Title [4.4] Life overcoming hardships
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(Romans 1:17)
America's famous landmark, the Grand Canyon, has been beautifully created through numerous floods and scars on the ground. In addition, the ‘stained glass’ that beautifully decorates the church is made by collecting broken glass. In this way, please remember that pain or suffering is not confined to me alone, but there is a process of making it beautiful through it. I thought that God was like an artist. When you look at the beauty of us who are broken like glass. I hope you spend this week looking forward to how God will make you new. And I want you to pray, “God, please make me more beautiful through these and other pains.”
At one time, among the very popular songs, there was a song with the lyrics ♪ Who Said Love Is Beautiful ~ ♬. The person who made this song seems to have thought deeply about love. Love is never just beautiful. It is bound to bring pain. Believing that you are only beautiful is a childish greed. It is still young faith to know that God loves me and that I love God even in our religious life. How could the deep love you loved to death be just beautiful. That love was accompanied by the pain of death. We must know the love of the Lord on the cross. And we must connect that cross with our lives. When you taste it and know it, you become a person who gives up the place of your life and lives.
The Apostle Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.” You are connecting the gospel with yourself and not with anyone else. There must be preaching the gospel through one's own life, that is, confession and testimony of my life.
The cross is like perfume. Just as perfumed oil can only be used to produce incense when it is broken, so Christians can use the cross to give off incense. Without the cross of Jesus, there would be no resurrection. Please live remembering that the resurrection takes place in the place of broken pain.
If we believe in death and resurrection under any circumstance, then God will equally turn suffering into joy in our lives. I bless you in the name of the Lord that you will be able to experience and live such a life.