The government hospital in Manzini, Swaziland is over capacity and under staffed. Sometimes the patients have to bring in their own bandages, meds and needles. Eighty percent of the people that check in never check out. Eighty percent of the people that go in for treatment are beyond a cure; they die. It is so difficult for me to understand what is happening in Swaziland.
The problem lies not in the death but in the culture of unblief. Swazi calls itself a Christian nation. But the gospel is watered down and added to. Ancient cultural practices are mixed with the gospel of Christ. A friend explained it to me like this:
It is like a vacination. A bit of something is injected so that the person will over time become immune to the whole thing. This is what happens when the word is watered down. Hope is diminished. We are afraid of doing just what the bible tells us to do. DIE.
When we die to self we are made alive in Christ. I don’t want a vacination. I don’t want a cure. I want the church in Swazi to die. I want to see these deaths stop. I want one thing. JESUS.
Pray with me for the nation of Swaziland. If we want to see the dying stop we must pray for death of self, and the life of Jesus to be lived through people here.
