Te whakautu o te Paipera

 I kitea te Atua i ngā mea katoa me te whakamahi ki tōna e hiahia. (Ngā Whakataukī 15:3; Ngā Hīperu 4:13) Engari, kāhore i ako te Paipera kei roto te Atua i ngā mea katoa, i ngā wā katoa. Heoi, i mea atu he tuakiri ia, ka mutu kei runga rawa ia hei nohonga mōna.

•   Te tūranga Atua: He wairua te Atua. (Hoani 4:​24) Kāhore anō te tangata i kitea. (Hoani 1:​18) I meatia te Paipera mai ngā whakakitenga kei i a ia tōna tūranga motuhake. Kāhore e kore ia kei roto i ngā mea katoa.​—Īhāia 6:​1, 2; Whakakitenga 4:​2, 3, 8.

•   Te nohonga o te Atua: E noho ana te Atua i te ao wairua, he ao rerekē i ngā mea i hanga. I roto i te ao wairua “e noho nā [te Atua] i te rangi.” (1 Ngā Kīngi 8:​30) Ka kōrero hoki te Paipera mō te wā i tū ai ngā anahera, “kia tū ai rātou i te aroaro o Ihowā.” a E tautoko ana tēnei i te āhua o te Atua mō tōna wāhi motuhake.​—Hopa 1:6.

Ki te kore te Atua e noho whānui i ngā wāhi katoa, ka taea rānei e ia i te tiaki mai ki ahau?

 Āe. He ngākau aroha te Atua ki ia tangata. Ahakoa e noho ana ia i te ao wairua, ka kite tonu te Atua i te hunga kei te whenua i tino hiahia ana ki te whakamana i a ia, ā, ka whakamahi ia mō rātou. (1 Ngā Kīngi 8:​39; 2 Ngā Whakapapa 16:9) Whakaarohia me pēhea te whakaatu ai a Ihowā i tana manaaki ki te hunga i pono ana ki te karakia ki a ia:

•   I te wā īnoi ai: I te wā i īnoi koe i rongo ai a Ihowā.​—2 Ngā Whakapapa 18:31.

•   I te wā pōuri ai: “E tata ana a Ihowā ki te hunga ngākau marū: ka whakaorangia anō e ia te hunga wairua iro.”​—Ngā Waiata 34:18.

•   I te wā i rapu huarahi tika ai: Nā Ihowā i “tohutohungia koe e ahau, ka whakaakona koe” i roto i tōna kupu, te Paipera.​—Ngā Waiata 32:8.

Ngā whakaaro hē mō tēnei kaupapa

 Whakaaro hē: Ko tēnei te akoranga o te Paipera, e noho ana te Atua i ngā wāhi tini katoa. Arā te kī a Ngā Waiata 139:8: “Ki te kake ahau ki te rangi, kei reira koe: ki te wharikitia e ahau tōku moenga i roto i te rēinga [‘kororua’, rānei], kei reira anō koe.”