Izibonelelo zokuchitha ixesha noThixo

Oku kujongwa kwezibonelelo zokuchitha ixesha noThixo sisicatshulwa esivela kwincwadana kaMfundisi uDanny Hodges yokuchitha ixesha kunye noThixo yeCalvary Chapel Fellowship eSt. Petersburg, eFlorida.

Xolela ngakumbi
Akunakwenzeka ukuba uchithe ixesha kunye noThixo kwaye ungangxoli ngakumbi. Kuba silufumene uxolelo lukaThixo ebomini bethu, luyasivumela ukuba sibaxolele abanye. KuLuka 11: 4, u-Yesu wafundisa abafundi baKhe ukuba bathandaze bathi: "Sixolele izono zethu, kuba nathi sibaxolela bonke abo basonayo." Simele sixolele njengoko iNkosi isixolele. Sixolelwe kakhulu, ngoko ke sixolela kakhulu ngokulandelelana.

Nyamezelani ngakumbi
Ndifumene kumava am ukuba ukuxolela yenye into, kodwa ukwala yenye into. Rhoqo iNkosi iya kujongana nombuzo woxolelo. Uyasihlaza kwaye uyasixolela, esivumela ukuba sifike kwinqanaba apho, khona, sinokumxolela umntu osixelele ukuba sixolele. Kodwa ukuba loo mntu ngumfazi wethu okanye umntu esimbona rhoqo, akukho lula. Asinakuxolela nje emva koko sihambe. Kufuneka sihlale omnye nomnye kwaye into esiyixolelileyo lo mntu ingenzeka kaninzi, ke ngoko sizifumana kufuneka sixolele kaninzi-ninzi. Sinokuziva njengoPetros kuMateyu 18: 21-22:

Emva koko uPetros waya kuYesu wambuza, "Nkosi, ndimele ndimxolele kangaphi umzalwana wam xa endona? Koda kube kasixhenxe na?

Waphendula uYesu wathi kuye, Andithi kuwe, kasixhenxe; ndithi, koda kube kasixhenxe; (NIV)

UYesu wayengasiniki ukulingana kwemathematika. Wayethetha ukuba kufuneka sixolele ngonaphakade, kaninzi-ninzi kwaye rhoqo njengoko kufuneka, ngendlela asixolele ngayo. Kwaye ukuqhubeka kokuxolela nokunyamezelana nokusilela kwethu nokusilela kwethu kudala kuthi ukunyamezelana nokungafezeki kwabanye. Kumzekelo weNkosi sifunda, njengoko eyabase-Efese 4: 2 ichaza, ukuba “bathobeke mpela, benobubele; yibani nomonde, thwalanani niqhutywa luthando ”.

Inkululeko yenkululeko
Ndiyakhumbula xa ndamkela uYesu okokuqala ebomini bam. Kwakumnandi ukwazi ukuba ndixolelwe kumthwalo kunye netyala lazo zonke izono zam. Ndaziva ndikhululeke ngokumangalisayo! Akukho nto ithelekiswa nenkululeko evela kuxolelo. Xa sikhetha ukungaxoleli, siba ngamakhoboka obukrakra kwaye sibuhlungu kakhulu ngenxa yokuxolelwa.

Kodwa xa sixolela, uYesu uyasikhulula kubo bonke ubuhlungu, umsindo, ingqumbo, nobukrakra obukade busibambile. Kwincwadi yakhe ethi, Forgive and Forget uLewis B. Smedes ubhale wathi, “Xa ukhulula umenzi wobubi kwimpazamo, yeka ithumba elibi kubomi bakho bangaphakathi. Ukhulula ibanjwa, kodwa ufumanisa ukuba elona banjwa ibiliwe. "

Amava angathethekiyo
UYesu wathi izihlandlo ezininzi: "Othe waphulukana nobomi bakhe ngenxa yam, wowufumana" (uMateyu 10:39 no 16:25; uMarko 8:35; uLuka 9:24 no-17: 33; uYohane 12:25). Inye into ngoYesu ngamanye amaxesha esingayiqondiyo kukuba wayengoyena mntu wonwabileyo owakhe wahamba kulo mhlaba. Umbhali wamaHebhere usinika umbono wale nyaniso ngelixa ebhekisa kwisiprofeto esingoYesu esifumaneka kwiNdumiso 45: 7:

Wathanda ubulungisa, wathiya okungendawo; Ngenxa yoko ukuthambisile uThixo, uThixo wakho, Ngeoli yemihlali.
(Hebhere 1: 9, NIV)

UYesu wazikhanyela ukuba athobele ukuthanda kukaYise. Njengoko sichitha ixesha kunye noThixo, siya kufana noYesu kwaye, ngenxa yoko, siya kuba novuyo lwaKhe.

Hlonipha uThixo ngemali yethu
UYesu wathetha kakhulu malunga nokukhula ngokwasemoyeni ngokunxulumene nemali.

“Nabani na othembela kokuncinane kakhulu unokuthenjwa kakhulu, kwaye nabani na ongathembekanga kwinto encinci akazukunyaniseka kakhulu. Ke ukuba awuthembekanga ekuphatheni ubutyebi behlabathi, ngubani na oya kukuthemba ngobutyebi bokwenene? Kwaye ukuba awuthembekanga kwipropathi yomnye umntu, ngubani oza kukunika eyakho ipropathi?

Akukho mkhonzi unako ukukhonza nkosi mbini. Mhlawumbi uya kuyithiya le ayithande leya, okanye uzinikele kwenye ayidele leya. Aninako ukukhonza uThixo kwanemali ”.

AbaFarisi, abathanda imali, bakuva konke oku kwaye bamthi ntsho uYesu, wathi kubo: “Nina niyazigwebela emehlweni abantu, kodwa uThixo uyazazi iintliziyo zenu. Into exatyiswe kakhulu ngabantu ilisikizi emehlweni kaThixo ”.
(Luka 16: 10-15, NIV)

Andisokuze ndilibale mzuzu ndakuva umhlobo wam eqaphela ukuba ukupha ngemali asiyondlela kaThixo yokonyusa imali, yindlela kaThixo yokukhulisa abantwana! Njengoko kunjalo. UThixo ufuna abantwana bakhe bakhululeke kuthando lwemali, ethi ibhayibhile ku-1 Timoti 6:10 "yingcambu yazo zonke iintlobo zobubi".

Njengabantwana bakaThixo, ufuna ukuba sigalele "umsebenzi wobukumkani" ngokunikela rhoqo kobutyebi bethu. Ukunika imbeko kweNkosi kuya kulwakha ukholo lwethu. Kukho amaxesha apho ezinye iimfuno zinokufuna ingqalelo yemali, ukanti iNkosi ifuna ukuba simzukise kuqala, simthembe ngeemfuno zethu zemihla ngemihla.

Ngokwam ndikholelwa ekubeni isishumi (isishumi sengeniso yethu) ngumgangatho osisiseko wokunikela. Akufanele kube ngumda ekunikeni kwethu, kwaye ngokuqinisekileyo ayingomthetho. Sibona kwiGenesis 14: 18-20 ukuba nangaphambi kokuba umthetho unikwe uMoses, uAbraham wanikela isishumi kuMelkitsedeke. UMelkitsedeke wayengumzekelo kaKristu. Isishumi simele yonke. Ekubuyiseni izishumi, u-Abraham wavuma nje ukuba yonke into awayenayo yayingokaThixo.

Emva kokuba uThixo ebonakele kuYakobi ephupheni eBheteli, ukuqala kwiGenesis 28: 20, uYakobi wenza isifungo: Ukuba uThixo uza kuba naye, mgcine ekhuselekile, umnike ukutya nempahla yokunxiba abe nguThixo wakhe, emva koko konke uThixo amnike kona, uYakobi ubebuyisa isishumi. Kucacile kwizibhalo ukuba ukukhula ngokomoya kubandakanya ukunika imali.

Ukufumana ukuzaliseka kukaThixo emzimbeni kaKristu
Umzimba kaKristu awusosakhiwo.

Ngabantu. Ngelixa sihlala sisiva isakhiwo secawe ekubhekiswa kuso "njengecawa," kufuneka sikhumbule ukuba ibandla elinyanisekileyo ngumzimba kaKristu. Icawe ndim nawe.

UChuck Colson wenza le ngxelo nzulu kwincwadi yakhe ethi, Umzimba: "Ukuzibandakanya kwethu nomzimba kaKrestu akubonakali kubudlelwane bethu naye." Ndiyifumana inomdla kakhulu.

Kwabase-Efese 1: 22-23 sisiqendu esinamandla ngokubhekisele kumzimba kaKristu. Ethetha ngoYesu, uthi, "Kwaye uThixo izinto zonke wazibeka phantsi kweenyawo zakhe, wammisa ukuba abe yintloko kuyo yonke into eyibandla, elingumzimba wakhe, ukuzaliseka kwakhe ozalisa iinto zonke ngeendlela zonke." Igama "icawe" yi-ecclesia, elithetha "abo babiziweyo", bebhekisa kubantu bayo, hayi kwisakhiwo.

UKristu uyintloko, kwaye ngokumangalisayo ngokwaneleyo, thina njengabantu singumzimba waKhe apha kulo mhlaba. Umzimba wakhe "kukuzaliseka kwalowo uzalisa yonke into ngeendlela zonke". Oku kundixelela, phakathi kwezinye izinto, ukuba asisokuze sigcwale, ngengqondo yokukhula kwethu njengamaKristu, ngaphandle kokuba sinxulumene ngokufanelekileyo nomzimba kaKristu, kuba kulapho kuhlala khona ukugcwala kwakhe.

Asisayi kuze sikuve konke oko uThixo afuna sikwenze ngokubhekisele ekukhuleni ngokomoya nasekuzinikeleni kubomi bobuKristu ukuba asizibandakanyi ebandleni.

Abanye abantu abafuni ukuba nolwalamano emzimbeni kuba boyika ukuba abanye bazakufumanisa ukuba bangobani kanye kanye. Okumangalisayo kukuba, xa sizibandakanya nomzimba kaKristu, sifumanisa ukuba abanye abantu banobuthathaka kunye neengxaki njengathi. Kuba ndingumfundisi, abanye abantu banembono ephosakeleyo yokuba ngandlel 'ithile ndifikelele kwincopho yokuvuthwa ngokomoya. Bacinga ukuba ayinasiphako okanye buthathaka. Kodwa nabani na ohleli ecaleni kwam ixesha elide uya kufumanisa ukuba ndinazo iziphene njengaye wonke umntu.

Ndingathanda ukwabelana ngezinto ezintlanu ezinokwenzeka kuphela ngokuba nolwalamano emzimbeni kaKristu:

ukuba ngumfundi
Ngokoluvo lwam, ukuba ngumfundi kwenzeka kwizigaba ezintathu emzimbeni kaKristu. Oku kuboniswe ngokucacileyo ebomini bukaYesu.Iqela lokuqala liqela elikhulu. Abafundi bakaYesu baqala ngokubafundisa ngokwamaqela amakhulu: "izihlwele". Kum, oku kuyahambelana nenkonzo yonqulo.

Siya kukhula eNkosini njengoko sihlangana kunye emzimbeni ukuze sinqule kwaye sihlale phantsi kwemfundiso yeLizwi likaThixo.Iqela elikhulu lokuhlanganisana yinxalenye yobufundi bethu. Inendawo kubomi bobuKristu.

Udidi lwesibini liqela elincinci. U-Yesu wabiza abafundi abali-12, kwaye ibhayibhile ithi wababiza "ukuze babenaye" (Marko 3:14).

Esi sesinye sezizathu eziphambili awababiza ngazo. Wachitha ixesha elininzi yedwa kunye nala madoda ali-12 ekhulisa ubudlelwane obukhethekileyo kunye nawo. Iqela elincinci kulapho siba nolwalamano khona. Kulapho sazana khona ngokukodwa kwaye sakha ubudlelwane.

Amaqela amancinci abandakanya iinkonzo ezahlukeneyo zecawa ezinje ngobomi basekhaya kunye namaqela obudlelane, izifundo zamadoda nabasetyhini, ulungiselelo lwabantwana, iqela lolutsha, ukufikelela entolongweni, kunye noluntu oluninzi. Kangangeminyaka emininzi, ndandisebenza entolongweni kanye ngenyanga. Ixesha elingaphezulu, loo malungu eqela angabona ukungafezeki kwam kwaye nam ndawabona. Sasidla ngokuqhula omnye komnye malunga nokungafani kwethu. Kodwa inye into eyenzekileyo. Sadibana buqu ngelixesha lobulungiseleli kunye.

Okwangoku, ndiyaqhubeka nokubeka phambili ukubandakanyeka kuhlobo oluthile lobudlelwane beqela elincinci rhoqo ngenyanga.

Udidi lwesithathu lokuba ngumfundi lelona qela lincinci. Phakathi kwabapostile abali-12, uYesu wayedla ngokuhamba noPetros, uYakobi, noYohane ukuya nabo apho abanye abasithoba babengenako ukuya khona. Kwaye naphakathi kwabo bathathu, kwakukho omnye, uYohane, owaziwa ngokuba "ngumfundi owayethandwa nguYesu" (Yohane 13:23).

UJohn wayenobudlelwane obukhethekileyo kunye nobunye noYesu obahlukileyo kolo lwabanye abali-11. Iqela elincinci kulapho sifumana khona ubathathu-emnye, ababini ngababini, okanye ubufundi obunye.

Ndiyakholelwa ukuba udidi ngalunye - iqela elikhulu, iqela elincinci kunye neqela elincinci- yinxalenye ebalulekileyo yobufundi bethu kwaye akukho nxalenye kufuneka ikhutshelwe ngaphandle. Nangona kunjalo, kumaqela amancinci esidibanisa. Kobo budlelwane, asizukukhula kuphela, kodwa ngobomi bethu, abanye baya kukhula nabo. Ngokunjalo, utyalo-mali lwethu kubomi bomnye nomnye luya kuba negalelo ekukhuleni komzimba. Amaqela amancinci, ubudlelane emakhaya, kunye nolungiselelo lobudlelane ziyinxalenye ebalulekileyo yohambo lwethu lobuKrestu.Njengoko sisiba nobudlelane kwiCawe likaYesu Krestu, siyakukhula njengamaKristu.

Ubabalo lukaThixo
Ubabalo lukaThixo lubonakaliswa ngomzimba kaKristu njengoko sisebenzisa izipho zethu zokomoya emzimbeni kaKristu. 1 Petros 4: 8-11a ithi:

“Ngaphezu kwako konke, thandanani kakhulu, kuba uthando lugubungela inkitha yezono. Yibani nobubele omnye komnye ngaphandle kokumbombozela. Wonke umntu kufuneka asebenzise nasiphi na isipho afumene ukunceda abanye, ngokulawula ngokuthembekileyo ubabalo lukaThixo ngeendlela zalo ezahlukeneyo. Ukuba umntu uyathetha, makayenze njengalowo uthetha amazwi afanayo nalawo kaThixo.

UPeter ubonelela ngeendidi ezibini zezipho: ukuthetha ngezipho kunye nezipho zokukhonza. Unokuba unesipho sokuthetha kwaye awukayazi okwangoku. Esi sipho selizwi akufuneki senziwe kwinqanaba ngentsasa yangeCawa. Ungafundisa kwiklasi yeSikolo seCawa, ukhokele iqela lobomi, okanye uququzelele ukubangabafundi abathathu okanye omnye. Mhlawumbi unesipho sokukhonza. Zininzi iindlela zokuwusebenzisa umzimba ongazukusikelela abanye kuphela kodwa nawe ngokunjalo. Ke xa sithatha inxaxheba okanye "siqhagamshelene" kubulungiseleli, ubabalo lukaThixo luya kutyhilwa ngezipho athe wasipha zona.

Iimbandezelo zikaKristu
UPaul wathi kwabaseFilipi 3:10, “Ndifuna ukumazi uKristu, namandla okuvuka kwakhe, nobudlelane endidibana nabo ekubandezelekeni kwakhe, ndifane naye ekufeni kwakhe. . Ndicinga ngoYesu nabapostile, abo bakhetha ukuba naye.Umnye wabo, uJudas, wamngcatsha. Xa umngcatshi wabonakala ngeyure ebalulekileyo eGadini yaseGetsemane, abalandeli abathathu abasondeleyo kuYesu babelele.

Bekufanele ukuba bathandazile. Bayiphoxile iNkosi yabo kwaye nabo baphoxekile. Xa amajoni afika aza ambamba uYesu, onke amshiya.

Ngesinye isihlandlo uPawulos wabongoza uTimoti:

“Yenza konke okusemandleni akho ukuba uze kum kamsinya, kuba uDemas wathanda umhlaba, wandishiya waya eTesalonika. UCrescens waya eGalati kunye noTito eDalmatia. NguLuka yedwa onam. Thatha uMarco uhambe naye, kuba uyandinceda kulungiselelo lwam “.
(2 Timoti 4: 9-11, NIV)

UPaul wayekwazi ukuba kuthetha ntoni ukushiywa ngabahlobo kunye nabantu asebenza nabo. Naye weva ubunzima emzimbeni kaKristu.

Kuyandikhathaza ukuba uninzi lwamaKristu lukufumanisa kulula ukushiya icawe kuba benzakele okanye bakhubekisiwe. Ndiqinisekile ukuba abo bazakushiya ngenxa yokuba umfundisi ebaphoxile, okanye ibandla libaphoxile, okanye umntu othile owonileyo okanye obonile, bazakubenza babandezeleke. Ngaphandle kokuba bayisombulule ingxaki, iyakubachaphazela ubomi babo bonke bobuKristu kwaye yenze kube lula ngabo ukushiya icawe elandelayo. Abayi kuyeka ukukhula kuphela, kodwa abayi kuba nako ukusondela kuKristu ngokubandezeleka.

Kufuneka siyiqonde into yokuba ukubandezeleka kukaKristu kwenzeka emzimbeni kaKristu, kwaye uThixo usebenzisa oku kubandezeleka ukusikhulisa.

“… Ukuphila ubomi obulifaneleyo umnxeba owufumeneyo. Zithobe ngokupheleleyo kwaye ulunge; yibani nomonde, ninyamezelana ngothando. Yenza konke okusemandleni ukugcina ubunye boMoya ngentambo yoxolo.
(Efese 4: 1b-3, NIV)

Ukukhula kunye nozinzo
Ukukhula kunye nokuzinza kuziswa yinkonzo emzimbeni kaKristu.

Kwiyoku-1 kuTimoti 3:13, ithi, "Abo bakhonze kakuhle bafumana isikhundla kunye nokhuseleko olukhulu ekukholweni kwabo kuKristu Yesu." Igama elithi "isikhundla esigqwesileyo" sithetha isidanga okanye isidanga. Abo bakhonza kakuhle bafumana isiseko esiqinileyo ekuhambeni kwabo kobuKristu. Ngamanye amazwi, xa sikhonza umzimba, siyakhula.

Ndiqaphele kule minyaka idlulileyo ukuba abo bakhulayo kwaye bavuthwe kakhulu ngabona banxibeleleneyo kwaye bakhonza kwindawo ethile ebandleni.

Amore
Kwabase-Efese 4:16 bathi, "Ngokuphuma kuye umzimba uphela, uhlanganisiwe, ubambene, wajoyina onke amalungu axhasayo, uyakhula, ukhula eluthandweni,

Ngolu luvo lomzimba kaKristu odibeneyo engqondweni, ndingathanda ukwabelana nenqaku elinomdla endilifundileyo elinesihloko esithi "Ndawonye Ngonaphakade" kwiphephancwadi elithi Life (Epreli 1996). La ngamawele adibeneyo- ukumataniswa okungummangaliso kweentloko ezimbini kumzimba omnye kunye neseti yeengalo nemilenze.

UAbigail noBrittany Hensel badibene namawele, imveliso yeqanda elinye elithe ngesizathu esingaziwayo lasilela ukwahlulahlula ngokupheleleyo libe ngamawele afanayo… Izinto eziphikisanayo zamawele obomi zihambelana nonyango. Baphakamisa imibuzo ebanzi malunga nobuntu bomntu. Yintoni ubuntu? Icace gca imida yesiqu sakho? Kubaluleke kangakanani ukuba neemfihlo kulonwabo? … Enxibelelene, kodwa ezizimeleyo, la mantombazana amancinci ayincwadi ephilayo ethetha ngobuqabane kunye nokulalanisa, ngesidima nokuba bhetyebhetye, kwiindlela ezifihlakeleyo zenkululeko… banemigangatho yokusifundisa ngothando.
Inqaku laqhubeka lichaza la mantombazana mabini ayinto enye ngaxeshanye. Banyanzelwa ukuba bahlale kunye kwaye ngoku akukho mntu unokubahlula. Abafuni utyando. Abafuni ukwahlulwa. Ngamnye wabo unobuntu, ukuthanda, ukuthanda nokungathandeki. Kodwa babelana ngomzimba omnye. Kwaye bakhethe ukuhlala njengomnye.

Ngumfanekiso omhle womzimba kaKristu. Sonke sahlukile. Sonke sinokhetho lomntu ngamnye kwaye sithanda izinto esingazithandiyo. Nangona kunjalo, uThixo usihlanganisile. Kwaye enye yezona zinto ziphambili afuna ukuzibonisa emzimbeni onamalungu amaninzi kunye nobuntu kukuba into ethile ngathi yahlukile. Singahluka ngokupheleleyo, ukanti singaphila njengamntu mnye. Ukuthandana kwethu bobona bungqina bukhulu bokuba singabafundi bokwenene bakaYesu Krestu: "Ngayo le nto baya kwazi bonke, ukuba ningabafundi bam, ukuba nithandana" (Yohane 13:35).

Iingcamango zokuvala
Ngaba uza kwenza ukuchitha ixesha noThixo kube yeyona nto iphambili? Ndiyakholelwa ukuba la magama ndiwathethileyo ayaphinda. Ndadibana nabo kwiminyaka eyadlulayo kufundo lwam lokuthandaza kwaye zange bandishiye. Nangona umthombo wesicatshulwa ngoku undiphuncukileyo, ubunyani besigidimi sakhe bunefuthe elinzulu kwaye bandikhuthaze.

"Inkampani kaThixo lilungelo labo bonke kunye namava angapheliyo abambalwa."
Umbhali ongaziwayo
Ndinqwenela ukuba ngomnye wabambalwa; Ndiyakuthandaza nam.