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UKUHLALA EKUTHULENI: UNKULUNKULU UKHONA

Abaningi bethu bake baba sesimweni esingenakwenzeka lapho bengayiboni indlela yokuphuma. Kungakhathaliseki ukuthi siye sabhekana nokuxilongwa okungekuhle, ukulahlekelwa umsebenzi, noma ukushonelwa othandekayo, kungaba nzima ukubona noma ukuthola uNkulunkulu kulezi zikhathi. Lezi yizikhathi lapho sizizwa sivalelekile khona, lapho sizwa khona ukuthi umhlane wethu ubhekene nodonga futhi ingekho indlela yokuphuma.

EBhayibhelini, sibona uJakobe egijima esimweni asidala. Ngokusekelwe ezenzweni zakhe, omunye angase athi uJakobe wayengakufaneleki ukuthola umusa kaNkulunkulu phezu kwakhe, njengoba uJakobe ayenenkohliso, ngisho nalokho abanye abangakubiza ngokuthi ukungathembeki. Ngiqinisekile uJakobe wezwa ukuthi uNkulunkulu wayengenaye ohambweni lwakhe. Njengoba uJakobe elele endaweni eyihlane, engenathemba, ebalekela konke okubi ayekwenzile, uNkulunkulu wamvakashela. Phakathi kwesiphithiphithi esadalwa nguJakobe, ngiyangabaza ukuthi wayelindele ukuthola uNkulunkulu kuleyo ndawo. Nokho ngisho nasebunzimeni bakhe, uNkulunkulu wamvakashela ngephupho futhi wanikeza uJakobe isiqinisekiso sokuba khona Kwakhe ngehora lobumnyama obukhulu.

Ngaphambi kwalokhu kuhambela kukaNkulunkulu, uJakobe kungenzeka ukuthi wazizwa eyedwa, esaba, futhi elahlekile. Kungenzeka ukuthi wayenomuzwa wokuthi akukho sizathu sokucela usizo noma umusa kuNkulunkulu. NjengoJakobe, sivame ukuzivalela kuNkulunkulu lapho sinomuzwa wokuthi asifaneleki noma sicabanga ukuthi uNkulunkulu usonile. Izindaba ezinhle ngisho nasezikhathini zethu zobumnyama kakhulu, uNkulunkulu akasishiyi, noma ebonakala ethule ezindabeni zethu.

Kwathi uJakobe esebonile ukuthi uNkulunkulu usenaye, waba nesibindi sokuqhubekela phambili endleleni yakhe, azi ukuthi uNkulunkulu uzohamba naye amvikele. Kungenzeka ukuthi lesi kwakuyisiqalo sobuhlobo bakhe bomuntu siqu noNkulunkulu. Kungenzeka ukuthi uJakobe wayazi ngoNkulunkulu ebuhlotsheni bukaYise noNkulunkulu kodwa kwakusafanele abone futhi amise ubuhlobo bakhe. Ngezinkinga nezinxushunxushu, ngesikhathi esithulile, wathola ubuhlobo bangempela noNkulunkulu.

Uma usesimweni esibonakala singenakwenzeka namuhla, zinike isikhathi sokuma kancane, uthandaze, futhi ufune uNkulunkulu lapho okhona, Ukhona. Nakuba kungase kubonakale kuthule futhi kuthule, qhubeka ufuna uNkulunkulu, Ukhona, futhi ngesikhathi Sakhe, Uzozembula. UNkulunkulu akasishiyi, kodwa ulinda ukuba samukele isimemo Sakhe sokuhamba Naye ekuphileni. Njengoba nje uJakobe abona ukuthi wayedinga ukuqhubekela phambili noNkulunkulu futhi ahambe esivikelweni Sakhe, uNkulunkulu usilindile ukuba senze okufanayo esimweni sethu. Uzosamukela isimemo Sakhe?