Tokonaki Novema 26, 2022
DILIGENTLY
SERVE ALL
NGAUE ‘OSIKIAVELENGA MA‘AE TAHA KOTOA
1 CORINTHIANS 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:58
Ko
ia, si‘oku kāinga ‘ofa‘anga, ke mou tu‘u ma‘u, ta‘engaue, ‘o mou tupulekina
ma‘u ai pē ‘i he ngāue ‘a e ‘Eiki: ‘i ho‘omou ‘ilo ni, ko e me‘a ki he ‘Eiki,
ko ho‘omou fakaongosia ‘oku ‘ikai ko e laufanō ia.
Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God
Alone
Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe
Every young man should, from early youth, strive after steadiness, faithfulness, truth, faith, righteousness, and piety; and he should diligently practice these things. With these he can serve, with fruitful results, the cause of Christianity, society around him, and his country, for he will be useful to the body politic as well as to the individual citizen. Those are weak-minded persons who are concerned only about living a quiet life. They are not so godlike as those who, to their own detriment, diligently serve all men.
We ought to be very careful, at the same time, that those things which we undertake to the glory of God, to the honor of our country, and for the common welfare be not defiled by self and Satan, so that we do not at last turn to our own advantage what we wish to be regarded as having been done for the good of others. There are many who begin well and go in the right direction, but they soon become corrupted by vain ambition, which poisons and destroys every good resolution, and as a result they are led away from all that is good and noble. The Christian will regard a community as a household, yea, as one body in which all members enjoy pleasure or suffer pain.
ULRICH ZWINGLI
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