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Isipho sokuba ngumama
Ukuba ngumama kungenye yemisebenzi emikhulu endalweni kaNkulunkulu. Lokho kubuyele kimi ngenkathi ngisanda kucabanga ukuthi ngizonikani umkami nomamezala wami ngoSuku Lomama. Ngikukhumbula kahle ukuthi umama wathini lapho etshela mina nodadewethu ukuthi wayejabule kanjani ngokuba umama wethu. Ukusizala kwethu bekuzomenza aqonde uthando nobukhulu bukaNkulunkulu ngendlela entsha ngokuphelele. Ngingaqala ukukuqonda lokho lapho izingane zethu zizalwa. Ngisakhumbula indlela engangimangele ngayo lapho ubuhlungu bokubeletha komkami, uTammy, buba yinjabulo esabekayo lapho ekwazi ukubamba indodana nendodakazi yethu ezandleni zakhe. Eminyakeni edlule ngike ngethuke uma ngicabanga ngothando lomama. Vele kukhona umehluko ohlotsheni lwami lothando futhi nathi zingane sibonile uthando lukababa wethu ngendlela ehlukile.
Ngenxa yokusondelana namandla othando lukamama, angimangali nakancane ukuthi uPawulu wahlanganisa nokuba umama emazwini abalulekile aphathelene nesivumelwano sikaNkulunkulu nesintu, njengoba enza kwabaseGalathiya. 4,22-26 (ULuther 84) okulandelayo kuyabhala:
“Ngokuba kulotshiwe ukuthi u-Abrahama wayenamadodana amabili, enye ngencekukazi, enye kowesifazane okhululekileyo. Kodwa enye yesigqilakazi yazalwa ngokwenyama, kodwa eyowesifazane okhululekileyo ngesithembiso. Lawa magama anencazelo ejulile. Ngokuba laba besifazane ababili bafanekisela izivumelwano ezimbili: esinye esivela entabeni yaseSinayi, esizala ubugqila, esinguHagari; ngokuba uHagari usho intaba yaseSinayi ese-Arabiya, nomfanekiso weJerusalema lanamuhla, elihlala nabantwana balo ebugqilini. Kodwa iJerusalema eliphezulu likhululekile; umama wethu lowo."
Njengoba sisanda kufunda u-Abrahama wayenamadodana amabili: kwakungu-Isaka kumkakhe uSara no-Ishmayeli encekukazini yakhe uHagari. U-Ishmayeli wazalwa ngokwemvelo. Nokho, endabeni ka-Isaka, kwakudingeka isimangaliso ngenxa yesithembiso, njengoba unina uSara wayengasenakuzala. Ngakho kwakungenxa yokungenela kukaNkulunkulu ukuthi u-Isaka wazalwa. UJakobe wazalelwa u-Isaka (igama lakhe kamuva lashintshwa laba u-Israyeli) ngakho u-Abrahama, u-Isaka noJakobe baba okhokho babantu bakwa-Israyeli. Kuleli qophelo kubalulekile ukuveza ukuthi bonke abafazi bokhokho babengaba nabantwana kuphela ngokungenela kukaNkulunkulu okungaphezu kwemvelo. Uchungechunge lozalo luholela ezizukulwaneni eziningi kuJesu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu, owazalwa engumuntu. Sicela ufunde ukuthi u-TF Torrance wabhala ini ngakho:
Insimbi ekhethiwe kaNkulunkulu esesandleni sikaNkulunkulu sokusindisa umhlaba nguJesu waseNazaretha, owavela esifubeni sakwa-Israyeli - kodwa wayengeyona nje insimbi, kodwa uNkulunkulu uqobo. Weza esesimweni somuntu njengenceku isiqu sethu sangaphakathi naye Ukuphulukisa ukulinganiselwa nokungazithobi kwakhe nokubuyisa ubudlelwane obuphilayo noNkulunkulu ngendlela yokunqoba ngokubuyisana kukaNkulunkulu nesintu.
Siyamazi uJesu endabeni ka-Isaka. U-Isaka wazalwa ngokungenela okungaphezu kwemvelo, kuyilapho ukuzalwa kukaJesu kungenxa yokukhulelwa okungaphezu kwemvelo. U-Isaka wayekhethwe njengomhlatshelo ongase ube khona, kodwa empeleni futhi ngokuzithandela uJesu wayeyinhlawulo eyabuyisela isintu noNkulunkulu. Kukhona futhi ukufana phakathi kuka-Isaka nathi. Ukungenelela okungaphezu kwemvelo ekuzalweni kuka-Isaka kuhambisana nathi nokuzalwa kabusha (okungaphezu kwemvelo) ngoMoya oNgcwele. Lokhu kusenza sibe ngabafowabo bakaJesu (Joh 3,3; 5). Asisebona abantwana bobugqila ngaphansi kokucindezelwa komthetho, kodwa singabantwana bokutholwa, abamukelwa emndenini kaNkulunkulu nasembusweni kaNkulunkulu futhi sinefa eliphakade lapho. Lelo themba liqinisekile.
KwabaseGalathiya 4, uPawulu uqhathanisa isivumelwano esidala nesisha. Njengoba sesifundile, uhlobanisa uHagari nabantu bakwaIsrayeli ngaphansi kwesivumelwano esidala saseSinayi noMthetho KaMose, owawungathenjiswa ubulungu bomkhaya noma ifa embusweni kaNkulunkulu. Ngesivumelwano esisha, uPawulu ubhekisela emuva ezithembisweni zakuqala (no-Abrahama) zokuthi uNkulunkulu wayeyoba uNkulunkulu ka-Israyeli no-Israyeli abantu bakhe futhi ngazo yonke imindeni emhlabeni kufanele ibusiswe. Lezi zithembiso zigcwaliseka esivumelwaneni somusa sikaNkulunkulu. USara wanikwa indodana, owazalwa njengelungu lomndeni eliqondile. Nomusa wenza into efanayo. Ngomusa kaJesu, abantu baba ngabantwana bokutholwa, abantwana bakaNkulunkulu abanefa laphakade.
KwabaseGalathiya 4 uPawulu uhlukanisa phakathi kukaHagari noSara. UHagari uhlobanisa uPawulu nalokho okwakuyiJerusalema ngaleso sikhathi, umuzi owawubuswa amaRoma nomthetho. USara, ngakolunye uhlangothi, ufanekisela “iJerusalema eliphezulu,” unina wabo bonke abantwana bomusa kaNkulunkulu onefa. Ifa lihlanganisa okuningi kakhulu kunanoma yiliphi idolobha. “Umuzi wasezulwini” (IsAmbulo 2 Kor1,2) kaNkulunkulu ophilayo” (Hebheru 1 Kor2,22) ukuthi ngelinye ilanga uyokwehlela emhlabeni. IJerusalema laseZulwini liyidolobha lakithi, lapho kuhlala khona ubuzwe bethu bangempela. UPawulu ubiza iJerusalema eliphezulu ngokuthi, elikhululekile; ungumama wethu (KwabaseGalathiya 4,26). Sixhunywe kuKristu ngoMoya oNgcwele, siyizakhamuzi ezikhululekile futhi samukelwe uBaba njengabantwana Bakhe.
Ngibonga uNkulunkulu ngoSara, Rebekah noLea, omama besizwe abathathu ekuqaleni kohlu lozalo lukaJesu Kristu. UNkulunkulu ukhethe labo mama, abangaphelele njengabo, noMariya, umama kaJesu, ukuthi athumele iNdodana yakhe emhlabeni njengomuntu futhi owasithumela uMoya oNgcwele ukusenza abantwana bakaYise. Usuku Lomama luyisikhathi esikhethekile sokubonga uNkulunkulu wethu womusa ngesipho sokuba ngumama. Masimbonge ngomama wethu, umkhwekazi kanye nenkosikazi yethu - ngabo bonke omama. Ukuba ngumama kungukubonakaliswa kobuhle bukaNkulunkulu obumangalisayo obunikeza impilo.
Kugcwele ukubonga ngesipho sokuba ngumama,
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