The Dignity of Work and the Folly of Mockery

On September 13, 2025, the front page headline in The Mast newspaper screamed: “Zambians Mock HH …how can he be writing own speeches – they wonder.” And below the headline was the picture of the Zambian president in his office, pen in hand, writing something on paper. The headline came a day after the president delivered his speech during the official opening of the Fifth Session of the Thirteenth National Assembly on Friday, 12th September, 2025. 

The Mast headline compelled me to pause and reflect. What kind of society ridicules its leader for working? What mindset finds it laughable that a president should pick up a pen, put thought onto paper, and prepare his own words for the nation?

 

This reaction reveals a deeper problem than politics. It reveals a distorted view of work itself. To mock someone, especially a head of State, for diligence is not only illogical, it is symptomatic of a cultural malaise that diminishes labour, glorifies idleness, and confuses privilege with leadership.

 

The Illogic of Mocking Work 

Let us begin with the obvious: writing one’s own speeches is work. It is the labour of thinking, of choosing words that carry meaning, and of shaping ideas into sentences that persuade and inspire. That is not a small task - it is hard, careful, and demanding labour.  

 

Why then would anyone ridicule this? Perhaps because many have been conditioned to think leadership is about appearing important, detached, and served. In such a mindset, “real leaders” do not soil their hands with the sweat of effort. They delegate everything, even their voice. If this is the standard, then indeed a president writing his own speech looks out of place.

 

But this is a false and dangerous notion. Leadership is not laziness. Authority does not excuse one from labour; it binds one to greater responsibility. A president who writes his own speeches is not reducing his dignity, but enhancing it. He shows that he owns his convictions, that his words are not borrowed but born of his own reasoning, and that his leadership is not second-hand. To mock such work is to expose one’s own folly. For what is truly ridiculous is not a president who writes, but a people who laugh at diligence.

 

Work as a Divine Calling

From a biblical perspective, the necessity and dignity of work cannot be overstated. Work is not a curse; it is a calling. Before sin entered the world, Adam was placed in the garden of Eden “to work it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15). Human beings were created to labour, to cultivate, to produce, and to steward.

 

After the fall, work became toilsome, but it never ceased to be honourable. The sweat of the brow was not meant to be despised but to remind us of our dependence on God who blesses labour. The book of Proverbs consistently warns against laziness: “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber”(Prov. 6:10–11).

 

The Apostle Paul gave perhaps the sharpest reminder in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.” Work is both the condition of survival and the context of dignity. It is by labour that families are sustained, communities are built, and nations are strengthened. Therefore, to ridicule someone for working is not simply unwise, it is rebellion against God’s order. It mocks what God esteems.

 

A Model for Leadership

In leadership, the dignity of work is even more vital. Leaders are called not merely to occupy positions, but to serve. Christ Himself, the Lord of glory, declared: “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). If the eternal Son of God could stoop to labor for the salvation of His people, then surely a president writing his own speeches is no humiliation, but an act in harmony with true greatness.

 

When a president drafts his own words, he models ownership and accountability. He is not merely repeating phrases crafted by anonymous aides; he is speaking from conviction. That act alone should inspire respect, for it demonstrates that he takes his leadership seriously enough to think for himself.

 

Contrast this with leaders who abdicate all thought to advisers and speechwriters. Such leaders may deliver eloquent addresses, but the words are not theirs. They are actors reciting lines, not thinkers shaping policy. To prefer such detachment over the authenticity of personal labour is to choose shadows over substance.

 

The Folly of the Mockers

It is worth asking: what do those who mock gain? Do they not reveal that they would rather have leaders who are ornamental than substantive? Do they not show that they value appearance over reality, ease over effort, and privilege over responsibility?

 

This mindset is destructive. A society that despises labour will not progress. A people that mocks diligence will never rise. Nations are built by hard work, by men and women who do not despise effort but embrace it as honorable. If citizens laugh at a president for working, what hope is there that they themselves will take their own work seriously? Mockery of labour is the seedbed of poverty. Respect for labour is the foundation of prosperity. The choice between the two is not political - it is moral and spiritual.

 

A Call to Recover the Dignity of Work

What Zambia, and indeed every society needs is not less work, but more. We need leaders who labour with their minds and hands. We need citizens who see work not as a burden to be avoided but as a calling to be embraced. We need parents who teach their children that dignity lies not in avoiding toil but in doing it faithfully.

 

When a president writes his own speech, the proper response is not laughter but admiration. It should encourage us to also take responsibility for our words, our duties, and our vocations. It should remind us that no one is above work - not even the highest office in the land.

 

The front page of The Mast may have reported laughter, but it inadvertently raised a serious question: Do we as a people honour or despise work? If we choose mockery, we embrace folly and weaken the foundations of our nation. If we choose respect for work, we align ourselves with God’s design and secure the dignity of our future.

 

President Hichilema writing his own speeches is not a shame to be ridiculed, but a virtue to be celebrated. It is a small but significant reminder that true leadership is not about luxury but labour, not about privilege but responsibility. And until we learn to honour work in all its forms, we will remain a people who laugh at the very thing that could lift us.

 

Pastoral Reflections on the August 12 Elections #2 - For the Love of God and Country

“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jeremiah 29:7)

One of the most corrupt, infamous, contemptible, and disgraceful characters in the Bible is a woman named Delilah. Her character is accurately painted for us in the sixteenth chapter of the book of Judges. Despite Samson’s moral failings, we admire his heroic patriotism and devotion to the nation of Israel. Empowered by God, he defended his country and single-handedly defeated Israel’s enemies. On the other hand, Delilah, Samson’s mistress, betrayed Samson to the Philistines. 

We are told that Delilah was from the valley of Sorek, in the southeast corner of Dan’s territory, only a few kilometres from Samson’s home in Zorah. Whether she was a Philistine, or an Israelite is unclear. Was her motivation to betray Samson driven by Philistine ethnicity and loyalty or by her greed for worldly possessions? She was handsomely paid 5,500 pieces of sliver for her duplicity. Her unhindered contact with men probably indicates that she was a prostitute. If she was an Israelite, her ignominy is even far more serious that she could sell herself to Israel’s oppressors for money. Whatever the case could be, here is a woman of duplicity and a cunning mercenary spirit. 

 

What is Patriotism? 

As Zambia heads to the polls next week on Thursday (August 12^th), Christians must rise up to the occasion and show their love for God and for this country. Above anyone else, we are the ones who must show greater patriotism to this country. Patriotism is simply love for your country. Zambia as a nation is a concrete, well-defined territory. We are a community of citizens created by political power but deepened in the development of a shared commitment to, and love of, this community we call Zambia. Such loyalty is not idolatrous; rather, it is a limited affection for a community of fellow citizens bound together for purposes of government and based in our defined territory. 

 

A nation cannot be unified on the basis of only the mutual satisfaction of utilitarian needs. It must rather be bound together by an active dedication to the maintenance of the body politic. To call this dedication love is quite proper if we understand that this particular form of love is distinct from that between close friends, husband and wife, or parents and children. Patriotic loyalty is thus inextricably tied to the shared commitment to do public justice within the context of political community.

 

I contend that there is a legitimate place for our loyalty and love to our nation in a modest and non-idolatrous sense. Our love for this country must flow from an ultimate love for the triune God and express itself to our various and diverse fellow citizens who, as defined by the Lord Jesus Christ in the parable of the Good Samaritan, are our “neighbours.” (Luke 10:25-37). It is God who has given each one of us this territorial setting in which we live (Acts 17:26). Christian citizenship is a good and important calling.

 

It is our calling as Christians to strive to maintain our patriotic feelings within proper biblical bounds. To show our devotion to Zambia in a godly manner is to want to participate in any way that would bring justice, love and mercy in the nation. It is to pray that “God’s kingdom come, and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And one way we contribute to making our nation better is to participate in the electoral process.  

 

Unhealthy Tendencies to Avoid

Even as Christians, we are not immune to earthly tendencies and the appeal of ideologies, despite our commitment in principle to the exclusive claims of the gospel. Concern for one’s political community is, of course, right and proper, and Christians can hardly be faulted for wishing to correct their nation’s deficiencies. But we must be wary of the unhealthy variety of Christian nationalism masquerading as patriotism that errs on many fronts: 

 

1. We must be careful not to apply biblical promises intended for the body of Christ as a whole to one of many particular groups of people bound together under a common political framework. There is no single leader or political grouping that should claim to be God’s exclusive choice in the same way that God ordained and anointed kings in the Old Testament. I will talk about democracy in my next posting. 

2. We must keep away from the tendency to identify God’s norms for political and cultural life with a particular, imperfect manifestation of those norms at a specific period of a nation’s history. We must judge our nation’s present actions by transcendent norms given by God and not by precedents in our nation’s history deemed to have embodied these norms.  

3. We must refrain from too easily paying our nation a homage due only to God. We must not see our nation’s history, such as the Christian heritage bequeathed to us by many missionary agencies and the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation as somehow revelatory of God’s ways and making us a special country in the eyes of God. We are what we are as nation only by the grace of God. 

4. We must not make the mistake of conceiving of our nationhood as an undifferentiated community with few if any constraints on its claims to allegiance. Nationhood must remain within the normative limits God has placed on everything in his creation.

 

No country can legitimately make an absolute moral claim on the loyalty of the Christian or of any of its members. Christians and the nations are called to a greater love and an ultimate loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is identity in Christ and the gospel of the kingdom which offer hope and reconciliation in a divided world, not national identity and patriotism. And yet Christians and the one human race live in the context of a range of social, cultural, and political communities. That is an integral part of a God-given humanity as created social creatures. 

 

The gospel both judges and affirms the social context and cultural identity of human life within history, including the context of country and nationhood. Patriotism may be a worthy disposition for Christians in their earthly citizenship within the wider loyalty and horizon of the heavenly city. The love that Christians may show for their country must be discerning and discriminating. At its core, patriotism must be an affirmation of what is best in a country’s history and life, including the humane and creative achievements of its culture, its struggles for greater justice in human affairs at home and in the wider world, and the expression of certain moral values in its public life and institutions.  

 

The scale for assessing the worth of one’s country does not lie in some innate national spirit or genius, but in that human creativity and partial grasp of truth which remains open to all humanity even after its fall into sin and rebellious history.Each culture and country may express that creativity and grasp of truth in its own distinctive ways, but no mere country is endowed with a monopoly of wisdom or possesses some unique destiny. The church of Jesus Christ alone is the herald of the coming kingdom of God, a community which draws its membership from every country and culture. Only from within the loyalty and perspective of the kingdom can we exercise a true patriotism for country deserving of a penultimate loyalty and provisional commitment.   

 

At its core, a true Christian patriot must expose fully all that is evil and morally compromised in the history and identity of a nation in the light of the gospel, and still love that country. Christian patriots like the biblical prophet Jeremiah and the German Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer show the cost, honesty and courage required for true love of God and country in Christ. 

 

How much do you love Zambia? How much do you want to see it prosper and put its fragmented past behind us? How much are you praying that God may use even your seemingly insignificant vote to shape a new and better trajectory for this country? Don’t be like Delilah and sell yourself to those who might not mean well for the country. Keep your national identity card and voter’s card safe. You have a patriotic duty to play on 12^th August, 2021.    

 

Pastoral Reflections on the August 12 Elections #1 - Rebuilding a Fractured Nation

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 

(2 Chronicles 7:14)

 

On 12th August, registered Zambian voters go to the polls to elect a President, Members of Parliament, Mayors/Council Secretaries and Counselors. The country is awash with campaign messages from participating political parties and independent candidates.  

In the run up to election day, I will be posting my thoughts on this blog on the subject of politics, democracy and governance from a theological and biblical point of view. Our country in its present form is a broken and fractured nation. It is bleeding on many fronts. Our politics are increasingly characterised by violence and tribal divisions. We have become polarised as a country. The economy is in tatters, and the basic social and ethical fabric of society is rent by the crippling winds of injustice. Like a destructive hurricane flattening a city, we have seen a system-wide collapse of law and order. The challenges and effects of the Covid-19 on all spheres of the nation’s life have been devastatingly enormous. Good and inspiring leadership is in short supply. 

 

This hopeless scenario and downward spiral may cause some people to despair and lose hope, or entirely give up on participating in the electoral process that our democracy affords us. Is this unfortunate situation reversible? Is there any hope for Zambia? Can the fractures on Zambia’s bones be healed? 

 

I am writing as a Christian, and as a Christian, I am not ignorant of the fact that politics is a broken cistern. When Christians exclusively trust in political solutions and politicians to save the nation, they will be miserably disappointed. (Jer. 2:18, 36-37). My mind has never been held captive to the idea that the only place where the political and economic fortunes of this country can be turned around for the better is at State House and at Parliament. I have never assumed that the executive and the legislature alone can change this country for good. I cannot put my hope in any government, and never will. The gospel challenges this myth. It tells me that the political sphere is just one area, and not the only one, through which change can take place. 

 

So, as we go the polls on August 12th, each one of us has a civic responsibility to play. The basic duties and responsibilities of Christians in a free society includes the electing of civil leaders. I wish to remind my Christian colleagues that we have an awesome responsibility in this nation and we need to approach these responsibilities from a biblical perspective.  

 

In these reflections, I set out to assist Christians understand why they should gladly be interested in the electoral process of our country and exercise their patriotic responsibility on Election Day. I must make it clear that I am not advocating for any one particular party or candidate. I am simply engaging with you my readers so that we begin to see how best we can contribute to the good of our country and make an impactful contribution on society by voting with a Christian conscience. 

 

May God’s people bend their knees and bow their heads and cry to the sovereign LORD of the universe to heal our broken and fractured nation. 

 

Sleep is an Act of Faith

“I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.”(Psalm 3:5-6)

I thank God that insomnia (inability to sleep) is not one of my weaknesses. I have an uncle who, regardless of what time he goes to bed, will be up around 03:00 hours. Sleep completely disappears, and no matter how hard he tries, he cannot fall asleep again. I have never come across anyone who hates sleep. Normally, all of us sleep about a third of our lives. The need for sleep is part of the way that God hardwired us. Isn’t it interesting that the One in whose image we have been created, made us with the ability and urge to sleep when He himself neither slumbers nor sleeps? (Psalm 121:4). 

Sleep is not only a gift of God, (Psalm 127:2) but also an act of faith. Psalm 3 is a psalm of David when he fled from Absalom. This was a time of great distress and danger on every side. What David was facing was overwhelming enough to cause him fear and anxiety and deprive him of sleep. But David did what all of us should do when fear and anxiety overwhelm us – he “cried out to the LORD.” (Psalm 3:4). And did God answer his prayer? Yes, He did. With enemies all around him, David manages to fall asleep (3:5). That he was able to rest and sleep in the face of overwhelming danger was an act of faith. 

Peaceful sleep is the opposite of fearful restlessness, sleeplessness, and anxiety. When we trust God, He will send us His divine gift of sleep. In the face of the threat of the COVID-19, do you fail to sleep because of excessive worry and fear? Turn your fear and worry over to God, and lay down to sleep confident that the Lord will sustain you. George Horne (1730-1792), an English churchman and vice-chancellor of Oxford University beautifully wrote: 

Happy is the Christian, who having nightly with this verse, committed himself to his bed as to his grave, shall at last, with the same words, resign himself to his grave as to his bed, from which he expects in due time to arise, and sing a morning hymn with the children of the resurrection. 

Advent Meditations - Lesson on Humility from Elizabeth

“And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:41-43)

The more I have read this passage, the more I have been struck by its portrayal of the character of true humility. If you struggle with pride, as sometimes I do, these verses come right at you and clearly spell out for you just what true humility looks like.

You know what? There are subtle moments when I want to be preoccupied with myself. When my mind tells me, people ought to recognise and acknowledge my accomplishments. When I am tempted to rehearse all my successes and show people that I am worth something. You see, pride is an orientation that wrongly assumes that everything should revolve around us. Elizabeth’s words in these verses give us a good example of a truly humble disposition.

When Elizabeth was visited by her younger cousin Mary, she was six months pregnant. When she heard the greeting of Mary, we are told that the baby leaped in her womb, and filled with the Spirit, she spoke these words in our text: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Do you see the humility of Elizabeth? An angel came to her husband months earlier and told him that she would be the mother of the forerunner of the Messiah. That in the person of her son, the great prophecies of the Old Testament were going to be fulfilled.

But when Mary shows up by her doorstep, Elizabeth has nothing to say about herself. Just this: “Blessed are you among women.” She could have said, ‘Mary, let me tell you how I'm going to be used of the Lord!’ But for Elizabeth, it’s all about Jesus. ‘Blessed are you among women, Mary, because you’re going to bear the Messiah. You’re going to be the mother of my Lord.’ 

Elizabeth is not envious of her younger cousin who has been chosen by God to bear the Messiah. She does not think of herself – older, more mature and perhaps more godly, as the one who should have been given this honour to give birth to the Messiah. No. She is content with providence’s gift to her, and she is happy for Mary. And it struck me, as I was reading this passage, that Elizabeth’s son was just like her. You remember John the Baptist’s word? “He must increase; I must decrease.” (John 3:). John learnt humility from his mother. The self-denial, and the focus on Christ that is latter displayed in the ministry of John is evident in the heart of Elizabeth!

My friends, we could learn something from that. For so many of us “it’s all about me…all about mine…let me tell you about me…let me tell you what I’ve done.” Not with Elizabeth. All the focus is on Jesus. All the encouragement is to Mary, who is going to be the one to bear the Messiah. What an example of humility she is to us. The Bible’s answer to our fallen self-obsession is a great work of grace in the gospel that creates a worshipful fixation and focus upon God. 

Amen!

“I am Here For Legacy” – Lessons from Luka Mwango and his Extraordinary Talent

On Monday morning, September 17, 2018, Social Media was awash with the sad news of the passing on of a talented Zambian prolific poet, spoken word performer, novelist and budding screenplay writer, Luka Mwango. I met the young man in person only twice. The first time was when we had invited students from the University of Zambia to our house for an Christian evangelistic movie in 2015. The second time was at UNZA Chapel in 2016. I can’t remember the exact event, but my aging mind thinks it was a musical concert, and Luka had set up a table outside the chapel which was stacked with his two publications, Twisted and Perdition. 

When the concert was done, and we were trooping out of the chapel, I stopped by the table. He looked up at me with his characteristic incandescent smile. And with a persuasiveness that would make any salesman glee with envy, he convinced me to buy his book, Perdition. He didn’t persuade me to buy because he needed to make some profit over his literary works, but he told me he would feel encouraged when Zambians began to read their own authors and take pride in them. As an avid reader and patriotic Zambian, I didn’t need that much persuasion to fork out my money for this book. We talked briefly, and I was immediately struck by his intelligence, knowledge and excellent command of the English language. 

And so, when I heard about his death, my mind raced back to the only two meetings we had, and my heart sunk with grief. What a gifted young man he was, and plucked away from us before we saw the best from him. As I reflect on his life, a life that I hardly knew well enough except through social media, I am intrigued at what an enigma he was, and how influential he was among the young people. My daughter knows so much about him, and so do several of her friends, and their hearts are grieving. Which young people will easily forget his poem, Dear Future Wife? He must have been in fourth grade in 2001 when my wife left Nchanga Trust School in Chingola as we relocated to Kitwe.

I am reminded of the short life of Keith Green, who died three months shy of his 29^thbirthday. Energetic, ferocious, fiery, passionate, vibrant, gifted – all these adjectives describe Keith and Luka, too. I never watched him perform his poetry live on stage, but I have watched a few of his videos, and they are breathtaking. One blogger describes him in these words (click here): “Passionate, provokingly sentimental, with a grueling self-abandonment that teleports him and the audience to the scenery of his poems.” And such passion came naturally to him, because, as he often said, “I know pain. I’ve lived at her home and we shared a life together, so communicating that pain, whether mine or someone else’s, comes easy to me.”

Luka, seated on the right right side, in a pink shirt and jeans at our house in 2015.

Luka is gone, taken away from us at such a tender age. And we will grieve for him, and our grief will be fruitless and empty if we do not pause and learn lessons from his life and form the artistry of this young man. That is the reason for my blogging about him. So, what do we learn from him? 

1. He was very passionate about what he did 

If there is one word which defined Luka, it was passion – vigorous, exuberant passion. He loved what he did, and aimed at getting better and better at it. He was a ruthless workaholic, who almost worked himself death in order to come out with the best that his brilliant mind could conceive and his talent deliver. He was not content to settle for second best, when he knew he was capable of doing the best. 

One of the senior law students at UNZA, Kasewe Banda, who was a schoolmate to Luka recalls being punished by a prefect at Mpelembe Secondary School when he was in grade 9. He was told to go and clean the Head Boy’s room. That Head Boy was Luka. When he was busy cleaning the room, he noticed several Sobi exercise books, with various writings in them. They struck a conversation about that, and Luka told him that what was in the exercise books were short stories he had been writing, and that it was his dream one day to become an author. That passion never died.    

2. He wrestled with the philosophical issues of life in search for answers     

Luka had a probing mind. An intellect that wrestled with the metaphysical questions of life. That is very common in young people who are searching for meaning in life. Keith Green went through such a struggle. Some of Luka’s poems show this characteristic. For example, the poem, Does God Exist, is a highly intellectualized piece that uses deep imagery, paradox and complicated thought to deal with metaphysical questions. The poem is not just intended to mesmerise you with large doses of wit, rhymes and humour, but to cause you to think about the existence of God and how to perceive the world around you. Sadly, so many of our young people today spend hardly a moment to deal with such enormous, life-altering questions. Hear the words in that poem: 

            Does the sorcery of our lungs have enough magic to give breath to dust?

Can we create anything in our own image, 

When we hate our own image? 

We have been trying to kill God,

Ever since the Adam of our brain,

And the Eve of our heart,

Decided to live in the Eden of our ego. 

These are crucial questions you must deal with. I don’t need to remind you that time is short, far shorter than you think. Moses said our lives are “like grass that is renewed in the morning [and] in the evening it fades and withers” (Psalm 90:5-6). It’s too short to waste it in empty living. May you have a heart that has learned the lesson that life is not about how much you earn, achieve, or experience in your few days on earth; life is wholeheartedly trusting the Life (John 14:6). To fear God is to live under the force of the existential reality of God and to know that the only thing that wastes life is unbelief.

3. He loved Zambia and was not shy to declare that to the world  

At a time when there is not much to be proud of as a Zambian, when our economy is shaky and our political leaders are less than inspiring, Luka loved the country of his birth. Early this year, he posted this on social media: “I don't wanna succeed in any other country apart from Zambia. Because it's not just about my shine, but giving hope to these kids coming after us that you can achieve your dreams in Zambia like anywhere else.” When you read through his posts on social media, you see a young man who was proud to be Zambian and was looking forward to a better Zambia. 

4. He used his artistic talent to speak about his faith, though we wish he could have done more  

Speaking to some of his friends who know him better than I do, they confidently speak of his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Luka regularly attended Lusaka Baptist Church. Some of his friends had incessant conversations with him about taking the Christian faith seriously and identifying himself with a particular local church and seek membership. One such close friend was Lennox Kalifungwa, who once corroborated with Luka on a song entitled Breath. He was keen to do so, but that time never came.   

When asked direct questions about his faith, he immediately responded with confident answers. In an interview with Butali House, he was asked this question: Have you ever read something that made you change the way you looked at life and yourself? Without hesitation, he said, “The Bible” (click here). He believed that the historical Christianity is true and that the bible is the infallible word of God. And apart from the intellectual or emotional deduction to that truth he strove to show how it played itself out in the social context. How many of you young people, even older people consider social media as your mission field, and use every opportunity to spread the gospel? 

In February this year, to rebuke those who use the hypocrisy of Christians as their reason for not taking religion seriously, he posted these words on Facebook: “It’s like the assurance some nonbelievers have in the non-existence of God is in the hypocrisy of some Christians, and are hellbent on exposing that and in neglecting the ones that actually walk the talk ... but our assurance of faith should never be in the goodness, hypocrisy or what not of man (believer or not), but in God himself and His word.” 

The closest I have heard him come to sharing something akin to his testimony is in a poem Second Chances. If we take this as something more than a poem, but an unburdening of his heart after a tragically failed romantic relationship, then what he says is very revealing.  

            From lovers to friends, to enemies,

            How I spent sleepless nights to try and edge crawl the memory 

 of you from my brain.

 And how I was stuck in limbo,

 For I couldn’t decide whether to miss you or forget you… 

 But you see, Christ, Christ, Christ ignited a flame 

 Inside of my heart called salvation. 

And the Holy Spirit tutored me, 

And the men of God discipled me.

And the closer I got to God,

The more I wished life had a rewind button,

So that I could go back in time,

And wash away the stains from that blood spot we called a relationship. 

That’s deep. And as if responding to the shame and pain of his past life, he encourages people with these words on social media: “Be kind to your wounds, respect your scars. But don't fall in love with them. They are a reference not an identity. Stop calling yourself by your pain, respond only to your healing.” Did the Lord Jesus Christ wash away those stains and heal those wounds that sin had inflicted on him? I want to believe so, as eternity will eventually reveal. 

On May 27^th, this year, He asked a question on Facebook which he proceeded to answer: "What is legacy? It’s love! It’s hope! It’s faith! Above all, it’s winning so others can win through you, win by you and win with you. I’m here for legacy." 

Yes, Luka, you have left us with an illustrious and indelible legacy. Your works will outlive you.