Abalingisi bePhasika: uSimoni PetruIsampula

Ngenkathi uJesu ehlangana noSimoni, kwakungeyena Upetru lona esimaziyo, ongcwele okuqanjwe ngaye izingane namabandla namadolobha.  WayenguSimoni futhi wayengamfuni ngempela uJesu.  Kunalokho, wayematasa eqhuba ibhizinisi lakhe njengomdobi ohweba ngasogwini lweChibi laseGenesaretha.  Usimoni nomfowabo u-Andreya babeyingxenye yeqembu labadobi kanye nabanye ababengabafowabo, uJakobe noJohane.  Ugu lwaseGalile kwakuyikho konke ababekwazi, njengoba babekhulele eBhetsayida, ogwini olusenyakatho-ntshonalanga.

Kuyo yonke imininingwane, uSimoni wayechuma eKapernawume, eziphilisa ngokuletha izinhlanzi emakethe ezazizothengiswa endaweni yakhona noma zithunyelwe eDamaseku ngomgwaqo omkhulu waseRoma bese zithunyelwa kwamanye amazwe ezikhumulweni zoMbuso WaseRoma ezigudla iMedithera.  Wayenomuzi futhi eshadile ( NgokukaLuka 4:38–39).  Akubonakali sengathi uSimoni wayecebile noma empofu kodwa ephethe impilo ehloniphekile.  Njengabaningi bethu: umuntu ojwayelekile endaweni ejwayelekile kulokho, wayecabanga ukuthi, kwakuyisikhathi esijwayelekile.

uJesu wachitha ingxenye enkulu yenkonzo Yakhe eGalile. Laba kwakungabantu baKhe: bekhuluma amaqiniso, usawoti womhlaba, nabasebenza kanzima. AbaseGalile babengenandaba kangako nezingcweti eziphakeme eJerusalema, futhi abantu abaphakeme babuyisela ukudelelwa. Indodana yaseNazaretha engxenyeni eseningizimu-ntshonalanga yesifunda saseGalile, uJesu wenza iKapernawume isizinda Sakhe sokusebenza. Njengoba nje uNkulunkulu ekhethe indawo ephansi—iBetlehema—yokungena kukaJesu emhlabeni, kanjalo iNkosi Yezandla yakhetha ukwakha umnyakazo Wakhe omusha kubantu baseGalile abahlaza nabamangele. Lapha akukhona lapho ubungabutha khona uma wakha inhlangano ezozamazamisa umhlaba, kodwa uKristu uvame ukudonsa abafundi Bakhe ezindaweni ezikude.

Asazi ngempela ukuthi uJesu wafika nini edolobheni. Wake wadlula kuSimoni esigcawini noma wahlala eduze kwakhe esinagogeni na? Ekusebenzelaneni kwansuku zonke, babengeke baphawule lutho olungavamile ngalo mbazi edolobheni. Ujesu wayengenakho ukukhanya phezu kwekhanda Lakhe nomcibisholo obheke ebusweni Bakhe, owazisa abantu ukuthi uyiNdodana kaNkulunkulu. Kubonakala sengathi ukushisekela kukaJesu uPetru kweza ngesineke, ngokulandelana, engathi uza kithi sonke, ingxoxo lapha, ingxoxo laphaya. Kodwa ungalenzi iphutha ngokuthi “iHound of Heaven,” eyethiwa uC. S. Lewis nembongi uFrancis Thompson, yaqhubeka nokushisekela lo muntu waseGalile obucayi.