The State Of God

Most of us have been raised with a desire to feel one with God, that or a power that is greater than us, one that is the determinant of what is right and what is wrong. We have been taught that to be one with this power or with God, it to be entirely right and chosen. And that teaching is okay. Then we have been led in the ways that will ensure that we are one with God. Children are taught to go to their family places of worship, read the holy book, pray and endeavour to always do right. And when we grow up, we all strive to keep these practices so that we shall keep this feeling of oneness with God, in fact we even lead our little ones in the same patterns and we frown, even though not strongly, at those that do not attempt to follow this pattern of deeds.

The result of this is that we help in creating the confusion of life today. We are free to do the deeds that make us feel and the deeds that make us not feel like. As long as we pay our conscience’s debt we remain free to become debtors again. What they did not tell us, is that being one with God is not in the deeds that we are taught to walk after, its is in itself a state, you are either one with Him or not. The deeds that they so laboured to teach us should spring from a deep realisation of who we are in relation to this God, that we are not actually paying any debt, but doing ourselves a favour to grow in this oneness with Him.

We walk in the ways that He sets for us, and we walk in them fully, we abandon the liberty to walk any other way and stand to only reflect our oneness with Him at all times. We are bound to make mistakes, but they will not always be the choice and desire of our being and that is why we stand to repent and turn away from them, or keep fighting until we have managed to be steered away from those wrong walks of life. If we are the people of God, it will show in our strongest times and those deemed weakest, in our falling and rising because He is with us.

The states and the leaders of those states have fallen victim of this wrong teaching in up bringing. They have been taught to swear by the holy books, to invite the religious leaders at public and private functions, to make appearances at the places of worship and to humble themselves for a word of prayer. And when the religious leaders show up for their mistaken shows, they naturally assume that since they are one with the representatives of God, they are one with God. They are then released to err like they previously did. While they carry foreign names that signify faith, they are indeed more inclined to their local names that signify the opposite.

Then we ask ourselves, who is it to blame, the men that put the phrase, ‘Oh Uganda, May God Uphold Thee...’ or we that have sung it without thought of what we are doing. We who have cheered our leaders as they walked from witch to witch and flashed their symbols before the mad crowds? The answer to this question may not come today, but we all have decisions to make. We are to realise that we are either with God or not and as such so is our state. If we lead our lives in the ways that will cause us to repent, ways that will make us uncertain of our place in heaven or hell, we are sure to let leaders of the same uncertainty to lead us.

Instead of asking questions, let us acknowledge that we have fallen far from the intentions of the teachings of our parents and as such, our leaders too have. We all may purport to be the people and state of God, and yet we have abandoned Him and everything He stands for. He does not call us to try our best but to do His will and that we can only do when we are with Him, when we chose to be with Him. For God and My Country.