I associate the idea of "the tyranny of numbers" to terror, arrogance and evil pride. As I write this post, George Orwell's quote comes to mind "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." Likewise as I look from the Tyranny of Numbers to ISIS, and from the ISIS to the Tyranny of Numbers to ISIS again: it is impossible to say which is which.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkRXm1w8cE
I always hold my tongue to say some things on social media for the fear of offending some of my friends but sometimes it just must be said what should be said. When I write anything here, I do not by anyway say that I am holy or I am free of those sins that the Bible says you and I have committed. I write this after reading Psalm 49 this morning and I saw what kind of Leaders we have in Kenya. The leadership authorized the treasury to spend over Kshs. 100 million to take leaders to The Hague yet our Hospitals and schools are in bad shape, patients are sharing beds and others lying on the floor see pictures below:
Reliable reports have it that when our beloved political leaders went to the Hague to try and save our deputy President, a single member of parliament paid kshs 40,000 per night per a room in the hotel. Kenya is a very rich country where political leaders have a lot of money they can buy their freedom from the courts of law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxnNjw8GC4g . There is no safe place in Kenya where one can run to to seek refuge if our leaders like Kabogo can pursue you even to your mother's house. It reminds me of the late Yebei whose body was found in a National Park. If Yebei was a witness for the defense of the Deputy president, didn't he deserve protection from the government? Where was the police when he was being murdered?
The terror power that our political leaders have is immense and we only need God to protect us from the people we elected. This has been demonstrated by the power we have in lobbying and spending big in hiring the services of people like 'Dr' Matsanga who live in 5 star hotels both in Nairobi and wherever they travel on the tax payers money. We can hire all the Queens lawyers and pay them handsomely from the tax payers money, but true freedom is that which guarantees us peace of mind soul and spirit now and in eternity and this comes from God.This is what the bible says in Psalm 49 from vs 6
6 Those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the multitude of their riches,
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—
8 For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—
9 That he should continue to live eternally,
And not see the Pit.
Money can buy us a bed but not sleep, money can buy "freedom" for our politician but not eternal life. The truth of the verses above can be seen in the life of Steve Jobs who made a lot of money but he never went with a single coin although he might have died in one of the most expensive hospital bed.He withheld information on his health yet he had a lot of money. He money paid for his treatment by leading physicians in the world that money get for a form of pancreatic cancer in 2004, but he never enjoyed a healthy life. His money bought him a brand new liver from a poor man who might have died in an accident and donated his liver so that Jobs could get a new life but that was futile because he underwent a liver transplant in 2009, but still died with the new liver and in the most expensive hospital and the care of the most qualified surgeons and doctors that money can get.
Just like Steve Jobs, we all shall depart someday and all the money we have accumulated, all the lands the Kenyatta Family, the Ruto family, the Odinga's family, my family your family has will never buy us life everlasting. Life everlasting is found in one and only one -Jesus Christ. Steve Jobs' sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, eulogized her brother (published by the New York Times at the time of his death in October 2011) in the following words about Jobs' final hours:
He seemed to be climbing. But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve's capacity for wonderment, the artist's belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later. Steve's final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve's final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
The Bible reminds us to know how to count our days. All those Duales, Kindikis, Murkomens of this world may have all the money they have but it cannot buy them true freedom and true life for either the Deputy President or for their children. Psalm 49 says:
10 For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,[a]
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain;[b]
He is like the beasts that perish.
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