Title: Life like a piece of earthenware
(Woe to him if he who is like a piece of earthenware quarrels with his Maker
Euljin, the clay can say to the potter, What do you make?
Can it be said that what he made is about you, and he has no hands?
To him who asks his mother, what are you born, what are you seeking to give birth to?
Woe to you, says the Holy One of Israel, the LORD who made Israel!
Ask me about the future, and about the work of my sons and the work of my hands.
Please, I made the earth and created man on it
and commanded all his hosts; I raised him up in righteousness, and made all his paths straight.
He will build my city, and he will repay my captives.
I will let it go, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Isaiah 45:9-13)
1. What is a human being?
This is a task that many people have been thinking about to this day.
What the hell is a human being?
① The warrant of all things,
② social animals,
③ the existence of thought,
④ microcosm,
⑤ The nihilists even said nothing.
In fact, what is a human being? The question to ask is to stand before God and
No answer.
What is man among men and men? The answer will come in so many different words
because there is no choice.
But nowhere is there a clear answer as in the Bible.
Man is a creature created by God.
It is not a being that exists by itself, but a being created by the Creator.
The psalmist writes in Psalm 139:15, “I was created in secret, and in the depths of the earth I
When I was marvelously created, my form was not hidden from you."
confessed.
It is a confession of the mystery of God's creation. Indeed, human creation
Please think quietly.
Considering the process of the formation of each member of the body, starting from the head of a person, there is no way to hide the mystery.
In fact, nothing is as complex and bizarre as humans.
No matter how many functions a computer performs these days, it is
It is the human brain that can produce it.
Please imagine the science and technology and cultural society that humans have achieved!
The human who built the great city, the tall buildings in the sky, all come from human heads
These are the products that come.
But there are also no weak creatures like humans.
In today's text, humans are said to be fields.
These are the beings that the potter was made by hand and baked.
I grew up in a country where pottery was baked when I was growing up. The hometown we used to live in
It was a place called Eunsan in Suncheon-gun, South Korea.
If you look at the process of becoming Onggi, it is not the beginning.
First, you need to dig up the clay that can be used to make pottery.
Such soil is not everywhere.
I remember digging in the paddy field.
Start by stepping on the soil first. And then I hit it with rice cakes.
The dirt that has gone through this process is kept in the dock.
Then, each time the potter needed, he pulled out a loaf and hung it on a wheel to make it.
starts to creep.
One day, a lump of mud thought so. The best in the hands of a potter
It was my greatest dream to become a work of art and to be placed on the dining table of the royal palace or the decoration of a wealthy house.
is.
Finally, one day the potter started kneading porcelain. Mud doesn't dream swollen
He rejoiced thinking about his future.
I'm expecting it with a bulging chest, but it's starting to get a little weird.
The way the potter made porcelain was different from before. snout tilted to one side
And it has an exceptionally wide handle...
He could hear the laughter of other soils watching him. Mud is so deceiving
It looked like I was going to cry.
He hated and hated the potter who had made himself so ugly.
Mud was really desperate to see himself.
Why did the potter make me this way?...
I couldn't understand.
However, as soon as the potter came out of the kiln, he went somewhere without taking him in his arms.
All.
He arrived at the house of a poor farmer.
No matter how hard they try to sell me to such a poor farmer, they make me look like this.
You... hated the potter who made him like this.
I thought it would be better if it fell to the floor and broke.
But as soon as he saw the farmer coming out, the earthenware was so startled.
The farmer had both hands amputated while working on the farm.
So he couldn't use a plain-looking bowl.
The potter was a vessel specially made for this farmer.
The potter said to the farmer who was holding him in tears.
"I'm grateful, it's the first time I've been this happy while making a ceramic bowl, and this bowl is my best work"...
It was only then that the earthenware found out that the best work made by a potter was himself.
There is a story about how he thanked the potter.
Dear saints! What do you think?
2. Humans cannot but live in the hands of the Absolute.
No matter how hard you try to deny God, no matter how hard you try to live apart from God,
They are beings that cannot be left out.
Verse 9 says, “One who is like a piece of earthenware, all with him who made him.
Woe to you, the clay can say to the potter what you make
and what you have made can be said of you, that he has no hands?"
I did.
Can the clay touch the potter? is.
No matter how hard I try, I can't say why he made me like this.
However, we should know that they are all the works of the master.
They may seem insignificant to human eyes, but they are all meaningful to God.
beings.
To live by believing in this is faith.
However, looking at it these days, the face that God has made characteristic of him has undergone plastic surgery.
There are many cases of ruining it.
You need to know that nature has value.
There are many people who tear down their natural products while saying not to damage nature.
is.
I had a nickname when I was growing up. It was called stingray or flounder.
This is the nickname I gave because my face is flat.
So when I was a teenager, I hated it the most.
Why did I have a flat face...
However, when I came today, I saw that it was made like this, so I can see the face even when standing on the pulpit
Couldn't this be! Think about it.
If God made me like an axe, wouldn't it be impossible with plastic surgery these days? I just want to thank you.
People who do not know God live without knowing the meaning of their existence.
Do you always compare yourself to others and live in a sense of relative superiority and inferiority?
All.
So they follow what others do.
Then you go down the broad road that other people go, and it comes to an end.
I heard someone else say that.
Hell must also be a place where people go, a place where I am not alone
If it is, there will be no problem
Go... If it's hot, we'll be hot together, and if it's cold, we'll be cold together.
It's hot and I'm not the only one cold... I've seen him say that.
is.
I don't know how stupid this is.
However, people of faith who correctly fear God go beyond that stage.
And they realize the meaning of their existence and live with gratitude.
I think that God puts the pieces of my life together and shapes me.
The precious plan you have for me from the time you were born, according to the very will, it is beautiful.
I live believing that things will come true.
Saints living in the second half of their lives!
Looking back over the past few years, how many people have lived their lives according to their own thoughts?
are you?
Almost everyone who thinks that they are who they are today
There will be none.
Don't people who don't believe look at themselves and call it fate?
All.
We believers call it the providence of God.
He broke his mission when he finally realized why the potter had built himself that way.
It says close.
When you realize your mission, you can affirm yourself.
When you realize your mission, you will feel rewarded in the environment you are in.
In the case of not realizing the mission, there is always frustration and despair.
No matter how high you rise, no matter how much you own, you never realize your mission
In one life, there is only debauchery.
There is only life wasted.
On the path of my life's journey, looking back on everything I did, I could
Say, I am truly blessed
Yes..., As I look back over my life, and I think things over I can truly
say that I have been blessed.
This is what a true believer looks like.
We are insignificant beings like pieces of earthenware, but those earthen vessels are in the hands of a potter.
When he is molded and baked in the fire crucible of the Holy Spirit, he is surely transformed into a new being.
will do.
Earthenware must go into and out of the fire crucible.
So that it does not dissolve even if it is immersed in water, does not explode even when put in a fire, and the owner uses it.
It becomes a vessel that can be used as it is.
I want you to imagine a bowl of soybean paste pot.
Because it is a fire-roasted vessel, it can withstand both water and fire.
And you can cook the stew you put in it well.
How many blind people around us!
How many disabled people without one hand!
How many people are physically disabled because of cerebral palsy!
However, even though you have such a disability, you enter into the fire of the Holy Spirit and come out with a new sound.
I need to know that I am used as a vessel.
Success in life is not about what you have, but what kind of vessel you use
is more important.
3. When earthenware is used as a work of a potter, it becomes precious.
People who do not know God always look at their circumstances and who they are now.
I live with complaints alone.
Everyone is pessimistic that the world is not a good place to live.
Among the young, they have already become slaves to money by polluting themselves with the sick fashion of society
I see you going often.
They are young people with a bright future ahead, but they are frustrated and desperate because they do not have the strength to overcome the reality of a few pennies.
do.
All because they do not have faith in hope for God.
We must become dreamers like Joseph.
Think of an altar of suits.
God puts the pieces of my life together to form who I am.
According to his will, the precious plan you have had for me since you were born in the womb.
You do it beautifully.
The eye that realizes and looks at it is faith.
That belief is not a foolish wish.
It is not a hope that will fade, wear out, and disappear.
It is eternal living hope. We must all become people of such faith.
I'll do it. ♣