Tsiku la Valentine - Tsiku la okonda

Am 14Pa 1 February chaka chilichonse, okondana padziko lonse lapansi amalengeza chikondi chawo chosatha kwa wina ndi mnzake. Mwambo wa tsikuli unayamba pa phwando la Saint Valentine, lomwe linakhazikitsidwa ndi Papa Gelasius mu 469 ngati tsiku la phwando la Tchalitchi chonse. Anthu ambiri amagwiritsa ntchito tsikuli kusonyeza chikondi chawo kwa wina.

Okonda kwambiri pakati pathu amalemba ndakatulo ndikusewera nyimbo wokondedwa wawo kapena amapatsana maswiti owoneka ngati mtima patsikuli. Kuwonetsa chikondi kumafuna kukonzekera kwambiri ndipo kumabweretsa phindu. Ndili ndi malingaliro amenewa, ndinayamba kuganizira za Mulungu ndi chikondi chake pa ife.

Chikondi cha Mulungu si khalidwe lake, koma umunthu wake weniweni. Mulungu mwiniwake ndi chikondi chofotokozedwa ngati munthu: "Aliyense wosakonda sadziwa Mulungu, chifukwa Mulungu ndiye chikondi. Umu ndi momwe Mulungu adawonetsera chikondi chake pakati pathu: Iye anatuma Mwana wake wobadwa yekha kudziko lapansi, kuti tikhale ndi moyo mwa Iye. Chikondi ndi ichi: sikuti ife tinakonda Mulungu, koma kuti Iye anatikonda ife, ndipo anatuma Mwana wake akhale nsembe yotetezera machimo athu." (1. Joh 4,8-10).

Kawirikawiri, mawu awa amawerengedwa mofulumira popanda kupuma, popanda kuganizira mfundo yakuti chikondi cha Mulungu chinawonetsedwa pa kupachikidwa kwa Mwana wake. Ngakhale dziko lapansi lisanalengedwe, Yesu anaganiza zopereka moyo wake chifukwa cha zolengedwa za Mulungu kudzera mu imfa yake. "Pakuti mwa Iye anatisankha ife tisanalengedwe dziko lapansi, kuti tikhale oyera mtima ndi opanda chilema pamaso pake." (Eph 1,4).
Yemwe adapanga milalang'amba yazachilengedwe komanso zovuta zopanda pake za orchid angalolere kusiya ukulu wake, kutchuka ndi mphamvu ndikukhala nafe anthu, monga m'modzi wa ife, padziko lapansi. Ndizosatheka kuti timvetsetse izi.

Mofanana ndi ife, Yesu anaundana usiku wozizira wa chisanu ndikupirira kutentha kotentha mchilimwe. Misozi yomwe idatsika m'masaya mwake atawona kuvutika komwe kwamuzungulira anali enieni monga athu. Zizindikiro zonyowa pankhopezi mwina ndi chizindikiro chodabwitsa kwambiri pamunthu wake.

Chifukwa chiyani pamtengo wokwera chonchi?

Kuphatikiza apo, adapachikidwa mwa kufuna kwake. Koma kodi nchifukwa ninji inayenera kukhala njira yoopsa kwambiri yopha yomwe idapangidwapo ndi anthu? Anamenyedwa ndi asitikali ophunzitsidwa bwino omwe, asanamukhomere pamtanda, amamunyoza komanso kumunyoza. Kodi zinali zofunikadi kusindikiza chisoti chaminga pamutu pake? Nchifukwa chiyani amulavulira? Chifukwa chiyani kunyozedwa kumeneku? Kodi mungaganizire kupweteka komwe misomali ikuluikulu, yopindika inakhomeredwa m'thupi lake? Kapena pamene adafooka ndikumva kuwawa sikungapirire? Kuwopsa kwakukulu pomwe samatha kupuma - kosaganizirika. Siponjiyo idanyowa mu viniga womwe adalandira atatsala pang'ono kumwalira - chifukwa chiyani anali mgulu la kufa kwa mwana wake wokondedwa? Kenako zosakhulupirika zimachitika: Atate, yemwe anali pachibwenzi changwiro ndi Mwanayo, adamuthawira pomwe adatenga tchimo lathu.

Ndi mtengo wanji kulipira posonyeza chikondi chake kwa ife ndikubwezeretsa ubale wathu wosweka ndi Mulungu. Pafupifupi zaka 2000 zapitazo tidalandira mphatso yachikondi yayikulu kwambiri yomwe ili paphiri pa Gologota. Yesu amatiganizira ife anthu atamwalira ndipo chinali chikondi ichi chomwe chidamuthandiza kupilira zoipa zonse. Ndikumva kuwawa konse komwe Yesu adakumana nako panthawiyo, ndikulingalira akumanong'oneza pang'ono: «Zonsezi ndimazichita kwa inu nokha! Ndimakukondani!"

Nthawi ina mukadzamva kuti simukondedwa kapena muli nokha pa Tsiku la Valentine, zikumbutseni kuti chikondi cha Mulungu pa inu chilibe malire. Anapilira zoopsa za tsikulo kuti akakhale nanu kwamuyaya.

"Pakuti ndili wotsimikiza kuti imfa, kapena moyo, kapena angelo, kapena ziwanda, kapena zomwe zilipo, kapena zamtsogolo, kapena mphamvu, kapena kutalika, kapena kuzama, kapena china chilichonse m'chilengedwe chonse, sichidzatha kutilekanitsa ndi chikondi cha Mulungu chomwe chili mwa Khristu Yesu Ambuye wathu." (Röm 8,38-39).

Ngakhale kuti Tsiku la Valentine ndi tsiku lodziwika bwino loti musonyeze chikondi kwa winawake, ndikutsimikiza kuti tsiku lalikulu kwambiri lachikondi ndi pamene Ambuye wathu Yesu Khristu adatifera ife.

Wolemba Tim Maguire