ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Tisema 21, 2022

CONTEMPLATE GOD'S GLORY

LAULOTOA ‘A E LANGILANGI ‘O E ‘OTUA

PSALM 86:10

For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.

SAAME 86:10

He ko e lahi ‘a e ‘Afiona, Pea mo e fai me‘a mana; Ko koe ‘a e ‘Otua toko taha.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe    

The contemplation of God's glory in His works is the true way of acquiring genuine godliness. The pride of the flesh would always lead it to wing its way into heaven; but, as our understandings fail us in such an extended investigation, our most profitable course is, according to the small measure of our feeble capacity, to seek God in His works, which bear witness of Him. Let us therefore learn to awaken our understandings to contemplate the divine works, and let us leave the presumptuous to wander in their own intricate mazes.

To incline our hearts to exercise this modesty, David magnificently extols the works of God, calling them wondrous things, although to the blind, and those who have no taste for them, they are destitute of attraction. In the meantime, we ought carefully to attend to this truth, that the glory of the Godhead belongs exclusively to the one true God; for in no other being is it possible to find the wisdom, or the power, or the righteousness, or any of the numerous marks of divinity which shine forth in His wonderful works.

JOHN CALVIN