ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tokonaki Sanuali 30, 2021

the Lord has blessed you

kuo ō mo au ho tāpuekina ‘e Sihova 

Senesi 30 (Genesis 30)

(v. 30) For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”

(v. 30) Hono ‘uke ‘a e me‘a na‘a ke ma‘u ‘i he te‘eki te u ha‘u? pea kuo tupu ko e fu‘u me‘a; pea kuo ō mo au ho tāpuekina ‘e Sihova; pea ko eni, te u ngāue fakakū ‘e au foki ma‘a hoku fāmili?

*Commentary: Matthew Henry*

That Jacob's piety had brought that blessing upon him: The Lord has blessed me, not for my own sake (let not such a man as Laban, that lives without God in the world, think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord, (Jam. 1:7), but for thy sake. Note,

[1.] Good men are blessings to the places where they live, even where they live meanly and obscurely, as Jacob in the field, and Joseph in the prison, ch. 39:23.

[2.] God often blesses bad men with outward mercies for the sake of their godly relations, though it is seldom that they have either the wit to see it or the grace to own it, as Laban did here.

*Tohi Vete: Matiu Henelē*

Ko e tauhi ‘Otua ‘a Sekope´, naʻe fou mei ai hono tapuaki´: Naʻe tapuakiʻi au ‘e he ‘Otua´, ‘o ‘ikai ‘uhinga ko au, (pea ‘oua naʻa pehē ‘e ha taha hangē ko Lepani´, te ne liʻaki ‘a e ‘Otua´, pea ne pehē te ne maʻu ha momoʻi meʻa mei he ‘Otua´ - Semisi 1:7) ka koeʻuhi´ ko koe. Fakatokangaʻi ange:

[1] Ko e kakai lelei´, ‘oku nau hoko ko e tāpuaki ki he ngaahi feituʻu ‘oku nau nofo ai´, ‘o aʻu pe ki he ngaahi fetuʻu ‘oku ngaohi kovia ai kinautolu mo liʻekina´, hangē ko Sekope ‘i he potu naʻe ‘i ai´ mo Siosifa ‘i he pilīsone´ (Sen 39:23).

[2] ‘Oku ‘i ai pe taimi ‘oku tapuakiʻi fakamatelie ai ‘e he ‘Otua´ ‘a e kakai kovi´, koeʻuhi´ ko e kakai lotu ‘oku nau fekauʻaki´, neongo ‘oku ‘ikai te nau maʻu ‘a e poto ke ‘ilo ‘a e meʻa ‘oku hoko´, pe ko e loto maʻolalo ke nau tali, ‘o hangē ko Lepani ‘i he talanoa ko eni´.

* study on the Attributes of God / ako ki he natula (ngaahi ‘ulungaanga) ‘o e ‘Otua *

GOD IS . . . (KO E ‘OTUA, ‘OKU . . )

GOD IS TRIUNE

In Christ

The Father is not only the person who sent the Son of God to earth to redeem sinners but is also the master architect behind the type of body the Son assumed: "A body have you prepared for me" (Heb. 10:5). At the same time, the actual forming of the human nature of the Son through the flesh of the Virgin Mary was the work of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). But the decision of taking into subsistence with himself a human nature was a prerogative that belonged to the Son, who must do all things freely and willingly. As Christ says, “I have come down from heaven" (John 6:38). In other words, while it is true that the Father sent the Son, the Son came willingly, apart from any coercion. The Son assumed a human nature.

Ko e ‘Otua´ ko e Tolu-ʻi he-Taha

‘Ia Kalaisi

Naʻe ‘ikai ngata pe hono fekauʻi mai ‘e he Tamai´ ‘a e ‘Alo ‘o e ‘Otua´ ki mamani ke ne huhuʻi ‘a e angahala´, ka ko e ‘akiteki pule ia naʻa ne teuteuʻi ‘a e sino ke hoko mai ai ‘a e ‘Alo´: “...kuo ke teuteu ha sino mo‘oku” (Hep 10:5). ‘I he taimi tatau, ko e ngaue ki hono fatu ‘a e natula tangata ‘o e ‘Alo´, ke fou mai ‘i he kakano ‘o e taupoʻou ko Mele´, ko e ngaue ia ‘a e Laumalie Maʻoniʻoni´ (Luke 1:35). Ka ko e fili ke tanaki mai ‘a e natula tangata´ ke fetaiaki mo hono tuʻunga ‘Otua´, ko e finangalo ‘ataʻatā pe ia ‘a e ‘Alo´, he naʻe pau ke ne fai tauʻatāina ‘ene fili´ mo loto lelei ki ai. He naʻe pehē ‘e Kalaisi, “kuo u ‘alu hifo mei he langi´” (Sione 6:38). ‘I hono toe fakalea ‘e taha´, neongo ‘oku moʻoni naʻe fekauʻi mai ‘e he Tamai´ ‘a e ‘Alo´, naʻe loto pe ‘a e ‘Alo´ ke hifo tauʻatāina ki mamani, ‘ikai fakakouna. Naʻe ‘ai ‘e he ‘Alo´ kiate Ia ‘a e natula ‘o e tangata´.