Tu’apulelulu Novema 3, 2022
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MOMENTARY AFFLICTION
FAINGATA‘A FAKATAIMI PE
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 NKJV
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 KOLINITO 4:17
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ko homau mamahi ma‘ama‘a ni mo mole, ‘oku ne fakatupu ma‘amautolu ha lāngilangi
mamafa mo ta‘engata, ko e me‘a fungani ‘i he fungani ange fau;
Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God
Alone
Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe
Suffering which God accepts must have God's glory as its a name or win I shall get no other reward than that of the Pharisee. It is requisite also that love to Jesus, and love to His elect, be ever the mainspring of all our patience. We must manifest the Spirit of Christ in meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness. Let us search and see if we truly suffer with Jesus. And if we do thus suffer, what is our "light affliction" compared with reigning with Him?
Oh it is so blessed to be in the furnace with Christ, and such an honour to stand in the pillory with Him, that if there were no future reward, we might count ourselves happy in present honour; but when the recompense is so eternal, so infinitely more than we had any right to expect, shall we not take up the cross with alacrity, and go on our way rejoicing?
CHARLES SPURGEON
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