Home › Forums › Voices of Oppressed Ugandans › The problem of Uganda political class › PROMISES AND THE REASON TO CELEBRATE EASTER
PROMISES AND THE REASON TO CELEBRATE EASTER
Happy Good Friday. At some point today, Jesus Christ will be killed and rise from the dead on Sunday to make eternal life possible. On the cross, sin intersected with holiness. For now, we care less as a promise was kept 3 days later (Mark 16:9). Do you ever imagine what this world would be like if Jesus Christ had not kept his word to rise from the dead 3 days later as promised?
Fast forward, 2017 years later, our own ‘jesus’ emerged from the bushes of Luwero to carry the cross in the form of a problematic Uganda. Ugandans were all convinced by the 1986 liberators and the support to the cause of a new Uganda was steady, unwavering and resolute. Loads of promises were made to the ever and always patient, gullible Ugandans. But as we have come to realise, Pierce Brown summed it up his Golden Son, that “Liars make the best promises.” We are glad the Son of God kept his word, the more reason we have to celebrate Easter Sunday.
“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.” ― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“In the first place, you shouldn’t believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don’t keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
