ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu ‘Epeleli 28, 2022

THE HAPPIEST OF BELIEVERS

KO E KAU TUI FIEFIA TAHAA

1 CORINTHIANS 13:12-13

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:12-13

He ko ‘etau sio ‘i he taimi ni, ko e ma‘ali ha misiteli ‘i ha sio‘ata; ka ko e taimi ko ē, ko ‘etau sio ko e femātaaki. Ko e taimi ni ‘oku ou ‘ilo fakakonga pē, ka ‘i he taimi ko ē te u ‘ilo faka‘āufuli, ‘o hangē foki ne ‘ilo faka‘āufuli au. ‘Āua! ka ‘oku tolonga pē ‘a Tui, ‘a ‘Amanaki, ‘a ‘Ofa; ‘a e tolu ni pē: pea ko honau tu‘ukimu‘a ko ‘OFA.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

The lovers of Jesus are charmed with His character, and delighted with His mission; they are carried away by the lovingkindness that He has manifested, and therefore they cannot help trusting Him, because they so much admire, revere, and love Him.

The way of loving trust in the Savior may thus be illustrated. A lady is the wife of the most eminent physician of the day. She is seized with a dangerous illness, and is smitten down by its power; yet she is wonderfully calm and quiet, for her husband has made this disease his special study, and has healed thousands who were similarly afflicted. She is not in the least troubled, for she feels perfectly safe in the hands of one so dear to her, and in whom skill and love are blended in their highest forms. Her faith is reasonable and natural; her husband, from every point of view, deserves it of her. This is the kind of faith which the happiest of believers exercise toward Christ.

CHARLES SPURGEON