SEEK RECONCILIATION-PART THREE

Reconciliation will help us bury our differences and restore our first relationship of love, peace and unity.

The story of Jacob and Esau gives us a good example of forgiveness and reconciliation. Even though Jacob had stolen his brother’s birthright, many years later, he asked for forgiveness. God worked in Esau’s heart and changed him. Instead of taking revenge for the precious birthright stolen by Jacob, he received his brother in a friendly manner, not in a hostile manner that Jacob was expecting. He fell on his brother’s neck, kissed him, and wept as a true sign of forgiveness. They buried their differences and reconciled with each other. (Gen.32 & 33).

Conclusion:

Our National Anthem exhorts us to live in unity, peace, and liberty irrespective of our tribes. Why has our generation failed to live in unity as brothers? What causes fights and quarrels among us—Kenyans? Men and women of Kenya, are we not brothers and sisters irrespective of our tribe, race, religion, gender, political persuasions, generation gap or ethnic background? Why do we hurt each other? Let us all unite as one nation through embracing the process of forgiveness and reconciliation knowing that whatever hatred and animosity happening in Kenya is perpetrated by the devil. Kenya is too sweet a country to be destroyed by the devil through ethnic differences. Let us consider Jesus’ advice that “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.”12

This is not the time to point a finger at each other when bloodshed, loss of innocent lives, stealing, and hooliganism, continues due to the ethnic clashes. True Christians need to understand that what is happening in Kenya is the devil’s plan to ruin our stable and God-fearing Nation. If we seek and cultivate sincere forgiveness and reconciliation with each other, God will see us through this dark stage of our country’s history. God will protect us and our loved ones.

As I learned after my father who was murdered in 1993, the only way to heal relationships is through forgiveness and reconciliation. Kenyans, let us repent our sins and let us forgive one another so that our land may be healed.

Note
12. Matthew 12:25

*Excerpt from the soon to be published book –Let’s Save Our Nation by Samuel Kahura Chege.