Title: The beginning of the new year
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We start our life in 1969 from today. How do I start? Where to start? You may be hesitating in tension right now. On the racetrack of life, there is no moment as important as the beginning. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans are two great seas that separate the East and the West, but when you look at the peak of the Rocky Mountain where the water flow began, a raindrop that fell on a single pyeong of land immediately falls to the east and falls to the Pacific Ocean and the West to create the Atlantic Ocean. is to achieve. I'm going to tell you today what you're going to do for the first year of the year, and the first step in your life ahead. If the Gospel of John is a calendar, a calendar, how did the first line of the first chapter start?
It started with the Word in the beginning. The Word is God. The Word became flesh, Christ Jesus. God and Jesus are the Words made flesh. God's calendar started with this word. These words are not my words, but because they are God and Jesus, they are other, object, and those who speak to me. Therefore, in our case, to begin with the Word means to begin by hearing the Word. Then, in conclusion, let's start the year by listening to the Word. When Isaiah, Jeremiah, Abraham, and Moses all heard the word of God, the true life and true work began. We hear the word of God there by seeing, reading, meditating, and studying these words of the Bible. Sometimes, God speaks to us through Satan's mouth, through regeneration, through animals, and plants, and through the unbelieving Gentiles, God speaks to us.
Therefore, it is important for us to listen carefully, and I hope that listening to God's true word in listening, reading, and contemplation will be the starting signal for you and all of us this year. I hope that those words can be heard with humility, whether they agree with me or against them. After hearing the word, it must be followed by receiving the word and obeying it. When we hear the word and accept it, it is to receive and receive Christ. When Mary heard the news that the angel was pregnant, she was surprised and wondered what was going on, but in the end she said, 'It will be done according to the word,' and she accepted and obeyed. God's Word is sometimes the opposite of my human understanding, but we must accept and obey, saying, 'According to the Word it will be done'. This is the attitude that begins with the Word.
Next, he said, "The Word became flesh, and in him is life." He said 'there is life'. It starts with life. Starting with life means that it has content, value, growth, and creation. All history takes shape and appears. Whatever we do from today, there will be material expressions. However, the point is that all things must have the content of cultivation, they must have value, and there must be a growing creation. From today on, in everything we do, we start with the content rather than the appearance, put more value on the quantity than on the quantity, and continue to grow, advance, and create while repenting of the past and the present, rather than in a stationary state where we are always proud of the past. have to go Our history for the next one year recommends that we live a life that is fruitful, substantial, and of constant value, growing day by day.
Then he said, "Life is the light of men." The first start of the new year is light. It is our mission to shine the light. I urge you to live a life that shines in this year, a life that shines in the light. The light has the light of self-knowledge and the light of self-knowledge, and in order to shine on its own, you have to burn yourself. Let's start with a life that reveals and shines light by burning yourself. Just as a candle melts to light a candle, like a drop of oil burns to illuminate, we hope that we can burn our own possessions and life by burning it to shine. If you listen to the Word, accept it, and obey it, life will sprout and grow there, and as that life grows, the light will shine. Among the lights, the greater light is the light of the sun, and the great light is God and Jesus. Let's start with a life that receives that light and becomes the moonlight that shines again and the starlight.
He exhorted, "Have this mind, that it was that of Christ Jesus." He said, "Imitate Jesus." He told us to put on Christ. He said to reveal the fragrance of Christ. It is a word to reflect again. In order to receive the light of the Lord and reveal the light of reflection, there must be no cloud between the Lord and me. ?쏧t is not that the LORD's arm is short that he cannot save us, nor that his ear is blocked from hearing our prayers, but our sins and transgressions stand between him and us,??said the prophet Isaiah. Just as there is a hole in the sky covered with dark clouds and a single ray of sunlight pours in, we hope that we can receive the light of the Lord that shines in spite of our shortcomings and shine His light on the world again. We hope that you will live this Eul Childhood as a year that begins by listening to and obeying the Word, starting with a life of life, and with a mission to shine the light.