Dear Editor
I feel compelled to echo the wise words of our Honourable Vice President, Rre Mompati Merafhe, who said at one of the Kgotla meetings recently that we should stop hindering each other’s progress over jealousy. “Scary, isn’t it?”
For a small nation with a population of close to two million, we are constantly battling with the already many plagues that have attacked our society; some being social, political, health, just to mention but a few.
Betsho, allow me to zero in on one of our social ills, when the religious leaders become jealous. In politics it may be termed as backstabbing, in church we call it sin or hypocrisy because it is an inbuilt covetousness, desiring what belongs to someone else to an extent of wishing it were yours. In the work arena we call it PHD (pull him/her down). This anomaly syndrome in a nutshell is associated with personalities of low self esteem or people that suffer from inferiority complexes, who think that they cannot achieve what you have achieved hence the jealousness kicking in. Take it or leave it, but it’s true.
Our nation is a beacon of Africa, as we all know, and is exemplary to many nations for its many prized possessions, thanks to the many individual extraordinary persons in respective fields of society that have and continue to contribute to this repute. However, on the same breath and in this article, I want to address those that have made it a personal patriotic duty to let jealous dictate their lifestyle.
Ladies and Gentlemen, when individuals, companies or even non-entities get financially blessed, this blessing flows all the way to the poor as jobs are created as the finances are distributed in the economy. This is how each and every one of us ought to think. However, when the Blesser becomes jealous of the Blessee, then we have a huge problem in our hands. It’s is though these very servants of God, the mouth pieces of the Most High, chosen or called, set apart individuals, bestowed with powers to hold, represent and uphold the Temples of the Most High, assigned and ordained for a purpose to lead by example, instruct, teach and pray for His flock.
Pastors, stop being hypocrites as you can only reap what you sow and may I remind you that if you sow a seed of jealous in your congregation you will reap a hundred fold bosom filled, pressed down, shaken together and running over jealous congregation. The bigger picture of this predicament is that this jealous clan can impede government’s 2016 Vision as they are far from building a caring and passionate country. It’s a fact and by the way, some Pastors at the Church I attend, are not any different.
EDDIE MDLULI
GABORONE
