Why God does not answer the Opposition's prayers

By now, it should be clear that no matter the manner, style or length of prayer some people in Kenya’s political opposition use to petition God, no answer will be forthcoming.

Self-seekers driven only by their personal ambitions and selfish greed for power cannot get a hearing with God. Their entreaties, suffused in the raw odour of hypocrisy, will always come back with a return-to-sender message – unopened, and therefore unread.

People who have been called by God to serve as the loyal opposition reject that call and instead permanently scheme how to change the Constitution to create a coalition government.

They believe God is foolish when he assigns them work and instead want to pick and choose how they will serve their country, their limited talents notwithstanding.

They have turned to harassing God’s anointed leaders, all the time, demanding reforms here and reforms there. God knows that the Opposition wants power only for their pleasure and not to help ordinary people, hence his refusal to answer when they call.

Hypocrisy is the leaven of the heathen. The Opposition will claim to publicly demand reforms when all along they desire only to be included in government through power sharing.

Opposition leaders in Kenya are not humble. They erect hearing barriers with God when they self-righteously claim that they are as clean as Egyptian cotton, while all the while piling accusations of corruption on the government.

Just as the Opposition leaders have turned their ears away from hearing the law and the Constitution, so too does God turn his face away.

As a general rule, God does not answer the prayers of violent people given to burning tyres, stoning vehicles, and injuring police officers. When they spread out their hands in supplication, he sees the blood that stains them.

God, on the other hand, vindicates those who are falsely accused of the 2007 post-election violence as part of a scheme to prevent them from the priesthood of national leadership. He extricates his servants from ironclad shackles because he hearkens to their prayers.

Those who are not embarrassed to seek God in broad daylight during rallies can expect their prayers to be answered in a similar environment. The Opposition, on the other hand, insists on privatising faith, forsaking God to beat a path to the doors of mediums in the dead of night, juggling idols and other false gods to divine the future. In the daytime, they return with pretend piety to pray. By that time, God is taking a nap.

More critically, whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry and not be heard. None of the opposition people have been humble enough to turn on the electric switch in a mud-walled hut, or eaten boiled chicken in grass-thatched roadside shack.

They win one by-election and instead of thanksgiving, they call on Mzee Mombasa and other village charlatans. God humbles the exalted and exalts the humble.

Even though they offer unworthy sacrifices to God in the fashion of Cain, they are always jealous of their brothers who bring fat harambee rams for slaughter.

When kind-hearted people start making chapati for less fortunate families living on the street, they are busy talking big English on Twitter.

Forming the political Opposition is not a good thing. Satan is not called the Great Opposer for nothing. Opposing is his stock in trade, and he has many people in Kenya who follow him unwittingly by employing his tools of greed, envy, pride, ambition, malice and lies. And he has many offspring.

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