El Shaddai yurīdu an takhtabira al-ḥayāh fī milʾihā al-kāmil. Huwa yuḥibbuka bi-ʿumq, wa lahu khuṭṭah khāṣṣah li-ḥayātik. Lākin lā yūjadu illā ṭarīq wāḥid li-tabdaʾ al-riḥlah naḥwa maṣīrik: an taqbala al-khalāṣ min khilāl Ibn El Shaddai, Yasūʿ al-Masīḥ. Min khilāl mawt Yasūʿ wa qiyāmatih, ṣanaʿa El Shaddai ṭarīqan laka li-tadkhula Malakūtah ka-ibn aw ibnah maḥbūbah. Dhabiḥat Yasūʿ ʿalā al-Ṣalīb jaʿalat al-ḥayāh al-abadiyyah wa al-ḥayāh al-fāʾiḍah mutāḥah laka majjānan. Al-khalāṣ huwa ʿaṭiyyah min El Shaddai laka; lā yumkinuka an tafʿala shayʾan li-tanālah aw tastahiqqah.
Li-taqbala hādhihi al-ʿaṭiyyah al-thamīnah, iʿtarif awwalan bi-khaṭiyyatik fī al-ʿaysh mustaqillan ʿan Khāliqik, liʾanna hādhā huwa aṣl kull al-khaṭāyā allatī irtakabtahā.
Al-tawbah juzʾ ḥayawī min qabūl al-khalāṣ. Awḍaḥa Buṭrus hādhā fī al-yawm alladhī khalaṣa fīhi thalāthat ālāf shakhs fī Sifr Aʿmāl al-Rusul: “Tūbū wa irjiʿū, li-tumḥā khaṭāyākum” (Aʿmāl al-Rusul 2:38–41). Tuʿlin al-Kutub al-Muqaddasah anna kull wāḥid minnā yūladu ʿabdan lil-khaṭiyyah. Hādhihi al-ʿubūdiyyah mutaʾaṣṣilah fī khaṭiyyat Ādam, alladhī badaʾa namūdhaj al-ʿiṣyān al-irādī. Al-tawbah hiya ikhtiyār an tarjiʿ ʿan ṭāʿat nafsik wa ʿan ṭāʿat al-Shayṭān, abī al-kadhib, wa an tatawajjaha bi-al-ṭāʿah ilā Sayyidik al-jadīd, Yasūʿ al-Masīḥ — alladhī badhala ḥayātah min ajlik. Yajib ʿalayka an tuʿṭī Yasūʿ siyādat ḥayātik. Jaʿl Yasūʿ “al-Sayyid” yaʿnī an tuʿṭīh milkīyat ḥayātik kullihā: al-rūḥ, al-nafs, wa al-jasad — kull mā anta ʿalayh wa kull mā tamlik. Sulṭānuh ʿalā ḥayātik yuṣbiḥ kāmilan. Fī al-laḥẓah allatī tafʿalu fīhā hādhā, yunqidhuka El Shaddai min al-ẓulmah wa yanquluka ilā nūr wa majd Malakūtih. Anta tantaqil min al-mawt ilā al-ḥayāh — wa tuṣbiḥ waladan lah!
Idhā kunta turīdu an taqbala al-khalāṣ min khilāl Yasūʿ, ṣalli bihādhihi al-kalimāt:
El Shaddai fī al-samāwāt, aʿtarif annī khāṭiʾ, wa annī qaṣṣartu ʿan miʿyār birrik. Astahiqqu an udān ilā al-abad bisabab khaṭiyyatī. Ashkuruka liʾannaka lam tatruknī fī hādhihi al-ḥālah, liʾannī uʾmin annaka arsalta Yasūʿ al-Masīḥ, Ibnaka al-waḥīd, al-mawlūd min al-ʿAdhrāʾ Maryam, li-yamūta min ajlī wa yaḥmila dīnūnatī ʿalā al-Ṣalīb. Uʾmin annahu qāma fī al-yawm al-thālith, wa annahu al-ān jālis ʿan yamīnik ka-Sayyidī wa Mukhalliṣī. Lidhā, fī hādhā al-yawm, atūbu ʿan istiqlālī ʿanka, wa usallim ḥayātī kullahā li-siyādat Yasūʿ. Yasūʿ, aʿtarif bika Sayyidī wa Mukhalliṣī. Udkhul ilā ḥayātī bi-Rūḥik, wa ghayyirnī li-aṣīra waladan li-El Shaddai. Arfuḍu umūr al-ẓulmah allatī tamassaktu bihā sābiqan, wa min hādhā al-yawm fa-ṣāʿidan lan aʿīsha li-nafsī baʿd al-ān. Lākin bi-niʿmatik, sa-aʿīshu laka, anta alladhī badhalta nafsak min ajlī, likay aḥyā ilā al-abad. Ashkuruka, yā Sayyid; ḥayātī al-ān kulluhā fī yadayk, wa ḥasaba Kalimatik, lan akhzā abadan. Bi-ism Yasūʿ, Āmīn.
Marḥaban bika fī ʿāʾilat El Shaddai! Ushajjiʿuka an tushārika hādhā al-khabar al-mufriḥ maʿa muʾmin ākhar. Min al-muhimm ayḍan an tanḍamm ilā kanīsah maḥalliyyah tuʾmin bi-al-Kitāb al-Muqaddas, wa an tatawāṣal maʿa ākharīn yastaṭīʿūna an yushajjiʿūka fī īmānik al-jadīd. Laqad badaʾta al-riḥlah al-akthar rawʿah. Li-tanmū kulla yawm fī al-istiʿlān, wa al-niʿmah, wa al-ṣadāqah maʿa El Shaddai!
