Ukuthola Ukuphumula Ngezigqi ZokuphilaIsampula

Isigqi Sokufunda

Ngikhumbula ekuqaleni njengomlandeli kaJesu, ngangizwa abantu bekhuluma ngesifiso sabo namandla abo okuya endaweni ethule neBhayibheli labo kuphela futhi bavele ngemva kwamahora amane bevuselekile, beguquliwe, futhi benomdlandla. Uma ngikhuluma iqiniso, ithemba lalesi simo lalibonakala lingaphezu kwamandla futhi okuphambene ngokuqondile nokuvuseleleka. Ngicabanga ukuthi lokhu kwakungenxa yokuntula kwami ​​umbono ngezinzuzo nezibusiso zesikhathi sokufunda.

Ukufunda kungenye yezindawo ezibaluleke kakhulu lapho ungathola khona isigqi sokusimema. Lapho ngizama ukufunda iZwi ngaphandle kwecebo langempela, ngizithole ngilahlekile, ngididekile, futhi nginesizungu. Impumelelo yafika lapho ngiqala ukucela iNkosi ukuba ingibonise lokho ayefisa ngikubona. Lapho sifunda iZwi likaNkulunkulu, kumele siqhubeke sithi, “Lona ukhuluma nami.” Ibhayibheli aliyona indaba engenabuntu mayelana nesikhathi esidlule; liyiZwi likaNkulunkulu eliphilayo. Kuwukulandisa okuqhubekayo esiyingxenye yakho. Ithemba lethu liwukuthola ukuqonda [into] ngempilo nesiqondiso ngeZwi likaNkulunkulu elambuliwe. U-Eugene Peterson ukusho kangcono kakhulu: “Umgomo wokufunda iZwi uwukulalela izwi likaNkulunkulu okhulumayo.”[3] Kunesizathu sokuthi iHubo 119:105 libhekisela eZwini likaNkulunkulu njengesibani ezinyaweni zethu nokukhanya endleleni yethu. UmBhalo uyasiza ekusiholeni nasekusiqondiseni njengoba sifuna ukuqonda ukunotha kweqiniso lawo.

Ibhayibheli ligcwele izikhumbuzo zokubaluleka namandla ahambisana nokutadishaa, ukufunda, nokuphumula emiBhalweni nasezimisweni zikaNkulunkulu. Upawulu ufundisa kwabaseKolose 3:16, “Izwi likaKristu malihlale kini livame, nifundisana, niyalana ngakho konke ukuhlakanipha, nihubela amahubo, nezihlabelelo, namaculo okomoya, ngokubonga ezinhliziyweni zenu kuNkulunkulu.” Ukutadisha iZwi likaNkulunkulu kusivumela ukuba singenise iqiniso lakhe ukuze lingene kuwo wonke umuntu wethu wangaphakathi. 

Uma sigxila emiBhalweni, isikhumbuza ukuthi uNkulunkulu ungubani ngempela nokuthi singobani ekukhanyeni kwalelo qiniso. Izwi lisinika ukuqonda okusisiza ukuba sifundise futhi siqondise abanye ngokwezimiso zikaNkulunkulu. Ukuqonda iZwi kuveza ukubonga okusenza sicule futhi sikhuthazane ngezithembiso zikaNkulunkulu.

Ngivumelana no-Lesslie Newbigin [who] bhala, “Kufanele sifunde yonke imibhalo emongweni wevangeli ngokwalo, ngoba liwumkhondo wokuqonda kwethu imiBhalo.”[4]Ibhayibheli liwumlando okhombayo. ethembeni esilithola kumlingiswa oyinhloko, uJesu. Uma sifunda iZwi ngale lensi, kusiholela ekuqondeni okujulile komsebenzi owafezwa uKristu, okubuye kuveze ukuphumula emiphefumulweni yethu. 

Ingcebo ivela ekutadisheni imiBhalo esixhumanisa nenhliziyo kaNkulunkulu. . . . Njengoba uMartin Luther ake asho, “Ibhayibheli liyaphila, liyakhuluma kimi; linezinyawo, liyangilandela; linezandla, liyangibamba.”[5]

[3]  U-Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), 1987.

[4] U-Lesslie Newbigin, Ukuthola Iqiniso Emhlabeni Oguqukayo (London: Alpha International) 2003.

[5]  M. H. Manser, Iqoqo lase-Westminster Lezingcaphuno ZobuKristu (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press), 2001.