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Shesha ulinde!
Ngezinye izikhathi, kubonakala sengathi ukulinda kuyingxenye enzima kunazo zonke kithi. Ngemuva kokukholwa ukuthi siyakwazi esikudingayo futhi sikholelwa ukuthi sikulungele, iningi lethu likuthola ukulinda isikhathi eside cishe kungabekezeleleki. Ezweni lethu lasentshonalanga, singakhungatheka futhi siphelelwe yisineke uma kufanele sime emgqeni wokudla okusheshayo ukudla imizuzu emihlanu sihleli emotweni silalele umculo. Cabanga nje ukuthi ugogo wakho omkhulu wayezokubona kanjani lokho.
KumaKrestu, ukulinda kuqhubeka nokuba nzima ukuthi sithembele kuNkulunkulu, futhi kaningi sikuthola kunzima ukuqonda ukuthi kungani senza izinto esikholelwa ngokujulile ukuthi sizidinga futhi sizenze kaninginingi sithandaza futhi senze konke okusemandleni kodwa singakutholi it.
Inkosi uSawule yakhathazeka futhi yakhathazeka ngesikhathi ilindele ukufika kukaSamuweli ezonikela ngomhlatshelo wempi (1. Sat 13,8). Amasosha aqala ukungahlaliseki, amanye amshiya, futhi ngenxa yokukhungatheka kwakhe ngenxa yokulinda okwakubonakala kungapheli, wagcina ewenze ngokwakhe umhlatshelo. Lesi senzakalo saholela ekupheleni kohlanga lukaSawule ( ivesi 13-14 ).
Ngesinye isikhathi, iningi lethu cishe lake lazizwa njengoSawule. Siyamethemba uNkulunkulu, kepha asikwazi ukuqonda ukuthi kungani engangeni noma azole ulwandle lwethu olunesiphepho. Silinda futhi silinde, izinto zibonakala ziba zimbi ngokwengeziwe, futhi ekugcineni ukulinda kubonakala kungaphezu kwalokho esingakubekezelela. Ngiyazi ukuthi ngake ngazizwa ngale ndlela ngezinye izikhathi esikhathini esedlule lapho sathengisa impahla yethu ePasadena.
Kepha uNkulunkulu uthembekile futhi uthembisa ukuthi uzosidlulisa kukho konke esihlangana nakho empilweni. Ukufakazele lokho kaninginingi. Kwesinye isikhathi udlula ekuhluphekeni nathi futhi kwesinye isikhathi - ngokungafani kakhulu, kubonakala sengathi uqeda lokho obekungakaze kufune ukuphela. Kunoma ikuphi, ukholo lwethu lusibiza ukuthi simethembe - sethembe ukuthi uzosenzela okulungile nokusilungele. Imvamisa kungukubheka emuva kuphela lapho singabona khona amandla esiwathole kubusuku obude bokulinda bese siqala ukubona ukuthi okuhlangenwe nakho okubuhlungu kungenzeka kube yisibusiso ekuzifihleni.
Noma kunjalo, kuwusizi ukukhuthazela lapho sibhekana nakho, futhi sizwelana nomhubi owabhala: “Umphefumulo wami ukhathazekile kakhulu; O, Nkosi, koze kube nini!” (IHu 6,4). Kunesizathu i-King James Version endala yahumusha igama elithi “ukubekezela” ngokuthi “ukuhlupheka isikhathi eside”! ULuka usitshela ngabafundi ababili ababedabukile endleleni eya e-Emawuse ngoba kwakubonakala sengathi ukulinda kwabo kwakuyize futhi konke kwakulahlekile ngoba uJesu wayesefile (Luka 2 Kor.4,17). Nokho ngesikhathi esifanayo, iNkosi evukile, ababebeke kuyo wonke amathemba abo, yahamba eduze kwabo futhi yabanikeza isikhuthazo—kodwa nje abazange bakuqaphele lokho (amav. 15-16). Ngezinye izikhathi kwenzeka okufanayo nakithi.
Isikhathi esiningi asiziboni izindlela uNkulunkulu anathi ngazo, esibhekile, esisiza, esikhuthaza - kwaze kwaba yisikhathi kamuva. Kwaba yilapho uJesu ehlephula isinkwa nabo lapho “amehlo abo avuleka, bambona, wanyamalala phambi kwabo. Bakhulumisana bathi: “Izinhliziyo zethu bezingavuthi yini phakathi kwethu lapho ekhuluma kithi endleleni, esivulela imibhalo na?” ( IzA. 31-32 ).
Lapho sithembela kuKristu, asilindi sodwa. Uhlala nathi kubo bonke ubusuku obumnyama, esinika amandla okubekezela nokukhanya ukuze sibone ukuthi konke akuphelile. UJesu uyasiqinisekisa ukuthi akasoze asishiya sodwa (Mathewu 28,20).
nguJoseph Tkach
