Bible Society of South Africa

40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 32

Voluntary Poverty

by Noelene Curry

Se(di)ngolwa (t)sa Bibele

ESAYA 58

6“Mokgwa wa ho itima dijo

oo ke o kgethileng ke ona:

Ke hore o lokolle

mahlaahlela a bokgopo,

o imolle ba imetsweng

ke mejaro ya bona,

ba hateletsweng o ba lokolle,

mesebetsi yohle ya botlatlapi

o e fedise.

7Ke hore o abelane dijo

le ba lapileng,

o amohele baleleri lapeng la hao,

ba hlobotseng o ba fe diaparo,

bang ka wena o ba thuse.

8“Jwale sedi la hao le tla hlaha,

le hlahe jwaloka mafube a meso,

ho fola ha hao le hona ho akofe,

ho loka ha hao ho tla o etella pele,

tlotla ya Morena

e sireletse serao sa hao.

9Etlare ha o ipiletsa,

Morena a o arabe,

ere ha o kopa thuso,

yena a re: ‘Ke nna enwa.’

“Haeba o fedisa

diketso tsa botlatlapi,

tsa ho supana ka menwana

le ho buisana hampe;

10ha o ka ikitlaeletsa

ho fepa ba lapileng,

wa thoba meya

ya ba tshwenyehileng,

fifi le tla apoha,

sedi la hao le kganye,

bosiu ba hao

bo ke motsheare wa lengeta.

11Morena o tla o tataisa kamehla,

a o fe tseo o di hlokang

leha naha e omeletse,

a matlafatse ditho tsa mmele wa hao.

O tla tshwana le serapa

se nwesetswang hantle,

o ke sediba

seo mohlodi wa sona o sa psheng.

12Bara ba hao ba tla tsosa

thako tsa hao tsa kgale,

o hahe hodima metheo

ya baholoholo ba hao.

Wena o tla bitswa Motsosi

wa marako a helehileng,

o bitswe Molokisi

wa ditsela le matlo.”

ESAYA 58:6-12SSO89SOBula ka mmadi wa Bibele

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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