Thoughts from Kenya

Because we do not build

with wood, hay, stubble, gold, silver or precious gems

we are free to invest the Lord’s resources in the

hungry, thirsty, naked, sick and imprisoned.

We are free to love the violent, drunk, perverted and profane

and to reveal God’s forgiveness through Christ.

Because we do not invest in the works of the flesh

by erecting steepled monuments

we will suffer no loss by the fires of testing

which will one day consume them all.
Our support to the suffering people who were displaced

because of political crisis in our country

has caused our relationship to grow in a wide range and in different families

Christians and non Christians.

And the main point we were walking with wherever we go

was forgive and love one onother and stay in unity.
Many, if not most, who attend today’s institutional churches

suffer from a deep spiritual dryness

that has settled into their very bones.

It seems to manifest itself as a hunger

that penetrates the very soul.

Because they have not followed God’s blueprint many,

aware of their need,

go about like blind men groping in the darkness

seeking what they sense they do not have.

Many actually find the truth they hunger for

and the joy that comes with the quickening of God’s spirit within.

For a season this new light from God illuminates their heart

and beckons them to follow but,

afraid to leave familiar surroundings

or endure the rebuke of their loved ones,

they remain captive in a religious system that has grown cold.

A denominational system which is determined to be right

even if it has to deny the truth to do it.

Winning the doctrinal argument becomes more important

than discovering God’s truth.

These institutional captives are like grapes

left too long on the vine,

poor souls withering and wrinkling with age.

Their skin thickening

and no longer sensitive to the truth that surrounds them.

The time of enlightenment passes

and with it the joy of serving Jesus.

Finally, legalism sets in and the Spirit moves out.