NGOKWENZA UKWESABA
IT kubukeka sengathi umhlaba ubanjwe ukwesaba.
Vula izindaba zakusihlwa, futhi kungakhathaza: impi eMid-mpumalanga, amagciwane angajwayelekile asongela abantu abaningi, ubuphekula obuseduze, ukudutshulwa kwezikole, ukudutshulwa kwamahhovisi, ubugebengu obuyinqaba, futhi uhlu luyaqhubeka. KumaKristu, lolu hlu lukhula lube lukhulu njengoba izinkantolo nohulumeni beqhubeka nokuqeda inkululeko yenkolelo yenkolo ngisho nokushushisa abavikeli benkolo. Bese kuba nenhlangano ekhulayo "yokubekezelelana" ebekezelela wonke umuntu ngaphandle kwamaKristu e-orthodox.
Futhi ezifundeni zethu, umuntu angazizwa ephola ngenxa yokungathembi njengoba amakholwa exwaya abapristi bawo, futhi abefundisi bexwaya amakholwa abo. Kukangaki sishiya izindawo zethu ngaphandle kokukhuluma izwi nakubani? Lokhu akunjalo!
UKULONDEKA KWEQINISO
Kuyilingo ukufuna ukwakha uthango ngaphezulu, ukuthenga uhlelo lokuphepha, nokunaka ibhizinisi lakho.
Kodwa lokhu Ayikwazi yiba nesimo sethu sengqondo njengamaKristu. UPapa John Paul II uncenga amaKrestu ukuthi empeleni abe “usawoti womhlaba, nokukhanya komhlaba.”Kodwa-ke, iSonto lanamuhla lifana kakhulu neSonto lasekamelweni eliphezulu: Abalandeli bakaKristu bagcwala ukwesaba, ukungazethembi, nokulinda uphahla ukuba lungene phakathi.
Amagama okuqala wesikhundla sakhe sobupapa athi "Ungesabi!" Ngangikholwa ukuthi kwakungamazwi ayisiprofetho aqala ukubaluleka ngehora. Waphinda futhi e-World Youth Day eDenver (Aug 15th, 1993) ngesiyalo esinamandla:
“Ningesabi ukuphuma nihambe emigwaqweni nasezindaweni zomphakathi njengabaphostoli bokuqala, ababeshumayela uKristu nezindaba ezinhle zensindiso ezigcawini zamadolobha, amadolobhana kanye nemizana. Lesi akusona isikhathi sokuba namahloni ngeVangeli (cf. Roma 1:16). Yisikhathi sokushumayela ususophahleni lwendlu. Ungesabi ukugqashula ezindleleni zokuphila ezinethezekile nezijwayelekile ukuze uthathe inselelo yokwenza uKrestu aziwe “edolobheni elikhulu” lesimanje.… IVangeli akumele ligcinwe lifihliwe ngenxa yokwesaba noma ukungabi nandaba. ” (bheka uMt. 10:27).
Lesi akusona isikhathi sokuba namahloni ngeVangeli. Futhi-ke, thina maKrestu sihlala kakhulu ngokwesaba ukukhonjwa "njengomunye wabalandeli bakhe," kakhulu, ukuthi sizimisele ukumphika ngokuthula kwethu, noma okubi kakhulu, ngokuzivumela sithathwe yizwe izaba namanani amanga.
Umsuka WALO
Kungani sesaba kangaka?
Impendulo ilula: ngoba asikakahlangani ngokujulile nothando lukaNkulunkulu. Lapho sigcwaliswe ngothando nolwazi lukaNkulunkulu, siyakwazi ukumemezela kanye nomhubi uDavida, “INkosi ingukukhanya kwami nensindiso yami, ngizakwesaba bani na?”Umphostoli uJohane uyabhala,
Uthando oluphelele luxosha ukwesaba… owesabayo akakapheleli othandweni. ” (1 Johane 4:18)
Love ikhambi lokwesaba.
Lapho sizinikela ngokuphelele kuNkulunkulu, sikhipha intando yethu nobugovu bethu, uNkulunkulu usigcwalisa ngaye. Ngokungazelelwe, siqala ukubona abanye, ngisho nezitha zethu, njengoba noKristu ezibona: izidalwa ezenziwe ngomfanekiso kaNkulunkulu ezisebenza ngenxa yokulimala, ukungazi, nokuhlubuka. Kepha lowo ofake uthando akabasabi abantu abanjalo, kepha ushukunyiswa isihawu nozwela ngabo.
Iqiniso, akekho noyedwa ongathanda njengoKristu ngaphandle komusa kaKristu. Singamthanda kanjani umakhelwane wethu njengoba kwenza uKristu?
INDLU YOKWESABA — NAMANDLA
Ukubuyela emuva egumbini eliphezulu eminyakeni engu-2000 edlule, sithola impendulo. AbaPhostoli babebuthene noMariya, bekhuleka, bethuthumela, bezibuza ukuthi kazi isiphetho sabo sizoba yini. Kuthe kungazelelwe, kwafika uMoya oNgcwele futhi:
Baguqulwe kanjalo, bashintshwa baba ngabantu abesabayo baba ngofakazi abanesibindi, abakulungele ukwenza umsebenzi ababewunikwe nguKristu. (UPapa John Paul II, Julayi 1, 1995, eSlovakia).
Kungukuza kukaMoya oNgcwele, njengolimi lomlilo, okushisa ukwesaba kwethu. Kungenzeka ngesikhathi esisheshayo, njengePhentekoste, noma kaningi, ngokuhamba kwesikhathi njengoba ngokunika izinhliziyo zethu kuNkulunkulu ziguqulwa. Kepha nguMoya oNgcwele osishintshayo. Ngisho nokufa kukodwa ngeke kunqene umuntu onhliziyo yakhe ishiswe uNkulunkulu ophilayo!
Futhi yingakho: njengesiqephu samazwi akhe okuqala, “Ungesabi!", UPapa usibizile kulo nyaka ukuthi sizophinde sithathe" iketanga "elixhumanisa noNkulunkulu (IRosarium Virginis-Mariae, n. 36), okungukuthi, i I-Rosary. Ubani ongcono ukuletha uMoya oNgcwele ezimpilweni zethu, ukwedlula owakwakhe, uMariya, uMama kaJesu? Ngubani ongabumba uJesu ngempumelelo esibelethweni sezinhliziyo zethu ukwedlula inyunyana engcwele kaMariya noMoya? Ubani ongcono wokuchoboza ukwesaba ezinhliziyweni zethu ukwedlula lowo ozochoboza uSathane ngaphansi kwesithende sakhe? (UGenesise 3:15). Eqinisweni, uPapa akasikhuthazi nje kuphela ukuthi sithathe lomthandazo silindele lukhulu, kepha siwuthandaze ngaphandle kokwesaba noma ngabe sikuphi:
“Ungabi namahloni okuwusho wedwa, usendleleni eya esikoleni, e-uni-versity noma emsebenzini, emgwaqweni noma ezintweni zokuhamba zomphakathi; yifunde ngekhanda phakathi kwenu, ngamaqembu, izinhlangano, kanye nezinhlangano, futhi unganqikazi ukuphakamisa ukuthi uyikhulekele ekhaya. ” (11-Mashi-2003 - IVictoria Information Service)
Lawa magama, kanye nentshumayelo yakwaDenver, yilokho engikubiza ngokuthi “ngamagama alwayo”. Asibizelwe ukulandela uJesu kuphela, kodwa nokulandela uJesu ngesibindi ngaphandle kokwesaba. Lawa ngamagama engivame ukuwabhala ngaphakathi kuma-CD ami lapho ngisayina i-autograph: Landela UJesu Ngaphandle Kokwesaba (FJWF). Kufanele sibhekane nezwe ngomoya wothando nokuzithoba, hhayi ukulubalekela.
Kepha okokuqala, kumele simazi ukuthi silandela bani, noma njengoba uPapa esanda kusho, kufanele kube khona:
… Ubuhlobo bomuntu othembekile noKristu. (Mashi 27, 2003, iVatican Information Service).
Kufanele kube nalokhu kuhlangana okujulile nothando lukaNkulunkulu, inqubo yokuguquka, ukuphenduka, nokulandela intando kaNkulunkulu. Ngaphandle kwalokho, singanikeza kanjani abanye lokho thina esingenakho? Kuyinto ejabulisayo, engakholeki, nokuzijabulisa okungaphezu kwemvelo. Kubandakanya ukuhlupheka, ukuzidela, nokululazeka njengoba sibhekene nenkohlakalo nobuthakathaka obusezinhliziyweni zethu. Kepha sivuna injabulo, ukuthula, ukuphulukiswa, nezibusiso ezingaphezu kwamazwi njengoba siba nobunye obuningi kuBaba, iNdodana, noMoya oNgcwele… ngezwi elilodwa, sifana kakhulu Love.
PHAMBILI NGAPHANDLE KOKWESABA
Bafowethu nodadewethu, kuyadonswa izintambo zempi! UJesu usibiza ukuba siphume ebumnyameni, ngenxa yokwesaba okwesabekayo okuwukukhubazeka kothando nokwenza umhlaba ube yindawo ebandayo kakhulu nethemba. Sekuyisikhathi sokuthi silandele uJesu ngaphandle kokwesaba, senqabe amanani angenalutho namanga alesi sizukulwane samanje; isikhathi sokuthi sivikele impilo, abampofu nabangenakuzivikela futhi simele okulungile futhi okuyiqiniso. Kungafika ngokulahlekelwa ezimpilweni zethu, kepha ngokunokwenzeka, ukufela ukholo kwe-ego yethu, "idumela" lethu, kanye nendawo yethu yokunethezeka.
Ubusisiwe wena lapho abantu bekuzonda, futhi lapho bekukhipha inyumbazane futhi bekuhlambalaza… Jabula futhi weqe ngokuthokoza ngalolo suku! Bhekani, umvuzo wenu uyoba mkhulu ezulwini.
Kepha kunento eyodwa okufanele siyesabe uthi uPaul, “maye kimi uma ngingashumayeli iVangeli!”(1 Kor 9:16). UJesu wathi, “noma ngubani ongiphika phambi kwabanye uzophikwa phambi kwezingelosi zikaNkulunkulu”(Luka 12: 9). Futhi siyazikhohlisa uma sicabanga ukuthi singahlala singaphenduki, siphikelele esonweni esibi: “ngoba usivivi… ngizokukhafula uphume emlonyeni wami”(IsAm 3:16). Ukuphela kwento okufanele siyesabe ukuphika uKristu. Angikhulumi ngomuntu ozama ukulandela uJesu futhi afakaze, kepha kwesinye isikhathi uyehluleka, akhubeke, futhi one. UJesu weza ngezoni. Esikhundleni salokho okufanele esabe yilowo ocabanga ukuthi ukufudumeza isihlalo ngeSonto angazithethelela ngokuphila njengomhedeni isonto lonke. UJesu angasindisa kuphela abaphendukayo izoni.
UPapa walandela amazwi akhe okuvula kuleyo nkulumo yokuqala wathi: “Vula amasango kaJesu Kristu. ” Amasango ethu izinhliziyo. Ngoba lapho uthando lungena mahhala, uvalo luzothatha umnyango ongemuva.
“UbuKristu abuyona imibono. … NguKristu! Ungumuntu, Uyaphila!… NguJesu kuphela owazi izinhliziyo zakho kanye nezifiso zakho ezijulile. … Isintu sinesidingo esiqinile sokufakaza kwentsha enesibindi futhi ekhululekile enesibindi sokuphikisa futhi imemezele ngokuqinile nangomdlandla ukholo lwayo kuNkulunkulu, eNkosini nakuMsindisi. … Ngalesi sikhathi esongelwa ngodlame, inzondo nempi, fakaza ukuthi Nguye kuphela onganikeza ukuthula kweqiniso ezinhliziyweni zabantu, emindenini nakubantu bomhlaba. ” —UJOHANE PAUL II, Umlayezo we-18 WYD ngePalm-Sunday, 11-Mashi-2003, i-Vatican Information Service
Landela UJesu Ungesabi!
