ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Novema 17, 2022 

THE GLORY OF GOD'S DESIGN

KO E LANGILANGI ‘O E FAKATUPU ‘A E ‘OTUA

PSALM 106:2

Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord, Or can proclaim all His praise?

SAAME 106:2

Ko hai te ne malea‘aki ‘a e ngaahi ngāue mafi ‘a Sihova, Pe tala hono fakamālō kotoa?

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe    

Reason shows that it is fit and requisite that the intelligent and rational beings of the world should know something of God's scheme and design in His works, for they doubtless are principally concerned. God's great design in His works is doubtless concerning His reasonable creatures rather than brute beasts and lifeless things. The revolutions by which God's great design is brought to pass are doubtless chiefly among them and concern their state, and not the state of things without life or reason.

And therefore surely it is requisite that they should know something of it; especially since reason teaches that God has given His rational creatures a capacity of seeing Him in His works, for this end: that they may see God's glory in them, and give Him that glory. But how can they see God's glory in His works if they do not know what His design in them is, and what He aims at by what He is doing in the world?

JONATHAN EDWARDS