ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu ‘Okatopa 27, 2022

GOD'S GLORY SHOULD BE KNOWN

KE ‘ILOA ‘A E LANGILANGI ‘O E ‘OTUA

PSALM 145:3

Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

SAAME 145:3

‘Oku lahi ‘a Sihova, Pea fungani hono fakamālooa; Pea ko hono lahi ‘oku ta‘emahakulea.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

It seems to be a thing in itself fit and desirable that the glorious perfections of God should be known, and the operations and expressions of them seen, by other beings besides Himself. If it be fit that God's power and wisdom, etc., should be exercised and expressed in some effects, then it seems proper that these exercises should appear.

God as perfectly knew Himself and His perfections, had as perfect an idea of the exercises and effects they were sufficient for, antecedently to any such actual operations of them. If, therefore, it be nevertheless a thing in itself valuable and worthy to be desired, that these glorious perfections be actually exhibited in their correspondent effects, then it seems also that the knowledge of these perfections and discoveries is valuable in itself absolutely considered; and that it is desirable that this knowledge should exist. It is a thing infinitely good in itself, that God's glory should be known by a glorious society of created beings.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

‘Oku tuha mo taau ke fakahaa’i ‘e he kakai ‘a e ‘Otua ‘a e tu’unga haohaoa mo e langilangi’ia ‘o e ‘Otua, ‘a ‘ene ngaahi ngaue ke hā ki mamani, ‘o fai eni ‘i he’ene me’a fakatupu ‘o ‘ikai ke fakahaa’i pe ‘e he ‘Otua ‘iate Ia tokotaha pe ‘oku taau ke fakahaa’i ‘a e ivi mo e poto ‘o e ‘Otua ‘i ha ngaahi founga kehekehe ‘o tuha mo hono mafimafi.

Ko e ‘Otua ‘i hono tu’unga haohaoa mo mā’oni’oni, na’e ‘i ai ‘ene palani haohaoa ke fakahaa’i hono naunau ki mamani.  Ko ia ai ko e fakahā’anga ‘o e langilangi mo e haohaoa ‘a e ‘Otua ‘oku fakafou ia ‘i he ola ‘o ‘ene ngaahi ngaue ko ia.  ‘Ikai ko ia pe ka ko e ngaahi ‘ilo loloto fekau’aki mo e naunau ‘a e ‘Otua ‘oku taau ke fakae’a.  ‘Io, ko e lelei ta’e fakangatangata ‘a e ‘Otua pea mo hono langilangi ‘oku taau ke fakahā ‘i he kalauni ‘o ‘ene me’a fakatupu ko e tangata.