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Usuku 5: uMoridekayi no-Esteri

Phambilini sike sabheka indaba kaNawomi noRuthe futhi sabona ukuthi umamezala angaba nendima ebalulekile ekufundiseni umalokazana wakhe. Lapha sibona indlela uNkulunkulu angasisebenzisa ngayo ukuze sibe nomthelela ekuphileni kwamanye amalungu omndeni ngenxa yaphakade, ngisho nomzala omncane (noma indodakazi) yobulili obuhlukile. 

UMoridekayi wayehlala eSusa, ePheresiya, ngesikhathi sokudingiswa kwabantu bakaNkulunkulu. Waqala ukufundisa umzala wakhe owayeyintandane, u-Esther, owaba njengendodakazi kuye. Kule ndaba, sibona indlela ayefaneleka ngayo ukuba ahambe no-Esteri ngesikhathi esifanele, futhi wayengumuntu ofanele ukuma phakathi kwabantu bakaNkulunkulu nezitha zabo “ngesikhathi esinjengalesi”! 

Ezahlukweni eziyishumi zencwadi ka-Esteri, sibona indlela le ntokazi eyayingalindelekile eyaphakama ngayo yaba indlovukazi. Ngenxa yobusha bakhe nokuntula kwesipiliyoni sakhe, futhi eyisithunjwa esingumHeberu, u-Esteri wayedinga isiqondiso esasingalethwa omdala ongumakadebona kuphela. 

UMoridekayi umzala ka-Esteri wamqondisa endleleni, futhi lapho emlalela, wathola umusa emehlweni alabo ababeseduze kwakhe. Lapho kuphakama itulo elibi lokuqothula bonke abantu abangamaJuda ezweni, uMoridekayi wahola u-Esteri isinyathelo ngasinye sokuthembela kuNkulunkulu futhi akhulumele abantu bakaNkulunkulu. 

UNkulunkulu wangenelela! Iseluleko sikaMoridekayi asigcinanga nje ngokushintsha impilo ka-Esteri, kodwa sashintsha nesizwe. UNkulunkulu akagcinanga ngokugcina abantu Bakhe, kodwa futhi wavikela nokufika ekugcineni kweNkosi uJesu Kristu! 

Iqiniso liwukuthi, ngeke sazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu unjani lapho esihola futhi esisebenzisa ukufundisa Ukuphila-ekuPhileni nomunye umuntu. Yebo, uNkulunkulu uthanda umuntu ngamunye futhi ufisa ukumbona ekhulela ekukhonzeni uNkulunkulu okukhulu. Ngesikhathi esifanayo, njengoba sibonile kubo bonke ubudlelwano bokuphila nokuphila esibubhekile, kusobala ukuthi uNkulunkulu uhlala esebenza ngezindlela ezimangalisayo ukuze afeze izinjongo Zakhe kulo mhlaba—esebenzisa abantu abafana nawe kanye nami ohlelwni Lakhe!

Sengathi lokhu kubuyekezwa kobudlelwane bokufundisa ngo-Kuphila-kuya-Ekuphileni eTestamenteni Elidala kungakukhuthaza ukuthi utshale imali kulabo abaseduze nawe—lapho uhlala khona, usebenza futhi uthandaza khona! 

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Sithanda ukubonga uDean Ridings, umbhali we Ukukhuleka! Ijenali Yomkhuleko, yalolu hlelo lokufunda.  Sicela futhi uvakashele, Amatilosi.