Devotional (21st August 2020)
Topic (17th to 23rd August 2020) – “Ka Jingkyrmen” (Hope)
“Te U Blei u jong kata ka jingkyrmen, to un pyndap ia phi da ka jingkmen bad da ka jingsuk baroh…” (Rom 15:13)
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U Alexander Pope uba dei u nongthoh poetry uba na England ha ka poetry kaba u ai kyrteng, “An Essay on Man: Epistle I” u thoh, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.” (Ka jingkyrmen ka shlei ha ka shadem u briew: U briew um kwah palat hynrei borabor ban ioh ia ki jingkyrkhu). Hynrei ka jingkylli ka mih shano u briew un phai haba ka jingkyrmen na ka jingim ka jong u ka la duh noh?
La iathuh shaphang uwei u briew uba leit sha kawei ka Hospital bad u ju leit man ka por sha kata ka hospital na ka bynta ban pyni bad ban ioh jingsumar na ka bynta ka jingshitom ka jong u. Ha kawei ka sngi katba u dang leit sha kata ka Hospital, u Doctor uba dang wan trei thymmai ha kata ka hospital u la examine ia uta u briew bad u la peit ia ki report baroh bad u la ong ia uta u briew ha ka sur kaba eh, “You know, don’t you, that you won’t live out the year?” (Me tip nga tharai, ba men ym im ban iohi ia kaba kut jong une u snem?). Uta u briew u la mih na ka kamra uta u doctor bad u la leit rung sha ka kamra jong u Director jong kata ka hospital. Ynda u la rung u la shong ha ka shuki bad u la iam, bad u la ong ia uta u Director, “That man took away my hope,” (Uto u briew u la shim noh ia ka jingkyrmen na nga). Uta u director u la jubab u ong, “I guess he did” (Nga tharai u la leh kumta). U Lewis Smede uba dei u nongthoh kot bad u professor ha ka Fuller Theological Seminary kaba don ha Pasadena, California haba u iohi ia kata ka jingjia u la thoh, “Is there a hope when hope is taken away? Is there hope when the situation is hopeless? That question leads us to Christian hope, for in the Bible, hope is no longer a passion for the possible. It becomes a passion for the promise.” (Hato ka don mo ka jingkyrmen haba ia ka jingkyrmen la shim noh na ngi? Hato ka dang don ka jingkyrmen haba ka jinglong jingman ka long kaba i duh jingkyrmen? Kane ka jingkylli kan ialam ia ngi sha ka jingkyrmen u Khristan, namar ha ka Bible, ka jingkyrmen kam dei shuh ka jingthrang ia kaba lah ban long. Ka kylla long ka jingthrang ia kata ka jingkular).
Lada ia ka jingkhmih lynti ka jong ngi la pynsuhthied ha U Blei, ka jingkyrkhu kaba u briew u iohmad kaba u Alexander Pope u ong ha ka poetry, ‘An Essay on Man: Epistle I,’ kan kylla long kaba shisha namar ba U Blei jong ngi U dei U Blei jong ka jingkyrmen (Rom 15:13), dei tang ma U bad tang na U ba ka jingkyrmen ka iai tuid ha ka mynsiem ka jong u briew. Ka jingkyrmen kaba ngi kyrmen ha U Blei kan iai shlei bad kan iai pyndap ia ki dohnud bad ki mynsiem ki jong ngi da ka jingkmen bad da ka jingsuk.
Jingduwai: - “Trai, nga ainguh ia Me ba wat hapdeng ka pyrthei kaba i duh jingkyrmen, pynban nga lah ban kyrmen ha Me, bad haba nga kyrmen ha Me nga ioh mad ia ka jingsuk bad ka jingkmen.” -Amen.
U Blei Un kyrkhu, Pastor Bidonbok Syiem
