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On Talking Business with Supa, Supa Mandiwanzira asked a daring question many wouldn’t even whisper . Why not just do away with elections?
Robert Mugabe didn’t flinch. No dancing around it. Just a brutally direct explanation of why elections must exist not always to hand over power, but to legitimize it.
Some lives are built around opposition. An enemy, a rival, a constant fight becomes the scaffolding that holds the self together. It gives clarity, purpose, and a steady supply of emotion. But when that opposition is removed, the person does not simply lose a battle. The person loses a mirror. And what is revealed is not always character, but dependence. This is why certain people keep conflicts alive, even when they say they want peace. Peace threatens the identity that conflict has been supporting.
In a culture of narcissism sliding toward solipsism, and a life increasingly lived through screens instead of face to face, it is time to stop pretending the modern self love message has anything to do with the Gospel.
We are more self consumed than ever, and more convinced than ever that we are self made. And that fantasy is not producing mature people. It is producing fragile people. Our capacity for real relationship is deteriorating. Our attention is fractured. Our inner life is being strained not by the day, but by the hour.
And a crossless Christianity has done its part. It has fashioned a Jesus who asks little, costs little, and commits to nothing. A Jesus who “affirms” but does not transform. A Jesus made in our image, as non committal to the costly love of the world as we have become.
The Gospel is not self adoration with religious vocabulary. The Gospel is the end of the self as the center. It is communion, not self absorption. It is cruciform love, not curated identity.
We live in a world trained to watch with suspicion, to guard against disappointment, to scan for threats. Vigilance, for many, has become second nature. But the watching the Spirit invites us into is something altogether different. It is not the restless vigilance of fear; it is the holy watching of trust. It is the posture of a heart that waits—not defensively, but expectantly, for the movement of God.
The eyes of God are never absent. His gaze is never rushed, never distracted, never condemning. It is a gaze of pure love, one that sees fully, holds tenderly, and calls forth life where others see only brokenness. When we ask to watch with Him, we are asking to participate in that gaze: to let our seeing become prayer, our attention become welcome, and our patience become the soil where mercy takes root.
Holy watching is not passive. It is not disengaged from the world. It is the vibrant stillness that leans forward into the mystery of what God is doing beneath the surface. It is the attentiveness that sees Him not only in the grand moments of revelation, but in the shimmering silences between words, in the quiet turning of the heart back toward home, and in the simple breaking of bread.
To watch with God is to live with open eyes, ready to recognize Him in the smallest, most hidden places. It is to trust that even when we do not yet see fully, the One who watches over us is already at work, weaving grace into every waiting moment.
The point: you will never be lacking for what I call you to do.
“‘When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?’ They said to him, ‘Twelve.’ . . . And he said to them, ‘Do you not yet understand?’” Mark 8:19–21
The Triune God is not petty. Neither does the Almighty act out of spite or to prove our critics wrong. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ works redemptively, not to shame others, but to heal us. Our fleshly desire for vindication has absolutely nothing to do with the vengeance of God. His justice is not about payback, it’s about setting things right, restoring what’s been broken, and reconciling what seems irreparable.
Often God allows lifeless forms (rituals or structures that once felt vital but no longer carry the breath of His Spirit) to quietly fall away, even when we cling to their familiarity. Yet when we heed His gentle pruning and surrender our hearts, He breathes new life into us, planting seeds of faith that blossom in genuine trust, compassion, and the deep nourishment our souls crave.
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Jesus’ hunger is physical, but also prophetic. It is a revelation of God’s yearning, his grief-laced longing, for what is not yet found. He is not merely hungry for figs. He is hungry for faithfulness. For fruit. For a bride. For a harvest of righteousness.