One thing that forms the core of our national habit, especially in relation to our religious beliefs as Liberians, is that we pray without ceasing while sending praises to heaven every day for God’s abundant grace bestowed upon us as a nation and people.
We thank God continually and ask Him for more and more blessings, even though, we are richly endowed with abundant natural resources intended to make our earthly existence socially and economically meaningful and prosperous.
Yet, it appears that we merely live in vain, failing to make substantial progress because we are not making proper and effective use of the many blessings Heaven has allotted to us.
For many years, we have lived side by side with poverty, lacking the creativity and productivity necessary to make God proud. Our political leaders are often involved in corruption, if not outright demonic activities, that have the potential to provoke God’s anger against the land.
The question that deserves to be asked by every concerned observer is: when will God too thank us for being a people with vision, love, and civilization, so that He can rejoice and boast of creating a nation filled with decent people, people with a true sense of national direction, people who know their own value and the value of what they possess?
When will God proudly thump His chest, and declare us a compliant nation in terms of being corruption-free, visionary, and masters of our own destiny?
When will God see us sharing the national wealth equitably so that poverty will bow to prosperity, evil will give way to morality, and the culture of civilization will flourish in every town and village across the land?
When will we apply the golden principle that calls on us to be our brother’s keeper instead of embracing the crab mentality rooted in greed and selfishness; a mentality that has continued to hold the entire nation hostage in the deep valleys of poverty, illiteracy, and disease?
When will the culture of sycophancy, practiced against the interest of the vast majority, finally come to an end so that merit, honesty, and truth-telling can lead society forward?