Title: Golden Hair / Ephesians 4:15
Golden hair / Ephesians 4:15
Chapter 433
In Lyon, France, there is a large park called 'T te d'Or'. There is a huge lake in the middle of the park, and it takes more than two hours to walk all the promenades around it, so it is considered that the total area of the park is larger than that of 'Biwon' in Korea. The name of the park, 'Tet d'Or', means 'golden head' in Korean, and it is said that the name was given because of the legend that the head of Jesus made of gold was excavated there. But nowhere in the park, the golden head of Jesus that was excavated there is nowhere to be found. Instead, a sculpture is installed to commemorate the G7 (Seven Developed Western Countries) Summit held there in 1996 in the most frequented place. It is a sculpture of 7 people holding a large lever together and lifting the earth. In other words, it means that it is the seven advanced Western countries that lead the world. In other words, it is an expression of confidence that the world is moving according to the will and will of the seven advanced Western countries.
On the map, with Germany and Austria as the border, Europe is divided into Western and Eastern Europe. But that does not mean that Europe is made up of two continents. From the tip of France in the west to Poland and Bulgaria in the east, the same green mountains and green pastures continue to connect. It clearly shows that Europe is one continent. Nevertheless, the subdivisions of the West and the East are clearly distinguished. If the subordinates in the West are groomed and polished like a painting, those in the East are left alone. That is why, in every way, even the towns and cities that lie within it show a huge difference between Dong-gu and Seo-gu. If you get to know the West first and then look into the East, it is embarrassing to call it Europe because of how poor all the circumstances and levels are.
Even on one continent, even within the same subdivision, there is such a striking difference between East and West Europe, it goes without saying, that the people living on both sides are not the same. Continental Europe is an exhibition hall that shows how different people can change even within the same organization. From this point of view, it is not unusual for the developed Western countries to claim that they can move the world according to their will. Even though they live on the same European continent, they are not only forming an advanced society that the countries of Eastern Europe cannot keep up with, but also looking back on world history, they seem to have been the leaders of history from the past. Therefore, the interpretation that they installed a sculpture that means they can move the world is installed in the 'Golden Head' park, and that they show off their own brain as a 'Golden Brain' can never be an exaggeration. It's possible.
It is not just yesterday that concerns about global warming have risen around the world. Switzerland here is no exception, and the unusually high temperatures continued last winter. It is reported that the average temperature has risen by 2 degrees compared to the previous year. Compared to last year and last year, when there were only a handful of days when the sun was generally seen from the end of September to May of the following year, last winter was warm enough to make you feel as if you were in another country. Some Swiss people saw this kind of weather for the first time in 30 years, while others said it was the first time in their lives. As the winter weather was so warm, ski resorts in France and Switzerland, which should have enjoyed the winter season, also faced frost. It didn't snow, so it was like the store was closed for a while. Perhaps there are not one or two ski resorts that did not escape the deficit last winter.
However, it is not the ski resort's management that the Swiss authorities are really worried about due to the continuous high temperature. There are concerns that glaciers and ice caps in the Alps will melt if the temperature continues to rise due to global warming. People often think of Arctic glaciers as a catastrophe caused by global warming. There has been talk for a long time about how much damage the Arctic glacier will cause to the planet. But for the Swiss, the Arctic Glacier is a rather distant story. If the Arctic glacier melts, the glaciers and snow in the Alps will also disintegrate, because the primary victim in that case will undoubtedly be Switzerland. We have seen well on TV screens that even a small amount of rain can cause flooding throughout Switzerland, and avalanches frequently cause catastrophic disasters in winter. If this is the case, it is easy to imagine how devastating the consequences of the catastrophe on this Swiss land would be if the snow and glaciers in the Alps actually melted.
As such, humans are afraid of natural disasters because they do not have the power to prevent even a small temperature change, but on the other hand, they believe that the world can be moved by human will and ability. And such people are called the so-called advanced Western people. However, this does not mean that all human problems have been solved in developed countries in the West. Rather the opposite. In this Western society, which believes that it can move the earth on its own, the disintegration of the family, egoism beyond the limit, the collapse of sexual morality, the spread of drugs, the universalization of homosexuality, the neo-extremism of racism, material massism that has lost humanity, etc. All the problems are getting tangled up and getting bigger. This is the result of self-improvement, in which humans themselves try to become the levers of the earth. Then humans cannot be the owners of golden hair. No, in the sense that gold is nothing more than an inanimate object like a stone, their heads must be truly golden.
Today's text, Ephesians 4:15, testifies to this.
?쏝ut speaking the truth in love, you may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, which is Christ.??
Indeed, the wise are those who have our Lord as their head. In other words, those who live with the eternal word of the Triune God, the unchanging word of truth, as the absolute standard of life. In other words, he lives by acknowledging that no human problem can be fundamentally solved except by the word of God. Because he knows that the word of God is the word of the power that created the heavens and the earth. Since the Word of God is the Word of the Creator, it cannot be disputed that only the Word can heal and restore human beings, and that it is the fundamental solution to all human problems. Therefore, a person who has the Lord as his head can be the owner of a true golden head in the sense that gold is a symbol of unchanging value and preciousness.
Today we are having an outdoor worship service.
Raise your eyes to the mountains and the sky, look out over the land and the lakes. And let us all be humble acknowledgers. The fact that human will and will alone cannot change even the smallest of natural phenomena, let alone human problems. The most mundane truth, that under no circumstances can man be the lever that moves the earth. Only God, who created the heavens and the earth, is the lever that moves the universe, the lever that drives the history of mankind, and the lever that controls the life and death of my life.
From then on, we will be spiritually the owners of true golden hair.
Lord!
We sincerely thank you for bringing our brothers and sisters together today and allowing us to worship and share love in the great nature that God has created. Starting from today, let us become wise people who live by confessing that only God is the head of our lives. So, let our life itself become a beautiful exhibition hall of truth like Mother Nature, and let us all live spiritually as truly golden heads.
-Amen