-Kham Minthang
“Na upna takdan (genuine faith) ka theigige hi. Tua upna tak, na pi Loisi ah leh, na nu Eunisi ah a teeng masa hi. Nangmah ah zong a teeng chih theitel in ka muang hi” (2 Timothy 1:5).
Eimah a om lametna hon dong peuhmah dawng ding a kimansa a (1 Peter 3:15) i om theihna diing in upna taktak eimah a a-om masak phamoh hi. Hiai lametna i neih theihna ‘upna tak’ pen bangchi dan a luahsawn a bangchi dan a piaksawn a om hi hiam chih Bible a tangthu omte pansan in i sut diing. Hiai ‘upna tak’ pen piaksawnna ah numeite’n zong panmun (role) poimohtak luah i hi chih kon thupuak nop ahi.
Timothy kiang a sawltak Paul laikhakte i sim leh Paul in Timothi a muan mahmahdan i sim in I muthei ahi. Hichibang muantaak valnou bangchi bang a hong kisakhia (develop) hiam chih i etleh, a dontu-kemtu, a Nu leh a Pi in nasatak in panna ana nei uh chih Paul laikhak tungtawn ah muhtheih in om hi.
- Timothy bang a valnou ginna kichiantak nei bang chi dan a hong om khia ahia?
Timothy toh a pi Loisi leh a nu Eunice
Khovel mipil misiamte’n zong numei panmun manphatdan ana thei in hichi bang in ana gen uhi. William Ross Wallace (1819-1881), American Poet, in “Nauluai veitu khut huai khut mahmah in khovel ah vai ahawm” (The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world) chih laadawng ana gelh hi. Hiai in a gennop pentak hi a theih ahihleh, mi khat in a naudon khohei-gamtat leh lungpuut diing zia banah khangsawn hong om diing lunggeel bawl ahihdan a gen. Tua banah numei in naupang ngaihtuahdan a thuzohna genkai hi. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in zong numei poimohna gen lang in “Nu manpha hon pia un, nam manpha leh etlawm hong suah diing kon chiam ahi” (Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation) a chi ahi.
Bible in zong numei a genna ah “Numei pil in a inn alam a, numei hai in bel ama’ khut mahmaha a inn phel hi” (Paunakte 14:1) a chih banah “Ngaihbaanna zaw khemhat a, melhoihna zong a mualpah hi. Tangtawn Toupa laudan siam numei in bel phat lawh diing hi. A lawhtak pahtakman pia unla, ama’ nasepte mah in kongpi ah amah phat hen aw” (Paunakte 31:30-31) chihte in numei dinmun ana genchian hi. Huaiziakin numei nasep hoih khempeuh ana kipahpih a tawisang i sinlai masa ahi.
Khotaang ah, innsung ah, sahkhua ah zong numei in poimohna liantak nei ahi chih Paul banah khovel mipil-misiam leh tupguhnei mite’n a thei vek uhi. Hiai dinmun lenkha numeite mahmah in zong i phawk diing ahi. Numei thilhihtheihna (potential) leh diktak a suahkhiak (utilize) diing pen galvan kichiantak ahih phawk tuak ahi. Numei khempeuh in i thahatna, i thilhihtheihna, i hihzohna theitek lehang, thu-up lametna piaksawnna ah thupi kha venchia maw! I tapate, i pasalte nasatak a thuaptu, hahkat saktu, tawsawntu in a hi gige uh chih muhsuah thak in om maw!
Bible pumpi i etsuak leh numei min tampi leh a mi hihna uh i sim kha ahi. Thukhun Lui ah numei ziak a mi hat puk, numei ziak a kumpi gam pukna kipan, numei ziak a nam pumpi in suahtakna/damna ngah, numei ziak a kumpi gilou leh kumpi chingkam kisiam khia chihte i simkha vek ahi. Hiaite ah sinlai laktuak taktak om ahihman in i ensuk diing.
ETKHIAK KHATNA: DELILAH (Numei ziak a mihat pukna)
(Vaihawmmite 16)
Filistia Vaihawmte: (Delilah kiang ah) Samson na zawl inla, a thahatna vangletna thuguk na zongkhia inla, amah manzou a, hentom a ka zahlaksak theihna diing uh ana zong in(16:5).
Delilah: (Hiai bang mah a gensawn in) (Samson kiang ah) Na thahatna vangletna thusim hon hilh in. Mi’n bang chi in hon hentom in hon zahlak sak thei dia? a chi hi (16:6).
Samson dawnnate:
- (Khatveina ah) Savun khau thak nomlai sagih in hon hen le uh
- (Nihveina ah) Khauzen thak zat nailouh ngen in hon hen le uh
- (Thumveina ah) Ka samphek sagihte siambu-a khihna khau toh hekkhawm uhenla, siambu khetphim in kilhchip le uh
Delilah in a zohkhiak dan:
Delilah: (Samson kiang ah) Na lungtang in lah hon muang loupi bangchi dan a: kon it, chichi thei na hia? (Si diing hial a achimtakluat masiah, nisim in tua bang in a phuphu mai hi)
Tua khit in –
Samson: (Delilah kiang ah a lungsim a omteng a hilh vek a) Ka pian chil apan Pathian a diing a sehtuam Nazir mi kahi a, ka sam met ngeilouh ahi. Ka sam kimet leh, ka thahatna bei diing a, midang bang a hatnabei hi mai diing ka hi, a chi hi.
Sinlai muhsuah: Gintak khel in numei in pasal tung ah lungsim thuguk laisuah theihna leh kheksak theihna (convincing power) anei nasa mahmah chih muh in a om. Samson in khatveina leh nihveina ah a thahatna thuguk a hilh kei. A thumveina ah a thahatna thuguk a sam ahihdan a gen kha mialmialta ahi. A liveina ah bel iim zou nawnlou in a thahatna thuguk tengteng a genkhevek maimah ahi. Pasal thahat tak zong numei in zol zohlouh neilou ahihdan thei ni. With persistence and consistency.
ETKHIAK NIHNA: JEZEBEL (Numei ziak a kumpigam pukna kipan)
(1 Kumpipate 18-22)
Kua ahia Jezebel? – Sidon kumpipa Ethbal tanu ahi. Israel kumpipa Ahab zi a hongpang ahi. Numei melhoihtak leh dan theitak leh vaihawm siam (gilou taka) ahi hi. Israel kumpinu ahih sung in Baal leh Aserah milim biakna lam ah kiva mahmah in, Baal siampu 400 leh Aserah kamsang 450 ama’ dohkan a ann nekkhawmpih in hahpan mahmah hi. (1 Kumpipate 18:19) Baal biakna Israelte lakah hon pawlut a, a pasal Ahab mahmah in zong amah ma a Israel kumpite khempeuh sang in Israel Pasian hehsak diing in thilgilou a hih tamzaw hi (1 Kumpipate 16:33).
Gilou tak a vaihawm siam ahihna ahihleh, Dan in a phallouh himahleh Naboth grephuan Ahab a diing in a hei khethei ahi. Naboth in a grephuan zuak a phalkei. Ahab in a ngen teitei theikei. Himahleh Jezebel in grephuan laksuh theihna diing in, grephuan toh kisai kha hetlou bang in, theihpihtu diklou guai in Naboth ‘Pasian leh kumpipa gensia a ngoh a om in suang in a denglum sak ahi’ (1 Kumpipate 21:1-16).
Sinlai muhsuah: Jezebel enton ni chi in kon kun ahikei. Himahleh numei melhoihtak, pilna siamna nei a feltak leh diktat taka vaihawm ing in kon ngen ahi. Biakna limsak na ah leh Pasian mite zintun na ah i dem ing ahi. Huai bana i hih in tuh Jezebel banglou deuh in hoihna lam a amah tan a chiamteh tham ching hih kon gingta ahi.
ETKHIAK THUMNA: ESTHER (Numei hang a nam pumpi in damna ngah)
Hadasa zong kichi Esther mi tagah ahi. Benjamin nam a Abihail tanu ahi a, apa’n a sihsan ahi. A pa sanggampa, Mordekai in a kep ahi a, melhoihtak ahihban ah etlawm theipen a zuun leh kep a om ahi hi (Esther 2:9). Namdang lak a om gamdangmi ahi a, Juda dan leh hihna kepbit toh kisai a mi chitak ahih chih Esther lehkhabu/tangthu akipan i muthei ahi. A kumpinu Vasti in kumpipa thu anial ziak in kumpinu hihna akipan paihkhiak in om a (Esther 1:20), huai mun ah Esther, Persia kumpipa Ahasura zi in, a hong pang a, dinmun sangtak, kumpinu hihna, piak in a om ahi (Esther 2:17).
Babulon kumpigam hongpuk toh kiton in Persia Kumpipa Cyrus in Juda saltangte Jerusalem kiktheihna phalna pia hi (2 Kronikil 36:23). Himahleh a chiahkiklou pawl in Esther leh apa innkote huai gam ah taam den uhi. Esther kumpinu hong hih nung in zong a paneu Mordekai toh ki thuzakden uh a, kumpipa hinna leh kumpigam kepbitna ah chiamteh theih in thuguk omte Esther tungtawn in kumpipa zaksak in om hi (Esther 2:22-23). Tuabang kal ah, Haman, Agagmi, Hammedatha tapa kumpipa’n a kaisang sak a, vaihawmte tengteng tung a diing in a om sak ahi. Mite’n zahtak mahmah ahihman un niamtak a kun in chibai a buk sek uhi. Himahleh Mordekai ama ah a kunkei chih a theihtak in a heh mahmah hi. Mordekai tung kia a khutkhak bang thamlou in a ngaihtuah a, a mite, Juda khempeuh hihgawp diing in thu a veita ahi (Esther 3:4-6).
Huchiin kumpipa a chiil a Judate hih manthatna diing in kumpipa zungbuh nasan a tung ah aapkhiak in a om hi. Haman in kumpipa laigelhmite a samlut a, a thupiak bangbang in kumpipa heutulian leh kumpipa bial chih a omte tengteng kiang ah laigelh in a omta hi. Bial chih kiang ah, michih kiang ah a pau bangzel un, kumpipa Ahasuera min in a kigelh a, kumpipa zungbuh in suai a kisawn hi (Esther 3:12-14). Hiai in Judate, Persia kumpigam a omkha khempeuh, a lungzing sakta mahmah hi. Mordekai in Esther panpihna ava ngen a, huchiin hiai Juda ‘numei’ in pan hon la hi.
Ni thum vingveng kisakkholhna a neih khit in, Esther hoihtak a kizem in kumpipa kiang ava hoh hi. Kumpipa leh Haman ann ne diing in a va chial a, a ni nih ni in Esther in kumpipa mai ah a vui na thu leh amah leh a mite hihgawp a a omdek dan thu a genta ahi (Esther 7:4). Huchibang lunggel nei Haman hangsantak in kumpipa mai ah a kawk a, a namte melma pa ahi chi’n a mualphou sak hi.
Sinlai muhsuah: Khopi thupi taktak a om, pilna-siamna chi le hang vual toh tanbang kim a Pasian in hon vualzawlte i hi uh. Sepna mun a dinmun sang taktak i letna ah thudik mah chi diingte hi hang. Tangthupha gupna ah panla chiat diing in kisa ni. Thudik selmang a a-om hun ahihkei leh Tanchin Hoih ahilou bang a gen ahih hun chiang a, Esther bang a hangsan suah a, i hihna leh i dinmun thei a, kei hon sawk khakei na inteh chi a daihdide maimah theihlouh ahih hon sinsak hi. Mordekai in Esther kiang a a thukhah “Hiai hun a na daihdide leh huhna leh hutkhiakna mun dang a pan hong piang diing a, nang leh na pa innkawte na mangthang diing uh. Hibang hun a diing a kumpi hihna dinmun hongtung na hihmel kua’n a thei a eita?” (Esther 4:14). Hiai in eite hon zelden leh chih i deih ahi.
ETKHIAK LINA: JUDA KUMPINUTE (Numei hang a kumpi gilou leh chingkam kisiam khia)
Juda kumpigam a kumpi 20-te lak ah kumpi 5 kia bek in Pasian lam a kitunding na lam (reform) bawl lel uh hi. Amaute hiai a nuai a chart a bang in Asa, Jehoshaphat, Josiah, Hezekiah leh Josiah-te ahi uh. Hiai kumpi ngate’n amau hunte a Pasian lam a hon zon na uh ah anu hiam ahihkeileh a zite uhiam in panna ana neinawn uhi. Huchilou a akiak niam hunte uah zong numei ziak mah ana hi leuleu zel ahi.
Kumpi chingkam a chiamteh a om ngate i et leh a lal hunsung uh zong kum kilual deuh a muh in om hi. Kumpi gilou pen leh lal hunsung sawtpen a chiamteh a om Manesseh pen ahihleh bel Pasian in a kisiamthakna tung a thuchiam ziak a ana sawt lal hizaw hi (2 Kronikil 33:10-17).
Theihtuak khatna: Jehoshaphat hun a Pasian a zong uh a hinapi in a ta leh tu, Jehoram leh Ahaziah, hun a nasatak a kiakniamna uh banghang hi diing hiam? A ziak a hang hi a muhtheih a om ahihleh ‘zi leh ta kineihna tungtawn a Ahab innkuante a kizoppih’ (2 Kronikil 18:1) ziak hi a muh in om hi. 2 Kronikil 19:1-2 ah Hanani tapa, kamsang Jehu in Jehoshaphat kiang ah, “Nang mi dikloute huh a, Tangtawn Toupa muhdahte it diing maw? Hiai hang in, Tawngtawn Toupa’ thangpaihna na tung a om ahi” a chi ahi. Hiai in hon sinsaknop hi a theih ahihleh, i leitung hinkhua a lawkna/punna zonna ah melma toh thulaisat a kipomsiamna (compromise) hihtheih himawklou ana hi. Jehoshaphat leh Ahab kizolhna hang in numei gilou Athaliah in Juda kumpigam kum 7 sung pei lumlet in David khanggui Juda laltutphah a tu diing omlou dektak hi. Lawmpolh pilvang diing a poimoh banah zi neihna lam ah pilvang sem a poimohdan i muthei ahi.
Theihtuak nihna: Jehoram leh atapa Ahaziah hun ah Juda kumpite innsung ah tuahsiatna nasatak a tung ahi. Jehoram in a zi Athaliah ziak in Ahab innkawte’ lampite a hon zui pan a, Tangtawn Toupa’ mitmuh in thil gilou tawpkhawk ahih ahi. Ahangbel, ama’n Omri’ tanu khat a kitenpih man ahi (2 Kumpipate 8:18). Ahab innkawte toh a va kipolhna hang in Jehu khut ah Ahab tapa Joram leh Jehoram tapa Ahaziah thah in a omkha uhi. Huai phet hilou in Ahaziah tanaute kumpipa innkawte leh kumpinu innkawte chibai buuk diing a Samaria a hong hohtoute zong Jehu in a tuak kha a, Beth Eked tuikhuk kiang ah mi 42 tak a that ahi (2 Kumpipate 10:14). Ama’n hinghawi a nutsiat a neikei ahi. Hiai a sinlai i muh ahihleh Pasian deihlouhdan a pomsiamna i bawlte thuklouh a omlou uh ahihdan i muthei ahi. I sep leh i thilbawl peuhmah a Pasian deihdan i et masak pilhuai mahmah diing hi.
JUDA KUMPIGAM AH NUMEI CHIAMTEH TUAK KASAK NIH TEGEL
- JEHOSHEBA (Ninu’ hangsan)
Hiai numei ana omlou hileh Messiah hong suahna diing “khanggui” ana tat diing hi. Pasian in David chii in tangtawn in vaihawm diing chi a ana chiam zong taksuah lou diing hi. Khovel tangthu paidan kikheng diing hinapi in hiai nu thilhih kigenkha vevu lawlou hi. Bang ahia a thilhih chih zong tampitak in i theikei maimah diing. A tangthu ahihleh Thukhun Lui laibu sung ah gou manpha kiselgu bangmai in ana tuang ngitnget hi. Sisan suahna leh huham taka gamtat hunsung a athilhih bel lungkhoih huai mahmah banah diphawm sak thil ahihna ah sinlai tampi hon guan hi. A pasal, Jehoiada siampulian ahi a, Juda khangthu a kumpi tanu leh siampulian kinei om sun ahi uh.
Juda kumpite khanggui mangthang diing lai kembittu nu ahi hi. Kumpi Joash naungek ahih in a pi Athaliah in thah sawm a huai a na hum hing ahi. A pasal toh kithuah in kum guk sung vingveng ana kem ua, a kum sagihna a kumpi tutphah a tutsak a a-ompha in ana kem touden uhi. Huaijiak in Jehosheba mi hangsan (brave) ahi i chi lou theikei. Huai hunlai tak a kumpinu Athaliah langpang a thilhih diing a lauhhuai diing dan genvual ahikei. Tangthu in a gendan in Jehosheba in hiai a thilhih pen ‘thildik leh hoih’ a amuh ziak in ahih ahi, amah mimal hinna leh lauthawng huaina mangngilh in a kichi ahi. Banah Jehosheba numei piltak (clever) ahi hi. Kumpi Joash humbitna diing a athilhih tuh nasatak a ngaihtuahna piak a sep ngai ahihna ah i mu ahi. Kum guk sung bangchi sel diing, bangchi kep diing chihte gelfelsa leh sai veksa a koih ngai maimah diing ahih chiang in maw!
Sinlai muhsuah: Numei himah lehang, “thildik leh hoih” hi a i theih, etsakna diing in: thu-up ah hita hen aw, khosakna ah hita hen aw, koipeuh ah diklouhna in ma asuan hun ah, Jehosheba bang a thil dik leh thu hoih a pang ngam phamoh hi. Lauthawng huai hun ah hangsanna suah, buaina hun ah lunggel siamna pia, diklouhna in ma asuan hun ah dikna gum a pang tinten tuh hiai tangthu in hon sinsak hi in a muhtheih ahi.
- ABIJAH
Bible ah Abijah min mun nih lel ah muh in a om. 2 Kumpipate 18:2 leh 2 Kronikil 29:1-te ah muh in a om. Hiai munte ah bang ahia a hih? Bang sem ahia? chihte genkhak ahikei. Himahleh, a pasal kua ahia chih i theithei a, a pa kua hi hiam chihte i theithei ahi. A pasal ahihleh Juda kumpipa Ahaz ahi a, Pasian kipahna lam ana zonglou Juda kumpi ahi. Banah a pa kua ahia i chih nawn leh Israel kumpipa Zechariah ahi hi. A pa zong a pasal mahbang a kumpi thulimlou ahih banah Pasian kipahna diing zon a neilou kumpi ahi hi.
Abijah in a hinkhua ah hoihlou tampi ana tuak hi. Jabesh tapa Shallum in a pa Zechariah a thah in zong Abijah in mu ahi chih tangthu in gen hi. Huai kawmkal ah numei ahihna ah amah deihtelna hilou in kumpi gilou Ahaz toh kitensak in a om ahi. Huai hunlai in kumpi tanu leh kumpipa hiam, kumpi tapa hiam kitensak tuh chiindan a ana neih uh, kumpigam nih kal a kimatna/kitanauna a omna dia kichiing ahi hi.
Sinlai muhsuah: A pa inn a hoihlouhna tampi tuak khin, a pasal inn ah hoihlouhna mah toh teeng hinapi in, Abijah in Israel Pasian loungal belh diing dang neilou ahihdan a thiltuahte akipan a sinkhe daih ahi. Hoihlouhna a muhte akipan hoihna a laisuah a, huaite ‘huan-tu bang chiing in’ a tapa Hezekiah a sinsak a, kumpi hoihloutak tapa tuh kumpi hoihpen hi diing in a hon seekkhia ahi. Bible i sim leh Juda Kumpi Hezekiah sang a Pasian deihdan zong kumpi ana omkei him ahi. Numei khat: Pa gilou leh pasal gilou nei hinapi tapa hoihpen nei, tuh hiai Abijah ahi hi.
THUKHITNA: 1 Korinth-te 11:7 in “Numei ahihleh pasal thupina ahi…” a chi ahi. Hiai a tung a tangthu omte akipan i et leh pasal thupite numei in ana zemsiam ziak uh ahi a, huchi mahbang in pasal thulimloute zong a liim ah numei ana om veve hi. Numei in hihtheihna nasatak nei chih muhtheih in a om. Khovel paunak in “pasal lohchinna liim ah numei a om nak” (Behind every successful man, there is a woman) a chih zong dik mahmah diing hi. Himahleh hiai toh kizawitawn in “Numei ahihleh pasal pukna leh niamkiakna ahi” chihle zong i genkhial tuankei. Huaiziakin numeite khut a kinga mahmah ahi hi.
Bible ah “Numei a diing in pasal siam ahikei a, numei pen pasal a diing a siam ahi” (1 Korinthte 11:9) chih i mu ahi. Hiai pen simdan tangpi in pasal tungnun zawkna dan in i sim ahi, tun ah “numei pen pasal a diing a siam ahi” chih simthak inla, ngaihtuahna tamlou pethak mah dih! Pasal pen amah kia a bukimlou ahihna ah numei siam ana hingei mah ahi (Genesis 2:20-21). Numei omlou a pasal hitheilou zong kihisim ahi. Huaiziak a pasalte hon bukimsaktu numeite ana hihna ah, hoihna chii tuh a hoihna masuan diing a hon kawkmuh theitu numeite ana hihna ah, panna (role) thupitak neite ana hi uhi. Pangkhawm in hoihna lam mitsuan a nei in numei toh pasal in pheiphung suankhawm leng thupi kha na ven chia maw…!
“Ahihhang in, Toupa ah bel pasal zong numei apan tangdin ahikei. Numei zong pasal a kipan tangdin ahi samkei. Numei pen pasal apan hong om ahih bang in, pasal zong numei tungtawn a piang ahi. Ahihhang in, thilbangkim Pasian apan ahi” (1 Korinthte 11:11-12).