Title: Faithful filial piety (Proverbs 23:22)
religious filial piety
Proverbs 23:22-25
Among the novels that once became bestsellers, there is a novel written by [Chang-in Cho]. It is a novel depicting the inseparable love between a rich man and a rich man who takes care of his 10-year-old son with leukemia without resenting his wife who abandoned her husband because of poverty. The main character takes care of his son, who is more precious than himself, for two years with utmost sincerity. He sells all his property and even sells his pride and conscience to pay for hospital bills. In the end, to pay for his son's surgery, even though he knows it's illegal, he thinks it's the last thing he can do as a father and opens his eyes.
However, while undergoing a comprehensive check-up to have his eyes removed, he discovers that he has a large cancerous mass on his body. He pleads with God to spare his son, regardless of his pain. He struggles to take his life instead of his son. Thanks to that, fortunately, the bone marrow transplant went well and the child recovers health, but the main character dies of terminal liver cancer. In the end, he sends his son to his mother, and he enters the mountain village where he and his son have been living for 40 days, where he quietly dies. It is a novel that makes you think about what a father's love for his children is like.
As immature, we sometimes take parental love for granted. They are unfaithful people who do not know how to deeply appreciate the unconditional love of their parents, who sacrifice everything for themselves without expecting anything in return.
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My mother thought she didn't want to see her./Mother thought she had no first love./Mother thought she had no friends./I thought her body was a special body that never got sick./ I thought that my mother liked to wake up early in the morning and go to bed late./I thought that my mother had no particular favorite food./I thought that my mother only likes short perm hair./Mother has a pale face I thought she had no interest in losing weight and getting slim./Mother seemed to take everything well and had no complaints./I thought she didn't like to have long phone calls with us./Mother I thought you would always be with us.
I thought my father didn't like to take a day off./I thought that my father didn't know how to laugh./I thought that my father was just happy to see his daughter getting married./Father is hungry so good food I thought you would get up in front of me first./I thought my father hated wearing a suit and tying a tie./I thought there was always some money in my father's pocket./I thought my father had no favorite sports or hobbies. I knew./I thought my father didn't listen to us./I thought that no matter how deep and rough he walked, he was not afraid at all./I thought that there was not a single tear in my father's eyes. /Father thought we liked going abroad.
What do you think filial piety is? There are many thoughts, but above all, knowing your parents is filial piety. Knowing that everything they do for me is love and having a grateful heart is the first step to filial piety.
Koreans are also Koreans, so there is a Korean concept of filial piety. Since we are wet with Confucian ideology as the background, this is what we have in mind, but let's summarize what the so-called Korean filial piety is. As Koreans, filial piety in our culture is the first thing to entrust your parents to a long life. Why is it that a person has to live and die? Anyway, if a parent dies early, it's the child's fault, so the child becomes a sinner. I got it wrong, I messed up, and what did I do... So when I go to a funeral, it is said that the child who weeps the most is the disobedient. It beats my heart that you died because of me. So, mourning clothes are the clothes of sinners. So, you have to take care of your parents for a long time. If you die early anyway, your children will become unforgivable sinners. That is the basic concept of filial piety among Koreans.
The third concept of Korean filial piety is to cherish the family. So it's going to be passed down from generation to generation. One of the major problems in the world today is being single, and the second is infertility. If you look at the Korean concept of filial piety, it is disobedient because anyone who doesn't get married or married has hurt their parents' hearts. If I went again, it would be illegal not to have children. Parents, no matter the reason. You are the ones who consider it the greatest happiness to have children and to have a happy family, and to give birth to sons and daughters and then to hold their grandchildren in your arms even though you have worked hard for the rest of your life. This is Korean filial piety.
An English writer [w. Scott] famously said, ?쏝lood is thicker than water.??The relationship between parent and child is by no means an accidental relationship that we met along the way. A blood relationship is a relationship that takes precedence over everything. It is said that no matter how bad a child is, parents must forgive and embrace him, and no matter how evil a parent is, a child must not abandon their parents. The relationship between parent and child is not broken by severing it, nor is it formed by force. A couple promises, ?쏧 will live together as long as I can grow black-haired green onions,??but if they fail, they separate, and if they separate, the poem becomes a stranger. There may be a relationship that changes with one dot, like the lyrics of a popular song saying, ?쏧f you put a dot on the word ?쁭im?? you become someone, and if you erase one dot on the letter ?쁮ther?? you become you.??However, a parent and child cannot meet and be separated by a single point. Once established, the eternal relationship is a parent-child relationship. This will soon become the parent of the family.
The English word for is family. Someone has an interesting interpretation of this word. F is for father, a is for and, m is for mother, i is i, l is love, and y is you. It was a fun interpretation of what it meant. Although not an exact interpretation, it conveys a plausible meaning. Family exists in filial piety that truly loves parents. In it, today, ?쏮ake your parents happy. Make me rejoice.??The Bible verse is established.
Some of us today will be saddened. My parents left before I realized what filial piety was. Now that I know what filial piety is, I think I know the sacrifice, and I want to return that love, but my parents did not wait for me. That means there is no chance now. This is a pity. So, early [Songgang Jeongcheol] said, ?쏤ather, live and do your best to serve. It's sad after passing by. I wonder if this is the only thing I can't fix in my lifetime.??Ladies and gentlemen, time does not wait for us, nor can our parents wait for us. Now is the time to do filial piety. Now is the time to please your parents and make them happy.
People who have lost their humanity are often referred to as beasts. But there are people who are not as good as beasts. It is called a crow among birds. A crow is a bird that grows up to find food for its mother. This is why it is called ?쏝anpo Jihyo??Even more so, if we disregard our parents who were born and raised by humans, we cannot help but be less than human beings.
Dear saints,
Filial piety is not a philosophy. Not even an idea. Filial piety is the first command that God has given to the earth. Philosophy can change. Thoughts can change. However, God's commands cannot change regardless of the times. Here is the word of God given to us in this day and age.
?쏬isten to your father who bore you, and do not despise your mother when she is old??(Proverbs 23:22).