UBilly Graham Isizathu Sethemba LamiIsampula

Isihlahla Somusa

IBhayibheli lithi umphostoli uPawulu “wangena esinagogeni, futhi ngamaSabatha amathathu wabonisana nabo ngemiBhalo, echaza futhi ebonisa ukuthi uMesiya kwakumele ahlupheke futhi avuke kwabafileyo. ‘LoJesu engimmemezela kini ungu[ Kristu],’ esho (IzEnzo 17:2–3 NIV).

Lapho ufuna uJesu ngeke umthole esiphambanweni futhi ngeke umthole ethuneni—isiphambano siyinyumba, ithuna alinalutho. Inhliziyo yakho engenalutho, nokho, ingagcwaliswa ngokuthethelelwa kwesiphambano esingcoliswe igazi kanye nenkazimulo yethuna elingenalutho. Uphila futhi uhlala phakathi kwalabo abakholwayo futhi bamlalele ngokulandela iZwi laKhe. Siyaphila futhi siyafa, futhi phakathi kwethu sonke sinikezwa ukukhetha okufanayo—sizokwenzani ngoJesu—uKristu ovusiwe? . . .

Ingabe ufuna uJesu? Useduze nawe namuhla. Bheka isiphambano, futhi uzobona ubufakazi—igazi Lakhe lachitheka ngenxa yakho—kodwa akekho lapho. Bheka ithuna, futhi uzobona ubufakazi—alinalutho—ngoba uyaphila! IBhayibheli lithi, “Bheka Kimi, futhi usindiswe. . . . Ngokuba nginguNkulunkulu, akakho omunye” (Isaya 45:22). Funa uJesu—Ungqongqotha emnyango wenhliziyo yakho.

. . . Ubufakazi buphambi kwakho. Buhlole bese uhlola inhliziyo yakho. Phequlula itshe lokungakholwa futhi ubone ukukhanya kwethuna elingenalutho kanye nokuthokoza kwenhliziyo egcwele nempilo entsha. Itshe elisethuneni likaKristu alizange lisuswe ukuze kukhishwe uJesu kodwa ukuze kuvunyelwe abazibonela ngawabo ukuthi, “Uvukile!”