Siku 2
Warumi 8:28-39
Somo la Maandiko(ESV)
28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
33Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
34Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died — more than that, who was raised — who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Tafakari ya leo
Kauli ya kuvutia ya Paulusi kwamba 'vitu vyote vinavyofanya kazi pamoja kwa ajili ya kheri' haisigeuzi maumivu yetu au kusugeza kwamba mambo mabaya ni mazuri kwa kweli. Badala yake, inafichua nguvu ya kumfanya Mungu kukataa hata wilo zetu za giza ndani ya kauni lenye lengo. Ahadi hii ni mahsusi kwa wale wanaomufa Mungu na wakwe aliye kamatia kwa mujibu wa lengo lake—ni uhusiano wa agano, si bahati ya ulimwengu. Maandiko yanakwea na swali moja la mafanikio yanayotaa: "Kama Mungu yu kwetu, nani anaweza kuwa kinyume chetu?" Mungu asiyekataa mtoto wake mwenyewe atakatiaa kwa heri sehemu za matanzu yote. Hakuna kauli inayoweza kusimama dhidi yetu, hamna lawama linayoweza kutukamatia, naye kamata—wala kifo, wala maisha, wala malaika, wala shetani, wala matatizo ya sasa, wala hofu za baadaye—huwezi kutenganisha kutoka kwa upendo wa Kristo. Siku ya kuuliza tulipata usalama katika uwepo wa Mungu; leo tunamkuta nguvu ya kukataa ya upendo wake. Changamoto zako hazisikukamatia Mungu kwa mgogoro, wala hazisikuwa na upinde katika azma yake kwa ajili ya kheri yako ya mwisho.
Tafakari
Jinsi gani Mungu anaweza kuwa akifanya 'vitu vyote vinavyofanya kazi pamoja kwa ajili ya kheri' katika hali yako ya sasa, hata kama hutaweza kuona kwa utajamvu kwa sasa?
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