Your face looks familiar!

A man arrested for pocket-picking was being whisked away by police officers with handcuffs in the hands. As he was been guided along the path leading to where the police van was packed, he looked sideways, facing one of the numerous onlookers and shouted, ‘your face looks familiar’

‘No, I have never met you; you must be day-dreaming’ the onlooker said loudly and furiously.

‘I am not into this petty coin and note stealing thing, my own is changing numbers. ‘The last time I changed a number was two days ago and that was in a city, several miles away. Again, I don’t know you and we could never have met before now, stinking thief! Read my lips, I say read my lips’

Without wasting any time, the police officers also handcuffed this onlooker and both men enjoyed a free ride to the police station afterwards.

Later, it was discovered that both men have actually not met before; it was a case of unfortunate coincidence for the number-changer. He was just on a short vacation and had decided to explore the beauty of this seventh-century, Elizabethan city that is renowned for elegance and style. The city of his love because the location for his arrest.

It’s interesting how thievery could be categorized and wrongdoings, glamorized. It appears we have become a generation of people who are ready to throw stones at other offenders, while we justify our own sins and wallow in our own waywardness.

We have metamorphosed into a group where ‘if it’s not big, it can be excused’ and if it’s under our own roof, it’s permitted but if in our neighbor’s room, it should be reported’. Tax evaders, calling for the head of unscrupulous leaders and bribe-takers making mockery of the immoralities in other places.

Something tells me that 2017 is the year of ‘unfortunate coincidences’ for those whose preoccupation has been to continuously transgress and unrepentantly celebrate their ‘tactfulness at escapism’.

Men and women whose life has been built on the cry and agony of others should be prepared for free rides to their places of incarceration. Those whose job has been to plunder the commonwealth of the nations and subsequently manipulate the populace should be set for dishonor and humiliation this year. Their faces are about to look familiar soon.

It’s time for righteousness to return to our lands. It’s time to say NO to every form of misdemeanor. We certainly don’t want our faces to look familiar. It’s time to return to the path of Godliness.

#blessed2017