South Sudan: Tearful prayers for the bereaved motherland
5 min readDear Heavenly father,
By Majok Arol Dhieu, Juba, South Sudan
June 9, 2016 (SSB) — Thanks you very much for keeping us safe till today. Lord, Revolution is not Evolution if our people mistaken it so. Please take away this term ‘Revolution in South Sudan’. Although we are living, we are just humans without good means of living. The revolution they have intentionally made was a symptomatic and preludes of our life today that economics play a large part in it.
I ask you Lord in the name of your begotten son Jesus Christ that the innominate candidates of that far South Sudanese election would not cause anything of the previous kind. The elders have got a little although they said human needs are not fulfil but youth have nothing at all. Youth labor enthusiastically and eagerly for a wage so that they can acquire the needs of life but all in vain due to the unspeakable economic inflation in the Country. They have totally run down because of lack of enough food leave alone other luxuries.
They always work for their luxuries of life and for the opportunity to have more leisure to develop themselves in ways and to keep up with their particular state of life. Right now, they find themselves in a bad economic condition because of being wrong-footed. They just cannot seem to make enough money to meet their obligations.
I cannot blame you heavenly father for what happened in South Sudan because all those were man-made but, you controls human being behaviours and inner plans. The elders you see here in South Sudan of which some of them have just attended School of hard knocks are not salt of the earth and instead have down-trodden youth. Youth themselves also were the ones giving them permission because of what they called majoritarianism and making themselves as elder’s freeloaders instead of struggling for their own future. I totally disagree with youth in supporting leaders/elders even if they are on wrong track.
Lord, we are on the lookout for something valuable in South Sudan, but someone somewhere becomes a pain in the neck. Give him some heavy load of duties to do in order to withdraw his barricades so that have blocks our movement. We really need development. A development we have been waiting since 2005. I hope up to this time, they have constructed their bellies with the money they have been pocketing which has been an open-and-shut case I guess you have heard the public decry.
Lord, although you are out of touch and we have understood from the book of Genesis that the voice said to let human be made in your image, I concluded that you are inside us even the malevolence too. So, it is time to desert the destroyer and his partners in crime in order for us to get freedom.
I always fear Lord that we are left without God since my hallucinations told me that perhaps God was shot dead in Sudan air space during the war which should not be the case because Kenyan’s God would have also step in for help. If you are here with us and still alive, why do you abandon us because of one man interest? We were all over the moon when your few chosen people struggles enough to secure this would-be short living peace. Can you not downgrade those who are still dragging their feet on it?
Heavenly Father, your downhearted and paper tiger South Sudanese are still suffering. Bring something good that we cannot ask because of being left with bar hands which make us weak enough not to think properly. In facts, we South Sudanese will not withstand the long temptations like that of Children of Jacob (Israel) when they withstood long suffering even after they have settled in their promise land.
The most feared God, here in Juba, your temples are being turned as swimming pools and washing machine but not for the usual purpose. I pray that they are paying over the odds because if they ask this and do that on their won free will, then they are confusing us and I also pray that their prayers will always goes pear-shaped.
Lord, youth are the grass in this elephant fight. Please in your usual kindness, give our leaders wisdom to choose discussion as the better solutions to problems because it is said that pen is mightier than sword. If calm return, therefore youth will work for themselves instead. I also beg you God to put the pretenders and the most confusing ladies back into kitchens to confuse only their husbands or step in husbands within their households.
Father, give youth thinking capacity to stand on their own because following these confusing politicians is the one increasing their political ambition. I know for sure some of the youths are the ones trying all along to perverts the course of justice in defending of their corrupt uncles whom they accepted to work without first picking their brains. Jus forgive them because they do not know what they were doing.
Last but not the least, Lord, as some of the prayers remains unanswered for some reasons pertained in your thoughts, for example Abraham prayers for Sodom to be spared if 10 persons were righteous was not answered because 10 righteous persons weren’t found, I conclude that all I have detailed herein, are the facts of today and you have to send your angels to search your people hearts in South Sudan. Lord, as all our deeds prove us to be sailing close to the wind, your angels if you send them for facts findings will not go away without approval.
In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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