NO MORALS, NO PROGRESS

Sir,

There is an elephant in the room. No matter how hard we may try to ignore it, it just won’t go away until it receives the attention it deserves. Eswatini is a Christian country but it will soon become the devil’s playground if we are not careful.

Government should stop sitting by and watch as some public officials turn this country on its head by destroying all confidence in the future through corruption.  

Churches are also becoming battle zones as competition for clients takes over their spiritual mandate, ministries have become get-rich-quick schemes, denominations turned into ‘spiritual political parties’ or job recruitment centres while a nation already suffering from the physical poverty is left starving in morality. 

Discrimination of the have-nots is taking root in the church as your tithe determines the attention you receive. In some cases, congregants are allegedly being raped, literally!

Spiritual

Of what good is a physically and spiritually hungry nation to national development? Spiritual matters can never be divorced from nation building. 

We don’t want to end up like a nation that has well educated people but infested with corruption because the morality and the value systems were not developed along with the infrastructure and education.

The body of a country is its infrastructure, roads and bridges, buildings, lights and water. 

The soul of a country is its education, dealing with the mind of people, their mentality, thinking and attitudes. The third part of a nation is its spirit. This is what concerns the morality, values and convictions. 

The spiritual academics contend that this is the part that God deals with first. We seem to have placed this element last of all our national goals. In fact, it is never a feature in some national socio-economic development documents. 

When the human body moves, all three elements move together and always work in unison. All three must, therefore, be developed equally. 

You don’t want to develop infrastructure yet the people’s mentality is not developed otherwise they will destroy the infrastructure through corruption because the people will not have the morality and the values to protect it. 

This is why it becomes important to strengthen churches, which will supply the spiritual development of people; in just the same way strengthening education will supply the mental development of people and academic development and also the same way that you need to develop the infrastructure. The three must work together all the time.

Eswatini is working on infrastructure and education but it’s not working on the spiritual part which has left it with great buildings and smart people who are corrupt and have no morality. In business, you don’t just want business but you want ethical business. The people must not resort to evil to progress. 

Corruption is a cancer to the soul of this nation. When doctors discover cancer, they don’t co-operate with it; they destroy it because they know it will destroy the body. 

In Eswatini, the level of corruption has reached highly cancerous stages and it must be cut off urgently before it is too late. 

The truth is, whether we like it or not, without a moral and spiritually developed society, we have no solid foundation upon which to build our national dreams. 

M D 

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