JESUS SAID 'I HAVE NOT COME TO JUDGE.'

YESTERDAY, Kenya's Supreme Court sitting under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice, Mr. David Magara (left) and five other Justices, ruled that the Election of Kenya's President had been found faulty, and that 'fresh presidential elections would now take place in 60 days.     Prefacing his Ruling Mr. Mangara pointed out that

'The greatness of any nation lies in its fidelity

to the Constitution, and adherence to the Rule of Law,

and above all 
respect for God.'

The Chief Justice is said to be a very outspoken Christian, and a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

GENERALLY the Ruling has been received peacefully, both from the Government and the Opposition, the President himself calling for peace from all parties and individuals.      Business as usual.        However,  the next two months will continue to leave the Country in uncertainty as to the future, and no doubt little meaningful advance will be achieved until the new Election is over and and a President accepted.       We are none the less all glad that so far the Country is more willing to pursue a lawful ballot than an unlawful bullet.       We do see the hand of God in this.

RAIN continues to heavily pour down out of grey skies.    There are floods.   It is cold, dank and rather cheerless in our part of the Country.

AND now the new School Term is already challenged by the call of another General Election to discover a President.      The Term is already quite short, as I mentioned last week, and exams are scheduled to take place in October/November.      NOW, with the Elections called for exactly that time, the Ministry of Education will have to consider to either let them go ahead or to DELAY them.

This can only complicate and disturb schooling for this current Term.      Not a good thing for the children especially at a time when they should be calm and secure.

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LAST SATURDAY'S BLOG seemed to go unnoticed by most - we only received one reply to it.

This Week  I feel a need to say something on another topic - though in a way connected.    It is Character Assassination - in one way or another.     It is something that has in recent years been an increasing factor in western society in particular.      I mean one is more and more being forced to mistrust the most trusted and respected among us, including our very own family - perhaps also our very own selves.       This may, in one way, be a good thing - I mean as I laboured to remind us last week, we are ALL sinners, and therefor capable of sinning.     I suppose, therefore, we can all be suspected........

BUT St. Paul says in 1. Corinthians 13v7, talking of God's type of LOVE for which he uses the word 'charity' -

'Charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.'

The Amplified Bible translation expands 'believeth all things' to  ' is ever ready to believe the best of every person '.        When I was growing up in the 40s to 50s I would say that, compared to today this attitude was closer to society in it's their regard to one another.    A more generous outlook in many ways.      In these recent times we seem to have gone in for a determined effort to find out and enjoy the worst we can discover relative to one another's failures - especially those in the public eye.   Perhaps we demand the best of those whom we admire, and secretly hope are more perfect than we are; MORE admirable.    And so when we, or others, discover we are not so perfect we demand our 'pound of flesh';  a proper, and sometimes even more unreasonable, punishment.       Even then in my youth, when the PROOF was there and exposed it was appropriately dealt with.      BUT today we more and more seem to lean towards rumour and suspicion rather than clear and proven fact.  Our Law in Great Britain has rested, as it still does, on a man or woman being found GUILTY of a crime ONLY when the facts are clearly there to PROVE the guilt.       We cannot be imprisoned on suspicion alone beyond a few days at most.        NOW, though, suspicion can be worse than guilt for it can ruin your life without recourse.

In our current world society it as if there is a 'spirit' at work to debunk history AND even the present when it comes to believing in the best, the most worthy and honourable and praiseworthy people and things.     There is almost a malicious delight in 'digging up' sin - a spirit of HAM - that son of Noah, who, in discovering his venerable father naked and drunk in his tent, immediately went out to tell every one else.      It is RAMPANT today.     It as if society WANTS to prove the best is in fact the worst.     Noah's other sons refused to see their father's nakedness and went backwards into his ten and dropped a blanket over his shame to cover him up.     NOT natural to the fallen nature of man, but it pleased God.    I believe it still pleases Him.     

To the right is photo taken of Edwin Bramall, later Lord Bramall of Bushfield in the County of Hampshire.   He was also invested a Knight of the Garter in 1990.   A man of considerable military stature and achievement attaining the rank of full General and appointed as Chief of the Defence Staff in October 1982.      He retired in 1985 becoming Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1986-1998.

IN 2013 WHEN HE WAS 90, Metropolitan Police Officers entered his home with orders to search it on 'suspiscion' that he might in some was be involved in child sexual abuse activities during the 80s.

The immediate slur upon his name and character was immediate.

THIS YEAR  2017 the Metropolitan Police apologised for allowing four years to pass without clearing his name.      During that time Lord Bramall's wife died without knowing that he had been cleared of suspicion.     He will receive financial redress of some one hundred thousand pounds.  He is now 93.     One cannot imagine what he has had to go through.

GOD has said ' I will revenge - Vengeance is Mine!'     Whatever any of us may have wickedly done in our lives we must by Judged by God Almighty when we all stand before Him on that Great Day.  All the 'secret sins' all the unconfessed and unregretted wrongs we have done; they will all be read out with undisputed proof.      All the 'good' too.      Nothing will be overlooked or forgotten.     And God will JUDGEMENT.      And it will be a RIGHT and JUST Judgement based on the TRUTH both apparent and hidden.       I fear for the 'Witch Hunters' of our world, those of us who put ourselves in the way of exhuming one another's hidden faults and failures, and handing each other to premature 'judgement' made so often in the dark by men and women who are themselves living in the DARK.

LAW AND ORDER we need must have in our human society, but woe to those who are destroyers and not Life Givers in the manner in which that Law and Order is dispensed.

THE RAIN HAS COME AGAIN.     Outside (it is 2,20p.m. our time) is a kind of lurid yellowish light.     It is very eerie and strange...........

We do enlist your prayers, that our hands (lives) may be uplifted, and the current battle against the Enemy won.      He has told us to WAIT and do nothing.     To WAIT and to let HIM win the Victory for us, to unlock the prison door, to open the Windows of Heaven and pour out His Deliverance.   He LOVES to do this.        WE find it a little nerve wracking at times.

Love from us all to you all, in His Wonderful Name.

John, Esther and Daryl Green