Title: Satisfaction of the soul
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Satisfaction of the soul (Isaiah 58:8-12)
One of Asia's most beautiful and diverse places to visit is around 17,000.
Bali (140 km east to west,
It is an island that is 80 km long from north to south, has a population of 3 million, and is located at 8 degrees south of the equator.
It is said that about one million tourists from all over the world visit this place every year.
Geographically, it is located halfway between Java and Lombok.
Gunung Agung (3,142 m) has a typical tropical climate with high temperatures and humidity.
It maintains an average temperature of 28 degrees year-round, making it perfect for vacationers.
There's no better place to be.
The people here say that they are the most satisfied people in the world.
They pride themselves on their dwelling place on earth,
They say they never go out on their honeymoon.
If anyone goes out, that person is not Balinese.
Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of the United States, who heard the rumor, went to Bali
After a week of research, I found that Balinese people were really happy.
It is said that they lived happily.
It is said that even though the island was not that great with large industrial facilities or fun entertainment facilities, he was satisfied with the following five postures.
①We have nothing.
②Our life is simple
③We like each other
④We have enough to eat
⑤ We are living happily on the most beautiful island in the world.
(We live and have a satisfaction on a beautiful island)
However, even such a place does not give us believers satisfaction. Because it is God who truly gives true satisfaction (2 Corinthians 3:5).
For apart from me you can do nothing (John 15:05).
Outside of the Lord, we have no eternal joy and satisfaction.
On the other hand, if God gives us satisfaction in the Lord, then we can enjoy it as much as we want.
It will be a time for all of us to receive and enjoy.
1. You cannot be satisfied with the things of this world.
Because greed is insatiable, most people want more and
Few people are content with having many things, and people's greed is
It's like an infillable vessel with your mouth open and wanting to keep swallowing.
(Ecclesiastes 1:8) No words can describe the weariness of all things.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing; the ear is not satisfied with hearing.
(Ecclesiastes 5:10) The lover of silver is not satisfied with silver, but the lover of abundance
There is no satisfaction with income, this is also vain
In chapter 2 of the previous chapter, King Solomon recorded his life after he experienced the futility of life.
He used the wisdom God gave him uniquely on the basis of his political power.
He is a person who has done everything he wants to do for the satisfaction of his body.
I started a big business, built a beautiful house with a large garden, amassed infinite wealth, and had men and women who were good at singing and translating poems by my side so that I could enjoy living arts and crafts.
He also admired literature, and lived with his wives and concubines with his own personality.
Do whatever comes to your mind, whatever your heart desires
Confess after doing everything and enjoying the pleasures to your heart's content,
(Ecclesiastes 2:11) After that, I saw that all the work I had done with my hands, and all my toil, was in vain.
It is a chasing after wind, and it is useless under the sun
Even if they enjoyed the rich and noble glory to their heart's content, there was no satisfaction in their hearts.
If you look at the stories of a few who served as presidents of the United States, a prosperous country,
Washington [Washington, George, 1732. 02. 22~1799. 12. 14. 1st and 2nd President]
I'd rather go to the grave than be president.
Jefferson [Jefferson, Thomas, 1743. 04.13-1826. 07. 04. 3rd President]
The president's job is to constantly listen to resentment and lose friends every day.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917.05. 29-1963. 11. 22. 35th President]
The presidency is a high and lonely one.
The more you gain the things of this world, the more you enjoy them, the more thirsty you become.
You all know that thirst comes and there is no satisfaction, but people
Because it is a piled up mass.
If you purchase household necessities or life tools for the convenience of life,
Satisfaction at the moment of purchasing
A strong desire for love begins to sprout in me.
Alexander the Great of Macedonia set the record of an expedition of about 18,000 km in eight post-war campaigns.
All over the world called Alexandria after her (70), but there was no God.
It is said that during his lifetime, he complained that there was no more land to conquer and lamented.
2. The satisfaction of the soul comes from God.
Man is composed of spirit and body, and these two must be well balanced.
You can call it a healthy believer.
If we ignore the soul that is the inner person and live only in the flesh,
The spiritual rhythm with God is cut off, and the life of faith becomes a formal faith.
God promises to satisfy your soul to Israel, which is like a dry garden due to lack of water.
It is a life of wandering because the relationship with God is not smooth and the relationship of peace cannot be established.
To forget the face of God and live is truly unhappiness among misfortunes.
This promise to satisfy my soul is truly a happy thing.
In this world, there is no more hope for a life of joy.
(Psalm 107:9) He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good things.
A person whom God satisfies the soul
He said that He satisfies the souls of those who pray to God.
In the text, it is a word that presupposes the words between verses 1-7.
Here comes the question of fasting and prayer in Israel.
It is not a fast that is pleasing to God, but something that people want to know and see.
You can tell at a glance that it is fasting, which is a symbol of the Babylonian captivity.
This is because the chapter is written as a rebuke for the formalization of the Jewish faith.
Fasting is ordained for repentance and sanctification (Nehemiah 09:01,02; Ps. 69:10).
It is to suppress one's selfish will and lust through thorough repentance and to deny oneself.
It is being abused as a means to pray for blessings, that is, to show off religious pride.
Verse 3 says that if the Israelites harassed them while they fasted, God
Thought they would solve their problems and bless them
Herein lies the problem of formalism.
Even today, this formalism continues to follow the formalities of coming to church to sing hymns and pray.
I think that worship is all about giving, listening to sermons, and giving offerings.
Then, what starts with is that God will grant blessings of grace when we get out of that wrong practice and return to the spirit of fasting and prayer that God wants.
3. When God gives satisfaction, our life is
Israel, the nation that was destroyed, the people taken captive, and scattered in all directions,
It was like a dry garden due to lack of water, but God poured out new grace as if watering a dry garden. This is the story of Israel's affluent life. What happens when you water the soul like a dry garden?
(Jeremiah 31:12-13) Say that your soul will be like a watered garden, and there will be no more sorrow.
At that time the virgin will rejoice in dancing, and the young and the old will rejoice together, and I will
For he will turn mourning into joy, comfort them, and after sorrow find joy
In the meantime, because of Israel's sins, the fountain of God's grace has dried up, but now
By the grace of God, the spring bursts and the stream of blessing gushes up to every corner of the garden.
It speaks of the overflowing grace and blessings of God by flowing and overflowing with water.
11 You will be like a watered garden, like a fountain from which water never runs out.
The word you means God to me right here at this time
I pray that you will be able to share this blessing with the word that He grants you this blessing.
Let's proclaim the two blessings of verse 11 to those around us with true love from the heart, not as a lip service.
~Nim will be ① like a watered garden and ② like a spring from which water never runs out.
Verse 11 is a truly influential life, a way to water others.
You say you can live your life.
You and I can be a watered garden, a spring from which water never fails.
I can be because Jehovah is my shepherd who makes me want nothing.
As in the text of the text, the fountain of grace that flows uninterruptedly, the stream of blessing
overflowing in our hearts, our homes, and our Songsan Sammu Church
By damming the water of grace in the garden of our parched and barren society.
I pray that the blessing of new life will be with you.