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Ake ucabange, uPawulu ehlezi esitokisini esimnyama, elunguza ngale kwezinsimbi konogada baseRoma abagqoke iyunifomu yangaleso sikhathi. Kwabase-Efesu 6, uchaza lonke uhlu lwesivikelo esingokomoya, oluhambisana nezikhali zesosha. 

“Hlomani zonke izikhali zikaNkulunkulu... ukuze nivikeleke njengoba nilwa namaqhinga amabi ommangaleli!” 

Nakuba zonke izingxenye zibaluleke kakhulu, ngokubona kwami, “isigqoko sokuzivikela sensindiso” akhuluma ngaso evesini 17 sibaluleke kakhulu kule mpi. Isigqoko sokuzivikela sivikela ingqondo yethu—isikhungo sokulawula imizwa yethu, izimo zengqondo, imizwelo, nokukhetha—ekuvumeleni imicabango eminingi yokuhlasela ephonswa isitha sethu. Ngaphandle kokwenza kusebenze lesi sivikelo esinamandla sizovumela imizwa nemizwelo yethu ihole isimo sethu sengqondo kanye nokukhetha kwethu. Kudingeka siqaphele lapho ithemba lethu lihlaselwa, sithathe isigqoko sethu sensindiso, futhi sisigqoke. 

uJesu wazuza insindiso yethu—ukuhlengwa kwethu ekufeni okuphakade kanye nebhuloho lethu eliya kuBaba uNkulunkulu—ngokunikela ngempilo Yakhe esikhundleni seyethu. Wasithenga ngenani elikhulu manje sesingabakhe. Kaningi siyakhohlwa ukuthi uJesu wakunqoba ukufa, ethola Ithemba elingasoze laphela. Ukuphila ngalesi sipho kuyisivikelo esikhulu kunazo zonke esitheni esifuna ukweba ithemba lethu futhi sibulale ukholo lwethu. Insindiso esizuzelwe yona ayichazi nje kuphela ifa lethu, kodwa futhi nobuntu bethu. Lesi sigqoko sivikela imicabango yethu ezulazulayo, siyibuyisele ekuqondaneni nensindiso yethu, njengoba sikhumbula ukuthi singobani nokuthi yini asinike yona. 

Lonke ithemba esinalo lingagxiliswa ngokugcwele “ethembeni lethu lensindiso” ngoba uJesu uyithemba lensindiso yethu. Ukusikhulula kwakhe ekufeni akusona isithembiso “ngemva kokuba ukuphila sekuphelile”.  Ukuphila okuchichimayo—ukukholwa Kuye—kuyisithembiso esiqala manje. Ithemba Kuye ligcina ukholo lwethu luphila njengoba sikhetha ukuchaza esikulindele ngesimo Sakhe—ukwethembeka, kanye nothando Lwakhe ngathi.

Noma ngabe intambo yethemba lethu incane futhi incithakalo futhi namaphupho ethu nesikulindele kungasekho, akukephuzi kakhulu ngathi! Kudingeka sibambelele ngokuqinile kokuthile okunamandla kunemicabango yethu edumele, into engaphezu kwalokho esikubona ngamehlo ethu. uJesu uyintambo yethu yokuphila evikelekile efinyelela othandweni lukaNkulunkulu. Ithemba liyohlala liphila lapho sikhetha ukubamba ngezandla zombili, ngoba ithemba Lakhe liyasiphakamisa ngisho nalapho izimpilo zethu zishintshwa, “okuvamile” kwethu kubhidlika, futhi lokho esikulindele akufezeki. 

Sikhalela ukulahlekelwa kwethu ngenkathi sibheke phambili ethembeni. Phambili yindawo ekahle yokubheka ngoba uJesu usevele ekhona, ulinde ngesihe esisha nomusa ochichimayo wesizini ezayo. Uyasimema, “Woza, ngilandele”. 

Uma sisebenzisa insindiso yethu ukwethemba ukuthi uNkulunkulu unekusasa lethu sizothola ukuzethemba esizobhekana nakho namuhla. Futhi lapho sithatha umoya wethu wokugcina ngapha kwePharadesi, ukuphefumula kwethu okulandelayo kuyoba sebukhoneni Bakhe obukhazimulayo. Uyithemba lethu! 

Ithemba umkhuba wokukholelwa ukuthi uNkulunkulu uzokukhipha lapha...uye laphaya. Ithemba kuYe lidlulela ngale kokudumazeka kwanamuhla futhi linikeza ithemba eliqinisekile ngamathuba akusasa, ngoba Ithemba linguMuntu. 

Manje kwangathi uNkulunkulu, ugqozi nomthombo wethemba, anganigcwalisa ngokuchichima kwenjabulo engapheli nokuthula okuphelele njengoba nithembele kuye. Futhi sengathi amandla kaMoya oNgcwele angahlala ezungeza impilo yakho ngobuningi bakhe obukhulu uze ukhazimule ngethemba!”

KwabaseRoma 15:13 TPT

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