16. (a) Kodi ndimotani mmene Mulungu aliri “wamkulu kuposa mitima yathu”? (b) Mogwirizana ndi kunena kwa Yohane, kodi nchifukwa ninji Yehova amayankha mapemphero athu?

¹⁶ Kenako Yohane akusonya zitsimikiziro zakuti ndife ana a Mulungu. (Werengani 1 Yohane 3:19-24. ) “Umo tidzazindikira kuti tiri ochokera m’chowonadi” ndipo sitiri mikhole yonyengedwa ndi ampatuko “mwa ichi”​—chenicheni chakuti tikusonyeza kukonda abale. Motero ‘titsimikizira Imitima yathu’ pamaso pa Mulungu. (Salmo 119:11) Ngati mitima yathu ititsutsa, mwinamwake chifukwa chakuti tikulingalira kuti sitinasonyeze olambira anzathu chikondi chokwanira, kumbukirani kuti “Mulungu ali wamkulu woposa mitima yathu, nazindikira zonse.” Iye ngwachifundo chifukwa chakuti akuzindikira ‘kukonda kwathu abale kopanda chinyengoko,’ kumenyana kwathu ndi uchimo, ndi zoyesayesa zathu kukhala ndi moyo mwanjira yomkondweretsa. (1 Petro 1:22; Salmo 103:10-14) “Mtima wathu ukapanda kutitsutsa” chifukwa chakuti pali ntchito zotsimikizira kukonda kwathu abale, ndipo sitiri ndi liwongo la uchimo wobisika, ‘tiri nawo ufulu wa kulankhula ndi Mulungu’ m’pemphero. (Salmo 19:12) Ndipo iye amayankha mapemphero athu chifukwa chakuti tisunga malamulo ake, ndipo tichita zomkondweretsa pamaso pake.”

18. Kodi timadziwa bwanji kuti Yehova ali “m’chigwirizano ndi ife”?

¹⁸ Munthu wosunga malamulo a Mulungu “akhala mwa iye,” ali wogwirizana ndi Yehova. (Yerekezerani ndi Yohane 17:20, 21. ) Koma kodi ndimotani mmene “timapezera chidziwitso” chakuti Mulungu ali “m’chigwirizano ndi ife”? Timadziwa ichi “mwa mzimu [woyera] umene anatipatsa ife.” Kukhala ndi mzimu woyera wa Mulungu ndi mphamvu ya kusonyeza zipatso zake, kuphatikizapo kukonda abale, kumatsimikizira kuti tiri m’chigwirizano ndi Yehova.​—Agalatiya 5:22, 23.