Hope and faith; a gateway to success

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
s_okhu@yahoo.com
Tel: +256 712 734 661

Hope and faith are the major ingredients for one to be a true Christian. It is useless for one to claim to be a Christian when he or she is crying all the time.

Our Master, Jesus Christ said that whoever will believe in him will have power to overcome the evil one. This is a guarantee that a Christian should always live in hope in order to overcome the so called problems than living in fear.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Mathew
10:28)

This implies that to be a Christian, and to claim all the rights and privileges of a christian (By Christian I mean Catholics, protestants, Pentecostals and any other religion that believes Jesus to be the saviour), one should have faith and Hope!

May I please share with you that many people have lived miserably just beacuse they lack hope! I always see them here. You find Christians taking risks, others crying most of their time when otherwise what they should have done is relaxing! relaxing in order to find a solution to what they call a problem! And in most cases what we call problems are just ways through which we can enter into a better life experience.

I don't want to make this a long article, but please just read on.

Do you believe that what you normally fear is what always comes into your life? And that human beings always spend their time fearing things which they have nothing to change! Just like a child will fear his shadow!

Think of a woman who will refuse to move out of the house because she fears her friends to see that she is putting on weight. At the end, because of little exercises, she will keep on enlarging... until she realises that she should otherwise do the contrary!

The same with poverty! many are in poverty, just because they fear to invest. So instead of thinking about development ideas, they are thinking about the risks which may be involved in investment and discussing people who failed. (remember the question you ask yourself will decide the solution. So a wrong question will always lead to a wrong solution!)

Always have faith, positive faith that may take you somewhere! The Bible says that what a man thinks is what he is!