The young man surrendered his life to Christ not so long ago, he was raised in Kariobangi, when he moved to our home area and he was introduced to us as a family we immediately got him employed to work in our family.
Being farmers we needed a worker who would assist take care of our cattle, chicken, goats and like in our home. the young man got an opportunity to work with us.
Everyone in the family admired his hard work, commitment and discipline all through, and for that reason among others like being born again, he won our hearts and became one of us, he enjoyed every privilege of a son in the family no longer as an employee, but a brother to us, a son in our family.
One morning, we received some visitors, police, this was after a long period of time living with the young man, the police came to our home place, they did their normal questioning, We didn't know exactly what they were searching for neither did they share with us... could it be our farm operations? could it be this young boy..? he's the only one we couldn't account for since birth, but from the day he joined us, we all can testify no error attached to him all our lives, we knew him as a hardworking born again young man.
The search bore no fruits, the police went back home, from that morning, we received frequent police, C.I.D visits, through out in my mind, they were investigating in the very wrong house, and people, wrong case.
In one of their visit after continuous investigations, I realised the young man was getting disturbed, he knew something that I didn't, as we were doing laundry at around 10am, a C.I.D officer called him, they sat next to our store talking for more than an hour and as I continued with laundry I saw them write and the boy explain something on paper to the continuously nodding officer.
After he was gone, the young man went to my parent, I pipped to see what they wrote on the paper and the only few words I could read were; Kariobangi, Mr. so n so.... , I knew the past was catching up with him, his story would soon be revealed, I didn't get a chance to hear the story from him in person for immediately a cruiser drove in our compound, and the officers demanded to see the "kariobangi boy", they left with him for what they said was further investigations..
Irrespective of what he could have done in the past, we can testify he was a changed man by now.
I'm challenged to ask why would Zaccheous restore four fold to everyone whom he had acquired anything falsely? was it to make up his past?
Luk 19:8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold."
Luk 19:9 And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham;
Once we are changed, we cannot be able to put everything we've done wrong (our mistakes) in the past to right. but I believe there are some things in our past that the Spirit will convict us to put right, don't ignore, pay that price then.
Blessings..
©Sam Mwangi.
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