ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Ma’asi 10, 2022 

AT THE TABLE

‘I HE ‘ENE TEPILE

PSALM 34:8

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

SAAME 34:8

Mou kamata ki he ‘Eiki, ‘o ‘ilo ‘oku sai: Monū‘ia ā ka ko e to‘a ‘oku hūfanga ki ai.

 

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe    

We have had deep draughts; we have thought that we could take in all of Christ, but when we have done our best we have had to leave a vast remainder. We have sat at the table of the Lord's love and said, “Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away," but we have had our sin removed and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love and found that there was a redundance of spiritual meat remaining.

There are certain sweet things in the Word of God which we have not enjoyed yet, and which we are obliged to leave for a while; for we are like the disciples to whom Jesus said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now" (John 16:12). Yes, there are graces to which we have not attained, places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we have not reached, and heights of communion which our feet have not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of fragments left.

CHARLES SPURGEON

‘Oku lahi ‘a e taimi ‘oku tau tofanga ai ‘i he honge fakalaumalie, pea tau pehee te tau ma’u kotoa ‘a e mahu ‘o Kalaisi, ka ‘i he’etau feinga ‘aki hotau kotoa, ‘oku ‘ikai mavivi ‘etau fangota mei hono moana. ‘Oku tau nofo hifo ‘i he tepile ‘o e ‘ofa ‘a e ‘Otua pea tau pehe, “ ‘oku ‘ikai ha me’a te u topono ai, ka ‘i hono to’ukupu ta’engata pe; ‘oku hulu fau ‘eku angahala, pea ‘e fiema’u ke kilukilua e koloa ke fakama’a ‘aki au.” Ka kuo ‘osi to’o mediate au ‘eku angahala pea kei toe pe ‘a e koloa totongi; kuo fakaai ‘etau hongea ‘i he tepile mahu ‘o ha ‘ofa toputapu pea kei lato pe ‘a e kanomate fakalaumalie ‘i ai.

‘Oku kei toe lahi ‘a e ngaahi koloa vovo ‘i he Folofola ‘a e ‘Otua kuo te’eki te tau ‘inasi ai, pea ‘oku kei tuku tatali ki ‘amui; he ‘oku tau tatau mo e kau ako ‘i he folofola ki ai ‘a Sisu,” ‘Oku kei toe lahi ‘eku me‘a ke lea ki ai kiate kimoutolu, ka ‘oku ‘ikai te mou fa‘a kātaki ‘i he taimi ni” (Sione 16:12). ‘Io, ‘oku ‘i ai ‘a e ngaahi kelesi ‘oku te’eki te tau a’usia, mo ha ngaahi potu ‘i he feohi ‘i he fakaofi mo Kalaisi ‘oku kei taukakapa, mo ha tapa ‘o e sakalameniti ‘oku te’eki ke pa ki ai hotau va’e. Ko e katonga ‘ofa kotoa pe ‘a e ‘Eiki, ‘e kei hulu’anoa pe ‘a e ngaahi pakipaki’i ma ke fonu ai ‘a e ngaahi kato polopola.