OF COURSE this is not NEW! This could have been said during the progress of EVERY generation. Since the Garden of Eden, humanity has continued to increase the opportunity and incidence of evil and ungodliness. In NOAH's day 'GOD saw that the wickedness of Man was great upon the Earth, AND that every imagination of the THOUGHTS of his heart was only evil continually.' - Genesis 6v5 (The Bible). It is said by some mathematicians
that there could have been seven billion people on the earth prior to the Flood!! Only EIGHT were saved in that day. At THAT time God was grieved when he He saw the moral decay of Man, and wished He had not created him. He did indeed bring a universal flood upon the Earth in order to effect this. BUT, Noah! And Noah's family....(eight of them)!
WAS Mankind really SO bad? YES!
JOB 15v16 finds Elephaz, the Temanite, saying 'How much more abominable and filthy (than all the imperfections of God's saints, and even the heavens) IS Man which drinks iniquity like water!' Sin and Iniquity is, and has been, since the Fall, in ALL men progressively. AND, although God practically wiped humanity OUT in the Flood, He saved Noah, his family and the Earth. There was a NEW Beginning! BUT the 'germ' of sin was still passed on to Noah's descendants from Adam's line.
AND Man still being infected with it, has also found himself tempted by it, and giving in to it's tune playing on his fleshly appetites; and for the most part he continued to dance to it's tune. AND TODAY with yet again a world population of SEVEN BILLION we find our selves AGAIN in a World almost identical to NOAH's world, with a cauldron of evil frothing over, all around us, defiling every part of our environment until the very ground we stand upon, is giving way, and crumbling around us. Well God is STILL able to SEE what is going on with us, and I fear that He is STILL grieved by what He sees, and this time might make a FULL END! Not by Water but by FIRE. The Apostle Peter writes about this 'End' in his 2nd Letter chapter 3 describing a World Society of unbelievers walking in their own lusts. He warns that God, having destroyed the World Order once with WATER, will, at the End, destroy it with FIRE. It will come suddenly upon a world society too busy revelling in its godless revellings and rioting to even be on guard..
And our world IS blind and deaf to everything that leads to purity of life. A very indecent world, unheedful of its past honours and glories, decadently descending more and more into the worship of every degenerate and worthless pastime, until - like a tide of iniquity - all that IS righteous and Holy will be swallowed by its incoming fullness. ARE WE - ANY OF US - READY? Are we even BELIEVING in what is coming. Our world institutions once respected and honoured our toppling into this sea of iniquity - and that sea of iniquity - all that has been looked to as worthy of praise and example is now, in our time, being undermined and even pulled down about our ears, to that in the end we find nowhere to stand, and no one to look to for leadership and LIGHT in a dark place.
Again let me cite the 3rd chapter of the 2nd Letter of PAUL to Timothy, in the Bible's New Testament. IN THE LAST DAYS. Isn't this just a confirmation of all that I have been pointing to? And because of this picture, painted once more so graphically, HOW SAFE CAN ANY OF US BE from the sticky soup of sinful appetites that stalk our streets and habitations? How totally AWFUL it is to see that at the heights of power and leadership we find debauchery, dishonesty, and even a determined mind to serve oneself and not our brethren, even the nation. Can the world be saved? Is it too far gone? Are the scales already too weighted on the wrong side to be redressed? IF we ARE living in Noah's day, then I suspect the worst scenario. WE need to take our eyes from our world focus and interest, and LOOK UP WITH HOPEFUL EXPECTANCY.AND IN THE MEANTIME we who may have sense of the Rightness of How to Live in front of God, should take heed to ourselves and check ourselves to see what it is that Rules in our lives.
IN KENYA we are seeing wilfull ignorance of what is right, and righteous. We wallow in alcohol, drugs, sex, and poverty, encouraged by the exuberant selfishness of the rich and licentious leaders in every level of society. The Sunshine is being diminished and even hidden, and replaced by a very uncertain, and apprehensive society. NO one is safe from human mistreatment. Strikes and Riots paralyse our social facilities, crime, threatens our safety, unemployment our ability to pay our way, drugs the future of our children's hope, and alcohol eating away at the very fabric of home and civil existence.
We do not know how many LAST DAYS we may have to endure. Are there NO voices, no Visionaries like Noah, to declare the present danger, declare a way of recovery, and to remember in Whose Likeness we are Created to be.
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LATEST GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
DARYL, has just sent in a copy of a Government Letter which he has just received from the Principal Secretary of the Kenya State Department for Social Protection. and dated 1.11.17
RE SUSPENSION OF REGISTRATION OF NEW CHARITABLE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS
a) Many children are inappropriately placed in CCIs, yet they could desirably be placed in Foster Care, Guardianship, or Local adoption with Kenya families. In this respect it is evident that such children are put in institutions under circumstances that are not in their best interests, and are accordingly denied the opportunity to be raised within families.
b) It is evident that some of the Children's Homes were involved in unscrupulous practices which may involve Child Trafficking.
In view of the above this is to give instruction that there shall be no further Registration of New
CCIs until the current situation is streamlined to secure proper care and protection of vulnerable children
(The Letter is addressed to the National Council for Children's Services for their action)
We have commented many times before about the declining climate in Kenya Children's Service toward Children's Homes, even though the need remains as high as ever. This is due mainly to the influence of the United Nations generally policy of Foster Care.
WE DISAGREE WITH THE GENERAL DRIFT OF U.N. policy in this respect.
This latest directive may well be taken as a definite indicator that existing Children's Homes will now be fazed out / or even closed down in the future. We shall be examining how this might affect our own ministry and involvement with underprivileged children in the near future, and will soon hope to have more information in the next few months.
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JAMES MANU, had his 5th Eye Clinic visit this Thursday/Friday. We have not had all the result so far as Manu went on to Nairobi for a few days to visit friends there. It was more painful than usual due to the fact that they had to drain fluid that had collected behind both retinas. He survived. He is OK in himself, and he is looking into the possibility seriously now of learning Braille just in case his vision worsens. We are still trusting the Lord to step in for him.
THINGS remain relatively quiet throughout the Country, with politics having quietened down and the media also taking a low key attitude in their reporting; which is a good thing. This does not mean all the problems have gone away, but for the time being we DO now have a President, and there is hope the Country can stabilise a little.
The National Primary Exams have now concluded and we said Farewell to the 75 candidates at a 'dinner' laid on by the School (Daryl, Esther and I attended). High School Form 4 Exams start this week, and will go on until the first weeks of December. Everyone apart from the Candidates for this exam have now commenced their holidays.
AND now we shall all be looking forward to having the kids to ourselves, and to look forward to Christmas. Thank you all for your Prayers. We all need them.
John, Esther and Daryl Green
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