အနွံ ၁၇
တၢ်စံးပတြၢၤဒီးတၢ်စံးဘျုးယွၤအစိအကမီၤ
ဖံလံးပံၤ ၄:၆ – ‘‘သုတဘၣ်ယိၣ်တၢ်နီတမံၤတဂ့ၤ, မ့မ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ကိးမံၤဒဲးန့ၣ် လၢတၢ်ထုကဖၣ် ဒီးလၢတၢ်ဃ့ကညးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤတၢ်အဘျုးအဖှိၣ်အပူၤန့ၣ်ဘိးဘၣ်သ့ၣ်ညါယွၤလၢသုတၢ်အဲၣ်ဒိးတဖၣ်တက့ၢ်.
ယမ့ၢ်ဒၣ်ပှၤပတီၢ်မုၢ်တဂၤလီၤ. သနာ်က့ယွၤအဲၣ်ယၤအါမးလီၤ. ယအဲၣ်ဒိးဟ့ၣ်ခီဟ့ၣ်နီၤယဲ တၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိအကီအခဲတခါလၢ ယသးပ့ၤနီၣ်တသ့နီတဘျီဘၣ်လီၤ. ဘၣ်တဘျီယဖိအပၢ်ကိးယၤလၢလီတဲစိဒီးစံးဝဲ, ‘‘ပှၤတဂၤကဟဲထံၣ်နၤလၢဟံၣ်အဃိ အိၣ်ခိး အီၤလၢဟံၣ်တက့ၢ်.’’ ယသ့ၣ်ညါတဘျီဃီလၢအဝဲကဟဲက့ၤကိး ပိာ်မုၣ်လၢအလဲၤဘၣ်ထွဲဝဲန့ၣ်အဃိ, ဒ်မါတဂၤအသိး ယသး ကိၢ်အူဒိၣ်မးလီၤ. ယကထံၣ်လိာ်ယသးလၢပိာ်မုၣ်အံၤယဂံၢ်ယဘါတအိၣ်ဘၣ်. ယလဲၤဆူယသကိးတဂၤအအိၣ်ဒီး ယဃ့အီၤလၢ ကမၤစၢၤယၤဒ်ယတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ယပာ်ယသးလၢ ဖဲယဝၤဟဲက့ၤကိးပိာ်မုၣ်အံၤအခါ ယကကိးပၢၤကီၢ်ဒီးကမၤဆၢအဝဲသ့ၣ် လၢတၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်တီလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်တခီန့ၣ်လီၤ. ယသးလီၤဘှံးဒိၣ်မး, ဒီး ယဃ့ဘါထုကဖၣ်လၢကစၢ်ယွၤကဟ့ၣ်ယၤ တၢ်ဂံၢ်တၢ်ဘါ လၢယကကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်ပိာ်မုၣ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲန့ၣ်ကစၢ်ယွၤစံးဘၣ်ယၤ, ‘‘ပှၤလၢအအိၣ်လၢနအိၣ်တခီန့ၣ်ဒိၣ်န့ၢ်ဒံး ပှၤလၢအအိၣ်လၢ အဝဲသ့ၣ်အအိၣ်တခီတက့ၢ်လီၤ.’’ ယထုကဖၣ်တခီခီ ယဟဲက့ၤဆူဟံၣ်တခီခီလီၤ. ယတုၤလၢဟံၣ်အခါ ယထံၣ် အဝဲသ့ၣ်ဟဲက့ၤ တုၤဟံၣ်လံလီၤ. ယယီၢ်လီၤဟံၣ်ကရၢၢ်အပူၤတဘျီဃီ တၢ်လီၤလးမၤအသးဒီးယၤတမံၤလီၤ. ယပလၢၢ်ဘၣ်လၢ တၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤ ဟဲလီၤလၢယလိၤ, ဟဲလီၤဘၣ်ဆိလၢယခိၣ်လိၤဝံၤလီၤဘၣ်ဆူယမိၢ်ပှၢ်ဒီဂၤညါလီၤ. တဘျီဃီ ယတသ့ၣ်ညါ တၢ်ကိၢ်တၢ်ဂီၤ အိၣ်ဒီးယၤနီတမံၤလၢၤဘၣ်. လဲလိာ်ကွံာ်ဆူတၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤဖးဒိၣ်တခါလီၤ. ယတိာ်ပာ်တမၠိ, ယွၤမၤန့ၢ်ယၤတမၠိလီၤ.
ယက့ၤဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်ခံဂၤအမဲာ်ညါ ဒီး ပိာ်မုၣ်န့ၣ်သါကကတိၤထီၣ်တၢ်လီၤ. ယဒီထီၣ်ယစု ဒီး ယတဲအီၤလၢယကကတိၤ တၢ်အဆိန့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲန့ၣ် တၢ်လၢဟဲထွးထီၣ်လၢယထးခိၣ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲလံာ်စီဆှံအဆၢဖျါဖဲ ၁သ့းစၤလနံ ၅:၁၈, ‘‘ လၢတၢ်ခဲလၢာ်အပူၤ န့ၣ်စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤတၢ်အဘျုးအဖှိၣ်တက့ၢ်.’’ ဝံၤဒီးယဘါထုကဖၣ်စံးဘျုးစံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤယွၤလီၤ. ဝံၤဒီး, ယစးထီၣ်ကတိၤတၢ်လၢ ပိာ်မုၣ်အံၤလီၤ. ယသံကွၢ်အီၤ အမံၤ, အဝၤအဖိအိၣ်တအိၣ်, အအိၣ်ဆိးတၢ်လီၢ်, အတၢ်အိၣ်သး, အဘၣ်တၢ်မနုၤ န့ၣ်လီၤ. အဝဲစံးဆၢယၤခဲလၢာ်အကျါစံးဝဲ, ‘‘သါမ့ၢ်ပှၤခရံာ်ဖိလီၤ.’’ ဖဲန့ၣ် ယစံးဆၢက့ၤအီၤလၢပယီၤကျိာ်, ‘‘ပှၤခရံာ်ဖိတနီၤကဲထီၣ်အသး ဒ်န့ၣ်သ့ဝဲလီၤ (တချို့ခရစ်ယာန်များဒီလိုဖြစ်တတ်ပါတယ်). ယဲယတမ့ၢ်ပှၤခရံာ်ဖိဘၣ်. ယမ့ၢ်ယွၤအဖိမုၣ်လီၤ. ယသံကွၢ်အီၤ, ‘‘ပိာ်မုၣ်လၢမၤကမၣ်တၢ်ဒီးပှၤဟဲကိးအီၤဆူခရံာ်အအိၣ်န့ၣ်ကစၢ်ခရံာ်မၤဒ်လဲၣ်.’’ အဝဲတဲဝဲ, ‘‘ယတသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်.’’ ယသံကွၢ် ကဒီး, ‘‘ဖဲကစၢ်ခရံာ်ကွဲးလီၤဝဲလၢ ‘ပှၤလၢအတၢ်ကမၣ်တအိၣ်န့ၣ်ကွံာ်ပိာ်မုၣ်အံၤလၢလၢၢ်တက့ၢ်’ ဒီး မ့ၢ်မတၤကွံာ်အီၤလၢလၢၢ် လဲၣ်.’’ အစံးဆၢဝဲ, ‘‘ယတသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်.’’ ယတဲဘၣ်အီၤ, ‘‘ဒ်ကစၢ်ခရံာ်တစံၣ်ညီၣ်ပိာ်မုၣ်လၢအမၤကမၣ်တၢ်တဂၤအသိး ယဲယတစံၣ်ညီၣ်နၤဘၣ်. ပှၤလၢအကစံၣ်ညီၣ်သုမ့ၢ်ယပၢ်လီၤ. က့ၤဆူနဟံၣ် ဒီး က့ၤကဲမါလၢအထုကဖၣ်တၢ်လၢဝၤအဂီၢ်, က့ၤကဲမိၢ်လၢအဟ့ၣ်ဖိတဖၣ်လၢတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်သါအဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်.’’ ယလဲၤဆှၢအီၤလၢသိလ့ၣ်ဘၢစ်းအသန့လီၤ. ဖဲအဝဲက့ၤတုၤလၢ ဟံၣ်န့ၣ်, အကိးယၤလီတဲစိ ဒီး စံးဝဲ, ‘‘အနီဧၢ, နမ့ၢ်ဒဲယမဲာ်လၢခီၣ်ဖံးယတူၢ်ကန့ၢ်ဒံးလီၤ. ခဲအံၤယသးဘၣ်ဆဲး, ယသးဘၣ်ဒိ ဒိၣ်မးလီၤ.’’ အဝဲဟီၣ်ဒီးဃ့ပျၢ် အတၢ်ကမၣ်လၢယၤလီၤ. လၢခံအဝဲဒီးယၤပကဲထီၣ်ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်လၢခရံာ်အပူၤလီၤ. ဖဲတၢ်သ့အိၣ်ဒီး ယၤအသိး, ယဟ့ၣ်ခီဟ့ၣ်နီၤလီၤ ကစၢ်ယွၤအကလုၢ်ကထါလၢအီၤ လၢအ့ၣ်ထၢၢ်နဲးဖီခိၣ်လီၤ. ခဲအံၤအဝဲသ့ၣ်အဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိ အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံ, တၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါယွၤလီၤ. တၢ်မၤက့ၤအသးလၢအဂ့ၤအံၤ တမ့ၢ်ယဃိဘၣ်. မ့ၢ်ယွၤမၤတၢ်လီၤလးဖးဒိၣ်လၢ ယဂီၢ်လီၤ. လၢတၢ်အိၣ်သး လၢအမၤဘၣ်ဒိပသးဒီး အမၤကိၢ်မၤဂီၤပှၤအပူၤန့ၣ် ပမ့ၢ်ဆၢထၢၣ်လၢယွၤအတၢ်အၢၣ်လီၤအပူၤ ဒီး စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤအီၤအဃိ, ယွၤဒုးကဲထီၣ် ပတၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်, ပတၢ်ကိၢ်တၢ်ဂီၤအံၤ ဆူ တၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤ, တၢ်စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤ, ဒီး တၢ်လၤကပီၤသ့ဝဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
နီၢ်ဖီမုၢ်ထီၣ်
ကီၢ်လါ
တၢ်ဆိကမိၣ်ထံမၤဘၣ်ထွဲက့ၤတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဂံၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဘါလၢပတၢ်အိၣ်မူ
လၢတၢ်မုာ်အဆၢကတီၢ်န့ၣ်, ပသးဝံၣ်စံးဘျုးယွၤလၢတၢ်သးခုညီဝဲလီၤ. သနာ်က့ လၢတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လၢတဂ့ၤဘၣ်အပူၤ, ကီခဲဝဲ လၢပကဃၣ်ပသးဆူယွၤအအိၣ်ဒီးစံးဘျုးစံးပတြၢၤအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. အရ့ဒိၣ်လၢ ပသ့ၣ်နီၣ်လၢ တၢ်စံးဘျုးယွၤတအိၣ်သန့ၤထီၣ်အသး လၢပသးအတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤအဖီခိၣ်ဘၣ်. တၢ်စံးဘျုးယွၤမ့ၢ်ပတၢ်ဃုထၢလီၤ. တၢ်စံးဘျုးယွၤအိၣ်ဒီးအစိကမီၤလီၤ. အဒုးစဲဘူးပှၤ လၢတၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤ, အဆှၢထီၣ်ဝဲယွၤအနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဆူပတၢ်အိၣ်သးအပူၤ, အဟဲစိာ်ဝဲ တၢ်လီၤလး, တၢ်ထူၣ်ဖျဲး, ဒီး တၢ်မၤနၢၤလီၤ.
နစံးဘျုးယွၤလၢကျဲမနုၤတဖၣ်သ့လဲၣ်. တနံၤဘၣ်တနံၤအပူၤ နစံးဘျုးယွၤညီနုၢ်ပှဲၤဘျီလဲၣ်.
မုၢ်တနံၤအံၤ တၢ်ဆိၣ်ဂ့ၤမနုၤလၢဘၣ်နၤအဂီၢ် နလိၣ်စံးဘျုးယွၤလဲၣ်. တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲမနုၤတဖၣ်တြီဃာ်နၤလၢနကစံးဘျုးယွၤလဲၣ်. တၢ်ဃုထၢလၢနဂီၢ်လၢတနံၤအံၤကမ့ၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ်..
တၢ်ထုကဖၣ်လၢပှၤဖးတၢ်ဖိအဂီၢ်
ယွၤဧၢ, ဝံသးစူၤဆိၣ်ဂ့ၤဘၣ်နဖိတဂၤအံၤလၢအဖးဝဲတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဂံၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဘါအံၤန့ၣ်တ က့ၢ်. ယဃ့ထုကဖၣ်လၢ နကဟ့ၣ်နဲသးအတၢ်ကူၣ်သ့ ဖဲအဘၣ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်ဒီး ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိ အတၢ်ဘၣ်ထွဲ တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ကီမ့ၢ်ဂ့ၤ တၢ်ဘၣ်ထွဲ ဒီးပှၤတဂၤလၢ်လၢ်မ့ၢ် ဂ့ၤန့ၣ်တက့ၢ်. မၤစၢၤအီၤဒ်သိး လၢတၢ်ကိၢ်တၢ်ဂီၤအပူၤန့ၣ် ကထံၣ်န့ၢ် တၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤဟဲလၢနၤ, နကဒုး အဲးထီၣ်အထးခိၣ်ပှဲၤ ဒီး ယွၤအတၢ်ကူၣ်သ့ တၢ်စိတၢ်ကမီၤ ဒီး ကဒုးကပီၤထီၣ်တၢ်လၢ တၢ်ခံးကျါန့ၣ်တက့ၢ်. မ့ၢ်လၢ အအိၣ်ဒီးထးခိၣ်လၢ အစံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤနၤ ဒီး ထုကဖၣ် တထံၣ်ဃီအဃိ ကထံၣ်န့ၢ်တၢ်ထူၣ်ဖျဲး လၢ ကယဲၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်မၤကွၢ်လၢ အဟဲတုၤအိၣ်အီၤ တမံၤလၢ်လၢ်န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်. မ်နကပာ်ထီၣ်ထီအီၤ မ့ၢ်လၢအသ့ၣ်ညါ နမံၤအဃိတက့ၢ်. လၢခရံာ်အမံၤ ယဃ့နၤလီၤ. အၤမ့ၣ်.
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Week 17
THANKING AND PRAISING GOD
Philippians 4:6 – “In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” (WEB)
I am a very ordinary person. But God loves me very much. I want to share with you an unforgettable experience. One day I got a call from my husband telling me that someone would visit me at home and I should be waiting for her. I knew right away it was the woman with whom he was having an affair. As a wife, it felt like my heart was on fire. I had no energy to meet this woman. I went to a friend’s house and asked her to help me. My plan was to call the police to deal with my husband and that woman according to the Burmese law. I felt worn-out and rundown. I prayed to God to give me strength to face this woman. God answered me right away — “The One who is on your side is greater than those with them.” I prayed all the way as I walked home. When I got home, they were already there. Once I stepped into the house, a miraculous thing happened. I felt this power enveloping me, flowing from the top of my head and spreading to every part of my body. Then and there all the worries left me and regenerated as extraordinary power. My plan was one thing, but God’s plan was another.
I sat in front of them. The woman opened her mouth to talk. I gestured to her to stop and told her I would talk first. The words that came out of my mouth was a scripture found in 1Thessalonians 5:18, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.” Then, I prayed and praised God right there. I started talking to this woman and asked her what her name was, if she had a husband and children, where she lived, what circumstances she was in, and what was wrong in her life. Among the answers that she gave me, she also said, “I am a Christian.” I replied in Burmese language, “Some Christians can do things like that.” I am not a Christian. I am a child of God. Then, I asked her, “What did Christ do to the woman who committed adultery?” She replied, “I don’t know.” I asked her again, “ When Jesus wrote on the ground, ‘He who is without sin cast the first stone,’ who cast the stone?” She replied the same, “I don’t know.” I told her, “Just as Jesus did not condemn that woman who committed adultery, I do not condemn you either. The judgment belongs to our Father God. Go home! Be the wife that prays for your husband. Be the mother that gives what is good to your children.” I took her to the bus station. Once she got home, she called me and said, “Sister, it would have been easier for me to bear it if you slapped me with your sandals. Now, my heart is stabbed and shattered.” She cried and asked for my forgiveness. Later, we became sisters in Christ. With what I know, I shared the word of God with her on the Internet. Now, her family is loving towards one another. Most importantly, they also know the Living God. The ugly that turned beautiful was not because of me. It was God’s great miraculous work in my life. In situations that are painful and worrisome, if we stand on the promises of God and praise Him, He could transform our pain and worries into power, praises, and glory.
Naw Paw Mu Htaw
Myanmar
REFLECT
In good times, our hearts sing praises joyfully. But in hard times, it is very difficult to turn our hearts to sing praises to God. It is important to remember praising God is not a feeling, but a choice. Praise is powerful. It connects us with divine power. It ushers God’s presence into our situations. Praising God brings miracles, deliverance, and victory.
What are the ways you can thank and praise God? How often do you praise God each day?
For what specific blessings do you need to praise God today? What sort of challenges are trying to convince you not to praise God? What choices will you make today?
PRAYER FOR THE READER
Dear God, please bless Your children reading this devotional journal. I pray that You will grant them wisdom when they have to face turmoil in their family situations and relationships. Help them to find You in distress and receive the power that comes from You. Fill their mouth with Your powerful, wise words and let their light shine in the darkness. Because their mouths praise You and pray to you continually, may they find deliverance from any temptation and trial that come their way. May You lift them high because they know Your Name. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.