Methali Gani 8:13 maana, Hofu ya Mungu ni kuchukia uovu: Kiburi, and arrogance, Na njia mbaya, na mdomo wa froward, Je, ninachukia?
Nini maana ya methali 8:13?
Hofu ya Mungu ni kuchukia uovu: Kiburi, na arrogancy, Na njia mbaya, na mdomo wa froward, Je, ninachukia (Methali 8:13).
If you walk in the fear of the Lord, you shall hate evil and turn away from it instead of doing evil. Unapozaliwa mara ya pili, you become a new creation and are no longer a sinner (uumbaji wa zamani) tena. You have received the Holy Spirit and have His nature. Because of this new nature, you shall turn away from evil; dhambi, na uovu, because God can’t have communion with sin.
Kwa hiyo, when you become a new creation, you will change and remove the residues from your maisha ya zamani as a sinner.
You can only remove these residues with the help and power of the Holy Spirit and the renewing of your mind with the Word.
As soon as you fanya upya akili yako with the Word of God and walk in obedience to the Word after the Spirit, you’ll experience an aversion against certain habits, carnal desires, and lusts that oppose the will of God.
The more you renew your mind, na mtiini na kutenda maneno yake, and transform into the image of Jesus Christ, the more you hate these evil habits, ways of thinking, na kadhalika.
How fast this transformation will go depends upon you.
The transformation in the life of the new creation
Some people change overnight and others change slowly. But when you become a new creation you will change and you shall turn from evil. Because you love the Lord Jesus and you fear the Lord God. (Soma pia: Je, unampenda Mungu kwa moyo wako wote?).
The old man with his sinful nature has been crucified with Christ. That’s why you are delivered from the power of darkness and the law of sin and death. Because your flesh died in Christ, sin will no longer have dominion over you and be part of your life.
If you believe and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour, but you remain the same person with the same habits, tabia, and way of thinking, and keep walking in sin, you might ask yourselves if you are really born again and have become a new creation.
Hofu ya Mungu ni kuchukia uovu
You saw what happened at the cross when Jesus took all humanity’s sin upon Him. When the Father laid the sins of the world upon Jesus, Jesus was separated from God. Sin separates people from God. God is a holy God and can’t have communion with sin.
If God’s nature; Roho Mtakatifu, lives inside of you, then it’s impossible to keep walking in sin. That’s because His nature can’t have communion with sin.
We know absolutely that everyone who has been born of God and as a result is a regenerated individual (kiumbe kipya) does not keep on habitually sinning(1 Yohana 5:18)
The blood of Jesus doesn’t give a license to keep sinning. You can’t use the grace of God to keep sinning.
Do you think that Jesus approves if you keep walking after the flesh in obedience to the will of your previous father the devil?
Did Jesus die for you, so that you would remain living in the bondage of sin again?
If you keep walking in sin and do evil, you show through your life and your works that you don’t love Jesus or the Father. It shows that you don’t want to serve and obey Jesus Christ at all. Because the fear of the Lord begins with hating evil and turning away from evil as is written in Proverbs 8:13.
Jesus hates evil and those who follow Him hate it too
Jesus hates evil. He hates pride, arrogance, Na njia mbaya (walking after the flesh in sin). He hates a froward mouth, which is a mouth full of lies, and hypocrisy. A mouth that is not managed well by the owner.
The Word is very clear about evil. Tu, kwa hiyo, obey His instructions, turn away from evil, and walk in righteousness.
‘Kuweni chumvi ya dunia’
