names. vulnerable groups have been hypnotized over and over with lies that a better life awaits them in heaven. crooked religious teachers have made it their life's goal to ensure that they thrive over the people's ignorance while extorting the poor of their hard-earned meagre incomes under the guise of giving to the Lord. How are the poor being helped when even the little they have is being taken away from them.

The mission of every man or woman is typified by Jesus' attitude. Don't leave your fellow man worse than you found them. Don't make your fellow man forever dependent on you as though it is the best thing you can do. You are not helping the poor by ensuring that they remain poor for your own benefit. But ensure always that you help the poor to find and wake up the champion in them.

A good leader is not the one with the most followers but the one who raises the most leaders. A good King is not the one with the most subjects but the one who raises the most Kings. Cherish every relationship that you create in the course of your life because every person that has crossed your path, is there for a purpose. Find that purpose and you will not miss out on life. Every good and kindness that you will give out there will always come back to you in a more amplified form for your good. Whoever you raise up out there, you will be raised even higher by the almighty. Just ensure you don't give out some really bad Sh**t to someone because you might just receive a load of the same back and amplified.

Today, Go out and do some good out there because that is who you are in the image of God.