ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Sapate Tisema 4, 2022 

SPEAK OUT CHRIST'S GLORY

LEA ‘AKI ‘A HONO LANGILANGI

2 CORINTHIANS 12:10

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 KOLINITO 12:10

Ko hono ‘uhinga ia ‘oku ou hōhō‘ia ai ‘i hoku ngaahi vaivai‘anga, ‘i he fa‘a pā‘usia, ‘i he fa‘a faingata‘a‘ia, ‘i he fa‘a fakatanga‘i, ‘i he fa‘a ‘efitu‘ua, koe‘uhi ko Kalaisi; he ka u ka vaivai, ko ‘eku toki mālohi ē.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

The Gospel is not there for us to aggrandize ourselves. The Gospel is to aggrandize Christ and the mercy of God. It holds out to men eternal gifts that are not gifts of our own manufacture. What right have we to receive praise and glory for gifts that are not of our own making? No wonder that God in His special grace subjects the ministers of the Gospel to all kinds of afflictions; otherwise they could not cope with this ugly beast called vainglory.

Paul had the Spirit of Christ. Nevertheless there was given unto him the messenger of Satan to buffet him in order that he should not come to exalt himself, because of the grandeur of his revelations. Saint Augustine's opinion is well taken: "If a minister of the Gospel is praised, he is in danger; if he is despised, he is also in danger." The ministers of the Gospel should be men who are not too easily affected by praise or criticism, but who simply speak out the benefit and the glory of Christ and seek the salvation of souls.

MARTIN LUTHER