The mother, sun and the holy G-string

WHEN we Christians pray, we say, “In the name of the Father, the son and the holy spirit.”

Some even make the whole thing more interesting by referring to the Holy Spirit as the Holy Ghost. That is no big deal.

What may be a big deal is pastors, preachers, apostles and prophets arguing over underwear.

In case you missed this, men of God in Eswatini are currently preoccupied with the single most important thing in life today: Ladies’ underwear known as the G-string. They are more vocal about this matter than any other they have ever addressed – or failed to address in the past.

Some emaSwati are still licking their wounds, literal wounds, after the social unrest of 2021 and 2022, when our beautiful kingdom descended into total chaos, with unhappy citizens burning down shops and taking groceries and furniture without paying.

It was chaos ,lives were lost .The main commentary to this tragic event was on social media, where armchair critics wondered why the country’s clergy was silent as people died.

Indeed, the church was quiet. Pastors were probably not sure if the Holy Spirit could protect them if they rubbed either of the warring factions the wrong way.

They obviously had no faith, yet the Holy Bible frowns on such people.

In Mathew 8:26, Jesus wondered, “You of little faith, why are so afraid?”

In any case, the debate over underwear has surpassed all other issues like the rise in both the prices of electricity and fuel.

As far as the church is concerned, poverty and the bad economy can wait.

The country needs to be fixed and it starts with ensuring that women have proper underwear beneath their clothes.

ACCEPTABLE

The debate was sort of commissioned by one preacher who said the G-string, sometimes referred to as a ‘thong,’ was not acceptable to God, the Almighty.

Firing away on his social media page, the preacher advised women to remove such garments from their wardrobes.

He did not specify when exactly God had expressed His dislike for this type of underwear.

It was not immediately clear, either, what type of underwear God preferred.

The Bible, for its part, does not offer much in the way of explanatory notes regarding what to wear

when you come straight off the bathtub.

Luckily, Apostle Justice Dlamini has been the voice of reason once again, assuring the Christian fraternity that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the G-string.

In fact, if the popular and charismatic preacher is to be taken at his word, women who wear G-strings are actually more covered than their counterparts from biblical times.

There were many women during that time, as most of us Christians recall; the likes of Delilah, Sarah, Esther and the controversial wife of Potiphar, whom the innocent Joseph once showed a clean pair of sandals. We all know the story.

The lady wanted Joseph to go to bed with her. If what we have heard in the last few days is anything to go by, Potiphar’s wife was not wearing anything underneath her dress at the time.

The other women we have already mentioned, including your Jezebel, Martha, Maria and many others, also did not make it a habit to wear underwear.

They were unaware that they actually needed to wear any.

So, the debate has now come to a screeching halt. Ladies, including mothers and grandmothers, should wear their G-strings and hit the streets. Not only will they enjoy fresh air and avoid the heat that comes with the scorching sun these days buy they will still be walking in the light of God.