Title: The Fruit of Sacrifice and Joy
“I bought a house when I was working. However, when he devoted himself late to planting a church, he kept that fact a secret in preparation for his retirement. Then, he taught only the church members to give donations and preached the spirit of sacrifice for the Lord and the gospel.
There was one deacon who worked hard in our church and was close to me. One day, while talking to him, I inadvertently told him my secret. I told him not to tell anyone because I thought it was a mistake. After a while, this butler asked me to give him a guarantee. I wanted to refuse, but I had no choice, so I put up a guarantee, but the house was blown away. Now that I think about it, if I had first offered my house to God and said, 'Let's work hard for the Lord and the gospel together,' the church would have grown by now. I am very sorry.”
These days, there is a growing trend of dislike of sacrifice and looking for convenient and easy things. The world is becoming less and less people who know the true joy and happiness of sacrifice. Even in the midst of such circumstances, even as disciples of Jesus, who became the example of sacrifice, let us, armed with the spirit of sacrifice, take the lead and move forward vigorously to win, revive the church, make the family happy, save the company, and save the country. “Lord, who died for a sinner like me! Now it is my turn to die for the Lord.” Let us move forward with gratitude and joy.
father's heart
Five years ago, a novelist wrote a novel about a father's love for his son. The title of the book is “Thornfish”. It is a novel about a father who struggles to save his young son who is suffering from leukemia and is on the verge of death.
Among freshwater fish, there is a fish called “Pungitius Sinensis Sinensis, Guichenot”. Perhaps the name is thornfish because of the sharp thorns on its body. However, this spiny fish is a fish that has unique characteristics in its habits other than its external appearance. In this book, this thorn meat is expressed in the voice of a son suffering from leukemia in the novel.
“Spinach is a strange fish. After laying the eggs, the mother thornfish runs away somewhere. It's like the eggs don't matter. Daddy Gossip is left alone to take care of the eggs. They risk their lives to fight other fish that rush to eat their eggs. They work hard to protect the eggs without eating or sleeping. The eggs hatch and the chicks grow quickly. And the baby spiny fish abandon their father's spiny fish and go their own way. After all the pups have left, the father, who is left alone, bangs his head in a crevice of a stone and dies. Why does Daddy go and die? The reason was not explained in the book. But isn't it obvious? Spiny meat always reminds me of my dad.”
He struggles for his son who has an incurable disease called leukemia, sells the cornea of his eye to pay for hospital bills, meets a person who can get a bone marrow transplant, and cures his son, but in the end, he tells the story of a father who dies of cancer. It is painted. It is said that the author got the subject of this story from seeing a friend who had a son who had an incurable disease. The author introduces it this way.
“Only one day, a friend said. ‘You know what my hope is? I want to be able to substitute for anything for the child. But that's it. nothing can replace It's so hard to bear.' 'Nothing can replace it. That's really hard to bear, isn't it?' That's what made me cling to this novel.”
The author wrote this work with the intention that the heart of a father is like this kind of thorn.
In this way, the heart of a father is that he constantly wants to do something for his children.