By Beverley Nambozo

It is amazing that even with the uncertainty of security and peace, many people
think of politicians in the likeness of God. This is totally incongruous because unlike
Jesus who is the same yesterday, today and forever, politicians promise one thing
and do another.

For example, they fight in the name of peace.
While it is responsibility of every Ugandan of voting age to vote because people's
individuality is represented in the final outcome, it would be awesome if every
Ugandan also kept a permanent vote for Jesus in their hearts.

So many have believed in issues that have come and gone, and yet everyday
Jesus silently persists. In the morning, you can hear Jesus in the birds that sing, you
can see him in the children that go to school, in the kiss of a loved one and even in
the eyes of a beggar because he died for them as much as he did for us all. Haven't
you ever thought, "What if the sky didn't hold together, what then?"

What if a swarm of locusts decided to eat the land, what then?"
Or "what if there is no tomorrow for me, what then?" Will what I have here on earth
mean anything more?"

Where is your trust? In the relationship with your latest catch, in your newest
business deal, in your beauty and fame, where?

If Laurent Kabila (RIP) had known that he was going to die when he did, I
am sure he would have been a better man in his last days. Yet even with the
unexpected and shocking deaths around us everyday, we don't realise that time is
running out.

Imagine if Jesus had said, "I think it would be better for me to die for these
sinners in the year 2050, not now. And I'll segregate only those with big brown eyes
and light complexions shall be worthy of my death."

Three would definitely be no hope for me.

But thank God there are no competitions to partake of Jesus' love, like the Face
of Africa Competitions where no Ugandan qualified.

Jesus just saw that we all had the same need of redemption from our sins and he took that suffering for all of us.