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Ubumpofu nokuphana
Encwadini yesibili kaPawulu eya kwabaseKorinte, wanikeza umfanekiso omuhle kakhulu wendlela isipho esimangalisayo senjabulo esithinta ngayo ukuphila kwamakholwa ngezindlela ezingokoqobo. “Kepha siyanazisa, bazalwane abathandekayo, umusa kaNkulunkulu ophiwe emabandleni aseMakedoniya” (2 Kor. 8,1). UPawulu wayenganikezi nje indaba engasho lutho—wayefuna abazalwane baseKorinte baphendule emseni kaNkulunkulu ngendlela efana neyebandla laseThesalonika. Wayefuna ukubachazela ukusabela okufanele nokunezithelo ekuphaneni kukaNkulunkulu. UPawulu uphawula ukuthi abaseMakedoniya ‘babenosizi olukhulu’ futhi ‘bempofu kakhulu’—kodwa futhi ‘babenokuchichima kwenjabulo’ ( ivesi 2 ). Injabulo yabo yayingaveli evangelini lempilo nokuchuma. Injabulo yabo enkulu yayingaveli ekubeni nemali eningi nempahla, kodwa eqinisweni lokuthi babenokuncane kakhulu!
Ukusabela kwakhe kwembula okuthile “okwamanye amazwe,” okuthile okungaphezu kwemvelo, okuthile okungaphezu nje kwezwe lemvelo lesintu esinobugovu, into engenakuchazwa ngezindinganiso zaleli zwe: “Ngokuba injabulo yakhe yayichichima lapho kubonakaliswa usizi olukhulu futhi bempofu kakhulu, nokho banikela ngokuchichima ngobuqotho bonke” (indima 2). Kuyamangaza lokho! Hlanganisa ubumpofu nenjabulo futhi utholani? Ukupha okuchichimayo! Lokhu bekungekona ukupha kwabo okusekelwe kumaphesenti. “Ngokuba ngokwamandla abo ngiyafakaza, nangaphezu kwamandla abo banikela ngesihle” (ivesi 3). Banikela okungaphezu kwalokho "okunengqondo". Banikela ngokuzidela. Nokho, njengokungathi lokho akwanele, “basincenga ngokuncenga okukhulu ukuba babe usizo ekusizeni abangcwele” ( ivesi 4 ). Ebumpofu babo bacela uPawulu ithuba lokunikela okungaphezu kwalokho okunengqondo!
Wasebenza kanje umusa kaNkulunkulu kumakholwa aseMakedoniya. Kwakuwubufakazi bokholo lwabo olukhulu kuJesu Kristu. Kwakuwubufakazi bothando lwabo olunikezwe amandla nguMoya kwabanye abantu - ubufakazi uPawulu ayefuna abaseKorinte babazi futhi babulingise. Futhi kuyinto kithi namuhla lapho singavumela uMoya oNgcwele ukuthi usebenze ngaphandle kokuvinjelwa kithi.
Okokuqala eNkosini
Kungani abaseMakedoniya benza okuthile “okungekona okwaleli zwe”? UPhawuli uthi, “...kodwa bazinikela bona kuqala eNkosini, besebazinikela kithi ngokwentando kaNkulunkulu” (indima 5). Bakwenza enkonzweni yeNkosi. Umhlatshelo wabo wawungowokuqala weNkosi. Kwakungumsebenzi womusa, wokusebenza kukaNkulunkulu ezimpilweni zabo, futhi bathola ukuthi babekujabulela ukuwenza. Besabela kuMoya oNgcwele ongaphakathi kubo, babazi, bakholwa, futhi benza kanjalo ngoba ukuphila akulinganiswa ngobuningi bezinto ezibonakalayo.
Njengoba sifunda okwengeziwe kulesi sahluko, siyabona ukuthi uPawulu wayefuna abaseKorinte benze okufanayo: “Ngakho samncenga uThithu ukuba, njengalokho ebeqalile, makakuphelelise nakini lokhu okuhle. Kepha njengalokhu nicebe kukho konke, ekukholweni, nasezwini, nasolwazini, nakuyo yonke inkuthalo nothando esikukhuthalele kini, yiphani ngokuchichimayo kulokhu kuphana” (amav. 6-7).
AbaseKorinte babeqhosha ngengcebo yabo engokomoya. Babenokuningi ababenganikela ngakho, kodwa abazange bakunike! UPawulu wayefuna ukuba bavelele ekupheni ngoba lokho kuwukubonakaliswa kothando lwaphezulu, futhi uthando lubaluleke kakhulu.
Nokho uPawulu uyazi ukuthi kungakhathaliseki ukuthi umuntu anganikela kangakanani, akusizi ngalutho kumuntu uma isimo sengqondo sinenzondo esikhundleni sokuphana (1. AbaseKorinte 13,3). Ngakho akafuni ukwesabisa abaseKorinte ukuba baphe ngokudabuka, kodwa ufuna ukubacindezela ngoba abaseKorinte babengenzi kahle ekuziphatheni kwabo futhi babedinga ukutshelwa ukuthi kwakunjalo. “Angikusho lokho njengomyalelo; kodwa ngenxa yokuthi abanye bayashiseka kangaka, nami ngivivinya uthando lwenu ukuze ngibone ukuthi lulungile yini.” ( 2 Kor 8,8).
UJesu, umenzi wenhliziyo yethu
Ingokomoya langempela alitholakali ezintweni abaseKorinte ababeqhosha ngazo—likalwa ngendinganiso ephelele kaJesu Kristu, owanikela ngokuphila kwakhe ngenxa yabo bonke. Ngakho uPawulu uveza isimo sengqondo sikaJesu Kristu njengobufakazi bemfundiso yenkolo yokupha ayefisa ukukubona ebandleni laseKorinte: “Ngokuba niyawazi umusa weNkosi yethu uJesu Kristu ukuthi nakuba ecebile, waba mpofu ngenxa yenu; ukuze ngobumpofu bakhe nicebe” ( ivesi 9 ).
Ingcebo eyashiwo uPawulu ayiyona ingcebo engokwenyama. Ingcebo yethu mikhulu ngokungenakulinganiswa kunamagugu angokwenyama. Wena usezulwini, ubekelwe thina. Kodwa ngisho namanje singakwazi kakade ukunambitha leyo ngcebo yaphakade uma sivumela uMoya oNgcwele ukuba asebenze ngaphakathi kwethu.
Njengamanje abantu bakaNkulunkulu abathembekile babhekene nezilingo, ngisho nobumpofu - nokho, ngenxa yokuthi uJesu uphila kithi, singaceba ngokuphana. Singaphumelela ekupheni. Singadlulela ngale kokuncane ngoba injabulo yethu kuKristu ingachichima ngisho namanje ukusiza abanye.
Kuningi okungashiwo ngesibonelo sikaJesu, owayevame ukukhuluma ngokusetshenziswa kahle kwengcebo. Kulesi siqephu, uPawulu ukufingqa ngokuthi "ubumpofu." UJesu wayezimisele ukuzenza mpofu ngenxa yethu. Njengoba simlandela, sibizwa futhi ukuba silahle izinto zaleli zwe, siphile ngezindinganiso ezihlukene, futhi simkhonze ngokukhonza abanye.
Injabulo nokuphana
UPawulu waqhubeka nokunxusa kwakhe kwabaseKorinte: “Futhi kulokhu ngikhuluma ingqondo yami; ngoba lokho kuwusizo kuwe, owaqala ngonyaka odlule hhayi ngokwenza kuphela, kodwa futhi ngokuswela. Kodwa khathesi-ke yenzani umsebenzi lani, ukuze kuthi, njengoba lithanda ukwenza, lani lithanda ukwenza ngokwalokho enilakho” ( amavesi 10-11 ).
"Ngokuba uma kukhona intando enhle" - uma kukhona isimo sengqondo sokupha - "wamukelekile ngokwalokho umuntu anakho, hhayi ngokwalokho angenakho" (indima 12). UPawulu akazange acele abaseKorinte ukuba banikele njengoba kwakwenziwe abaseMakedoniya. AbaseMakedoniya base benikele kakade ngaphezu kwengcebo yabo; UPawulu wayemane ecela abaseKorinte ukuba banikele ngokwamandla abo - kodwa into eyinhloko ukuthi wayefuna ukupha ngokukhululekile kube ngokuzithandela.
UPawulu uyaqhubeka neziyalo ezithile esahlukweni 9 : “Ngokuba ngiyazi ngokuthanda kwakho okuhle engikudumisayo ngani kwabaseMakedoniya, ngithi: ‘I-Akhaya belilungile nyakenye; Futhi isibonelo sakho siye sathuthukisa abaningi kakhulu” (indima 2).
Njengoba nje uPawulu asebenzisa isibonelo sabaseMakedoniya ukuze akhuthaze abaseKorinte ukuba babe nesandla esivulekile, ngokufanayo ngaphambili wayesebenzise isibonelo sabaseKorinte ukuze akhuthaze abaseMakedoniya, ngokusobala waba nempumelelo enkulu. AbaseMakedoniya babephana kangangokuthi uPawulu wabona ukuthi abaseKorinte bangenza okungaphezu kwalokho ababekwenzile ngaphambili. Kodwa wayeziqhayise eMakedoniya ngokuthi abaseKorinte babephana. Manje wayefuna abaseKorinte bawuqedele. Ufuna ukukhuza futhi. Ufuna ukufaka ingcindezi, kodwa ufuna umnikelo unikezwe ngokuzithandela.
“Kepha ngathuma abazalwane, ukuze ukuzibonga kwethu ngani kungabi yize kule ndaba, nibe nizilungiselele, njengalokho ngasho ngani, kungabi ngaphandle kokuthi kufike kanye nami abeMakedoniya, banifumane ningalungi. , angithi nina ninamahloni ngalokhu kuqiniseka kwethu. Ngakho-ke ngibone kudingekile ukuba ngikhuthaze abazalwane ukuba benyukele kini, bayolungisa kusengaphambili isipho enasimemezelayo, ukuze silungiswe sibe yisibusiso, hhayi esokuhaha” ( 3-5 ).
Bese kulandela ivesi esike salizwa izikhathi eziningi ngaphambili. “Yilowo nalowo, njengokuba enqumile enhliziyweni yakhe, kungabi ngokungathandi noma ngokucindezelwa; ngoba uNkulunkulu uthanda umuphi onamileyo” (indima 7). Le njabulo ayisho ukuzitika noma ukuhleka—kusho ukuthi sithola injabulo ekwabelaneni ngempahla yethu nabanye ngoba uKristu ukithi. Ukupha kusenza sizizwe sijabule. Uthando nomusa kusebenza ezinhliziyweni zethu ngendlela yokuthi impilo yokupha kancane kancane ibe yintokozo enkulu kithi.
Isibusiso esikhulu
Kule ndima uPawulu ukhuluma nangemivuzo. Uma sinikela ngesihle nangesandla esivulekile, uNkulunkulu uzosipha nathi. UPawulu akesabi ukukhumbuza abaseKorinte: “Kepha uNkulunkulu unamandla okunindisa umusa wonke, ukuze kuthi kukho konke nibe nokuchichima njalo, nivame emisebenzini yonke emihle” ( ivesi 8 ).
UPawulu uthembisa ukuthi uNkulunkulu uyophana kithi. Ngezinye izikhathi uNkulunkulu usinika izinto ezibonakalayo, kodwa akukhona lokho uPawulu akhuluma ngakho lapha. Ukhuluma ngomusa - hhayi umusa wentethelelo (sithola lomusa omangalisayo ngokukholwa kuKristu, hhayi imisebenzi yokupha) - UPawulu ukhuluma ngezinye izinhlobo eziningi zomusa uNkulunkulu anganikeza.
Lapho uNkulunkulu enika amabandla aseMakedoniya umusa owengeziwe, ayoba nemali encane kunakuqala - kodwa injabulo enkulu kakhulu! Noma yimuphi umuntu onengqondo, uma kufanele akhethe, angancamela ukuba nobumpofu ngentokozo kunengcebo engenanjabulo. Injabulo iyisibusiso esikhulu futhi uNkulunkulu usinika isibusiso esikhulu. Amanye amaKristu aze athole kokubili - kodwa futhi anomthwalo wemfanelo wokukusebenzisa kokubili ukuze akhonze abanye.
UPawulu ube esecaphuna eTestamenteni Elidala: “Wahlakaza, wapha abampofu” (ivesi 9). Hlobo luni lwezipho akhuluma ngazo? “Ukulunga kwakhe kumi kuze kube phakade”. Isipho sokulunga sibadlula bonke. Isipho sokulunga phambi kukaNkulunkulu siyisipho esihlala phakade.
UNkulunkulu uyayivuza inhliziyo ephanayo
“Kepha onika umhlwanyeli imbewu nesinkwa sokudliwa, uyakuninika imbewu, andise, akhulise izithelo zokulunga kwenu” (indima 10). Lesi sisho sokugcina esimayelana nesivuno sokulunga sisikhombisa ukuthi uPawulu usebenzisa umfanekiso. Akathembisi izimbewu ezingokoqobo, kodwa uthi uNkulunkulu uyabavuza abantu abaphanayo. Ubanika ukuthi banikele okwengeziwe.
Uyonikela okwengeziwe kumuntu osebenzisa izipho zikaNkulunkulu ukuze akhonze. Ngezinye izikhathi ubuya ngendlela efanayo, okusanhlamvu ngokusanhlamvu, imali ngemali, kodwa hhayi njalo. Ngezinye izikhathi, ngenxa yokunikela ngokuzidela, uyosibusisa ngenjabulo engenakulinganiswa. Uhlale enikeza okungcono kakhulu.
UPawulu wathi abaseKorinte babeyoba nakho konke abakudingayo. Ngayiphi injongo? Ukuze “bacebe kuyo yonke imisebenzi emihle”. Usho into efanayo evesini 12, “Ngokuba inkonzo yalokhu kubutha ayigcini nje ngokugcwalisa ukuswela kwabangcwele, kodwa futhi kuvame nakwabaningi ababonga uNkulunkulu.” Izipho zikaNkulunkulu ziza nemibandela, singase sithi. Kudingeka siwasebenzise, singawafihli ekhabetheni.
Abacebile bayoceba ngemisebenzi emihle. “Yala abacebile kuleli zwe ukuba bangazikhukhumezi, bangathembi ingcebo engaqinisekile, kodwa mabathembele kuNkulunkulu osinika konke kuchichime ukuba sikujabulele; ukwenza okuhle, nokuvame emisebenzini emihle, nokupha ngentokozo, nokusiza.” (1 Thim 6,17-enye).
Impilo yeqiniso
Uyini umvuzo wokuziphatha okungajwayelekile okungaka, kubantu abangabambi ingcebo njengento abangabambelela kuyo, kodwa banikele ngayo ngokuzithandela? “Ngalokhu babuthela ingcebo ngesizathu esihle sesikhathi esizayo, ukuze babambe ukuphila kweqiniso” ( ivesi 19 ). Lapho sithembela kuNkulunkulu, samukela ukuphila, okuwukuphila kwangempela.
Bangane, ukukholwa akusiyo impilo elula. Isivumelwano esisha asisithembisi ukuphila okuntofontofo. Inikeza ngokungenamkhawulo ngaphezu kwesigidi: imbuyiselo engu-1 ekutshalweni kwethu - kodwa ingafaka ukuzinikela okuthile okubalulekile kule mpilo edlulayo.
Futhi nokho kunemivuzo emikhulu nakulokhu kuphila. UNkulunkulu unikeza insada yomusa endleleni (nangokuhlakanipha kwakhe okungapheli) ukuthi azi ukuthi kungcono kakhulu kithi. Ezilingweni zethu nasezibusisweni zethu, singamethemba ngezimpilo zethu. Singamethemba ngazo zonke izinto, futhi uma senza izimpilo zethu zibe ubufakazi bokholo.
UNkulunkulu usithanda kakhulu kangangokuba waze wathumela indodana yakhe ukuba izosifela ngisho siseyizoni futhi siyizitha. Njengoba uNkulunkulu esesibonisile kakade uthando olunjalo, singaqiniseka ngokuthi uyosinakekela, ukuze kuzuze phakade, njengoba manje sesingabantwana Bakhe nabangane. Akudingekile ukuba sikhathazeke ngemali "yethu".
Isivuno sokubonga
Ake sibuyele emuva 2. 9 Korinte 11 futhi phawula lokho uPawulu akufundisayo kwabaseKorinte mayelana nokupha kwabo ngokwezimali nangezinto ezibonakalayo. “Kanjalo niyakuba ngabacebile kukho konke, ukuze niphe ngakho konke ukuphana okusebenza ngathi ukubonga kuNkulunkulu. Ngokuba inkonzo yalokhu kubutha ayigcini ngokuswela abangcwele kuphela, kodwa futhi isebenza ngokwedlulele nakwabaningi ababonga uNkulunkulu” (amavesi 12).
UPawulu ukhumbuza abaseKorinte ukuthi ukupha kwabo akuwona nje umzamo wokusiza abantu - kunemiphumela yezenkolo. Abantu bazobonga uNkulunkulu ngalokhu ngoba bayaqonda ukuthi uNkulunkulu usebenza ngabantu. UNkulunkulu ukubeke enhliziyweni yalabo abanikelayo. Lena indlela umsebenzi kaNkulunkulu owenziwa ngayo. “Ngokuba kulenkonzo yokwethembeka badumisa uNkulunkulu ngaphezu kokulalela kwenu ekuvumeni ivangeli likaKristu, naphezu kobungcwele bokuhlanganyela kwenu nabo kanye nabo bonke” (ivesi 13). Kunamaphuzu amaningana aphawulekayo kuleli phuzu. Okokuqala, abaseKorinte bakwazi ukuzibonakalisa ngezenzo zabo. Babonisa ngezenzo ukuthi ukholo lwabo lwaluyiqiniso. Okwesibili, ukupha akulethi nje kuphela ukubonga kodwa futhi kuletha ukubonga [udumo] kuNkulunkulu. Kuyindlela yokukhulekela. Okwesithathu, ukwamukela ivangeli lomusa nakho kudinga ukulalela okuthile, futhi lokho kulalela kubandakanya ukwabelana ngezinsiza ezibonakalayo.
Ukunikela ngevangeli
UPawulu wabhala ngokupha ngokuphana ngokuphathelene nemizamo yokuqeda indlala. Kodwa umgomo ofanayo uyasebenza ekuqoqweni kwezimali esinakho eBandleni namuhla ukusekela ivangeli kanye nomsebenzi weBandla. Sisawusekela umsebenzi obalulekile. Ivumela izisebenzi ezishumayela ivangeli ukuthi ziziphilise ngevangeli ngendlela engcono kakhulu esingakwazi ngayo ukusabalalisa kabusha izimali.
UNkulunkulu usakuvuza ukuphana. Usathembisa ingcebo yasezulwini nenjabulo yaphakade. Ivangeli lisafuna imali yethu. Isimo sethu sengqondo ngemali sisabonisa ukukholelwa kwethu kulokho uNkulunkulu akwenzayo manje naphakade. Abantu basazobonga futhi badumise uNkulunkulu ngeminikelo esiyenzayo namuhla.
Sithola izibusiso emalini esinikela ngayo eBandleni - iminikelo isisiza ukuba sikhokhe irenti yendlu yokuhlangana, yokunakekela abafundisi, yokushicilela. Kodwa iminikelo yethu isiza nabanye ukuba banikeze abanye izincwadi, ibe indawo lapho abantu bengazi khona umphakathi wamakholwa abathanda izoni; ukuhlangabezana nezindleko zeqembu lamakholwa ukwakha nokugcina isimo lapho izivakashi ezintsha zingafundiswa khona insindiso.
Anikabazi (okwamanje) laba bantu, kodwa bayokubonga - noma okungenani babonge uNkulunkulu ngeminikelo yenu ephilayo. Kungumsebenzi obalulekile ngempela. Into ebaluleke kakhulu esingayenza kulempilo ngemva kokwamukela uKristu njengoMsindisi wethu ukusiza ukukhulisa umbuso kaNkulunkulu, ukwenza umehluko ngokuvumela uNkulunkulu ukuba asebenze ezimpilweni zethu.
Ngithanda ukuphetha ngamazwi kaPawulu emavesini 14-15: “Ekukhulekeleni kwabo ngenxa yenu bayanilangazelela ngenxa yomusa omkhulu kaNkulunkulu ophezu kwenu. Kodwa makabongwe uNkulunkulu ngesipho sakhe esingakhulumekiyo!”
nguJoseph Tkach
