Me, Myselfie and I: (A Name for Myself)

Dear Diary,

#The_World_of_Selfies

#Vanity #Selfie_Obsessed #Selfie_Monuments

I just love the Holy Scripture, the way it mulikaz and exposes my insecurities, pride, and emptiness. The last 12 days I’ve been traversing the book of Genesis; two tales caught my attention about the vanity of selfies. Making a monument or a name for thy-SELFIE seems like a normal thing, in fact, almost everyone is doing it. Btw, does anyone here know the names of the people who were building the city and tower of Babel? I have a give-away to anyone who remembers them, please share their namesJ!

During the last days of High school’ng, I remember writing somewhere in a classroom that, “Nzaku was here.” Am not sure if anyone ever saw that jotting etched somewhere in the wall or timbers of the roof.  That’s 15+ years ago, I doubt anyone in that school knows or remembers me! Last December we were in Malindi and I remember writing somewhere in the beach sand, “Nzaku was here.” But people walked on the writings and soon after the sand were washed away. So, who did I want to see that “I was here or there?” why and/or what exactly did I want to be remembered for? See my life!

In Genesis 4:16-17, I noted that after the rejected worship and severe sentence, Cain went out from God’s presence and begun a new life. He build a city naming it after his son, Enoch. You see, earlier God sentenced Cain to unproductive toil and restless wandering. Did Cain build himself a city to thumb his nose at God? Cain attempted to build himself a settlement perhaps to divert his restless mind and unproductive toil.

You see, even the people of Shinar tried to build a city and a tower reaching God’s abode for their-SELFIES. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. Come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and avoid dispersion,” Gen. 11:3-4. What’s this-insecurity and/or pride? Well, God frustrated their goal and efforts by confusing their language. The city planners, engineers, architects, consultants, masons, and general labourers could not communicate and continue the selfie-project. The dispersion the people hated came to pass!

Listen, there’s nothing wrong about leaving great legacy, but what are the intentions of your hearts? Why do we want to be famous?  What do we want to be remembered for? If you go to cemetery, you’ll see many elaborate monuments/tombstones build for and in remembrance of deceased kinsmen, but do we even remember them? What emotions and feelings are elicited upon their remembrance?

In Genesis 12:2, God promised Abram a great name, today, who doesn’t remember Abraham? Psalm 127:1 surely, building a SELFIE without God at the centre is vain labour. Let God, the One whose Name is above all names give you a great name. In your progresses, let God be at the centre of your innovations and enterprises.

Bila God, yote ni #Vanity

Yours faithful scribbler,

NzakuNashipae