Title: Subversion of false everyday life
Subversion of false everyday life
Matthew 8:2-4
2009.6.28
If you could find one verse in the Bible about the life of Jesus, the practice and teachings of Jesus, what would it be? It will be different for each person, right? But a relatively objective Bible verse would be "the kingdom of God is at hand." Here, the directive about the time of "near" can be said to be the key. It starts from the practice of Jesus and the imminent 'the coming of that kingdom', which all the Jews at the time had been waiting for. Because of such imminence, Jesus' proclamation sounded like the Messiah.
The problem, however, is that the meaning of that day and that time was different for many people. Except for Jesus, many people longed for the end of the world at that time. So did John the Baptist. So many people gave up their daily lives and stuck to it. But there were others who did not. People who don't believe that it has already arrived, but who think they have to wait 'yet'. On the other hand, there were those who agreed that the kingdom of God should come, but did not believe in such a proclamation of Jesus, who viewed Jesus as a deceitful person. They were mostly in the establishment.
Now you can see that there were some very active people in accepting the time to themselves. And they were the people who wanted to win that last time with their own efforts and hard work. They thought they should drive out the Roman army and establish the kingdom of David. They were very active people. But there were also those who were passive. It is simply waiting for God to fulfill that time.
People living in one era are similar yet different in understanding and making their own the historical realities faced among them. Even in the Bible, people of various classes are in conflict. Their conflict topic was none other than 'the time for the coming of the kingdom of God'.
The package opposes 'miracle time' and 'everyday time' here. Everyday time is two villages of epistemology, a blessing and a curse that exist in us like inertia. But the real miracle of the package was to unite these two kinds of time conflicts. That's what the so-called package called 'the time of miracles'.
The daily time we speak, experience, and absolutize, this time that everyone spends time and time, absolutizes and justifies the experience, consciousness and perception of each human being. So they argue with each other that they are right. This is because we are placed in our daily time. We can call this stubbornness or stubbornness. When he says, 'Some say that a wall is a door', he is trapped in this daily time. The world is constantly changing, and the people in it are also constantly changing, and the person who is dominated by prejudices who have the premise that none of them should ever change, or who lives such a time, is what the package calls 'everyday time'. And most human beings live in such a time, when dogs and pigs, nature, and everything in the universe encounter.
However, for those who believe in Jesus right away, those who wake up properly must go beyond the 'everyday time' and live in the 'miracle time'. First of all, it is a time of miracles when the stubborn daily time breaks down. Or, perhaps, the role of Christ penetrating into the rigid daily time and making it flexible is said to be a 'miracle'. Differences exist among people. And depending on the difference, it can be 'separated' or 'isolated'. But when it changes, isolation must be restored to separation and separation to difference. That is the 'miracle' that the Bible speaks and the novelist Peckige wants to say, and that we have to live those times. It is the miracle of Christ that overthrows differentiated daily life in this way.
Therefore, in order to live in the miraculous time, the daily time must be dismantled from each individual. We are now living conquered by the times of everyday life. It means secular. Although the teachings and life of Jesus were to dismantle and disintegrate our daily life to create a miraculous time, we returned that miraculous time to our daily life. In this way, God's time is stopped because human desires collide with the time of daily life.
Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is at hand, repent." It means to turn the time of daily life upside down and live in a time of miracles. It's about being that person.