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N Akea Tokina ni Maiura ni Katoabong
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N Akea Tokina ni Maiura ni Katoabong

Te nanorinano bwa antai ngaira ao Ana kantaninga te Atua ibukira e kakaawaki.

Ngkai I beku n te Mition i Buritan ngke I kairake, I rang tatangira te manikangare ni Buritan. N tabetai e kabwarabwaraki aki rauakim n arom, aroaro aika raraoi, kairan maium n nanorinano. Te katooto n aio bon aron tamnein te tiamwa. Te tiamwa i Buritan a rang uarereke ao aki kona n ataaki. N aron temanna te tia koro karaki are e taekinna ni karinanoa, “I tatangira te tiamwa i Buritan, au bong ae I tatangiria n te ririki.” Te kaatuun ni Buritan ae I tatangiria e koreaki tamneina n uti mai iaon ana kainiwene ao e taekinna nakon ana kamea, “O, akea ngaira! I taku bwa tia rang matunako ao tia aki noora te tiamwa.”

Iai te kabotau n te kamanga aei nakon maiura n te aonaaba ae tamaroa aei. E matata ni koroboki aika a tabu bwa rokora iaon te aba e kimototo. E kona n taekinaki bwa man te taratara ae akea tokina, ara tai iaon te aba ai aron uarereken te tiamwa i Buritan.

N tabetai te kantaninga ibukin te aomata ao te maiu e kabwarabwaraaki n taekana aika a mangori. Te burabeti ae Mote e kaikawaaki n te aro are e kona n aranaki bwa te ananga n tekeraoi. Are e koreaki ni Bwaeao ae Bati Boona, te Uea, e katauraoa Mote ibukin ana mwakuri ni burabeti, n anganna tamnein te aonaaba ao natina ni kabane ake a na karikaki ao ake a tia ni karikaki. Mote kaanga e nanokawaki n namakina aei, “Ngkai … I a ataia bwa akea manen te aomata, te bwai ae I tuai ma n kaman iangoia.”

Imwiina, te Atua, e ata ana namakia Mote, e katanoata Ana kantaninga ni koaua: “Bwa nooria, bon aio au a mwakuri ao mimitongiu—ni karekea te aki mamate ao te maiu ae akea tokina ibukin te aomata.”

Ti bane ni katiteboaki imatan te Atua. E matata ana reirei. N ana Boki Moomon, ti warekia, “Titebo aroia ni kabane imatan te Atua,” n ikotaki ma “ae bwatabwata ke ae mainaina, te toro ke ae inaomata, te mwane ke te aine.” Ni kaineti ma anne, ni kabane a bane ni kaoaki nakon te Uea.

Ngkana temanna e taku bwa e raka riki arona iaan ana baire Tamara ibukin ana reeti, mwaine, abana, ana taetae, ke kaubwain abana e bon kairua ao e aki ota n ana kantaninga ni koaua te Uea ibukiia natina ni kabane.

Te kaangaanga, n ara bong ao e kuri n reke ae ni mwakoro nako n te aonaaba, ti noora karietatan temanna ao te kainikatonga ni kaoti ao te nanorinano ao te bukintaeka nakon te Atua a aki rang kabonganaaki. Mwaitiia te botanaomata aki atai koaua aika uarereke ao aki ota bwa bukin tera ti roko iaon te aba. Te nanorinano ni koaua, are e kakaawaki ni karekean ana kantaninga te Uea ibukira, e kuri aki kakaoti.

E rang kakaawaki bwa ti na atamwaitin ana nanorinano Kristo, etieti, anuana, ao wanawanana are e kakabotauaki ni koroboki aika a tabu. E aki wanawana bwa ko na aki kabongana kakaawakin ke n reitinako ni katai anuan Kristo ma anuana n te bong koraki, riki te nanorinano.

Koroboki aika a tabu a matata ngkai te maiu aei e rang kimototo, e bon rang kakaawaki. Amureki, are toan te mitinare are Aramwa n ana Boki Moomon e taku, “Te maiu aei bon aia tai aomata bwa a na katauraoia ni kaitibo ma te Atua; eng, nooria te bong ni maiu n te maiu aei bon te bong are aomata ana karaoi aia beku.” Ti aki tangiria, n aron te kaatuun are I tatangiria, ni matutu rinanon te maiu aei.

Ana banna ni katooto te Tia Kamaiu n te nanorinano ao te anganano ibukiia aomata ni kabane bon te kabanea n tamaroa n taai ake ngkoa. Te Tia Kamaiu, riki ngkai kain te Aro n Atua, e rangin tauraoi n roko nakon te aonaaba ni mangori n aron te teei ae bungiaki ao ni moan riki are e raonaki n te reirei ao kamaiuaia tarina ao mwanena ao te korakai ae korakora ae aki kona ni kabwarabwaraaki n te maraki i Keketemwane iaon te kaibangaki bwa ti na kakororaoa Ana Mwakuri ni Kamaiu. Te mwakuri n tangira aei ao te nanorinano n ana itera Kristo e kinaaki bwa e karinanoa. E karaoa aio ibukiia mwane ao aine ni kabane are e a tia ni karikiia ao ake e na karikiia te Atua.

Tamara are i Karawa e aki tangiriia natina bwa a na bwarannano ke n taenikai iaon karekean neia ni mimitongin te tiretio. Ngkana ti bon iangoa raoi te Atua ao te Tama ao Kristo te Nati, ake n Aroia, ake A tia ni katia ibukira, e kaoniira n te karinerine, tarau, kakaitau, ao te nanorinano.

Te Nanorinano e Kakaawaki ni Buokan Katean Ana Ekaretia te Uea.

Aramwa e titiraki n ana bong are e kaineti ma te bong aei: “Ao ngkana kam a tia n rinanon te bitaki n nano, ao ngkana kam a tia n namakina te kan anenea kunan te tangira ni kaboomwi, I kan titirakini ngkami, kam kona n namakinna ngkai?” E reitia Aramwa, “Kam kona n taekinna, ngkana kam a weteaki nakon te mate n te tai aio, … inanomi, bwa kam a tia n nanorinano n ae tau?”

Ni katoatai are I wareka iai taekan Aramwa te teei ni kanakoa tibwangana bwa mataniwin te aba n tataekina ana taeka te Atua, I kukurei. Aramwa e matata n ana koaua iroun te Atua te Tama ao Iesu Kristo ao e namakinna bwa e bukintaeka nakoia ni kabane n aki tataua arona. A eti ana moanibwai ao e nanorinano n anga arona ao nakoana ibukina bwa e ataia bwa te beku ibukin te Uea e kakawaki riki.

Karekean te nanorinano ae tau inanon maiura e buokiira ni katea te Ekaretia e bon rang kakaawaki. Te katooto n rongorongon te Ekaretia e kaotaki. Inanon Tuun n 1837, te Burabeti Iotebwa e kaonaki n te tamnei ngke e mena n te Kirtland Tembora bwa e na wetea Abotoro Heber C. Kimball bwa e na uota ana euangkerio Iesu Kristo nako “Engiran … ao ni kauki mataroa ni kamaiu nakoia te botanaomata.” Abotoro Orson Hyde ao tabeman riki a katabeaki bwa a na raonna. Ana kaeka Unimwaane Kimball e rang tamaroa. “Te iango n rineaki nakon te mition ae kakaawaki e kuri raka riki nakon are I kona ni karaoia. … [I] a bon kuri n tauraoi n iinako iaan te uota are e katokaaki iaou.” E ngae n anne, e karaoa te mition ma te onimaki ni koaua, te motinnano, ao te nanorinano.

N tabetai te nanorinano bon butimwaean te wewete ngkana ti aki namakinna ae ti tau. N tabetai te nanorinano bon te beku ma te kakaonimaki ngkana ti namakina te konabwai ni karaoan mwakuri aika kai kinaaki. Taan kairiiri aika nanorinano a tia n taekinaki ao man banna ni katoto ake a kateaki bon tiaki te tabo are a beku iai, ma aroia ni kakaonimaki ni beku. N tabetai te nanorinano e kaonaki n namakin aika korakai ngkana ti namakinna bwa taan kairiiri ke membwa tabeman aki akoniira.

N Turai 23, 1837, te Burabeti Iotebwa e kaitibo ma Unimwaane Thomas B. Marsh, te Beretitenti n te Kooram n te Tengaun ma Uoman. Unimwaane Marsh e rang un ngkai te Burabeti e a tia ni weteia riki uoman kain ana Kooram bwa a na nako Engiran n aki reitaki nakoina. Ngke e kaitibo ma Iotebwa Unimwaane Marsh, e katinanikui namakin akanne, ao te Burabeti e karekei kaotioti aika tamaroa. N te tai aei ai te ka 112 ni mwakoro n Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu. E anga kairiiri aika tamaroa mai karawa ma karinean te nanorinano ao te mwakuri ni mitinare. Te kibu 10 ewarekaki, “Ko na nanorinano; ao te Uea ae Atuam e na kairiko ni baina, ao n anganiko kaekaan am tataro.”

Te kaotioti aei e riki bon te bong raoi are Unimwaane Kimball, Hyde, ao John Goodson, a kaonaki iai n te nanorinano, a tataekina Kaokakin ana euangkerio Iesu Kristo n te Umwantabu i Preston, Engiran. Aio bon te moan tai irouia mitinare n tataekina kaokakin te euangkerio i tinanikun Amerika Meang ni boong aikai. Aia mwakuri ni mitinare e karekea te bwabetito ae tawe ao e kairiia membwa aika kakaonimaki aika koro mwaitiia.

Te mwakoro are e rimwiiaki n te kaotioti e kaira aia mwakuri mitinare n ara bong. A warekia n te mwakoro, “Bwa ane ko kanakoa n arau … a na karekea te mwaaka ni kauki mataraoan abanueau nakon aba ake ko kanakoia nakoia … ngkana a teimatoa n nanorinano i matau, ao ni kakaonimaki n au taeka, ao n ongo nakon bwanaan Tamneiu.”

Te nanorinano are e boutoka aia mwakuri mitinare ae tamaroa aei e katea Ana Ekaretia te Uea n te aro ae kamiimi.

Ma te kukurei, ti reitinako n nora aio n te Ekaretia n te bong aei. Kain te aro, n ikotaki ma te roro ae tabe n rikirake, a anganako aia tai ao a karimwiia aia reirei ao aia mwakuri bwa a na nako ni mitinare. Angiina kain te aro aika a maan n te mwakuri a kitani aia mwakuri ni karaoi anganano tabeua bwa a aonga ni beku ibukin te Atua n aro nako are a weteaki nako iai.Ti aki kariaia kaangaanga ni maiura bwa a ana tukiira man katiaan Ana kantaninga. Te ibuobuoki n te Ekaretia e kainnanoa te nanorinano. Ti nanorinano ni beku ngkai ti weteaki ma marurungira, ara iango, ao korakorara. N tian nako te Ekaretia, e kakaawaki bwa ti na ota n anuan Kristo n nanorinano.

N teimatoa n nanorinano E Kakaawaki ni Buokaia Aomata nako ni katauraoi ni Kaitibo ma te Atua

Te kouru ni karinean te Uea ao n anga ngaira nakon Ana kantaninga e aki kabonganaaki irouia te botanaomata ni bong aikai nakon taai ake rimoa. Tabeman mataniwi ni Kiritian n aro ake tabeua a kakoaua bwa ti maiu n aonaaba are e aki kakaawaki iai te aro ni Kiritian.

Inanon roro ma roro, taraakin te nanorinano n te aro ni Kiritian n Iutaia n taai akekei e teimatoa n tiku bwa te kainibaire ae bwainaki.

N te aonaaba ni bong aikai, iai rakan tein te kainikatonga, taraakin temanna i bon irouna bwa e kakaawaki, ao n tabetai a ribuaka nakoia tabeman ni kaota kabwakan te nanorinano ni koaua. Tabeua kaotiango iaon anua ni maiu aika kakukurei ni boong aikai e raonaki ni “bwaina te koaua, na korakora, bwaina te kakamwakuri—ao ae kakaawaki[riki], tai katan iaia tabeman … ibukina bwa baiream … are inanon baim.”

Koroboki aika a tabu e anga te maroro ae kaokoro. A taekinna bwa ti riai n riki bwa ana reirei ni koaua Iesu Kristo. Aio e irekereke ma katean te namakin ae korakora ni bukintaeka nakon te Atua ao te nanorinano nakon te maiu. Te Uea ae Beniamiina e reirei bwa bon ana kairiribai te Atua te aro n aomata, ao e taekinna bwa ti riai ni kakauongo “nakon ana wirikiriki te Tamnei ae Tabu.” e kabwarabwara, ibuakon bwaai ake tabeua, bwa aio e kainnanoa te riki “n ongeaba, n ongotaeka, n nanorinano,n taotaonakinnan[n] onrake n te tangira.”

Tabeua aki kabonganaan raoi te bwai ae onimakinaki bwa bukamaruan te aro n aomata ao anua ake a kaitara ma te nanorinano, akoi, nanoanga, kabwarabure, ao ataakin te katei. Ti kona ni bukamarua arora n onoti ngkai natin te Atua n aki kabonganai aro n onimakinaki bwa te kawai ni birinako man anua aika aki katotonga Kristo.

N ara kakae ibukin te nanorinano, te intanete n taai aikai e kariki kaangaanga n totokoan te kainikatonga. Uoua katoto iaon irakin nanom “bon taraai” taraakim ke uruakan aroia tabeman man korean taekaia tabeman n uruana aroia iaon bwaai n reitaki n te intanete. Teuana riki te katoto iaon “amboburaeki.” Ekabwarabwaraaki bwa e “na taraa n riai ke te maroro ae karinanoko [ke tamnein] temanna are e na katika te kantaninga nakon te bwai are e kamoamoa iai temanna.” Te burabeti e kaman kauring iaon te kainikatonga ao ni katuruturui bwaai aika a manreirei n te aonaaba.

Rikiraken buakakan te reitaki n akea te karinerine bon ngaia naba te tabeaianga. Te reirei ae akea tokina n te rinerine e kantaningaia bwa ti na karinerine n rinerine aika mwaiti ake ti aki boraoi ma ngaia. Itabarara ao te untaba ngkai a urua “tian ataakin te riai ae tabangaki.” Ti kainnanoi riki aroaro aika raraoi ao te nanorinano.

Aramwa e kauring ni kaitaraan ae “a rang onrake nanomi n te kainikatonga,” are angkoa “kam taku bwa kam raoiroi riki nakoia tabemwaang, eng, kambwainikirinia tarimi, ake a kananorinanoia man nakonako ni kawain ana karinan ae tabu te Atua.”

I a tia ni kunea te tamaroa ae kakaawaki ibuakoia aomata man aro ni kabane ake a nanorinano ao n namakina te bukintaeka nakon te Atua. Angiina a ira ana reirei te burabeti n te O Tetemanti are Mika are e taekinna, “Tera ae E ukoukoria Iehova mai roum, wba ti te karaoa ae eti, ma te tangira te nanoanga, ma te nako n nanorinano ma Atuam?”

Ngkana ti nanorinano ni koaua, ti tataro ibukin te kabwarabure ao kabwarakin aia bure tabeman. Ngkai ti wareware ni Motiaea, Aramwa e reirei bwa n tainako ngkana ti rairi nanora, te Uea e na kabwarai ara bure. N iterana are teuana, are e kabwarabwara n ana tataro te Uea, ngkana ti aki kabwarai aia bure raora, ti na karekea te rekenikai nakoira. Ibukin ana Mwakuri ni Kamaiu Iesu Kristo, rinanon te rairannano ao a kabwaraaki ara bure. Ngkana ti aki kabwarai aia bure akana a bure nakoira, ti aki butimwaea ana Mwakuri ni Kamaiu te Tia Kamaiu. Tauan te nano n riribai ao n rawa ni kabwarabure nakon te reitaki n anuan Kristo e na uotiira nakon te kabuakakaaki. Tauakin te nano n riribai e kamamaarai tamneira.

N na kauring naba ibukin aekakin nako te kainikatonga. Te Uea, rinanon te burabeti ae Moronaai, e kamatataraoi te kaokoro imarenan te kainikatonga ao te nanorinano: “A bwainingare aika a nanobaba, ma a na nanokawaki; ao e bon tau au akoi nakoia aika a nanorinano.” E rimoa ni kamataata te Uea, “I anganiia aomata mamaaraia bwa aonga n nanorinano; ao e tau au akoi nakoia aomata ni kabane ake a kananorinanoia i matau, ma n onimakinai, ao ngkanne N na kakorakorai mamaaraia nakoia.”

Te nanorinano e airi naba ma te kakaitau ibukin kakabwaia aika a mwaiti ao te ibuobuoki mai karawa. Te nanorinano tiaki te tokanikai ae kinaaki ke bon te tokanikai iaon tabeua kaangaanga aika korakora. Bon kanikinaean te korakora n tamnei. Bon karekean te mweengaraoi n te bong ao n te aoa are ti kona iai ni katan iaon te Uea, ni beku ibukina, ao n tokanikai n Ana kantaninga. Bon au tataro bwa n te aonaaba ae korakora te kakauntaeka iai ti na reitinako ni kataia n nanorinano ni koaua ni katoabong. Te kamatenano are I tatangiria e taekinna ni kangai:

Kataaki n te korakora bon te kawai

Temanna ae kaitibo ma ae akea tokina ni Katoabong.

I kaota au kakoaua ae matoa iroun te Tia Kamaiu ao Ana Mwakuri ni Kamaiu ao kakaawakin te nanorinano ni beku ibukina ni katoabong. N aran Iesu Kristo, amen.

Bwaai aika a na taraaki

  1. Kathy Lette, in “Town and Country Notebook,” ed. Victoria Marston, Country Life, Tuun 7, 2017, 32; e kairaki katuruturuana.

  2. Annie Tempest, “Tottering-by-Gently,” Country Life,Okitobwa. 3, 2012, 128.

  3. Taraa Taian Areru 90:4. Bwa e uarereke ke e abwabwaki iaon te aba, abwakin maiura iaon te aba e rang uarereke man taraana ae akea tokina. “Bwa iroun te Atua aikai ti teuana te bong, ao te tai e bon ti babaireaki ibukiia aomata.” (Aramwa 40:8). Te Abotoro Betero e katanoata, “Ma, e na tai raba te baei ae ti teuana nako imi, ngkai kam kan tangiraki, ba ti te bo te bong ae ti te bongina ma ririki aika tengaa iroun te Uea” (2 Betero 3:8).

  4. Taraa Mote 1:6–9. Aio Kristo ae taetae ma te kariaiakaki mai karawa (taraa Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith [2013], 47, footnote 11).

  5. Mote 1:10

  6. Mote 1:39

  7. 2 Nibwaai 26:33; tara naba Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 1:34–35; 38:16; Katanoata ae Bwainaki 2.

  8. Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 20:37 waaki man, “Ni kabane ake a nanorinano imatan te Atua.” Katei i moa bwaai aika a kainnanoaki ibukin te bwabetito. taraa naba Mataio 11:28.

  9. Taraa Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 20:37.

  10. Ti ataia bwa ngkana ti aki rairi nanora, ni karekei otenanti, ao n iri kawain berita aika a tabu are e katauraoira nakon ae akea tokina, “ao e na [roko] te bong ae rootongitong are akea te beku ae kona ni karaoaki iai” (Aramwa 34:33

  11. Taraa 3 Nibwaai 27:27.

  12. Aramwa 34:32.

  13. Taraa 1 Nibwaai 11:26–33; 2 Nibwaai 9:53; Iakobwa 4:7; Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 122:8.

  14. Aramwa 5:26

  15. Aramwa 5:27.

  16. Taraa Aramwa 4:19.

  17. Joseph Smith, Heber C. Kimball, “History of Heber Chase Kimball By His Own Dictation,” ca. 1842–1856, Heber C. Kimball Papers, Church History Library; Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, An Apostle; The Father and Founder of the British Mission 1888), 116.

  18. Heber C. Kimball, “History of Heber Chase Kimball by His Own Dictation,” 54; taraa naba Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, 116.

  19. Beretitenti J. Reuben Clark e reirei, “Inanon te beku ibukin te Uea, tiaki te tabo are ko beku iai ma arom ni beku. N ana Ekaretia Iesu Kristo ibukiia Aika Itiaki ni Boong Aika Kaitira, temana are e onea mwiin temanna e karaoa te wewete, n te tabo are e ukoukora temanna n aki kaakia” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1951, 154).

  20. Taraa The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 5: October 1835-January 1838, ed. Brent M. Rogers ao tabeman riki (2017), 412–17. Vilate Kimball e riiboti n te reta nakon kainnabana, Heber C. Kimball, bwa e a tia ni karekea katotongan te kaotioti mairoun “Unimwaane Marshs n ana boki are e koreia mai wiin Iotebwa” (Vilate Murray Kimball to Heber C. Kimball, Tebetembwa 6, 1837, n The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 5: Okitobwa 1835–January 1838, 412).

  21. Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 112:10; e kairaki katuruturuana.

  22. Taraa Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball,136–37.

  23. Taraa Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, 149.

  24. Reirei ao Berita aika Tabu 112:21–22; e kairaki ma katuruturuana.

  25. “Ngkai ti aki tuatua bwa ti na kakerikaakaki man nakoara, ngkana e bitaki arona e na bon karaoaki n arona ibukira ni maroro ma naake a kanakoa te wewete ao ngkanne a na maroroakinna.” (Boyd K. Packer, “Called to Serve,” Ensign, Nobembwa. 1997, 8).

  26. Taraa “Humility,” ni mwakoro 6 nPreach My Gospel: A Guide to Missionary Service2004), 120.

  27. Taraa Charles J. Chaput, Strangers in a Strange Land2017), 14–15; taraa naba Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option 2017).

  28. Carl Cederstrom, “The Dangers of Happiness,” New York Times, Turai 19, 2015, SR8.

  29. Motiaea 3:19

  30. English Oxford Living Dictionaries, “humblebrag,” oxforddictionaries.com.

  31. N aro tabeua aio e kaoka ana kabwarabwara Aramwa irouia naake a tangiriia ni kan atai“ aekan bwaai nako aika bobuaka, ake a karekei man aia mwakuri korakora; … [ma] a … bon rikirake ni kainikatonga” (Aramwa 4:6). E a tia ni ataaki bwa “humblebrag” bon te kamoamoa naba.

  32. David Brooks, “Finding a Way to Roll Back Fanaticism,” New York Times, Aokati. 15, 2017, A23.

  33. Aramwa 5:53, 54.

  34. Mika 6:8.

  35. Taraa Motiaea 26:30.

  36. Taraa Mataio 6:12, 15

  37. Taraa Motiaea 26:31.

  38. Ngke e taekinna Nelson Mandela said, “Te un n nano kaanga ai aekan nimakin te boitin ao imwiina kantaningaakina bwa e na tiringiia am kairiribai” (in Jessica Durando, “15 of Nelson Mandela’s Best Quotes,” USA Today, Ritembwa. 5, 2013, usatoday.com).

  39. Ita 12:26, 27: e kairaki katuruturuana.

  40. Edmund Vance Cooke, “The Eternal Everyday,” Impertinent Poems (1907), 21.