Saddest Sunday

Today is supposed to be the start of my 16th month as pastor, but I found myself outside and without a church. It is my saddest Sunday, more so than when I was barred from entering church premises during the vaccination mandate. That lasted less than 6 months until 1st May 2022, but some leaders even after SOP was relaxed still insisted on vaccination as a requirement for leadership contest.

The church had truly become corrupt when corrupt leaders ruled. With a change of leadership, let’s hope for a better tomorrow. But in the meantime, I will have to readjust to my weekly schedule of getting to church and preaching regularly. While adjusting, I hope to continue my commentary which is going better than I thought. 

I told my wife yesterday that the Lord did not answer my prayers. I prayed for two weeks that there would be peace in the Middle East, but since yesterday war had started. Let’s hope through this war, we will have some peace in the region. And the end time prophecies of more wars and rumours of wars are being fulfilled. No one can go against the Lord’s will as earthquakes, wars, famines and plagues will happen with greater intensity when the End draws near. 

But as I do every Sunday, I had a 4.15 am wakeup just now and by 5.30am I had finished my quiet time, reading a couple of Psalms 1-2. Then I started writing and I will write more forthwith. 

Now that I am free agent, many of my Friends had enquired where I would be going and what I would be doing. I am not sure myself. An elder called me yesterday to tell me that most likely by next year 2027, my leaders will appoint me back to the College which I served 10 years ago as Acting Principal. Is it 10 years too late? I am not sure I have the energy to drive for almost 3 hours up and down a mountain road. When I sold my Triton in 2021, I thought my interior ministry was finished as far as staying in the interior was concerned. Can I still do it, O Lord? Or I might just officially declare myself a full-time author and write as many books as possible in the next 10 years or so.