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“Gou!” het Rut vir haar broer Lukas gesê. “Ons moet Oom Ruben gaan help.”
“O nee!” het Lukas gesê terwyl hy aan 'n falafel gesmul het. “Dit gaan seer wees. Ek weet dit net.”
Rut het vir haar broer 'n lang stok aangegee en gesê, “Volg my!” Sy het by die huis uitgehardloop en Lukas het agterna gehop-hop, terwyl hy hard probeer het om sy sandale aan die regte voete te kry.
“Maar waarheen gaan ons?” het hy uitgeroep toe hy uiteindelik sy skoeisel vasgemaak gekry het. “En waarvoor is die stokke?” het hy gevra.
“Jy sal sien!” het sy teruggeskree terwyl sy teen die heuwel opgehardloop het op pad na Jerigo toe. Die twee kinders het hulle altyd gehaas om Oom Ruben te help. Hy was die plaaslike administrateur en dit het beteken dat as daar enige moeilikheid was, moes hy dit uitsorteer en daar was verseker moeilikheid daardie oggend.
Rut en Lukas het deur die strate van Jerigo gehardloop totdat….
“Aaag!” Hulle het gebots teen en ingegly tussen 'n groot skare mense, wat skynbaar met mekaar baklei het.
“Eina!” het Lukas gesê toe 'n ou dame begin het om hom oor die kop te slaan met 'n waatlemoen.
“Ekskuus!” het Rut vir die dame gesê en haar broer grond toe getrek. Hulle het naarstiglik tussen die bene van die skare begin deurkruip.
“Eina! Eina! Eina!” het Lukas gesê terwyl die mense Rut aanhou mis het, maar op hom getrap het. “Ek het geweet dit gaan seer wees.”
Uiteindelik het hulle tussen die skare uitgekruip by die onderpunt van 'n groot, knoetserige wildevyeboom. Die boom was amper veertig voet hoog, met 'n kort stam en takke wat uitgesprei het.
Oom Ruben het aan die voet van die boom gestaan en sy harige ken gekrap en in die takke opgekyk.
“Wat is die probleem, Oom?” het Lukas gevra en al het hy gekneus gevoel, het hy gewonder waaroor al die paniek gegaan het.
“Hy is die probleem,” het Ruben gesê en op in die boom gewys.
Daar in die takke het 'n man gesit. Hy was kort, rond en ver te oud om bome te klim.
“Hy weier om af te kom! Hy sê hy gaan daar bly om 'n beter uitsig te kry.”
“Ons het stokke gebring,” het Rut hulpvaardig gesê. “Ons kan hom daarmee afkry.”
Hulle Oom het afgekyk na hulle en sy kop geskud.
“Nee!” het hy gesê. “Ek dink nie dit sal baie mooi wees nie en buitendien, ek het alles probeer. Ek het met hom probeer redeneer. Ek het probeer om die takke te skud. Ek het selfs probeer opklim om hom uit te kry, maar ek kan hom nie beweeg nie. Dit sal 'n wonderwerk verg om hom uit daardie boom te kry.”
Op daardie oomblik, het die skare gejuig toe 'n man met die pad langs aangeloop gekom het. Maar in plaas daarvan om verby te loop, het hy na die boom gedraai. Die skare het pad gemaak. Hy was rustig en kalm. Hy het na die takke opgekyk en gesê, “Saggeus, kom onmiddellik af. Vandag moet ek by jou huis bly.”
Oombliklik en sonder die geringste gebrom, het Saggeus uit die boom geklim en die man omhels.
“Sjoe!” het Lukas gesê, skoon verwonderd oor hoe maklik die man Saggeus uit die boom gekry het. “Dit was 'n wonderwerk!”
“Verseker!” het hulle Oom gefluister toe Saggeus en die man in die skare verdwyn het. “Dit was Jesus en Hy is die wêreld se grootste wonderwerk.”
DINK!
1. Was Saggeus kort of lank?
2. Hoekom het Saggeus in 'n boom geklim?
3. Hoekom wou Saggeus eers nie uitklim nie?
4. Wie het Saggeus oorreed om uit die boom te klim?
5. Waarom was hy bereid om Jesus se versoek om uit die boom te klim te gehoorsaam?
ONTHOU
Jy kan enige plek vir Jesus wag!
'N VERS OM TE LEER
Jesus het gesê: “So kan dan ook niemand van julle wat nie afsien van al sy besittings, my dissipel wees nie” (Lukas 14:33).
ALTERNATIEWE VERSE OM TE LEER
“Wie my gebooie het en dié bewaar, dit is hy wat My liefhet; en wie My liefhet, hóm sal my Vader liefhê word, en Ek sal hom liefhê en My aan hom openbaar” (Lukas 14:33).“Want die Seun van die mens het gekom om te soek en te red wat verlore was” (Lukas 19:10).
PRAKTIESE TOEPASSING
Sal jy in 'n boom klim en wag net om Jesus te kan sien? Wat as jy 'n berg moes klim om Jesus te sien, of 'n oseaan moes oorsteek, of om die wêreld moes reis om Hom te sien? Sal jy alles doen wat nodig is om Jesus te sien? Wat as jy, om Jesus te kan sien, iets moes doen wat ander nie graag wil hê jy moet doen nie? Dink jy God verwag ooit van ons om Hom te gehoorsaam selfs wanneer ander vir ons lag of kwaad word oor ons besluit?
[Na bespreking:] Die goeie nuus is dat jy nie 'n boom of 'n berg hoef te klim, of 'n oseaan oor te steek, of om die wêreld te reis om Jesus te sien, of mee te praat, of te leer ken nie. Jesus wou hê Saggeus moes Hom na sy huis nooi. Hy wou saam met Saggeus huis toe gaan.
Net so wil Jesus hê jy moet Hom nooi om in jou hart te kom woon, Hom Here van jou lewe te maak en Hom te gehoorsaam. Jesus het gesê dat as jy Hom gehoorsaam, Hy Homself aan jou sal openbaar. Is jy bereid om jou lewe vir Jesus te gee selfs wanneer ander met jou besluit spot?
Moenie wag nie. Met eenvoudige geloof, bid tot Jesus en nooi Hom in jou lewe in.
LAAT ONS BID
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Liewe Here, help my om nie bang te wees
wanneer mense onvriendelik met my is,
omdat ek in U glo nie.
Leer my asseblief om U stem te hoor
bo die geskreeu van die skare
en om dapper genoeg te wees om U orals heen te volg.
In die Naam van Jesus. Amen.
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KAN JY HIERDIE STORIE IN DIE BYBEL VIND?
Lukas, hoofstuk 19, verse 1-10
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