Title: God Most High
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Six years ago, there was a small church tract in my apartment mailbox. Then, I started to form a relationship with Saegil Church. However, it is only after six years that I begin to think that I am also a member of Saegil Church. I think that most of the brothers and sisters, as well as me, must have felt the same way that you are slowly becoming a Saegil Christian.
The reason I was able to stay at Saegil Church was because of the many good gifts of God, but the beautiful friendship between six young families such as the 'Sprout Society' was one of them. It must be one of those things that my wife, who attended Saegil Church alone while I was away from Korea for over a year, received a lot of love and instruction from various sisters of the Women's Mission. One of the other events not to be missed was the meeting with middle and high school students. I didn't do anything to those innocent children, and I just had a heart of apologetics, and on the contrary, I couldn't leave the church with the heart I learned from them.
I have many memories. It seems that I have gradually become a member of the Church I will engrave through the gathering of various encounters, stories, and feelings. However, it was not just that he became a member of a certain church and deepened his communion. I now realize that it was a quiet process of change. I found a big change in me that could be called the 'secret of being born again'.
Most of all, now I seem to have no fear in prayer. However, it does not mean that I have been given the gift of speaking in tongues, and it does not mean that I have improved my speaking skills and have been able to pray fluently. I have come to realize that prayer is possible just by quietly closing your eyes and meditating at times. That is, during the trip, the collar somehow got loose in the old church, and I learned that it is a good prayer to naturally look back at myself every time I take a step by stepping through the gate of a quiet temple site.
Another change was the fear of God. knowing sin. 1989-1990, when I began to establish a relationship with Saegil Church, was a year of turbulence in Korean society. In particular, it was a time when the education world, where I worked, was noisy due to the KTU incident. In the midst of such a whirlwind, at Saegil Church, I gradually learned the deeds of Jesus and the mystery of Genesis, and it seems that God, in other words, a religious conscience, began to settle in my heart little by little. But it was fear. There was nothing sinful about the usual church talk about. It wasn't because I didn't pay tithing, it wasn't because I didn't go to Wednesday worship, it wasn't because I couldn't do evangelism. It was, in a nutshell, against the human conscience of what I was taught in school. But the church was saying that it was against God. Human beings were created in the image of God, and human conscience was created by God, and it was impossible to break it. This realization led to fear of God, and as a result, I was always a sinner.
But despite these fears, I can now tell anyone that I go to church, that I believe in the Jesuits, and that you, too, should come to church. These days, all churches are like that, and if you don't, you should come to Saegil Church. If you say that you will find something else, and that you are a Buddhist, I also respect the Buddha, but if you go to a Buddhist meeting later, I ask you to take me with you. He tells us that if you are a true Buddhist, you must like Jesus and also God. I don't know if it's a big deal, but I think I've become a slightly different Christian at Saegil Church.
'The Most High God' in the story of Genesis 14, which I read today, seemed to embrace my nonsense. It is that the God I believe in is worshiped only by a small and poor family of Abraham in the Middle East and is not a God. Just as the God of Melchizedek and the God of Abraham were all one and the highest God, Sangjenim, who gave Dangun the will of Hongikman to rule our nation, and the Chilsungnim of our grandmothers who prayed for a grandchild with intellect and a bowl of purified water. All will be the Most High God.