The Sunday News
Fruitful relationships with Pastor Kilton Moyo
IN Hosea 4:6 God says clearly that ‘‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” I look at this and the current educational status of the world and wonder what knowledge God is talking about here.
I realise that the world is full of educated people who lack the vital knowledge of God. We are destroyed not because we are uneducated but because we have no knowledge of God, His will for us and His plans for our lives. What shocks me is that even we in the church seem to have very little knowledge of this great God we serve.
One huge area of our lives where we lack God’s knowledge is our sexuality. We are so ignorant and so confused when it comes to expressing our sexuality as people. We have allowed the enemy to vex us and lie to us so much that we have gone so deep into deception and we have believed it to be our human culture and our God given way of having sex.
This has brought us untold suffering. Millions are dead. Millions are infected and affected. Millions suffer terrible shame and pain of STIs and stigma. Millions of unborn babies are destroyed each year through abortion. According to statistics the rate of abortion rose to 6,5 million cases in 2008 in Africa.
Africa has the highest rate of abortions and the highest rate on adolescent pregnancy. Sub-Sahara Africa has the highest infection rate on HIV and Aids. Thousands of babies are dumped or strangled and killed each year in Africa.
We are so troubled by our own attitude towards sex. We are so troubled by our own sexual conduct. There is need therefore, that we at least come to a point in our lives where we can sober up and re-think our sexual conduct as a people.
I think God has given us that opportunity as Zimbabwe hosts this huge conference on HIV and Aids and STIs in Harare this month — International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (Icasa). This is a time of reflection and re-consideration. It is a great opportunity to be serious and find ourselves and re-track our steps back to the basics and back to that WAY which Jeremiah 6:16 talks about. Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways (crossroads) and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘we will not walk in it’.”
Beloved, we have been reckless sexually and we have caused ourselves so much trouble and pain. We still have the capacity to stop this and return ourselves to the ways of God and fullness.
It is my greatest desire that the opportunity presented by the Harare Conference will not be thrown away to political egos but will be utilised effectively. Perhaps this is Zimbabwe’s opportunity to stand up for the will of God and everything that is of God as regards the sexuality of the continent.
Let us all find out what God says about sex and our sexuality. Sex has nothing to do with democracy and all that as much as sin has nothing to do with human rights. If we were having sex the right way, why would it bring us all this shame and pain? Human solutions alone without God are temporary and costly.
This is time to consult God to find a lasting solution to our sexual challenges. It’s’ time to face the brutal facts and save the young generation. Are we really alright when we want to expose our children to contraceptive methods despite their known side effects? Which is better and with greater results, protecting the body from infections or containing immorality? We need to think deeply on these and make decisions. In the eyes of God which is His intention?
Let us sober up and look at this thing carefully and with a repentant heart. Look at the damage our sexual conduct has brought to our nations: Millions of broken families, casting of offspring onto the streets only for the devil to devour without challenge, millions of bitter spouses, destroyed relationships, destroyed business contacts, destroyed ministries and many others.
Sex is not what we think and want to think. See how we have corrupted sex. See the perversions there unto. Adultery, fornication, prostitution, homosexuality, lesbianism, rape, incest, bestiality and many others are all lies by the devil and yet we have made them human culture and traditions. Of late we are making them human rights. This is the highest deception when humankind could fall so low. Sin can never be a human right. Jesus came to take away the sins of the world. When we refuse with our sins and call them human rights, we are certainly anti-Christ.
We need to challenge ourselves and seriously do so to allow the truth to set us free. We need to be sincere with ourselves and have in our hearts the welfare and the future of the young generation. Why do we want to destroy them with our deceptions and weaknesses?
In my articles here for the month I will take us through the way of God concerning our sexuality and I hope many will be helped. But as one called to minister on sexuality, I have a huge interest in the Harare conference.
Kilton Moyo is creator of Fruitful Marriages, a renewal and enrichment programme and is a pastor, counsellor and author of The Sex Trap. Call or WhatsApp +263775337207, +263772610103 or +263712384841, email [email protected]
