Tale of bricklayer who missed the Museveni ‘divine purpose’ in Wakiso

By Ben Ssebuguzi

When they are blasting the word of God in church, sometimes our people are always distracted by either thoughts, sometimes the hot heel shoes making noise, and they end up failing to grasp how God works through people.

While in Sentema, Wakiso, on his PDM assessment tours, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni stopped and greeted a man who was making bricks, who didn’t understand the nature of the person who had left his comfort in the motorcade to go where he was burning his bricks to share with him his future progress.

Instead, the man from Masaka said that he earns 20,000/= daily. Something good but not better.

This man failed to understand that one day he prayed and asked God to prosper him and start his own business, which is sustainable so that he can as well employ others. This poor man didn’t understand why sometimes God uprooted him from Masaka, where God had initially planted him to a new place in Sentema, where He would position him to meet God’s messenger called General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who was to transform him from a wage earner getting crumbs to an established entrepreneur.

The faithful God who shifted him to Sentema wanted him to testify how God works through people to manifest to us. President Museveni might not be an ordinary man but a divine messenger of God who touches the poor through PDM, EMYOOGA, ONC empowerment tools program, industrial skilling hubs, among others. Have you ever asked yourself why our President is not an armchair leader like others on the continent? God’s call to him became a mission to transform his great African continent.

All different faiths believe God works through people to achieve His divine purpose and to demonstrate His presence and will in the world. This involves God directly influencing individuals or using instruments or policy such as PDM to carry out specific tasks.

The divine purpose in wealth creation can be traced in His processes. God’s placement of people like President Museveni can never be arbitrary. It was part of God’s divine plan to work in and through Ugandans. Unfortunately, the bricklayer was simply adamant and didn’t realize the potential that had come before him in President Museveni.

Sometimes it might be difficult to realize that you have a messenger from God instantly, but we should be fast to digest the atmosphere and environment of our visitors and interpret their divine nature. Some of us have learnt to embrace the people who God sends into our lives which has elevated us to better opportunities.

In the Bible we ought to understand the people who adjusted quickly when they saw God’s messenger. For example, Lot and his family were initially unaware that two men visiting them were angels.

Similarly, Peter in the book of Acts was miraculously freed from prison by an angel but initially believed that he had seen a vision, not a real event.

While Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, was visited by angel Gabriel, the text indicates that he didn’t fully grasp the significance of the angel and struggled to believe it.

In actual sense, the bricklayer had to explain to the President that he plans to buy a machine for burning bricks which uses less energy to save and reduce the environmental impact of cutting down trees for firewood. As an environment crusader, this would sink deeper in the President’s artilleries. Then the President would definitely appreciate how this man intends to employ himself but also create more jobs for others. This rhythms better in his pursuit to eradicate household poverty. The unfortunate bit is that the bricklayer could not fathom it that way, which made his guest assume that all is okay, yet it was deception.

In summary, our President has a divine mission. This is evident in his strong sense of passion and purpose in the field, his willingness to serve others and feeling of connection to something larger than himself. When he appears to us often, let us realize very fast that God has sent us someone to transform us by presenting to him viable proposals.

The writer is the Head of Research, Office of the National Chairman.