The Fountain magazine Issue 04, August 2016

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NUGGETS
UNCONDITIONAL!
NORAH ZANTYGLORY of Alliance GiRLS, On THe LOve of Christ
T
here is an effort involved in defying self and living the Christian
life. The Bible says we war, wrestle, run, fight or strive. The fight is
a hood fight of faith. We strive to trust God’s plans and will four
us rather than our own. We fight to stay close to Jesus. Like Mary we are
safe from sin only if we stay in Him, “Whoever abides in Him does not sin.”
(1 John 3:6)
“
hE WOULD
BEAR HER
PUNISHMENT...
Mary met Jesus in the temple that day and for the
very first time in her life she found a man who loved
her unconditionally. She met a man who was more
interested in her soul than her body. From the moment
she heard Him say, “Neither do I condemn you, go and
sin no more” John 8:11. She understood He would in
some way be condemned instead of her. In the temple that morning, Christ
stood between a guilty condemned sinner and her accuser’s. He would
bear her punishment. This is what Jesus has done for each one of us.
Though the Devil entices us to sin, then stands by to accuse and condemn.
The Father of lies will tell you to do something wrong and then tell on you
for listening to him.
More on love...
WHY SO DIFFICULT? By VALLARY ADHIAMBO, ALLIANCE GIRLS
Why is it difficult to genuinely love one another in church? Why is it so
difficult to be real within one another? With your friends- you choose
them. In the church we don’t get to choose whom we are supposed to
love. We come from all walks of life with so many different problems and
issues, and we are expected to become like a body, a single unit. How can
that be? Is it really possible? 1Thes 3:12-13 says,” And
the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do]
toward you: To the end he may establish your hearts
unlikeable in holiness before God, even our Father, at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
God is the source of that kind of love. It doesn’t happen overnight but
it does happen. People from different ethnic groups, races, political
affiliations, backgrounds all come together to work for God. Even in the
uncharted world there are movements to build community and understand
one another. It is part of being human. It is part of what it means to be
made in God’s image.
“
iT
IS PART
OF BEING
HUMAN...
POetic justice
UNITY
Musings on oneness by VIVIAN
CHEPCHIRCHIR of Limuru Girls SDA
SOCIETY.
Just like a community
We stay together in Christ
Just like a family
We worship together
Just because we are different
Doesn’t tear us apart
The unity keeps us strong
The love keeps us going
We were once strangers
Now we are family
Once we were lost
Now we are saved
We were once very ignorant
Now we are in the know
The unity keeps us strong
The love keeps us going
We personally accepted Christ
Now we are believers
Striving for perfection
Hoping for the best
To inherit the Kingdom
And make our histoty
The unity keeps us strong
The love keeps us going
feature from the FIELD
LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY
Maxwell Ngala finds divine power in electric power
I
n the last one year I have combed
the Coast, Lower Eastern, Nyanza,
Western and North Rift regions.
These visits have added to my appreciation
of the dynamics of this country. In all these
places, there is a cry for light, for electricity.
The commodity has become so important
and the demand so acute in rural areas that
I still think that a politician who midwifes its
provision is almost deified. There is a genuine
hunger and thirst after Light. Everywhere,
people want to say with the Blind Man, “I was
blind but now I see” or as with the Greeks, “We
would see.”
We split the tasks evenly before entering the
houses. Ten minutes per household was our
target, fifteen at most. And just two household
later, we were beaming with palpable delight.
For those who are reading this from a cave,
the Government of Kenya recently initiated a
programme dubbed ‘Last Mile Connectivity’
to affordably connect some additional 4
million Kenyans to the national grid by 2020.
Under the program, rural electrification
authority is mandated to connect customers
who are further that 600m from an existing
transformer.
So, what’s the point? The point is in John 3:16.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
How is that even related to Last Mile? I thank
God for that “inside information which God
gave just to us.”1 In the Desire of Ages, we
read: “So in the heavenly courts, in His ministry
for all created beings: through the beloved
Son, the Father’s life flows out to all; through
the Son it returns, in praise and joyous service,
a tide of love, to the great Source of all. And
thus through Christ the circuit of beneficence
is complete, representing the character of the
great Giver, the law of life.”
There you have it. The complete circuit of
Love, of Beneficence. The generator in the
heavenly Power System is God, the Father. He
is Love. All good gifts around us are sent from
Him. Because He can turn water into wine,
He can also, by the action of His Creativity,
be seen turning the potential energy in
Himself into an active power that can
save human kind and light up a
world trapped in the darkness
of sin. Peter, the apostle,
has said eloquently that
He has called us from
darkness into His
marvelous light. An
action of His Love.
The transmission
system is lossless.
The Father and
the Son are one,
quotes John. I know
the system is lossless
because what the
Father sends in torrents
of Love and energy, the
Son appropriates and uses in
purposes of mercy. He says, “All
power is given to me.” Everything
the Generator produced has appeared at
the Transformer, or the Substation. Jesus is
the Substation. But because a substation is an
element spatially located, I see Calvary’s Cross
as the substation in verity. Here the system
of transmission from the Seat of God, the
Heavenly Generator, conveyed Love in high
voltage.
A hymn writer has sung beautifully. ‘There
is Power in the Blood...” and another has
said, “Thy precious blood shall never lose its
power...” The Greatest Electrical Engineer
planted a Step-down Transformer on a hill far
away. And from that Hill, He set out to give
power. The power of God to save. As many
as believed He gave them Power to become
sons of God. He told them, Day Break is now
at hand, cast off the works of Darkness. He
said He is the light shining in a dark place.
He said “I am the Light of the World.” The
Step-down transformer receives of the Father
and communicates Love in language and
manner that scores with the human heart. The
“Jesus is the
substation...
calvary’s cross
in verity.”
Transformer
says what He has
received of the Father, that does He give-a
good measure, shaken together, pressed down
and flowing over. And this is because the
Substation, the Transformer, understands the
Load Characteristics. He is touched with the
feeling of our infirmity and was tempted in
all points as we are, yet He emerged without
sin. Without Loss. Am told transformers are
the most efficient of electrical machines. That
is in the domain of humanity. The Ultimate
Transformer has no Losses. All that the Father
has given He has kept.
Maxwell is one of the founder members of FoC, holds a BSc(Electrical Engineering) and works with an electricity organisation. When out
of the pulpit, Maxwell enjoys brown chapatis and groundnut soup (magira). This article is truncated, you will find more on the FoC blog.
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