Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

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Squeezing not only a last cent but killing employment as well
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Everything is grinding down to a halt...Everything closing shop because of very poor leadership
If you persecute dissent then no more "exclusive" and without it who cares about buying a paper laden with flattery?


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How to be Inspired

In successive weeks at HTB, I interviewed two people of courage and faith. One, Ben Freeth, inspired by his faith in Jesus Christ, had taken a courageous stance against the unjust regime in Zimbabwe. As a result, he was beaten, tortured and forced to watch his elderly mother-in-law and father-in-law undergo torture, from which the latter eventually died. Yet in the midst of his suffering, he chose to love and bless the torturers.
The second was a pastor from one of the sixty countries around the world where physical persecution of Christians still takes place. He had been imprisoned and, at one stage, sentenced to death for no other reason than his faith in Jesus Christ. Yet in the face of extreme suffering he refused to deny his faith.
The lives of men and women like this are hugely inspiring, challenging and motivational.
 
Proverbs 29:1–9

Inspirational champions of justice

I am inspired by the examples of churches, individuals and organisations that care deeply about justice for the poor. There is so much in the Bible about issues of poverty and justice. The Poverty and Justice Bible highlights over two thousand verses that wake us up to these issues.
Justice really matters. ‘By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down’ (v.4). It is terrible to live in a place where bribery of judges and politicians is normal. ‘A leader of good judgment gives stability; an exploiting leader leaves a trail of waste’ (v.4, MSG).
No justice system is perfect. However, it is a privilege to live in a country that has a good justice system.
‘When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan’ (v.2). In other words: ‘When good people run things, everyone is glad, but when the ruler is bad, everyone groans’ (v.2, MSG).
The righteous person has a clear conscience and can sing and be glad, whereas an evil person is snared by their own sin (v.6).
Caring about ‘justice for the poor’ (v.7) is the mark of a righteous life: ‘The good-hearted understand what it’s like to be poor; the hardhearted haven’t the faintest idea’ (v.7, MSG).

Lord, help us to make a real difference to this world in seeking to bring justice to the poor, the homeless, the prisoners and the hungry.
 
2 Peter 2:1–22

Inspirational godly lives

I am so thankful for the examples of those around us today like Bishop Sandy Millar, Father Raniero Cantalamessa and many lesser known others who inspire us by their example and godliness.
The New Testament warns about deceptive and potentially dangerous cult leaders who ‘secretly introduce destructive heresies’ (v.1). In very recent times, one such cult, called Shincheonji, tried to infiltrate churches in London and around the world, posing as a ‘Bible study’ for new believers.The leaders of this ‘Bible study’ teach their followers to lie and deceive.
This chapter is a strongly worded attack on lying prophets and immoral teachers. Peter contrasts the lives of Noah and Lot with the ‘false teachers’ (v.1).
Noah, ‘the sole voice of righteousness’ (v.5, MSG), lived among ‘ungodly people’ but was ‘a preacher of righteousness’ (v.5). Lot also was a ‘good man’ (v.8, MSG). He was ‘a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of the lawless’ (v.7).
Peter holds out Noah and Lot as examples to those to whom he is writing, as they contend with false teachers who ‘introduce destructive heresies’ and follow ‘shameful ways’ that ‘bring the way of truth into disrepute’ (vv.1–2).
These false teachers are not simply other Christian leaders with whom Peter disagrees. Their lives and teachings are at complete odds with the Christian faith: ‘With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning… They have left the straight way’ (vv.14–15). They appeal ‘to the lustful desires of sinful human nature’ (v.18). ‘They promise… freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity – for people are slaves to whatever has mastered them’ (v.19).
The things that Peter describes here can seem very tempting – which is why he is so concerned about these leaders. His descriptions of pleasure seeking (v.13), sexual freedom (vv.14,18–19) and the pursuit of money (v.15), all strike a chord today.
The false teachers are slaves to these things, yet they entice others (especially new believers) into the same way of life, leading them astray by promising freedom (vv.18–19). However, true freedom is only found in God’s ways, not in any of these enticements that promise so much but actually result in emptiness. Those who pursue and recommend them are ‘springs without water and mists driven by a storm’ (v.17).
This is a terrible warning: ‘If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs’ (vv.20–21).

Lord, the pull of the world is strong. Help me never to turn my back on you, my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
 
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