Title: Someone Who Believes Well
1 Thessalonians (2) Believers (1 Thessalonians 1:1-5)
< The heart of the incarnation >
If love is misunderstood as ‘what kind of person you are for me’, complaints and resentment arise when it does not give you the way you want it to be. But true love is ‘what I become for you’. If you live with the love of incarnation and always realize your own shortcomings, you will also overflow with understanding and gratitude.
Oddly enough, people don't think about the cause of happiness. “I am so happy, where did this happiness come from? How am I living so well?” Those thoughts don't work well, and instead, when you lose your health, fail, and experience painful and hard work, you begin to trace the cause. “Why do I have to suffer like this? Where is the cause? Could it be because of the last action? Could it be because of him?”
If you look for the cause and attribute it to yourself, you will get depressed, and if you attribute it to others, resentment arises. The resentment spreads. If I blame him, he will blame me too. Blame your child for resentment. “How did I raise you, and why are you the way you are?” Then no good words will come out of your child's mouth. The only answer to resentment is resentment. Even in marital relationships, if you speak with resentment, there is nothing left, and sooner or later the relationship will turn gray. In the end, resentment leads to a waste of life.
< A person who believes well >
Work hard to shape gratitude. Who is a good believer? Thank you. Do not brag about your faith in any other way. What is the use of fasting and prayers of prophecy if grievances do not depart from your mouth? To be overflowing with gratitude is to believe in Jesus much better than to fast for 40 days and complain. Happiness depends on gratitude. Blessings also depend on gratitude. Blessings and happiness come in through the door of thanks and go out through the door of resentment.
Some people say they don't like being indebted to others, and they never know how to say thank you for the rest of their lives. It is not a ‘straight life’, but an ‘arrogant life’. If you live like that, you will not know gratitude, happiness, and grace. A person who is sometimes indebted to and sometimes indebted to is a mature and happy person. People live without knowing the circumstances of countless others. Realize it deeply, express gratitude and train it.
Although family seminars are successfully held throughout the fortress, family happiness does not depend on family seminars but on gratitude. If there is gratitude, the family will be happy, and without it, the family will be unhappy. Without gratitude, it becomes a soy flour family. When parents see their children and complain, children also see their parents and complain. The most important education for children is to show parents how to be grateful and live a happy life.
Strive to live a life of gratitude from the beginning of your home. Then spouses and children will change, families will change, and society as a whole will change. Ultimately, in order to achieve your brilliant dreams and visions, you must have ‘absolute gratitude’ that is unwavering under any circumstances at the foundation of your life. God's will is not for us to give a big reward, but for giving thanks in everything. What do parents want from their children? With a single word from their child, “Thank you,” parents quickly forget all their troubles.
After becoming blind, the author of Paradise Lost, Milton, who was a well-known politician for a long time, became blind and wrote world-class works, said: "God! Thank you for blinding my physical eyes and opening my spiritual eyes instead.” How often do you lose such physical things and gain more spiritual things? So, be thankful even when things are difficult. A grateful life is a powerful life. Gratitude is the greatest sermon that changes people and the greatest prayer that moves the hand of God.