ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tusite Sanuali 11, 2022

MEDITATE ON THE WORD

FAKALAULAULOTO ‘I HE FOLOFOLA´

I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.

PSALM 119:15

Te u fakalauloto ki ho‘o ngaahi fekau na, Pea te u tokanga‘i ho ngaahi hala.

SAAME 119:15

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe   

Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into the mouth, but the process which really supplies the muscle, and the nerve, and the sinew, and the bone, is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the outward food becomes assimilated with the inner life. Our souls are not nourished merely by listening a while to this, and then to that, and then to the other part of divine truth. Hearing, reading, marking, and learning all require inwardly digesting to complete their usefulness, and the inward digesting of the truth lies for the most part in meditating upon it.

Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord, and be this our resolve this morning, "I will meditate in thy precepts."

CHARLES SPURGEON

Ko hotau sino ‘oku ‘ikai fakaivia pe ia ‘o fou ‘i he’etau ma’u ‘a e me’atokoni, ka ko e ngaue ‘oku ne fetuku ‘a e ivi ki he uoua, mo e neave, mo e hui, ‘oku fou ‘i he momosi ‘o e me’akai. ‘Oku hanga ‘e hono momosi ‘e he sino, ‘a e me’atokoni mei tu’a, ke ne laiki ke toki fakahu ki he mo’ui fakaloto ‘o e sino. Ko hotau laumalie, ‘oku ‘ikai toki fafanga pe ia ‘i he’etau fanongo taimi si’i atu ki hee, mo ha malanga mei hee, pea mo ha konga mei ha potu kehe. Ko ‘ete fanongo, mo e lau, mo hono faka’ilonga’i, mo e ako, ‘oku fiema’u kotoa ke momosi ke toki kakato ‘a ‘ene ngaue. Pea ko e momosi fakaloto ‘o e ngaahi mo’oni, ‘oku fai ia ‘e he fakalaulauloto (metatasio) ‘i he ngaahi mo’oni ko ia.

Ko e ha e ‘uhinga ‘oku tokolahi ai ‘a e kau Kalisitiane, ‘oku tu’o lahi pe ‘enau fanongo ‘i he ngaahi malanga kehekehe, kae ‘ikai pe ha tupu ‘enau mo’ui fakalotu? He ‘oku nau li’aki honau ngaahi leke fai’anga lotu pea ‘ikai te nau nofo ki he fakalaulauloto ki he Folofola ‘a e ‘Otua. ‘Oku nau manako he uite, kae ‘ikai te nau fie momosi; fie kai koane, kae ‘ikai ‘alu ki he ngoue koane ke tanaki mai; ‘oku ngafuhi ‘a e fua’i’akau, kae ‘ikai te nau fie o ‘o toli mai; ‘oku nau tu’u pe ‘i he tafengavai, kae ‘ikai te nau fie punou ke inu mei ai. ‘Eiki ee, ke ke hamusi ange kimautolu mei he to’onga ko eni, pea ke fakaivia kimautolu he pongipongi ni ke mau FAKALAULAULOTO KI HO’O NGAAHI FEKAU.