Bible Society of South Africa

40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 32

Voluntary Poverty

by Noelene Curry

Um(Imi)bhalo weBhayibheli

U-Isaya 58

6“Akusikho lokhu kuzila engikukhethileyo yini:

ukuthukulula izibopho zobubi

nokuxegisa imichilo yejoka;

ukukhulula abacindezelwayo

nokwaphula onke amajoka na?

7Akusikho ukwabela abalambileyo isinkwa sakho,

nokuyisa abampofu nemihambima ekhaya lakho,

nokwembesa ohamba ze,

lapho umbonayo,

nokungazisithezi kwaba yinyama yakho, na?

8Khona ukukhanya kwakho kuyakuqhamuka njengokusa,

nokuphuluka kwakho kuyakuvela masinyane,

ukulunga kwakho kuhambe phambi kwakho,

inkazimulo kaJehova ibe semva kwakho.

9Khona wena uyakubiza,

kusabele uJehova;

uyakukhala, abesethi:

Bheka, ngilapha.

“Uma ususa phakathi kwakho ijoka,

nokukhomba ngomunwe, nokukhuluma okubi,

10umnike olambileyo isinkwa sakho,

usuthise othotshisiweyo,

khona ukukhanya kwakho kuyakuphuma ebumnyameni,

ukuhlwa kwakho kube njengemini.

11UJehova uyakukuhola njalo,

asuthise umphefumulo wakho ezindaweni ezomileyo,

aqinise amathambo akho;

uyakuba njengensimu eniselweyo

nanjengomthombo wamanzi,

omanzi awo angaphuthi.

12Abavela kuwe bayakwakha izincithakalo ezindala,

ubuye wakhe izisekelo zezizukulwane ezidlulileyo,

ubizwe ngokuthi uMvalisikhala

noMlungisi wemikhondo ukuba kuhlalwe khona.

U-Isaya 58:6-12ZUL59NOVula kumfundi weBhayibheli

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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