Is Surata Marong Comparing  Jammeh With God?

Check This Out….. Familiarity Breeds Contempt!!

Dear Mr. Editor,

 Please Mr. Mbai, allow me a space in your widely read news media to express my opinion. I definitely expect you will be publishing divergent views with regards to Gambia issues for the interest of all. Thanks for taking your time.

 Familiarity Breeds Contempt!!

 Anger without power is folly. Am not stirring a debate or trying to compare president Jammeh with anybody or anything.

 Am aware of the fact that, all president Jammeh`s supporters are considered opportunists. But am not!! I like the guy for his sincerity, his good heart, his true love he has for Gambia, and the development initiative he is embarking on since he took the office of the president 15 years ago.

People would criticize anything they don`t understand. It is very disheartening to see how some people insult and trying to tell us President Jammeh`s history. They deliberately said so many things for wrong reasons, which they are not sure of or just trying to score points. The most important thing of all is that, God has changed his story for ever.

 If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. Just imagine if God live on earth how many people would go to the extent of exercising their human right to ask God why they are sick, too poor, too short, too tall, too tin, too fat, too dark, too light, hairless, ugly, cripple and the list goes on.

 We are not much different from the ancient people of two thousand years ago.  The same thing can and does happen here, People talking without speaking and people hearing without listening.

God is constantly speaking to us through people we know, through things that happen to us, through the ordinary circumstances of life.  Yet, again and again we don`t recognize God`s voice, because God is speaking through someone we know too well, or someone different than us.

So, we either reject the message because we don`t like the messenger, or we discredit the messenger because we don`t like the message, or we simply tune out the message and messenger altogether.

When President Jammeh said he can heal a certain sickness. People started to discredit him, because they think they know him too well, they know where he come from, they know his relatives, they seen grow up etc Familiarity breeds contempt.

 The same thing happened more than two thousand years ago when Jesus returns to Nazareth, accompanied by his disciples. Jesus preaches the homily in the local synagogue that Sabbath evening.  The townspeople are amazed.  They`re astonished at the wisdom of his words and at the reports of miracles he`s been performing.

And they are even more amazed because they think they know who Jesus is.  After all, they know his relatives, they remember him growing up. He is Mary’s boy.  Surely, there’s nothing special about him. But because they think they know him, they are reluctant to accept him as a prophet.  They see the outward person, but he is not saying the words they want to hear or he doesn`t fit their preconceived notion of who ought to be saying them, so they don’t take him seriously. Moral of the story, Familiarity breeds contempt

Good advice is often annoying and bad advice never. What Gambia needs at the moment is a revolution of attitude.  

Despite the fact that we would all have different ideas or disagree on certain issues, we should be responsible and have positive attitude the way we exercise our civil or moral right. Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

S Marong

UK

Editors note: Views expressed here do not represent the position of the Freedom Newspaper. The author’s views do not reflect the position of the Freedom Newspaper. This paper cannot take liability for his opinion. Thanks.