လါယူၤလံ ၂၂, ၂၀၂၁
ယွၤမ့ၢ်ပတၢ်ပူၤဖျဲးလၢပတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်အပူၤ
တၢ်ဖးဖျိလံာ်စီဆှံလၢတနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤအဂီၢ် – ဟိၤၡ့ ၆, ဟိၤၡ့ ၇, ရိမ့ၤ ၇:၇-၂၅,
စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤ ၈၈:၉-၁၈
‘‘ယစံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤယွၤအဘျုးအဖှိၣ်လၢပကစၢ်ယ့ၣ်ၡူးခရံာ်အဃိလီၤ. မၤသးဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီးယကစၢ်ဒၣ်ယဲအံၤ, လၢသးန့ၣ်, ယမ့ၢ်ယွၤအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီအကုၢ်အပှၤလီၤ. မ့မ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်ညၣ်န့ၣ်, ယမ့ၢ်တၢ်ဒဲးဘးအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီအကုၢ်အပှၤလီၤ.’’
ရိမ့ၤ ရ:၂၅
ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိကိးဂၤတပူၤဖျဲးဒီးတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်, ဒီးတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်အိၣ်ဝဲအကလုာ်ကလုာ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ. တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်လၢနီၢ်ခိအိၣ်ဝဲအသိး, တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်လၢနီၢ်သးစ့ၢ်ကီးအိၣ်ဝဲလီၤ. တၢ်ခံမံၤအံၤ ဘၣ်ထွဲလိာ်အသးစ့ၢ်ကီး လီၤ. အဒိ, မုၢ်မဆါတနံၤအံၤပှၤအါဒံအါဂၤတူၢ်ဘၣ် ခိဘ့း-၁၉ အတၢ်ဆါန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ဆါတမံၤအံၤမၤဆါပှၤလၢ ပနီၢ်ခိသ့ဝဲအသိး, မၤဆါပှၤလၢပသူၣ်ပသးသ့ဝဲစ့ၢ်ကီးန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ဆါအံၤပတထံၣ်ဘၣ်လၢပမဲာ်ချံဘၣ်ဆၣ်, မၤ ဆါပှၤလၢနီၢ်ခိဒီးနီၢ်သးခံမံၤလၢာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တမ့ၢ်ထဲပှၤတဂၤ မ့တမ့ၢ် ပှၤတဖုတကရၢအတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်ဘၣ်. ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီဘ့ၣ် ဘၣ်တၢ်ဆါအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. အဃိ, ပဂ့ၤသံကွၢ်လီၤပသးဒ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ဘၣ်မနုၤအဃိပဘၣ်တူၢ်ဘၣ် ခီၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်လဲၣ်. တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်လၢပပူၤအံၤအိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်. မၤဟးဂီၤပှၤသ့ဒ်လဲၣ်. ပပူၤဖျဲးဒီးတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ် ဘၣ်အံၤကသ့ဧါ.
ပှၤကွဲးထါ (စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤ ၈၈) တဲဝဲအတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိဒ်အံၤလီၤ. အတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိအပူၤ တၢ်မၤကိၢ်မၤဂီၤအီၤတဖၣ် အိၣ်ဝဲလီၤ. လၢတၢ်နးတၢ်ဖှီၣ်အပူၤ, လၢတၢ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲတဖၣ်အပူၤ, အဝဲကလၢၢ်ဘၣ်ဝဲ လၢပှၤမၤစၢၤ အီၤတအိၣ် ဒီးပှၤအိၣ်ဘူးအီၤတအိၣ်ဘၣ်လီၤ. အဒိၣ်ကတၢၢ်အဝဲဒၣ်ကလၢၢ်ဘၣ်ဝဲလၢယွၤလဲၤသဒၣ်အီၤလီၤ. ဘၣ်မနုၤအဃိလဲၣ်. စီၤပီလူးစံးဝဲဒၣ်ပှၤတဂၤဘၣ်ဒုးတၢ်ဒီးတၢ်ဂ့ၤဒီးတၢ်အၢလၢအပူၤ ဒီး လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်အလိၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ပှၤတဂၤဘၣ်ဒုးတၢ်ဒီးပှၤကညီအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီ ဒီးယွၤအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီလၢအပူၤလီၤ. တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ် အခီၣ်ထံးခီၣ်ဘိအံၤအိၣ်ထီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢပှၤကညီဃုထၢလၢ အတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီဒၣ်ဝဲဒီးလဲၤကပာ်ယွၤ အတၢ်သိၣ် တၢ်သီအဃိလီၤ. လၢတၢ်အံၤအပူၤမ့ၢ်မတၤကမၤစၢၤပှၤလဲၣ်. မ့ၢ်မတၤကထုးထီၣ်ပှၤလၢ တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ် အပူၤ, တၢ်နးတၢ်ဖှီၣ်အပူၤ, တၢ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လဲၣ်. စီၤပီလူးစံးဘၣ်ပှၤလၢ အကစံးထီၣ် ပတြၢၤယွၤအဘျုး အဖှိၣ်လၢ ပကစၢ်ယ့ၣ်ၡူးအဃိလီၤ. တၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်အမ့ၢ်အတီလီၤ. ပဃ့ၢ်ပူၤဖျဲးပသးတသ့ဘၣ်. ထဲတမံၤ, ပကကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်အီၤဒ်လဲၣ်. ယွၤအတၢ်အဲၣ်န့ၣ်တီဝဲ ဒီးအတၢ်မၤစၢၤန့ၣ်အိၣ်လီၤထူလီၤယိာ်လၢပဂီၢ်လီၤ.
ပတပျံၤဘၣ်. ထဲတမံၤပကဘၣ်ဟံးဃာ်ယွၤဒီးအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီအဂ့ၢ်, ဒီးပကညိကွံာ်တၢ်ဒဲးဘးအတၢ်သိၣ်တၢ်သီ အတၢ်မၢကဲကုၢ်ပှၤန့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
တၢ်ဒုးဘၣ်ထွဲက့ၤလံာ်စီဆှံဒီးပတၢ်အိၣ်မူ
မ့ၢ်နဃ့ၢ်ပူၤဖျဲးနသးဒီးနတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်ခီၣ်ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီဧါ. နဃ့ၢ်ပူၤကစီဒီဧါ. ပဒိၣ်တုာ်ခိၣ်ပှဲၤထီၣ်, ခီဖျိပတူၢ်တၢ်ဃုာ်ဒီးခရံာ်အဃိန့ၣ်လီၤ.
တၢ်ထုကဖၣ်
ပၢ်ဧၢ, ပစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မးလၢနသိၣ်လိပှၤခီဖျိတၢ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ထီဘိပကမ့ၢ်နဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်လၢ အဒိၣ်တုာ်ခိၣ်ပှဲၤလၢနပူၤအဂီၢ်မၤစၢၤပှၤတက့ၢ်. လၢခရံာ်အမံၤပဃ့နၤ. အၤမ့ၣ်
သရၣ်သီမဲးစ်
မူအါထီၣ်ကညီဘျၢထံခရံာ်ဖိအတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်
စ့းထ်ဖီလ်, မ့ၣ်နံၣ်စိၣ်ထၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်
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July 22, 2021
GOD IS OUR REFUGE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE
Bible in a Year: Hosea 6, Hosea 7; Romans 7:7-25; Psalm 88:9-18
“I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.”
Romans 7:25 WEB
Everyone on earth faces suffering in one way or another. There are many, different kinds of sufferings. There is suffering of the body and also suffering of the mind. When the body suffers, the mind suffers, too. Today we see the pain caused by Covid-19, invisible to the eyes, but detrimental to the body and mind. This horrific disease harms not just one person or one group, but the entire world. We can’t help but ask questions, such as “Why do we have to suffer?” or “How did the suffering begin and how is it affecting us?” or “Can we avoid pain and suffering?”
The Psalmist in writing Psalm 88 shared his experience of suffering with us. In his pain and ordeal, he cried out day and night feeling very alone with no one near to help him. The most painful thing for him was that he felt God forsook him. Why? Paul told us that we have good and evil fighting within us and in this world. There is also war between serving God’s law and serving sin’s law. The origin of suffering came from the deliberate choices men made to obey the sin’s law instead of God’s law. So, who is going to be able to really help us? Who is going to deliver us from all these painful experiences and sufferings? Paul, the man who endured life’s most painful experiences, said, “I thank God through Jesus Christ.” On earth, we will have trouble and there is no denying it or escaping from it. There is only one thing to do. That is to overcome the pain and suffering with the presence, love and help of Jesus Christ that is eternally available to us. I am not afraid. What we need to do is serve God’s law, and not the flesh, which is sin’s law.
Reflection
Have you ever been able to avoid sufferings? Can you run away from them? We grow by enduring and overcoming hardship with Christ.
Prayer
Dear God, thank you for allowing us to have difficult experiences. Please help us to grow in serving Your law as your children. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.
Tharah Thomas
New Abundant Life Baptist Church
St. Paul, Minnesota