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General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Central Church,
Reverend Dr. Mensa Otabil, has described the energy crisis currently
facing the country as a "wisdom problem".
He believes the problem has nothing to do with money.
In a sermon titled "Wisdom", delivered at the church's headquarters in
Accra on Sunday, Dr. Otabil identified the energy problem as an
example of wisdom problems facing the country.
Making reference to how the European Space Agency recently landed a
space craft on a comet in space, Dr. Otabil said: "If people can
design such solutions, I think we should be able to design solutions
for the electricity failures in Ghana.
"At least we are not being asked to land a spaceship, we are not being
asked to go to the moon or to go to Mars, just fix electricity
problem. The problems facing us are wisdom problems, they are not
money problems."
He noted the exhibition of true wisdom has to do with practical
solutions to problems and not theoretical proposals.
"In this part of the world, we believe in PhDs. He went to Oxford, he
went to Cambridge, he works with the United Nations…. I don't know why
people believe in the United Nations so much. He works with the World
Bank, he is IMF, he must have the solution; who told you? The test of
wisdom is not the theory, the test of wisdom is: does it work?" Dr.
Otabil quizzed.
According to Dr. Otabil, wisdom is again seen in how people are able
to execute tasks handed them successfully.
"How can somebody who has never been able to feed himself be in
government and feed people?
"Because if you can't put food on your own table, you've never built
any structure, you've never worked, how can you feed other people?"
the outspoken preacherman asked.
Dr. Otabil identified orderliness as another key depiction of true
wisdom. Citing a national example, he questioned: "the Ghanaian
Supreme Court is British, Parliament is Chinese, and the Presidential
Palace is Indian, so when somebody comes and he looks at all our
wisdom, he asks, who are these people. Are they Indians or they are
Chinese?"
Credit: Myjoyonline
