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40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 32

40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 32

Voluntary Poverty

by Noelene Curry

Itekisi yeBhayibhile

UISAYA 58

6“Naku okona kuzila ndikufunayo:

Zikhululeni iimbophelelo zengcinezelo;

niwanyenyise amatyathanga edyokhwe,

bakhululwe bonke abacinezelwa,

niyaphule idyokhwe yengcinezelo.

7Kananjalo yabelanani nabo abalambileyo,

amahlwempu eembacu niwafake ezindlwini.

Abo badlakazelayo baphen' impahla;

yekani ukusuka nifulathele amawenu.

8Nam ke ndotsho ndiyenze mhlophe indlela yenu;

nezifo zenu ndozinyanga ngokukhawuleza.

Ewe, impumelelo yakho iya kukukhokela,

ubungangamsha bukaNdikhoyo bukuphahle ngeenxa zonke.

9Nothi ke nakuzibika, asabele uNdikhoyo;

nothi nakukhala, athi: ‘Ndim lo!’

“Ukuba nithe nahlukana nengcinezelo,

nayeka ukutyityimbisela abanye umnwe,

nahlukana nokuyila nokuthetha inkohlakalo –

10ewe, xa nithe nababela abalambileyo,

ukuba nithe nabathuthuzela abaxhwalekileyo,

notsho nibe zizibane ezigxotha ubumnyama,

ngenene yotsho ibe mhloph' indlela yenu.

11UNdikhoyo ke wonikhokela njalo-njalo,

anibonelele naxa senisenkqantosini.

Uya kunomeleza nihlale niphile qete!

Nodlamka njengomyezo onkcenkceshelwayo;

nofana nomthombo ompompoz' ungaz' utshe!

12Abanye benu baya kuwakha amabhodlo akudala;

iziseko zamandulo ziya kuvuswa.

Kothiwa ningabakhi beendonga eziwileyo,

abavusi bezitalato ukuze kumiwe kuzo.”

UISAYA 58:6-12XHO96Vula kumfundi weBhayibhile

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter and when you see the naked to clothe them, and not turn away from your own, the body of Christ? Mother Teresa saw many unwanted unloved, and uncared for people. She says: ‘I think there is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat’ God has commanded us to love one another as Christ has loved us,  Can we dare pray that God will reveal the poverty inside us and fill us with the love of God, in order that we may alleviate the poverty and hunger of others?

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