Title: Let the Sunlight
let it be the sunlight
Text/ Psalm 84:11, Psalm 130:6, Genesis 32:1-32
1. Introduction
庚寅年 January 3, 2010 It is the morning of the first Sunday of the new year. I pray that Heavenly Father will bless each and every person who comes up to the holy temple to worship at this time, overflowing with the spiritual grace of heaven and the richness of the earth.
Praise Hymn 552 (When the Morning Sun Rises) with one voice.
When the morning sun rises, everything is fresh
Let me be the sunlight when I live in the world
Lord help me without wasting time
Let me be the sunlight in the dark world
Today, on the morning of the first Sunday of the new year, I would like to share the grace with a prayerful heart, “Let the sun shine” as I watched the sun rising brilliantly with my face washed red.
Although there are some places in the Bible where the sun is expressed negatively in relation to idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:19, Job 31:26-28, Ezekiel 8:16, 2 Kings 23:11, etc.), it is a creation of God. The year of the year is expressed very positively. These are the words:
2. Words that expressed the sun in a positive way
*As Jacob passed by Peniel, the sun rose, and he limped because of his hip (Genesis 32:32) *Let those who love you, O LORD, make it like the rising of the sun (Judges 5:31).
* Those who rule with justice, those who rule in the fear of God, he is like the morning light that rises, like a morning without a cloud, like a new grass that sprouts from the earth in the rays of the rain after rain (2 Samuel 23:3-4)
*The way of the righteous is like the rising sun, which shines brighter and brighter, leading to full light; but the way of the wicked is like darkness, and when he stumbles and falls, he does not understand what it is (Proverbs 418-19).
*The LORD God is a shield and a shield; for the LORD gives grace and glory, and will not withhold good from the upright (Psalm 84:11).
*My soul waits for the Lord more than the watchman waits for the morning; yea, more than the watchman waits for the morning (Psalm 130:6).
*Who is a woman as clear as the morning light, as beautiful as the moon, as clear as the sun, and as fierce as an army of banners?
*For you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with a healing beam, and you will go out and leap like calves out of the stall (Malachi 4:2).
*Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear (Matthew 13:43) *The face of the Son of Man between the lampstands was like the powerfully shining sun (Revelation 1:16).
3. “Let there be sunlight”.
first. The psalmist said, “O LORD, my soul waits more for you than for the watchman for the morning; yea, more than for the watchman for the morning” (Psalm 130:6). Anyone who has stood on a sentinel on a bitterly cold winter night like these days will be able to empathize with the feelings of a watchman waiting for the morning. I think that the woman who wrote, “I miss you, and I am getting old, but in fact, how is the cart coming so slow?”
The writer of Ecclesiastes said, “God has put in man a longing for eternity” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). It is said that man cannot exist ontologically without God. Here, while a child is frantically playing with a toy, the moment he suddenly finds out that his mother is missing, he cries and cries. Why? Because they instinctively know that a toy is a toy after a mother, and a toy without a mother is meaningless. Likewise, so is life. There is God and it is a toy (fortune, wealth, house, car, career, fame, etc.), but without God, toys are meaningless. So, is there a God even when playing with toys? don't you? You have to live with a bit of a look. Wouldn't it be more fun to play with toys when the light of “Hey, God the shield (Psalm 84:11)” shines? No is it?
second. Must be sunlight for myself. What does sunlight symbolize? Sunlight is brightness - passion - wisdom - joy - positive energy. I must first live like the sunlight. The historian Mommsen said, “There is no genius without passion.” Shiono Nanami summed up in one word the reason Pompey was defeated by Caesar in "The Roman Story". “Caesar had passion, Pompey had no passion!” Called.
Truly, it is. As our proverb says, “There is no grave without excuses.” Hyundai Chairman Ju-Young Chung said to those who said, “This shouldn’t be this way, and that shouldn’t be that way,” he said, “Everything- okay, but did you try it?” said to have asked. “The beginning is half.” In the new year of 2010, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will be each person who lives as brightly as sunlight - hot - wisely - joyfully - with positive energy.
third. It should be sunlight for the sake of the nearest neighbors. Another symbol of sunlight is warmth-healing-recovery-freshness. To be honest, I am not at the level that the Lord referred to as “the man who met the robbers of Jericho” as a neighbor. My neighbors are, at best, just people close to me (family-members-friends-neighbours-colleagues, etc.). However, it is extremely difficult for me to become sunlight for my close neighbors. Still, in 2010, I am determined to become the sunlight with warm-fresh-healing-restoring words and small actions to my neighbors. Even if the mind eats like that, it does not work well. So I put “Let the sun shine!” on the wall! I am going to write it in a large font and do it every single day, every day. Oh Lord, let it be the sunshine! Amen!
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