Title: Father's Heart
Contents
“Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of the Son into our hearts, calling him Abba, Father.”
Five years ago, a novelist wrote a novel about a father's love for his son. The title of the book is “Thornfish”. It is a novel about a father who struggles to save his young son who is suffering from leukemia and is on the verge of death.
Among freshwater fish, there is a fish called “Pungitius Sinensis Sinensis, Guichenot”. Perhaps the name is thornfish because of the sharp thorns on its body. However, this spiny fish is a fish that has unique characteristics in its habits other than its external appearance. In this book, this thorn meat is expressed in the voice of a son suffering from leukemia in the novel.
“Spinach is a strange fish. After laying the eggs, the mother thornfish runs away somewhere. As if it doesn't matter what the eggs are. Daddy Gossack is left alone to take care of the eggs. They risk their lives to fight other fish that rush to eat their eggs. They work hard to protect the eggs without eating or sleeping. The eggs hatch and the chicks grow quickly. And the baby spiny fish abandon their father's spiny fish and go their own way. After all the babies have left, the father, who is left alone, bangs his head in the cracks of a stone and dies. Why does Daddy go and die? The reason was not explained in the book. But isn't it obvious? Spiny meat always reminds me of my dad.”
He struggles for his son who has an incurable disease called leukemia, sells the cornea of his eye to pay for hospital bills, meets a person who can transplant bone marrow, and heals his son, but in the end, he tells the story of a father who dies of cancer. It is painted. It is said that the author got the subject of this story from seeing a friend who had a son who had an incurable disease. The author introduces it this way.
“Only one day, a friend said. ‘You know what my hope is? I want to be able to substitute for anything for the child. But that's it. nothing can replace It's so hard to bear.' 'Nothing can replace it. That's really hard to bear, isn't it?' That's what made me cling to this novel.”
The author wrote this work with the intention that the heart of a father is like this kind of thorn. In this way, the heart of a father is that he constantly wants to do something for his children.
Introducing the text of Seulbi's evangelism letter.
"My wife went on a trip. This week, I am on duty for dinner. 6:50 in the morning...
Go to the children's room and turn on the music loudly. listen and get up Then he goes to the kitchen and prepares a meal. I warmed up the miso soup I cooked last night...
Since children are too embarrassed to eat breakfast, I don't think this is enough, and I take care to eat them all, so I take a little bit and add more and then unpack the rice. Today's special!
Boil the eggs, peel them, and set them one by one on top of the rice.
White, smooth eggs look delicious and interesting. Take the side dishes from the refrigerator and place them neatly on a plate.
7:10 p.m. Now wake up the children in earnest.
7:20 p.m. The children come and sit at the table.
You need to eat a lot of vegetables to avoid being constipated.
We talk and have fun while eating.
7:30 p.m. I ate all the rice that you prepared for me today.
Cut fruit for dessert.
7:50 p.m. It's so satisfying to see the kids eating and going to school. I am the father! Who gave you this heart?
It was given to us by the God who made us. God is the Father who made us! Genesis chapter 1 says, "And God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over all that creeps on the earth." He created them in the image of God, male and female, and God blessed them…”
is recorded. However, when it comes to Isaiah 1,
"Hear, O heavens! Give ear, O earth. Hears, saith the LORD, I brought up children, and they have rebelled against me," God says sadly. If all people live without disobeying the words of God the Father who made us...
How happy will this world be? The place we will all eventually have to return to... is our Heavenly Father's house..."
“In Christ there are ten thousand teachers, but not many fathers.”
(1 Corinthians 4:15)
The heart of the Father is the heart of God the Father, and the heart of the shepherd of Jesus. When we receive grace, the Holy Spirit gives us the “heart of the Father” in our hearts. When grace falls in our hearts, the ‘father’s heart’ disappears and the ‘uncle’s heart’ enters. Everything becomes a tedious, tiring, and arduous life.
First, the heart of a father is the heart to save the children who have suffered hardships with a sad heart. Abraham's heart to save his captive nephew Lot, and the heart of a Canaanite woman who came to Jesus to rescue her demon-possessed daughter. All these are the heart of the father and the heart of the mother.
Second, the heart of a father is the heart that wants to take responsibility. Parents have the heart to take responsibility for their children until the end. A heart to take responsibility is a heart to sacrifice and a heart to love. The problem of our society and the problem of modern families is that they do not fulfill their responsibilities and duties, but only assert their rights.
Third, the heart of a father is a heart of pity. Parents always look at their children with pity. No matter how ugly, sinful, or condemned by others, they are pitiful children of my parents. When his father David, who was fleeing the rebellion of his son Absalom, was forced to flee, when he heard the news of Absalom's death, he wept and wept. Elijah's father's heart set up the prophetic school and nurtured many disciples as workers of the age (2 Kings 2:12).
Fourth, the heart of a father is the heart to give good things. Jesus also acknowledged that worldly parents give good things to their children (Matthew 7:11). In my mother's shopping cart that I saw as a child, there were items for the children and father and side dishes for the family, but there was nothing for the mother. From the moment you become a father and a mother, everything new and good is not yours, but your children.
What we need to recover is the ‘father’s heart’. To receive grace is to restore the 'father's heart'. A community of people with a father's heart and a mother's heart becomes a heaven full of fragrance, sacrifice, tears, and emotion. God pours out the gift of the Holy Spirit and the power of love on those who have the heart of the Father, and uses them as the Lord's tools. God is still looking for “that person” who has the heart of the Father.
At the Battle of Cressy, Prince Edward, then only 18 years old, took command of the spearhead. At this time, his father, the King, was watching the battle with the necessary preparations to deploy a strong bodyguard on the high ground and immediately support the prince's troops. The little prince was severely attacked and in danger, calling his father for help. However, the king did not immediately send a rescue team. When rescue was delayed, the prince sent another messenger to call for immediate rescue. The king said to the messenger sent by the prince:
"Go and tell the prince that I'm not an inexperienced commander who doesn't know when a rescue is needed, and I'm not an indifferent father enough to not send a rescue team.
The king saw the chaos in the enemy's camp, and knew that a little more patience would give the prince an advantage. The king wanted the honor of the day to be his son's. The king intends to send in reinforcements when his son's fame can be restored. God sees the battles Christians fight on the spiritual battlefield. Even if you feel that the Lord's help is slow in your midst, you must believe that it is to make your victory shine brighter when you overcome the hardship.
An elementary school teacher was injured and did everything her mother did to raise her 12-year-old daughter. I tried my best to raise my daughter with sincerity, but it was difficult to find time for it because I was busy with school work. Then, when it was vacation, I took time out for three days before Christmas, and I thought that I would play and talk with my daughter, and I looked for my daughter, but she went into my room, locked the door, and did not come out for three days. We just ate and went back in... We couldn't sit together. Father was upset. Yes, there must be some twists and turns, I thought I must have been hurt because I had neglected so much. It's Christmas Day. The daughter had a happy face, her eyes lit up, and said, "Father, Happy Christmas," and then put out a glove that I had opened. It was a glove that I knit for three days to give as a gift to my father on Christmas Day. I was gratefully received, but my father was deeply saddened. 'I don't want gloves, I wanted to talk to you...'
Guys, what do parents really want? It is important to listen carefully to the person you want to meet and talk with.