Title Contents of Physical Blessings
Among the saints, there are those who feel sorry for asking for material and physical blessings when they pray.
This is a wrong idea.
God does not grant only spiritual and future blessings to the saints.
God is a kind person who delights in providing for the needs of life every day.
That's right.
God is not a tyrant who forces his children to live in a state of material poverty and physical infirmity.
Rather, he wants to receive the abundant grace that he allows on this earth and live a prosperous life.
Then, what kind of blessing is God filling us with every day?
1. Your child's blessing
A man and a woman marry, form a family, and have children.
However, the birth of a child into a family may be regarded as a trivial matter limited to that family, or as a natural phenomenon due to the union of a man and a woman.
However, the birth of a child is a major event with much greater meaning than that.
Indeed, having children is a holy act that fulfills the command of God the Creator, who created the world and created human beings and told them to “be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Because it is a blessing to participate.
Therefore, parents who give birth to children participate in the grace of being obedient to God's commands and gain the glory as co-workers participating in God's work of life.
♣ Blessings through Conditions---Chapter 28 is a representative record showing the characteristics or themes of Deuteronomy, and its main contents are the blessings given to those who obey and the curses given to those who disobey.
This text is about the blessings among them, and it is a record of the family blessings that those who obey will receive. Blessings come only to those who hear the word of God, keep it, and do it. However, modern people who like blessings but do not like to hear the word and keep it, keep away from God's will and its commandments and pursue only blessings, but eventually fall into the mysterious method, resent God and leave the church.
☞ Blessing (福; beraka): The basic verb 'barak' means 'to kneel'.
This refers to the origin of blessings, implying the fact that all blessings come from the ‘state of obedience’ in which we humbly kneel before God’s Word with a heart longing to come from above.
wise saying
☞ Great things are not always good, but all good things are great. - Demostanew
☞ There are no pockets of money in the shroud. - T. Edward
☞ Success is not about never failing, but getting up again every time you fall. - unknown
☞ A person who is starving in spirit while the body supplies the sacramental feast enjoys a feast with his slave, but his wife starves. - J. Edison
Yes Tue---Vision and Confidence
In 1847, at the age of 12, there was a boy who moved with his parents from Scotland to the United States.
The boy had a hard time working as a telegram delivery man.
One day, sweating and delivering the telegram, the recipient tapped the boy on the shoulder and said:
“You look brilliant. Someday, I will grow up to be a person who brings hope to everyone.”
The boy suddenly had a vision and certainty for the future.
This boy later became an industrial capitalist and devoted himself to education and social welfare. This is the story of Iron King Carnegie.
2. Clothing of the form
No one can survive without food.
We who have a body can prolong life by eating food and drinking water.
In that sense, it can be said that eating is directly related to the problem of life.
So how do we get the food we eat every day?
Is it just the result of our hard work and sweat?
Of course, we get it by making an effort, but if we look at it from a more fundamental point of view, we can get our daily food because the God who protects us has given us grace.
Indeed, if God did not give us sunlight and rain, and if He did not give us the opportunity to work, we would never have food.
In that sense, the God who provides food, He is the very source of our survival.
No one can live apart from God. Although they are alive, in reality they are merely dead.
While we live and set foot on this earth, we must stay within the limits of our bodies.
That doesn't mean we should run out into the world to overcome it or bow our heads to vain idols.
We must be able to look to God, who is the source of life and blessings.
At that time, God will give us abundant grace.
On the other hand, if we carefully study the Bible, we can see that there are two dimensions of blessings.
The first is the blessing of the material and temporal dimensions, and the second is the blessing of the spiritual and worldly dimension.
The former is a secondary, relative, and temporary blessing, while the latter is a fundamental, absolute, and eternal blessing.
In the Old Testament era, when revelation was not developed, the concept of blessing was mainly emphasized in external and material aspects, but in the New Testament era, when God's will was fully revealed, it can be seen that the concept of blessing was emphasized in internal and spiritual aspects.
Yes Tue---You're childish
“To be childish… “Don't underestimate what other people are doing. That person must have worked hard in his or her own way in that situation.
No one can do it perfectly the first time.
It's a childish stage, a clumsy stage, a useful stage, and progresses to the perfect stage.
Accurate evaluation is possible only when you become one with the situation.
God does not take our praises to be childish. Because he loves us.
Parents do not consider their children to be childish. Because we see with the eyes of love.
There is nothing childish about seeing through the eyes of love.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato gave five conditions for being happy.
A wealth that seems a little lacking to eat, wear, and live on, an appearance that is a bit lacking for everyone to praise, an honor that is only recognized for half of what one thinks, physical strength that one wins but loses to two people, It's a skill that only half applauds.
Plato finds the condition of happiness not in perfection, but in lack. In fact, there is no such thing as 100% satisfaction. If you think about what you don't have and look at those who have more than you, you cannot be happy. We can feel happiness when we live in gratitude for what we have and even what we have. The Bible says, “I am not speaking because I am in need, but in whatever circumstances I have learned to be content” (Philippians 4:11). Happiness is something you get yourself. True happiness comes from being faithful to the given reality and being thankful for it. Greed and dissatisfaction take away happiness from human beings.
Dear saints, I bless you that you will become more faithful to God while being satisfied with the children and food that God has given you. Seasons Amen....
If you are 100% satisfied, you will not be able to find happiness any more.
Even in the real world, I will live with gratitude in the Lord... 10-17 00:28 River of living water Thank you for your kind words.^^ 10-17 19:25 Ha Young-mam Gratitude is the only condition for happiness. ...
It makes me think that being grateful and satisfied is the most fundamental of faith..^^ 10-18 11:30 Like the Lord, Amen~ Thank you for your precious words. 10-18 21:40 Oh yes, you need to know how to be self-sufficient... 10-18 22:44