GT SMOT “Odd times…”
Me, speaking in tongues – tired from wrestling with my thoughts: “Ongia makeia makee.”
Sometimes when I can’t shake my thoughts, I speak in tongues to jam my brain and make it stop. I remembered this phrase and put it in Google Translate. After changing the spelling to the above version , it came out as a complete sentence in Hawaiian.
GT: “It’s like dying.”
Me: “Hahaha! That’s true.” (Referring to wrestling with my thoughts.) Then I prayed, “Lord, help me to die to my flesh, and take up Your thoughts about me.”
The Holy Spirit washed over me and gave me peace – all voices stopped. Or as GT translates in Hawaiian: “Ua kau mai ka ʻUhane Hemolele ma luna oʻu a hāʻawi mai iaʻu i ka maluhia.”
To do as 1 John 4:1-3 says to “test the spirits”, I have continued to use Google Translate to give me a possible meaning to my utterances. It has been interesting. Although I consider Google Translate to be a tool, like a hammer, and not a spirit, I came across a very perverse translation to whatever I tried to record. It is possible that my spelling of whatever I said was bad which lead Google Translate to give the meaning in English that it did. However, the translation was so perverse I haven’t been back.
Again, it was a line all in one language, this time Vietnamese, which I find to be furiously fascinating. Why would it be like that? I don’t know any Vietnamese. I can only assume like in Acts 2:6, that it was being spoken in a language someone knew. But no Vietnamese person was here, and it sure wasn’t the Gospel that was being translated.
In the end, let this be a warning. Translations of tongues must be garnered with scrutiny and discernment. I wouldn’t take wholesale what any source gives as its definitive meaning.