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Usuku 13
PHA Lilizwi elixhokonxa intliziyo yam namhlanje: umhambi. Yintoni umhambi, okanye ngakumbi ngakumbi, umhambi wezomoya? Apha, andithethi ngomntu okhenketha nje. Endaweni yokuba umhambi ahambe efuna into ethile, okanye mandithi Umntu.
Namhlanje, ndibona uMama wethu ekubiza kunye nam ukuba samkele le ngqondo, ukuze sibe ngabahambi bokomoya bokwenene emhlabeni. Injani le nto? Wazi kakuhle, kuba uNyana wakhe wayengomnye.
Kweza umbhali uthi kuye, Mfundisi, ndiya kukulandela apho ungaya khona. Wamphendula uYesu wathi, Iimpungutye zinemingxuma, neentaka zezulu zineendawo zokuhlala; yena uNyana woMntu akanandawo apho angalalisa khona intloko. Uthe ke omnye wabafundi bakhe kuye, Nkosi, ndivumele ndiye kungcwaba ubawo kuqala. Uthe ke uYesu kuye, Landela mna, ubayeke abafileyo bangcwabe abafileyo babo. (Mat 8: 19-22)
UYesu uthi, ukuba unqwenela ukuba ngumlandeli wam, ngoko ke awunako ukuzenzela ivenkile emhlabeni; ngekhe ubambelele kwinto edlulayo; aninako ukukhonza uThixo nobutyebi. Kuba "uya kuthiya enye, athande enye, okanye uzinikele kwenye udele enye."[1]cf. Mat 6:24
Wathi omnye, Ndiya kukulandela, Nkosi; kodwa ndivumele kuqala, khe ndiye kubulisa abantu basekhaya. Wathi kuye uYesu, Akukho namnye usibekileyo isandla sakhe epuluweni, abe emana ekhangela kokuseleyo, ubulungeleyo ubukumkani bukaThixo. (Mat 9: 61-62)
Le nto ithethwa nguYesu inkulu: ukuba umfundi oyinyani uza kushiya ngasemva yonke into ngengqondo yokuba Intliziyo ayinakwahlulwa. Oku akubonakaliswanga ngokucacileyo kunangexa uYesu wathi:
Ukuba ubani uza kum engamzondi uyise nonina, umfazi nabantwana, abantakwabo noodade wabo, nkqu nobakhe ubomi, akanakuba ngumfundi wam. (ULuka 14:26)
Ngoku, akasibizeli ekubeni sithiye ngokungenalusini iintsapho zethu. Endaweni yoko, uYesu usibonisa ukuba indlela ukuthanda izihlobo zethu, ukuthanda iintshaba zethu, ukuthanda amahlwempu kunye nomphefumlo ngamnye esihlangana nawo… kukuthanda uThixo kuqala ngentliziyo, ngomphefumlo nangamandla ethu onke. Kuba uThixo uluthando; kwaye inguye kuphela onokuphilisa inxeba lesono santlandlolo-elo nxeba xa u-Adam no-Eva bohlula iintliziyo zabo, bezikhuphela kude noMdali wabo, ngaloo ndlela bezisa ukufa nokwahlukana emhlabeni. Owu, hayi, lusizi inxeba! Kwaye ukuba uyakuthandabuza oku, jonga kwiCrucifix namhlanje kwaye ubone isicombululo esasifuneka ukuvala olo kophuka.
Kukho umfanekiso odumileyo osetyenziswa ngabanye abavangeli ekuchazeni usindiso. Yile yomnqamlezo ilele ngaphaya komsantsa, uvala amawa amabini. Idini likaYesu lawoyisa umsantsa wesono nokufa, ngokunika umntu indlela yokubuyela kuThixo nobomi obungunaphakade. Kodwa nantsi into asifundisa yona uYesu kwezi ndima zeVangeli: ibhulorho, uMnqamlezo, sisipho. Isipho esicocekileyo. Kwaye uBhaptizo lusibeka ekuqaleni kwebhulorho. Kodwa kusafuneka siwele, kwaye singenza njalo, utsho uYesu, ngentliziyo engaxubekanga, Intliziyo yomhambi. Ndiyayiqonda iNkosi yethu isithi:
Kuya kufuneka ube ngumhambi ngoku ukuze ube ngumfundi. “Ungathathi nto yohambo ngaphandle kwentonga, ungatyi, ungxowa, ungabinamali… ”(UMarko 6: 8). Intando yam kukutya kwakho; Ubulumko bam, unikezelo lwakho; Ukubonelela kwam, uncedo lwakho. Funa kuqala ubukumkani bukaBawo noBulungisa baKhe, kwaye zonke ezinye izinto ziya kongezelelwa kuwe. Ewe, wonke umntu kuni ongazishiyiyo zonke iimpahla zakhe akanakuba ngumfundi wam (ULuka 14:33).
Ewe, bazalwana noodade, iVangeli ibukhali! Sibizelwa kwi Unyango, ukuzikhupha ukuze sizaliswe nguThixo, oluthando. “Idyokhwe yam imnandi, nomthwalo wam ulula”, watsho uYesu. [2]cf. Mat 11:30 Ewe umphefumlo womhambi, ukhululwe zizinto zehlabathi, uncamathiselo kunye nesono emva koko uyakwazi ukuhambisa iLizwi likaThixo lisiwe ezintliziyweni zabanye. Njengokundwendwela kukaMariya kumzala wakhe uElizabhete, umphefumlo womphefumlo ungaba yenye into theotokos, omnye "othwala uThixo" kwilizwe eliqhekekileyo nelihluleleneyo.
Kodwa singaba ngabahambi njani kweli hlabathi, thina esilwa mihla le nezilingo zenyama? Impendulo ithi kufuneka siqhubeke siwulungisa ngqo umendo kaThixo wethu, simenzele indawo kuba Nguye kuphela onokusiguqula. Qaphela kwakhona oko kwabhalwa nguIsaya:
Lungisani entlango indlela kaNdikhoyo, tyenenezelani uThixo wethu umendo enkqantosini. (Isaya 40: 3)
Umhambi ngulowo ungena entlango yokholo kunye nokuhluba entlango, ngaloo ndlela esenza uhola wendlela kaThixo wakhe. Kwaye ngomso, siyaqhubeka nokucinga ngeendlela ezisixhenxe eziya kuvula iintliziyo zethu ngakumbi nangakumbi kubukho baKhe obuguqulayo.
ISISHWANKATHELO NESIBHALO
Kufuneka sibe yimiphefumlo yabahambi emhlabeni, sishiya ngasemva yonke into, ukuze simfumane Lowo uyiZonke.
… Abaninzi, endixelele kaninzi kuwe, ngoku ndikuxelela nje, ndisezinyembezini, ukuba baziintshaba zomnqamlezo kaKristu… iingqondo zabo zimiliselwe kwizinto zasemhlabeni. Kodwa ubumi bethu busezulwini, kwaye kulapho silindele uMsindisi, iNkosi uYesu Krestu… (Phil 3: 18-20)
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