There was a strong wind that was being experienced in the afternoons around our village some years back. I am not aware whether it is still in existence. In nineteen nineties, I had heard an old woman say it was for winnowing. It was very common to find women standing outside their houses, those days, with winnowing trays busy sorting maize, beans, peas, sorghum and wheat. During the harvesting time, we would wait for it at our garden. It would blow the chaff that mixed with the grains that we threshed, leaving the cereals alone on the threshing floor.
As I remembered that wind I felt a message notification in my mind. It said, “Some winds come to separate what is good from the chaff.” I looked at the issues that occur around my life and the people around me and I asked myself, could this be some sort of a wind? On a keen analysis I realized some of the occurrences I had thought were works of the devil are winds meant to remove the chaff.
The vices we commit in our lives are chaff and one day there is a wind that will blow them. When institutions start to retrench workers we think it’s the economy that is unfavorable, but it may be a wind meant to blow the worthless workers. If you are employed somewhere if this wind blows in that place now will you be left? It is good to be productive and of value in your work place. Those who do what is right in their work places are the only ones who can withstand the pressure of the breeze meant to cleanse the evils in our organizations.
When we were learning about winds in geography, we learnt they are formed because of the heat exchange. That means there are issues that trigger a change in temperature in families, marriages, places of work and in businesses. When the winds start to blow the chaff any of these facets that make our lives that have husks is blown away. That is why we see lives of men and women crumbling every day, people being given job termination letters and businesses collapsing. Those who are affected tries to use the legal means and religious practices to reclaim what is driven by the wind but nothing comes back to them.
There was a day I watched a whirlwind blow in a certain open air market. It carried clothes as it swept stalls. When it reached to a place with trees it stopped. It could not overpower them. I learnt the trees had strong internal structure that the blowing wind could not break. That is what we need in our lives; an inner structure that the blowing winds cannot defeat and the only way to have it is by getting rid of the chaff in our lives. Chaff is blown because it is light. The ills we do in our families, places of work and in our businesses are what makes our lives to be lightweight.
We need to cultivate the right character in our lives if we want to overcome the winds that are there in the world. “Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God. Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord, and they study it day and night. They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do. But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away. Psalms 1:1-4, GNT.” Discard the chaff in your life and wind meant to blow it will not find anything to carry. It will find a life supported by a pillar of what is right.
As I remembered that wind I felt a message notification in my mind. It said, “Some winds come to separate what is good from the chaff.” I looked at the issues that occur around my life and the people around me and I asked myself, could this be some sort of a wind? On a keen analysis I realized some of the occurrences I had thought were works of the devil are winds meant to remove the chaff.
When we were learning about winds in geography, we learnt they are formed because of the heat exchange. That means there are issues that trigger a change in temperature in families, marriages, places of work and in businesses. When the winds start to blow the chaff any of these facets that make our lives that have husks is blown away. That is why we see lives of men and women crumbling every day, people being given job termination letters and businesses collapsing. Those who are affected tries to use the legal means and religious practices to reclaim what is driven by the wind but nothing comes back to them.
There was a day I watched a whirlwind blow in a certain open air market. It carried clothes as it swept stalls. When it reached to a place with trees it stopped. It could not overpower them. I learnt the trees had strong internal structure that the blowing wind could not break. That is what we need in our lives; an inner structure that the blowing winds cannot defeat and the only way to have it is by getting rid of the chaff in our lives. Chaff is blown because it is light. The ills we do in our families, places of work and in our businesses are what makes our lives to be lightweight.
We need to cultivate the right character in our lives if we want to overcome the winds that are there in the world. “Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God. Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord, and they study it day and night. They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do. But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away. Psalms 1:1-4, GNT.” Discard the chaff in your life and wind meant to blow it will not find anything to carry. It will find a life supported by a pillar of what is right.
