Title: Faith in All Things (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
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faith in all things
1 Thessalonians 5:18
There was once a member of the House of Representatives who was notable for his skill but was notorious for being stingy. As he became more and more famous, the original doctor's heart disappeared, and he did not know how to give and his greed increased. One day, he cured a small child who was not very ill. The mother came and thanked her and gave her a pretty silk bag as a gift. "Teacher, this is handmade. I'm sorry it's trivial, but please accept it." Seeing this, the stingy senator replies with a big shake of his head." I don't accept a reward as an item. Please give it in cash." My mother, embarrassed by how sultry and sarcastic she was speaking, took back the pocket she had held out and asked. "How much does the treatment cost then?", "It's five nyang. I won't cut a dime. "I can't." My mother quietly opened the silk pouch she was going to give the doctor a present, took out ten bucks, gave it to the senator, and said, "Give me the change."
It is really difficult for people to have the same heart. If you can go to the end without changing your first heart, you can say that it is a beautiful life with nothing to hope for. If the first love does not change, there will be no parting, and if the initial promise does not change, there is a high probability of success. How great would it be if we could win to the end with an unchanging heart, unchanging personality, and unchanging faith? So the first thing is important. The first heart is important, the earnestness of first love is important, and the purity of the first is important. When I was poor, I was poor in spirit, but when I am rich, my heart is also rich. It would be very unfortunate if you always feel lacking and become greedy for something to fill it, and your heart changes because of that greed too much.
There are some funny commercials on TV these days. A father who works abroad makes a video call to his 7-year-old son in Korea and asks, “What do you want to be when your son grows up?” The son replies while sucking a candy in his mouth. “The president.” In response to this, my father proudly informs his co-workers. And with a curious mind and excitement, I ask, "Then, what will your father do for you when you become president?" To this question, my son's answer is the best. "Um, sweet and sour pork" Yes. The advertisement ends with the innocent son's answer, "Let's eat together," when his father's co-workers laughed and asked, "Then what about the men?" Sometimes this innocence is desperately needed. When you become too selfish, self-centered, trying to be bigger and have more, there is no purity in your heart, and when this innocence disappears, there is no gratitude.
A person must be poor in heart. This means that you should not be overly greedy. In other words, you need to have a pure heart that knows how to be grateful for what you have. In particular, for us who believe in Jesus, as Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, that the poor in spirit are blessed, if we can be satisfied with just faith alone, that person will be able to live a life of knowing gratitude.
There is a book titled Written by [M.J. Ryan], the editor-in-chief of an American publishing house and a best-selling female author. This is a writer who frequently lectures on the topics of kindness, gratitude and tolerance, and has written articles for various newspapers and magazines. Through this book, she shows you how to lead your life in a positive and right direction. They say that if you try to find satisfaction in others, you will never find true satisfaction, and that you will never be happy if money is your measure of happiness, and that being grateful for what you are and feeling that you lack nothing is the shortcut to happiness. Also, look at life with a positive mindset and a correct attitude, rather than despair or be frustrated in the hardships and conflicts encountered in reality, positively welcome even the hardships and conflicts, find lessons in them, and help you cultivate a more mature life. give.
A person's whole life changes depending on what he thinks, what his philosophy is, and what his beliefs are, and he can be beautiful or miserable until the end.
A lot of what we say is common. A frame or plate that conforms to the time of making an object is called a frame. In accordance with this frame, several of the same object is made, which soon becomes a standard and becomes the basis for mass production. By the way, there are frames that are used to make things like this, but in another case, the use of the word frame is also used in the meaning of the word form. When doing something, there is a format that needs to be followed in accordance with the framework. Sometimes, criticism of "I do what I want without conforming to the mold" or conversely, "It's good to be free without being stereotyped" gets a positive response. In any case, it is our image that we live in a way that we know and do not know, so what is important is what kind of frame we have.
Gratitude and concern are often very closely intertwined. Thinking on one side is worrying. But thanks again. The world is like that. It is said that the etymology of thinking and gratitude are the same in English. This means that thinking and being grateful have the same root. It is a matter of what you think first and from which angle you think. It's not that we're grateful that this environment without gratitude changes. It doesn't mean that the world has to change to be thankful. Those who have a grateful mind become grateful. A humble person can be grateful. Furthermore, those who have faith can be thankful. No matter how much the environment changes, the circumstances change, and no matter how much you wait for the world to change, if the frame of your heart is not the frame of gratitude, the person's mouth will never say thank you.
In winter, you can meet a bungeoppang seller. There is a lesson in looking at the pancake frame. Bungeoppang comes out exactly in the bungeoppang mold. I wish catfish would come out, but they don't. Bungeoppang comes out even if you pour flour dough, and crucianfish comes out even if you pour mung bean dough. Crucian carp jelly comes out even when acorn starch is poured. No matter how other ingredients are added, only one crucian carp comes out. Let's think about it a little more luxuriously. Answer me. What if you pour gold water into the pancake mold? What if a goldfish comes out and pours silver water? A silver crucian carp comes out. What if the glass is melted and poured? Glassfish are born. Why? Because the frame is a crucian frame. That's right. The frame is the problem. Depending on what the basic framework is, no matter how other ingredients are used, only crucian carp comes out.
Let's look at the Bible text again today. Let's read together. "In everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." We are the called of God. God, who called us, wants us to give thanks for everything. That is why today's text tells us to use other words as our foundation and to live.
Dear saints!
To give thanks in everything is to give thanks without conditions. It is not that you should be thankful if you give and you should be grateful, but that if you give thanks, you get everything, and when you give thanks, you get better. To be grateful for everything means to be satisfied with reality. It is not that we are thankful because we are at peace, but that we are at peace because we are thankful. I am not thankful because I am rich, but when I see with a grateful heart, I am rich and do not lack anything. It is God's will for us to live in such joy and gratitude.