Title: God's Promise (Isaiah 49:14)
God's promise
Isaiah 49:14-21
I would like to introduce a story published in a monthly magazine called [Low Fence].
Sometimes, there are wives who feel that their husbands do not love them. Some of you may complain that my husband is too blunt and has no affection for me. Men's expressions of love are different from women's and are often misunderstood. But when you get to know him, he seems blunt, but he is kind, and he seems to have no affection, but there is love in him.
Dear wives, you may be wondering why I am so lonely! This is your husband's love. I want you to know that there is love that cannot be expressed in words.
The unhappiness in life lies in thinking that you are lonely. Solitude comes from being left out. There is a term that spread like a fad in hagwons and caused a big wave in society. This is alienation. When I feel marginalized, human beings become infinitely humble. When I feel that I am being bullied, people become endlessly lonely, and that loneliness becomes a pain that is too hard to bear. That's why I always think I'm lonely, but that's the misfortune.
Folks, the world is not without love. The problem is that you don't know love. But there is a reason why I didn't know love. It's because you don't believe in love. Despair and discouragement come from not believing in love. Deep down there is always mistrust. I didn't believe it at first. After that, it's unbelievable. Now, at the decisive moment, nothing can be trusted. I can't hear anything. The words who comfort me are not heard as comforting, but as ridiculing. This will plunge you into a deeper abyss of solitude. In the end, I think people have abandoned me. I think everyone came together and abandoned me. However, it turns out that it is not that others have abandoned me, but that I myself have abandoned me before that. I do not know loneliness because I have abandoned my self, and abandoned my existence.
Further, here comes another deep problem. When this happens, I think that God has forsaken me. So I'm trying to get out of my faith. In the end, man's own loneliness called alienation makes him resent God.
There is a saying I like, “Life is semi-final”. It means that life is always running towards the finals. As we run towards the finish line, we fall, sometimes we become frustrated, and sometimes we despair. Because life is what we need, God is what we need. If you are already standing at the finish line, you can be proud that you do not need God, so these are the lives that always stand at the semi-final line and run towards the final. So, instead of forgetting us that we failed in the semi-finals of our lives, that we are in despair, you are remembering us in the hope that one day we will reach the finals. So life is semi-final. Looking back, there was always a strong word in the events I met and the problems I experienced. There was deep love. That is why I am who I am today in the midst of many precarious situations.
“I will not forget you.” To not forget means to think. Love is thinking. I keep thinking. It is such a love that I am thinking of you no matter what circumstances and circumstances change. The question is whether you believe in that love or not. The moment you know this love, believe this love, and accept this love, the meaning of life changes.
I hope that you will believe and accept the promise of God's love given to you on the first Sunday of the new year.
Dear saints!
God is like this. No matter how difficult, difficult and discouraged we may be, He will not forget us. Was last year hard? I hope that you can receive God's promise on the first week of the new year, believe and start anew. “I will not forget you.” I hope you have a strong start while thinking of God who will not forget you and will keep the year.