God is not a democratic, by Favour Adéwoyin

Democracy is the best of man, which has been defined as “government of the people, by the people and for the people”.

The above definition alone is full of error. Where is God in that definition? Everything centres on people, people, people. People without God are doomed!

God didn’t create us to be independent, but to be God-dependent. Without Him, we can do nothing. Without Him, we cannot bear fruit because He is the Vine and we are the branches. God has never created a world that His imput won’t be necessary or needed. God has not given mankind the world to own, but to rule. Rulership is not the same as ownership.

Now, one more important point to make is that God is not a Democrat, but a King. It means God is disposed more to monarchy than to democracy. In a kingdom, the king is the ruler, the manager, the administrator, the Governor, the controller and the one in charge.

The king is in charge of his kingdom and the territories or colonies that are attached to his kingdom. The king rules in and from the headquarters and appoint his chiefs to rule on his behalf in the territories or colonies. Sometimes, he can upgrade the chiefs to become kings, but they are still under him and must report to him at all times.

Each time we say God is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, what we are saying is that, God has made us kings to rule over kingdoms, but He is the King over all the kingdoms including the kingdoms He has given us the privilege to reign over. The earth has been given to man to reign over, but man is not the owner. That’s why we must be ready to give account of how we manage the affairs of the earth to God.

Again, God is not a Democrat. He is a king and every kingdom government, which is Monarchy, is the best for the world if we can operate it like God wanted us to operate it with kindness and benevolence.

It was monarchy or kingdom government that we knew in Africa, which the white people came to destroy for us. Now, everybody is thinking and talking about democracy as the best. Democracy can be the best of man and it can be better than military; but, it is not the best for the world because God, the Creator of heaven and the earth, who didn’t create the earth for man to own, but only to rule, is not a Democrat!

Under democracy, they make laws by constitution. But, in a kingdom, the word of the king is law. He is the constitution where every law emanates from. Now, there is the tendency for a king to be autocratic, authoritarian and dictatorial. Yes, that happened when we had the kingdoms, but not all of them were so; and, every king that was so had a check through the sacred calabash. Any king that misbehaved was asked to open calabash and we all read about the consequences. Our people had the wisdom to introduce checks and balances to curb the excesses of any king or ruler before the white people came.

In a nutshell, therefore, before democracy, monarchy was the system we were running in Africa. If God is a king and He has kingdom, it means Africa has been operating the way God wanted us to operate before the white people brought their system to truncate the plan of God for us.

Apart from systems of government they came to introduce to the different countries they colonised out of their grand design to put the black people under and make them underdogd, the white brought language, culture, religion, education, fashion, food and, generally speaking, another way of life to our people to replace what they were used to. The made our people to feel inferior and dependant and, from generation to generation, we have stopped to believe in ourselves and our God-given potentials. This is the reason why we are thinking that democracy is the best.

Finally, if we consider the quote that said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” that was attributed to Albert Einstein to analyse the issue the problems created by mankind that they have been trying to advance solutions to, which made them to adopt different systems of government like communism, socialism, feudalism, federalism, democracy, etc, all of which have failed, one can conclude that the solution to all the problems of mankind cannot be sourced at the level of man’s thinking.

In other words, we have to look unto another realm behind the earth to seek for solution. And, the only realm we can look for such solution that will solve the problem of this earth realm should be from above. Every time we think we are wise and we can solve our problems by ourselves, what we are doing is to be proud. And, God will always resist the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

So, my last word on this matter is that time has come we become humble so that God will honour us because, “before honour is humility”.

Thank you.