Title: For Joyfully Dedicated
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Today, we offer a dedication service for Women's Mission.
These days, the roles and status of women have risen considerably.
Today's text also introduces a song of praise to God from a prophetess named Deborah.
The Bible records the songs of praise of four women.
Miriam praising God after crossing the Red Sea, Hannah praising after giving birth to Samuel, Mary praising after hearing the news of Jesus' conception, and the prophet Deborah in today's text.
ex) three kinds of people
Ex) A woman driving
ex) big man
Example) The achievements of Jael and Deborah
The word “commitment” appears in four places throughout the Bible.
The devotion of the tribe of Levi in Exodus 32:29, the devotion in Psalm 110:3, and verses 2 and 9 in the text.
Verse 2: “Praise be to the LORD, for the chief of Israel led him, and the people dedicated themselves with joy.”
Verse 9: “My heart longs for the princes of Israel, for they have dedicated themselves with joy among the people; praise the Lord.”
The word devotion is the Hebrew word ‘nadav’, which means ‘to support as a soldier’.
Imagine a desperate soldier leaving everything behind to go to war.
Dedication is not just words, but actually giving, sweating, and toiling.
Ex)? Devotion of the deacon (cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the church, providing snacks...)
In that service and devotion, God will surely bless you in a good way.
I heard the testimony of Dr. Hwang Su-gwan, who is famous for the Shinbaram health method.
The doctor's father told me the story of when he had to undergo surgery because he had two large lumps in his stomach in the past. got off
In response, the doctor himself said to his father, “Do you know what happiness is for your children?
It is for mothers and fathers to live long and healthy.
Even if you don't want surgery in your father's opinion, please try the surgery only once, even if it's the last wish of your child."
In the end, Dr. Hwang, who got permission, got the date of the operation and, because of his father's serious illness, gathered the 7 siblings and called the children to see his father before the operation.
And just as I was about to take my father into the operating room, my father called me, my eldest son, held my hand, looked at him for a while, and without saying a word, he took a piece of paper that he was holding in his other hand and held it in his son's hand. .
It was my father's will.
When I opened the paper, there were only two letters on the paper: 奉事 (service).
It is said that tears welled up in Dr. Hwang's eyes as he accepted this will.
In addition to this, he said, "There must have been many wills that a father would leave to his children besides these words...
But what my father really wanted was to live a life of service to others.
After that, the word service became a motto in our family.”
Fortunately, my father's operation was successfully completed and he is alive and well.
Dr. Hwang is a Christian.
His father is also a Christian.
First of all, this will must have contained the meaning of service and devotion for the Lord and for the church.
Second, it must have meant serving one's neighbor.
We are the light and salt of the world.
The role of light and salt that the Lord wants will soon be a life of service.
It will soon be a life of devotion.
Also, what should be our last words?
What should be the last words we can leave to our children?
we have to think
And you have to decide.
I hope that all the saints and women who are attending today's devotion service will dedicate and serve, but live a life that God is pleased with as the text says 'dedicated with joy' and served.