Title: Life with Companions
The past week has been a week in which I have learned many new things. It was a good opportunity to reflect on what I had never felt before and to deeply realize the meaning of family. In particular, I realized how important it is to have a companion.
1. Who we accompany in our lives is very important.
If you walk with an evil person, you will participate in evil things, and if you are with a gambler, you cannot but become a gambler.
It means that if you are with someone who is drinking, you will have a drink.
Companionship begins with meeting.
So meeting someone is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
For example, the most important chance for single men and women is meeting with the person who will become their spouse.
There are people who meet the wrong person once and live their whole life unhappily. On the contrary, there are people who can't study and have no personalities, but meet their husbands well and live happily for the rest of their lives. So meeting you is a blessing.
The happiness of meeting is a privilege.
Accompaniment is achieved through meeting.
Happiness permeates in that companionship.
Given the current marriage climate, it seems that the importance of dating is not taken so seriously. I don't know how many couples get married simply because they like it and break up because they don't like it. Statistics show that one in three couples in our country is also divorced. dot forward
More and more, this trend is expected to increase. The problem is that they marry simply because they like it. Marriage is a meeting with a partner you want to spend the rest of your life with. Friendship isn't just about liking. Companionship is going together, like it or not.
It's a matter of how you fit in with your companion.
How do you get along with people you don't like?
The first thing to think about before saying that is why you want to go with that person. Before we can say that love is unconditional, it is that we need the ability to control our feelings of love in our lives.
Because companionship means going with someone, not going alone.
So, you need to know who your partner is. Because knowing the other person well can make you a better companion.
This is our life of faith.
A life of faith is a life of walking with God.
Until now, I have lived in this world alone and according to my thoughts, but from now on, I will be with God.
This was the life of Abraham in the Old Testament. We use the life of Abraham as our model of faith because he lived a life of walking with God. In addition, if you look at the names of many people in today's text, it is said that some of them lived, had children, and died. Here, it is written that Enoch walked with God while recording Enoch's life.
It is written, "Enoch was sixty-five years old when he begot Methelah, and after he begot Methelah, he walked with God three hundred years, and had children, and he lived three hundred and sixty-five years." It may seem like a simple statement, but I think it is very important.
If we simply get married, have sons and daughters, and then go on to live, it is not a meaningful life. They are just ordinary lives like leaves of grass that sprout and disappear in spring. If it was a simple life of just preserving species, if we lived and went on like that, there would be nothing different than just animals and plants. So there is a saying that someone died and had to erect a stone monument, but the only thing he did in his life was to eat three meals a day, so there is a saying that "Eat and die" was written on the tombstone.
Eat and die life! If that's the end of it, where are the lower animals like humans? Animals don't lie. Animals frame to kill their companions and do not hate them. Animals are not ungrateful. In that sense, how many lives are worse than animals? Man must live a life that walks with God.
A life that walks with God is rewarding.
To walk with God, you need to know who God is.
God is the Creator who created me and the universe.
You are the master of life who brought me to this earth And he will watch over me as long as I live and accompany me in all my ways. You have to believe it.
Sometimes we wonder, in my opinion, why did he make me this way? It's easy to think like that. However, because God made me, I cannot fully understand his providence and plans. Just believe that he will not forsake me and that he is with me. It is God who sees that faith.
Faith is thus said to be ?쐔he substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.??Knowing and wanting to believe is not faith. It is just knowledge.
Seeing and trying to believe is not perfect faith. The Lord also said to Thomas, "Do you believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen me and believe in me."
There are many people today who know God by knowledge.
However, there are few people who believe in life and want to accompany him.
Why do we call God {Father!}?
None of the children know anything about their father by knowledge.
Is that person my father? Is that person really my mother? Where is the child who argues like that and wants to know that? No one.
He is unconditionally the father. That's how I believe that he has the power to buy me everything. Everyone believes that my father is the best.
And isn't that the right relationship?
2. In order for our lives to be happy, we must go in the same direction with our companions.
If the paths are different, we cannot say that we are together.
It is said that you must walk the same path to accompany it.
And we can only say that we will accompany you if we are on the road with the same heart and the same will. Even if the direction is the same, if the thoughts and meanings are different, it cannot be called companionship. Imagine a lot of people walking together on the street.
Just because I'm going in the same direction with you doesn't mean I'm a companion
It's just different paths.
This is also true in the life of faith.
To walk with God means to follow God's will.
It means living in obedience to God's will from the path I used to follow my thoughts and will.
So this is my way, this is my lamp, this is my compass. The psalmist said: ?쏷hese words are my comfort in my trouble, for Your word has made me alive??(Psalm 119:50). Also, Psalm 119:67 says, "Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word."
Therefore, the life of faith means living according to the Word of God, in the direction indicated by this Word, rather than living according to our own will and new thoughts.
In order for our life to be happy, it is the grace that is obtained while living according to the Word.
These words are called lamps to our feet. If we leave the Word, we will eventually fall into sin.
The Word is pointing in this direction, but people resist it. They disobey and disobey, and then they turn back only when they are in a hurry.
This was the history of the nation of Israel. People don't listen to us even if God watches over us and is with us. Because everyone is preoccupied with their own thoughts. The world reflected in one's eyes, the things that are settled in one's thoughts, and because of those things, they live without knowing that God is with them.
One day, a father and son were passing through a busy street.
The child's curiosity was aroused by the sight of new things, so the father watched him, fearing not to lose him, and hid behind a pole or deliberately stood on a street corner and hid himself. The father does this not to miss the child, but only to warn the child not to sell his eyes.
In the same way, so is God. Even when we sell our eyes to the world, God does not forsake us, but the fact that He is watching us.
But sometimes it's hidden from view so that we don't look away and turn around again. Even when we are in sin, God is the God who watches over us in silence.
The Apostle Paul was so moved by God's grace that he said in Romans 5:8, "God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
How precious these words are!
God does not forsake us. It's just hiding from time to time so as not to lose sight of it. Then we are fathers! father! and find it.
3. Therefore, our lives must keep pace with our companions.
Why do we fail in our faith life?
Because they go their own way.
You must make an effort to work with your partner.
If you try to get ahead of God or fall behind God, it is difficult to walk with Him.
In other words, there are many cases of people trying to believe according to their own thoughts without discerning the will of God. Moreover, in the midst of hardship and adversity, we too easily put our own thoughts ahead of God's thoughts. They judge for themselves and make hasty decisions on their own.
It is only when we are careful about such things that we can lead a righteous life of faith.
We can see this well in the Lord's prayer.
Jesus also struggled with the cross. So, in the Garden of Gethsemane, I prayed with sweat. But in that prayer, he said, "Father! Don't do my will, but do your will." He gave up his own will and conformed to the will of God the Father.
When we pray, we often express ourselves too hastily.
And often resentful, frustrated, and discouraged.
Look at Joseph. Joseph did not get discouraged and looked to God in the puddles of his many wonderful life. He was able to resist the temptation of Potiphar's wife, "How can I sin before God?"
Even though he said that, he always lived a life with God. Therefore, it is said, "God was with Joseph, and he prospered wherever he went."
Prosperity follows a life that walks with God.
On the other hand, in a life that turns away from God, wherever you go, you will be blocked and fail.
These are the evidences in the Bible.
Life with friends! That is the life of faith. Faith in that sense is the life of a stranger with walk with God.
When you realize this well, you will be able to enjoy a life of deep grace. ??