MAQWELA didn’t know about the experience that transformed his brother. He couldn’t think of wellness for a man under lock.
So when he narrated how Zadeque had faked passing out just in a bid to stop the assault, it didn’t occur to him that a sick man wouldn’t have thought to do that.
Even so, the king broke down and cried so much. He cried for his bad actions.
His listening guests felt that he’d asked them a tough thing. Especially now that he told them his bad deeds.
Still they were human and he shared with them something worse. It hurt them that a man was that evil.
Now when Maqwela raised his gaze to listen, it was Nile who answered him. Then his answer came as a shock.
The king had asked if they still felt he could be forgiven. So Nile took over now. He surprised him.
‘You may not get Heaven’s pardon, Your Majesty!’
Maqwela was stunned at that. He wiped the tears off his face and looked up immediately.
He didn’t expect to hear those words. Those words that sentenced him.
But then Nile added: ‘That is what every person will say!’
The ruler sat upright when he heard this. There was a glint of hope in those last words. He was now humble then curious.
Nile leaned towards the man. ‘Your Majesty, that is what anybody will say! But thank God, Jesus isn’t anybody!
‘He says “Come” to the most evil person. Then when they turn to Him, He changes them!
‘Only Jesus the Saviour loves people that much!’
Maqwela leaned back and breathed a sigh. He was finding hope in the boy’s words.
Nile showed him a parallel at that point.
He explained, ‘Your Majesty, it is you our fathers who tell us that a mother’s labour pains at delivery are often unbearable.
‘You also tell us that if she will deliver her baby naturally, then the pain can’t be helped.
‘In fact, we learn that men can hardly endure a mother’s pain. Still a mother will cherish that baby she bled over!
‘In fact, when she recalls her pain, she wants the child more!
‘She doesn’t want to throw them away. She wants them to grow!’
Maqwela looked at Nile and gazed. He hadn’t heard this from that angle before.
His partner Vickie also gazed at him. She knew he was correct on those points.
The young preacher hit it. ‘That is what it is with Jesus the Saviour! He will not cast off anyone that He shed His blood over!
‘It is only when we trample down His grace like bastards and not children that we know we have cast ourselves outside!
‘Your Majesty, man sinned and fell from the very start.
‘But God came in the form of mortal man and sacrificed Himself for us.
‘Jesus Christ came as the Express Image of God, so we can be restored to being God’s image just like Him.
‘He is called God the Son but He became Son of Man, so that we sons and daughters of Adam can become children of God!
‘Jesus laboured and suffered to the point of death. So that He can restore man to God’s sons and daughters!
‘And just like a mother won’t throw away her child because of the labour pains, Jesus Christ won’t cast us away when we cling to Him!
‘We are those children He laboured over!’
Maqwela couldn’t wait any longer.
‘Can you please pray for me? I want this life of God’s children too. Please pray for me, my friends!’
That day, Heaven chose to free a mind without the aid of melody or medicine.
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