The nations were suffering from corruption, slow economic growth, unemployment, nepotism of long-ruling dictators and citizens were smouldering in anger at the corrupted government. The government in existence only for the privileged, the haves, for their nepotism and the powerful continued without end.
Widely publicized democratic elections brought the government again and again. The captive electorate repeatedly elected the privileged, the rich, the nepotism and the public continued life as before. Change never came to the land.
The situation needed an event to set the smouldering society on fire. This was 2010 AD in many of the Arab nations. Then a small-unexpected incident in Tunisia set the whole Arab nations completely one after another, in what is called the Arab Spring Revolution.
A qualified engineer from a poor family in Tunisia went from pillar to post without end in search of employment but got nowhere. Every place, everyone turned him down even for an ordinary job. He had no money and connections to bribe his way through the corrupt system.
Ultimately, for the survival of his family, wife and small children, Mohamed Bouazizi, the engineer started to sell fruits and vegetables in the market road side in a push cart.
The municipal man asked him to remove his push cart away from the place; Bouazizi did not have money to bribe the police.
What exactly happened next is not known in detail. The police is said to have beaten Bouazizi in the market place and unable to accept the injustice and humiliation, Azizi immolated himself.
The story of injustice and corruption struck the chord with thousand others in other cities of Tunisia and in the following weeks Tunisians poured out into the cities against the decades of nepotism and of corruption of President Ben Ali and his Jezebel wife who fled the country.
In Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Morocco and Jordan the exasperated Public came out into the Streets thousands and thousands against their Rulers. One after another the Arab nations fell to the spring revolution.
Can Reform unexpectedly and suddenly come to Nagaland?
In my church in Nagaland, there use to be an ardent and respected member, and whenever entrusted to, use to pray ardently for Revival to come to our church. I agreed totally with him in his prayer, however, I never expected Revival would come to our church abruptly like that and there.
In spite of all of the members being very nice and good for fellowship, I felt most of us were only as good or as bad as any other ordinary fellow, not the serious convinced lot Revival likes to visit. Revival may not like to come to a Church of Lodicians.
Perhaps, as it looks, the Naga do not change abruptly any way, neither in politics, in social or in religious lives.
They are too nice persons without conviction in any specific realms. In Nagaland today there are too less of the zealous and serious to set the nice society people on Fire for change.
The Naga society may patiently continue to grow and wait for the Time of the Lord’s favour to ripen the Fruit.
He did not did not speak to them for 420 years
However, he looked at them always!
