EyoMsi 2025 – Bruno Loyiso
Ukhe wahlala ebusuku ukuze uthuthuzele umntwana okhalayo, ulibazisa ukuphumla kwakho ukuze ubonakalise uthando? Olo thando luzidelayo lubonakalisa agape, uthando lukaThixo oluzidelayo. Ku-1 Yohane 4:16 sifunda: “UThixo uluthando (agape); lowo uhlala eluthandweni uhlala kuThixo, aze noThixo ahlale kuye” (NLT). Kuba uThixo uluthando, agape asiyonto nje yobuntu okanye isenzo, koko lusisazisi saKhe.
Ke ngoko, xa sithatha uThando silubeka ngoThixo ku-1 Korinte 13:4–8, iziphumo ziyamangalisa:
“UThixo unomonde, uThixo unobubele, uThixo akakhathali ngomhawu okanye ukuzingca, uThixo akazukuzuku, uThixo akahlazisi abanye, uThixo akazicingeli, uThixo akakhawulezi umsindo, uThixo akagcini iirekhodi zezono, uThixo akonwabi ngobubi kodwa wonwaba ngenyaniso; UThixo uhlale ekhuseleka, uhlale ethembekile, uhlale ethemba, uhlale enyamezela. UThixo akaze aphumele.” (Kulungiselelwe kwi NLT)
Thatha umzuzwana: uziva njani xa ufunda le ndlela? UThixo ungu… endaweni yokuthi Uthando lungu…?
KuGalati 5:22 uPawulos uqala ngo agape: “Isiqhamo soMoya nguthando (agape), luvuyo, luxolo, umonde, ububele, ubulungisa, ukunyaniseka, ukuthobeka nokuzeyisa” (NLT).
UAndrew Murray usinika ingcaciso eqinileyo: agape asilulo nje olunye lweempawu zobuKristu, koko luyisiqhamo soMoya, ubomi bukaThixo kuthi, kwaye zonke ezinye iimpawu (uvuyo, uxolo, umonde, njl.) zizichazo zalo thando lunye oluphilayo. I Enduring Word commentary yona ithi: “Kungathethwa ukuba la magama mathoba alandelayo achaza nje indlela uthando olusebenzayo olujonga ngayo” (Guzik, Galatians 5).
Kuba izicatshulwa zesiGrike zangaphambili zazingenazo iimpawu zokuphumla (scriptio continua) (Metzger 1968, 13), kukho indawo yokutolika ukuba iGalati 5:22–23 ibingafundwa ngamaKristu okuqala ngale ndlela: isiqhamo soMoya nguthando: uvuyo, uxolo, umonde… kunokuba ibe luluhlu olude lweempawu ezahlukeneyo.
UMurray uqhuba athi uMoya uqala ngokuzala uthando, kwaye xa uMoya esizalisa ngakumbi, siba nothando ngakumbi (Murray 1895, isahl. 2).
Ngelixa uMurray esinceda sibone ukuba yintoni agape, umbuzo usesele: oku kutshintsha njani ebomini bethu? Ku-2 Korinte 3:18 sifumana impendulo ecacileyo: “Njengoko sibona uzuko lweNkosi, siguqulwa sibe ngumfanekiso waKhe kusoloko kusongezwa uzuko” (NLT). Okukhona sichitha ixesha kunye noThixo ngenjongo, kokukhona uthando lwaKhe lutshintsha isimilo sethu.
Ngo-2000 ndabona ngamehlo am indlela amadoda amathathu, awayehlulwe yinkqubo yobandlululo, aqala ukuthandana ngothando olutshintsha olo lubizwa agape. Umhloli-mapolisa owayengumAfrikaaner omhlophe, igqala leMK elalixhobile ngaphambili, kunye nelungu elalimbala elalikwicandelo lokhuseleko likaMongameli Mandela, emva kweenyanga ezintandathu zoqeqesho lobufundi eYWAM, baqala ukuthandana. Ngenye intsasa bakhala bonke ngaxeshanye ngoxa babengqinana, bexolelana. Oku kwaba sisiqalo sobuhlobo bokwenene, obunokwenzeka kuphela ngenxa yothando lukaThixo oluzidela, agape.
Umngeni Wobuqu
Singazithanda njani ngakumbi? Singafunda njani umonde, ububele, uxolelo kunye nokuzeyisa? Ngokungena ngenjongo ebukhoneni bukaThixo, ukufuna uThixo eBhayibhileni, ekuthuleni, ekuhlanganeni nasekuthandazeni. Njengoko sisenza njalo, ngokuhamba kwexesha, uMoya usebenza ezintliziyweni zethu. Kancinci kancinci ukhulisela agape kuthi.
Ke, nantsi imibuzo mibini yokuhamba nayo kule veki:
Yeyiphi indawo yobomi bam efuna ngakumbi agape kaThixo, apho kufuneka ndikhule eluthandweni nokuba kunzima? Ndingayakha njani into yokwenza umkhwa wokujonga uzuko lukaThixo okanye ndichithe ixesha elininzi ebukhoneni baKhe kwi rhythm yemihla ngemihla?
Makathathe ingcambu uthando lwaKhe kuwe, luvele ngendlela ophila ngayo imihla ngemihla.
Iingxelo
Guzik, David. Enduring Word Bible Commentary: Galatians 5. https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/galatians-5/. Accessed 30 September 2025
Metzger, Bruce Manning. 1968. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 2nd edition. The Clarendon Press: Oxford, United Kingdom.
Murray, Andrew. 1895. Absolute Surrender. Moody Press, Chicago.
The Holy Bible. New Living Translation, 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale
House Foundation. https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Living-Translation-NLT-Bible/. Accessed 30 September 2025.