Letter to the Black Knight
The Zimbabwean crisis: A man made disaster? What is the solution? Who is the black Knight? Read on if you want to know.
For some days now, I have had a burden on my heart. It would simply not go away. No matter what I did, the Zimbabwean crisis lingered in my thoughts. Yesterday, it even interrupted my discussions and my meditation on the Sabbath of the Lord. I knew I would not rest until I had penned my cogitations. Even now I wonder if I will find peace until the “troubled waters” are stilled.
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God (Psalm 42:5,11; 43:5).”
See how your fame is turned into infamy, O Robert! How your confidence is turned from the Rock of ages unto the god of forces, O thou that callest thyself Gabriel! What a misnomer! Did you not say of Ian, “now the devil himself is defeated?” And now what have you become? Consider and judge how you have fared! Do two wrongs make a right? Did not the Almighty exalt you, while you were yet little in your own eyes? He adopted you and raised you up among the brethren. He appointed a people from afar to nurture you at Kutama Mission, when you were without a name and fatherless.
Gukurahundi was a fly in the ointment; Murambatsvina was your undoing and your latest evil “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Like Saul, the son of Kish, so have you done: For he was taken from Benjamin, the least of the tribes and made captain over the people of Israel. Yet in his latter days he forgot his God and rebelled against his Maker. He defiled the sanctuary and slew the priests of the Most High (1 Samuel 22:21). He sought to destroy the shepherd boy, even David, Jehovah’s anointed. Because he disobeyed the Lord, and stiffened his neck against Samuel’s counsel, God also rejected him.
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou. And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent (1 Samuel 15:23,28,29).”
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