IESU hele i waho o kāna ala e hoʻokūkū i ka pono e "kiaʻi a pule" ma nā ʻeuanelio āpau. ʻO ia ma ka pōʻaiapili o kāna hoʻi ʻana mai. ʻO ke kiaʻi ʻana a me ka pule ʻana e "noho ʻia e ka ʻUhane," wahi a ka lunaʻōlelo Paul.
I say then: live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh...
(Gal 6: 16-17)
ʻO ka manawa o ka hapanui o mākou e hoʻomaka e ola "i ka ʻiʻo" ka mea mua i ke kakahiaka. No ke aha mai? No ka mea ke ala aʻe nei mākou, e hele i nā ʻano o ka lā, a noʻonoʻo ʻole i ke Akua. A no laila, hoʻomaka mākou i ke kino, a grumpily maʻamau. ʻAe mākou iā mākou iho e alakaʻi ʻia e ka ihu i loko o nā hewa "liʻiliʻi".
Akā ʻōlelo ʻo Petero,
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
(1 Pt 1: 13)
Ke ala ʻoe i ke kakahiaka, e ʻike i ke Akua, e noi i kāna kōkua, a kau paʻa i kona lima – ʻo ia hoʻi, e hoʻomau i ke kamaʻilio pū me ia a puni ka lā. Pono mākou e ʻeleu, a kau pono i ka noʻonoʻo i nā mea o ke Akua, a me nā mea āna e noi ai iā ʻoe i kēia manawa. E like me kā Paul i ʻōlelo ai,
Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
(Kol 3:2)
He mau mea hou aʻe kaʻu e ʻōlelo ai ma kēia lā ʻapōpō, kahi huaʻōlelo e puʻuwai nei i loko o koʻu puʻuwai no nā pule i kēia manawa. Akā inā hiki iā mākou ke nānā wale i kēia mea hoʻokahi–ke noho nei ma ka ʻUhane e ka ʻoliʻoli nui ʻana i ko mākou noʻonoʻo i ke alo o ke Akua a me kāna kauoha e aloha – ʻaʻole pono paha mākou i ka lā ʻapōpō.
ʻAʻole ia e hōʻoia ʻaʻole ʻoe e alo i nā hoʻowalewale, nā pilikia, a i ʻole kūleʻa. Akā inā kokoke ʻoe iā Kristo, e ala aʻe ʻoe me ka wikiwiki loa, no ka mea, nāna nō ʻo ʻoe e lālau.
...take every thought captive in obedience to Christ...
(2 Kor 10:5)