Title: Lessons from Suffering / Psalm 119:65-72
Content “Man was born for suffering, like sparks flying over it” (Job 5:7). Some described human affairs as “a world like a confession”. Living with anxiety, fear and suffering are made. There is a difference in the degree of suffering of each person, but no one passes without pain.
For some, disease is painful and painful. The whole family is anxious because of the disease, a lot of property has to be wasted, and in the face of an incurable disease, it makes even a healthy family contemplate.
The pain of economic poverty, if you don't eat, you can't force money to die. In difficult circumstances, the debt grows like a snowman.
It is indescribable how painful it is to say that only those who have been starved are hungry, and the pain of being betrayed or ignored by a trusted person is indescribable.
The suffering suffered by the Japanese imperialists for believing in Jesus, and the vicious persecution of the Communist Party, was the terrible suffering of Christianity. Korea’s repressive and humiliating for the 36 years of Japanese rule was also a painful humiliation for our people, but on June 25, 1950, when Kim Il-sung invaded South Korea. The wounds that have trampled this land have not healed until now. Yesterday is the 44th anniversary of that painful day.
The psalmist confesses that he was wrong before suffering, but that suffering was useful.
1. Before suffering
Before suffering, he confesses that he has acted erroneously. It is not a normal life because he is living an easy life. It means that he has acted wrongly due to an abnormal life.
1) It is a proud life.
Even if they live unrighteously, they cheat, steal, harm their neighbors, and multiply their fortunes and prosper. As they lead a prosperous life, pride rises to the sky. Because he has become a man, he does not need God before him. God opposes the proud, "Pride is the beginning of destruction, and arrogance the beginning of a fall" (Proverbs 16:18).
An ignorant person is arrogant, despises God, is arrogant, and is bound to be judged by God.
2) We live in unbelief.
“A fool says in his heart, There is no God” (Psalm 14:1). Eventually, he becomes an atheist.
“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
Those who do not believe will be condemned. The God of love does not want anyone to perish but believe and be saved. However, human ignorance and pride lead to rejecting God and living in unbelief.
3) Living illegally.
Lawlessness is a sin. To mankind, God gave the law in the conscience. To Israel, He gave the written commandments.
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul,
The law of the LORD is sure; it makes the fool wise; the doctrine of the LORD is upright and rejoices the heart; the doctrine of the LORD is pure and opens the eyes.
The word of the LORD is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
There is no limit to those who forsaken the law of God of life and live illegally. The people of Noah's day, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, were said to be lawless.
God's judgment is inevitable for those who live illegally, which is a typical example of a person who did wrong before suffering.
2, lessons from hardship
The psalmist confesses that I was wrong before my sufferings, but through my sufferings I have benefited from obedience to the ordinances of the Lord.
Suffering is by no means the end of life, not a trap of despair, but like a grain of chestnut in the thorns of the night, like sunlight after a shower.
After the suffering of Jesus on the cross, there is the victory of resurrection. He said that if we do not realize our life is honored, we are like beasts that have perished. Suffering will be painful, but what does this teach us and what can we gain?
1) Realize your weakness.
Before suffering, he thought that there was nothing he couldn't do, and he knew that he could do anything with knowledge. Even if he was arrogant as he was, he felt the limit of humanity in the face of incurable diseases and events that he could not handle. I can only confess
At this time, Lord, help me.
When Paul experienced tribulation in the Asian missions, no matter how severe it was, he lost his hope of life and had no choice but to think that he was sentenced to death. When we realize our own powerlessness, we seek God and depend on Him. It is said that suffering is God's method of teaching that turns the proud and humbles them.
2) How to be humble
Paul was desperate to live and went to Damascus to find and harm those who believed in Jesus, and he saw Jesus appearing on the road. He knelt before the bright light of Jesus. When he found himself in the bright light there, he was the greatest sinner Realizing that he was like an unborn child, he became humble, and Saul became Paul and humbled himself, saying, "I am what I am by the grace of God."
God seeks out the humble and gives grace.
When Germany and Japan are so proud that the world is trying to put the world under their control, they are defeated through the Allied Forces, and Germany is a war criminal and is trying to compensate the European victims. Albon is still unaware of humility and is an economic powerhouse. It looks like he is dreaming of aggression again and again. If he does not realize and repent, there will be judgment from God.
3) You will see God's hand of salvation.
After giving birth to a child who was blind from birth in John 9, the disciples said, “Rabbi, whose sin is it that this man was born blind, is it you or his parents?”
Jesus answered, "It was not that this man or his parents committed a sin, but that he might show the work of Hana in him."
Even in the hardships and misfortunes that humans think, God is working. You will be happy if you only find God who works in it and meet him.
Job 42:5 "I heard about you with my ears, but now I see you with my eyes. Israel cannot escape from the cruel oppression and abomination of Pharaoh in Egypt, but God brought it out through Moses with great power. We can see reversibly that it is the history of redemption.
Daniel speaks of the movement of national sovereignty to Babylon, Mede-Persia, Greece, and Rome. We witness that God is present and reigning in human history.
The coming of Jesus Christ is an unforgettable history of the history of our nation. Our nation is humble before God, giving this nation a year of 8.15, and trusting in God who protected it by sending the UN to protect it when it invaded the north. I realized the will of not relying on the will of God, who raises the dead. Do not depend on the princes, nor on the life that has no power to help.
According to the promise of the Word, the path of life will be smooth, and his life by faith will prosper.
3) You will be able to live a victorious life in the midst of hope.
Tribulation brings patience, patience, refinement, and refinement, hope, so tribulation brings hope, and you will receive the crown of life promised to those you love.