ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Tisema 14, 2022

GLORY ASCRIBED TO GOD

KO E LANGILANGI ‘OKU ‘A E ‘OTUA TOKOTAHA PE

1 CORINTHIANS 1:29

so that no man may boast before God.

1 KOLINITO 1:29

koe‘uhiā ke tuku ‘ene pōlepole ‘e he kakano kotoa pē ‘i he ‘ao ‘o e ‘Otua.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

‘Tis God's declared design that others should not “glory in His presence," which implies that 'tis His design to advance His own comparative glory. So much the more man "glories in God's presence," so much the less glory is ascribed to God. By its being thus ordered, that the creature should have so absolute and universal a dependence on God, provision is made that God should have our whole souls, and should be the object of our undivided respect.

If we had our dependence partly on God and partly on something else, man's respect would be divided to those different things on which he had dependence. Thus it would be if we depended on God only for a part of our good, and on ourselves or some other being for another part; or if we had our good only from God, and through another that was not God, and in something else distinct from both, our hearts would be divided. But now there is no occasion for this, God being not only He from or of whom we have all good, but also through whom, and one that is that good itself, that we have from Him through Him.

JONATHAN EDWARDS