It does not matter how humble your beginning is, God can always tun your life around.
Here is a story of one of Kenya's most respected media personality. I hope it will be of great value to you.
Many Kenyans know my name; they know my face, they know my voice, they know what I do. But to the rest of the world, let me introduce myself.
My name is Johnson Mwakazi. I am a television anchor here in Nairobi, Kenya, but my journey started here in Kibera.
“I was born in Kibera that’s where I have lived all my life.” I grew up without a role model. My father was a drunkard. He lost his job and it was a tight moment especially for my mother, really trying to support the family at the same time working in town as a cleaner. And living in a mud house and of course no water – we had to buy. Just once a week –you take a bath once a week. When it came to washrooms or toilets, we had to go round and, of course, sometimes during the night it could be dangerous because you don’t know who you’re going to meet along the way, so you had to help yourself inside the house and probably in the morning try to sort it out. I remember when I was 14, somebody introduced me to pornography and that whole sequence began of desiring a feeling of pursuing something that you really never get to satisfy.
There
was this particular time I remember I was walking and I heard people
making cheerful noises, and when I went there I realized it was a
theater group, Kibera Community Youth Program, and so I joined it. And
there was a time I was given a role, it was a skit I remember, I was
given a role as a narrator. So I narrated and after that, the
facilitator of the program said, “Wow, you have a great voice.” And that
really gave me that feeling that, “Hey, you have something to offer,
something precious.” And that was actually the beginning. God would wake
me up at about 5:30 on a daily basis and I didn’t quite understand why.
And He would cause me to sort of walk all the way up to this place. And
when I got here, instead of working out my body, I would work on my
voice. Now I come — I’ve come to realize it was really at that process
of fashioning me, because He knew where He was taking me. At that time I
didn’t know, but now I look back and I see, “Wow, God was working with
me.” God was working on my voice so that He would qualify me to occupy
that space in the media world. Anytime I think about where I came from, I
look at myself putting on these good clothes, and I have this publicity
when I walk down the streets people are saying, “Hey, Johnson. Hey!”
Everybody now knows me. And I remember where God took me. It gives me an
opportunity to humble myself, to humble myself. And just as Christ
said, “If you humble yourself you will be lifted,” God will lift you up.
That opportunity to humble myself, God uses to teach me His ways. That
at the end of the day when glory is given, I say, “Not unto me, oh Lord,
but only to you.” And I realize my purpose, that I was created to
reflect the Glory of God.
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