adminBlabber word reaching Yours Truly is that there is this popular businessman in the city who was once a simple law enforcer back in the days and climbed the social ladder to live a lavish lifestyle, but has since plunged headlong back into poverty.
In vernacular, especially back in the village, they say, (murombo haarovi chine nguwo)!
Whether he made his fortune from buying and selling fuel, the fact is that the boy had somehow managed to overcome poverty (kuponda nhamo).
Loving the prophet more than the rophet loves himself, rolling in flashy cars of different makes and looking down upon the poor became his everyday way of life.
Gentle Reader, just like most of us, Blabber is a God fearing citizen, who not only takes time off his busy schedule to praise the Almighty, but also gives tidings at church.
This is just how we were raised!
However, it is perturbing to hear that some of us, including this businessman of ours who has fallen on bad times are now amplifying or rather amending the Word of the Lord as inscribed in the Holy Book, much to their own peril.
Instead of giving one tenth of one’s earnings to the Lord, as the Bible says, he gave almost everything he had, just to please the leaders of his newly found denomination and of course, in order to be seen as the blessed ones.
Some say he gave up everything to the church with the hope that the Lord will bless him abundantly and possibly receive double the riches he had already amassed.
Today, he has since sold everything including that gas station that appeared to be one of the few meaningful investments he had made.
He no longer has all those haulage trucks that had become a common sight in the streets of our beautiful city.
Alas, he now has nothing to show for the years of hard work and maybe what keeps him going is his faith in the prophet.
I have said it before and I will say it again here. History is an account of how human beings never learn. Not so long ago, his own colleague, in the same church, went through the same fate and was only saved on the last minute when his house was about to be attached by a local bank.
Reader, I do not celebrate a fellow human being’s downfall, neither do I curse those who give to our Lord, but I have every right to urge our citizenry to read the scriptures right and desist from adding or subtracting from the Lord’s word, lest we will become society’s laughing stock.
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