Wezhira’s 2015 Easter prayer
…. May our leaders remember that they are not God themselves
By Golden Maunganidze
This is Easter holiday and Wezhira being a God fearing man encourages everyone to close their eyes in order for him to pray. Wezhira, however, is aware that there are some people who will never close their eyes because they believe that they are too big for that. They have no conscience at all. They have no one to respect because to them everything is possible. Dont think they are encouraged by Matthew 17 verse 20 which demonstrates how faith can make all things possible.
No. It’s not that they dont know that above all there is God. It is because their political power and muscles have allowed them to do anything and they have remained unanswerable to their illegal actions. No police officer or court has the power to reprimand them… they are a law unto themselves. It is therefore against this background that they have persuaded themselves into believing that by some chance they are going to sweet-talk death so that they will not die. I say this because if they knew that one day they will die, surely they were going to revise their ways so that they treat all human beings equally. It is this reason that I dont care whether they close their eyes or not as I pray.
Either ways my prayer continues because I believe, one day God will hear the cries of the people in my beloved Zimbabwe. God, may Zimbabwe be cleansed of corrupt leaders. They are many and they continue to multiply. Even the President of this country knows that they are there. He promised to have them arrested and rot in Zimbabwean jails where they are likely to have soup as their meals seven days per week. We pray that you give our law enforcement agencies power and energy to arrest these corrupt leaders. Of late we have seen Zanu PF bigwigs being fired from the party over corruption but up to now no one of them has been arrested or convicted. We continue to wonder whether the allegations levelled against them are real or imagined because if they are really corrupt, God, we expect to see them in jails.
Again we continue to wonder whether the fisherman has mastered a skill to capture everything from Kapenta fish to the big fish. We are extremely worried as we believe the small fish is captured while the big fish is immune to the fisherman’s hook. However, we continue to pray that our country is cleansed of corrupt leaders.
God, may Zimbabwe be cleansed of leaders who abuse power. We pray for leaders who genuinely address the people’s plight Lord. Just recently, we were praying for sanitation facilities at popular flea markets in our city, Masvingo and the response that we are getting from our leaders is not sweet for our ears. We heard that they accepted to slash daily fees collected from stall owners from $2 to $1 but our joy was short-lived since we now hear that the flea market has been turned into a certain political party’s cooperative. That political party’s membership card is now your gate pass to the market. Forgive me for forgetting the name of the party but listeners can quickly remember the name of that party God. We therefore pray for leaders who respect human rights. We hear a certain man was abducted in Harare and its now more than three weeks and the government has no clue of his whereabouts. Can you give our leaders energy and wisdom to value human life!
God, may Zimbabwe be cleansed of sycophantic public. We have people among ourselves who have lost conscience. All they want to do is to give undue praise to the leaders and in the process of such dangerous hero-worshipping, they make our leaders believe that they are God. We pray for a responsible government which respects its people through fulfilling its obligations without compromise.
God, may Zimbabwe be cleansed of employers who dont respect labour laws. Due to high unemployment rate in this country, employees are abused and exploited every day. Companies are going for months before paying their employees and as if not to be outdone, the government has also joined in taking ages before paying its workers.
God, may Zimbabwe be cleansed of all deadly diseases. As I pray, I am aware that there is high likelihood of a cholera outbreak as municipalities are not able to collect rubbish. We dont want to be reminded about 2008 cholera outbreak which wiped out a sizable number of our church mates and friends.
Over and above all Lord, may our leaders and their followers fear God. May they always remember they are not God themselves and will die someday.
Amen!!
Until then, we continue to say Wezhira Wati wahwei? Send feedback and comments to ed****@te**.zw
