We will go with you to heaven
Yijínango ua aja gaté Ecarai
Ecarai prays:
Yoque Dupade, today we are very grateful for your teachings that tell us about how we will go with you to heaven, Yoque Dupade, when you return. Yoque Dupade, we pray to you about this today. We are very thankful that you tell us what your Words mean: and your scriptures tell us about the things that you hate. Help us today to understand your Words. Dupade, we pray to you in the name of your Son Jesus. Amen.
Ecarai teaches us about the good things that Dupade does for us:
Dupade’s Words tell us about the good things that Dupade does for us. It tells us how Jesus, the one who is like our ‘head,’ will take us with him one day. And as Jesus is the ‘head’ of his believers, his Father is his ‘head.’ To explain to us God’s ways, Jesus told us, “My Father is my head,” and, he said, “I am your head.”
This is what Paul told his fellow believers: “I have told you to be like me and to believe in Dupade. So don’t go back to how you were before.”
Jesus was the one that Paul listened to. What I am teaching you is that what Jesus did brought about our salvation, and that’s what I want you to know. And that is the way it is for us today. We teach each other about what Jesus did because we know that Jesus is our only Savior. Jesus is our brother and our friend. This is what Paul taught his countrymen long ago about what Jesus did. It’s the same way with us today, for we teach each other about what Dupade has done for us as our creator.
Dupade is our helper. We can’t see Dupade’s finger as he helps us with out work, but we know that Jesus gives life to us. Jesus gives our minds to us, and our health. That’s why we say: “Dupade helps us.”
If someone doesn’t know this, if he doesn’t realize it’s Dupade’s finger that is helping him with his work, it’s as though he doesn’t know anything. When we know that Dupade is the one that gives us life, health, and strength, we know this because Jesus has given us this knowledge.
Though we do not see Dupade’s finger helping us with our work, we still can say: “Jesus helps me, because we know that he is our maker; Jesus is the creator of all things.” Therefore, we tell each other the ways in which Jesus provides things for us. That he is the one that gives us life. And that he gives us health.
A man said: “I’m waiting for Dupade to start helping me.”
There was a man who once said: “I need to hoe my field, but I’m still waiting to see if Dupade will help me with it.”
So, he lays down his axe and goes visiting. Then he goes back to his field he says: “Why is it that I don’t see anywhere that Dupade has been hoeing. Dupade hasn’t helped me.” But that man doesn’t understand; he mistakenly believed that Dupade would hoe his garden for him.
But Dupade helps in the way I explained to you. We know that Jesus gives life to us. And it is in that way that Jesus helps us with things. That man, whoever he was, said: “Dupade didn’t help me at all with my hoeing. Dupade didn’t hoe my garden.” But he didn’t know that Jesus is his helper. The way Jesus helped him was by giving him life, and strength. But the man wanted Jesus to hoe the weeds in his field for him. He didn’t fully understand Dupade’s Words. Therefore, he said: “Dupade didn’t hoe for me.”
That man did not thank Dupade for his life, his strength, and his health. He thought of Dupade as just another human being, rather than our creator. Come now, we must not consider Dupade as our worker, but, instead, it would be a good to consider ourselves his workers. Let’s do the things our boss has for us to do, and let’s thank him for the things he is always giving us. (Acts 17:26-27)
Key:
Dupade – God
Yoque Dupade – Our God
Dupade’s Words – Word of God, Bible
Ecarai – Tobité, Bolivia – 1960.
Transcribed and translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
