KUMURIMI muduku ainzi Erisha, rakatanga sezuva romuitiro wokurima rakaguma nokuva zuva rinokosha zvikurusa muupenyu hwake. Paakanga achishanda mumunda, Erisha akagamuchira mushanyi asingakarirwi Eria, muporofita mukurusa waIsraeri. ‘Angadei kwandiri?’ Erisha angava akashamisika. Akanga asingafaniri kumirira mhinduro kwenguva yakareba. Eria akakandira Erisha jasi rake, achiratidzira kuti rimwe zuva Erisha ndiye aizomutsiva. Erisha haana kurerutsa kudanwa uku. Pakarepo, akasiya munda wake ndokuva mubatiri waEria.—1 Madzimambo 19:19-21.

Paakakokerwa basa rinokosha naEria, Erisha akakurumidza kusiya munda wake kuti ashumire muporofita waIsraeri mukurusa. Sezviri pachena, mamwe mabasa ake akanga akaderera, nokuti akasvika pakuzivikanwa seuyo ai“sururidza mvura pamaoko aEria.”c (2 Madzimambo 3:11) Kunyange zvakadaro, Erisha airangarira basa rake seropafadzo, uye akanamatira nenzira yokuvimbika kurutivi rwaEria.

Vabatiri vaMwari vakawanda nhasi vanoratidzira mudzimu wakafanana wokurega zvimwe zvinhu. Vamwe vakasiya “minda” yavo, zvaivararamisa, kuti vaparidze mashoko akanaka mundima dziri kure kana kuti kushanda semitezo yemhuri yeBheteri. Vamwe vakaenda kunyika dzokumwe kuti vanoshanda pazvivako zveSosaiti. Vakawanda vakagamuchira anganzi mabasa akaderera. Bva, hapana munhu anoshandira Jehovha ari kuita basa risingakoshi. Jehovha anoonga vose vanomubatira nokudisa, uye achakomborera mudzimu wavo wokurega zvimwe zvinhu.—Marko 10:29, 30.