Title: The Pain of Love
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has its punishment. The one who fears is not perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. He who hates is a liar. He who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. We have received this commandment from the Lord, and he who loves God must also love his brother (1 John 4: 9-21)
1. In today's verse, it is said that love is born of God.
Love is the heart that God has given us.
He said that they know God out of love, and that everyone who loves them is with God.
In the Bible, love is spoken of in many places, and the deeds of the characters of love are told.
In particular, 1 Corinthians 13 is the chapter of love and explains all the definitions of love in various ways.
To think about love, it starts with the saying that in the beginning when God created man, he made man in His image.
It is the fact that God made human beings in His image for the fellowship of love. If God had created humans like animals, we would have lived and died not knowing what true love is.
But God has given us a pair that we can love and live in so that we can understand what love is.
That is the purpose of creating Adam and Eve.
God created a man and a woman and told them to become one with each other.
It is said that the power of oneness is the power of love.
And he gave them infinite blessings.
Be fruitful, multiply, and be full.
And he was commanded to rule and rule over all created nature.
Therefore, when a person grows up, he leaves his parents and finds a loved one, and starts living in a family.
This is the result of God's law of love.
In human society, love is the most beautiful relationship.
In this relationship, we have created the image of God.
And the Bible says, "This mystery is great."
power of love!
It is truly a mysterious force that cannot be measured.
Therefore, humans are beings who are meant to live in love.
I feel happiness in the heart of love.
And love is meant to lead to another love.
There is truly nothing as mysterious as love.
There is nothing as strong as love.
Love is more precious than everything in the world.
If you look at the order of love, first it starts with the love of a couple.
And then there is the love between parents and children.
This was expanded and love between people was formed, and through such love, we realized the relationship of love with God.
Therefore, today's Bible says, "Love belongs to God."
If Ewa and Ewa were cast out by Satan, it means that all love comes from God.
2. And it was said that love is not a word but an action.
A heart of love is bound to follow action.
The action is for the other person, not for self-centeredness.
The more true love is, the more self-giving will follow.
It manifests itself as an act of minimal self-sacrifice.
Therefore, there is bound to be pain in this act of love.
The highest point of this love was God's love for us.
The heart of the Father who sent his only begotten Son into the world was painful.
However, it is just that we are insensitive and do not understand God's love from the beginning.
So, at first, you will feel and learn this love from your mother's heart.
Everyone starts a new life by crying when they come into the world, but they feel love from the first glance they see with their mother.
And because she is a child who risked her life through the pain of childbirth, a mother instinctively feels love.
These are all pathways for God to realize His love.
The sacrificial love of parents makes their children know what love is.
In the mother's tears, the children feel the love potion.
It is because they grew up watching the sacrifices of their parents who love them when they see that the more filial they grow, the more they work hard.
In this way, love begets another love through love.
Today's Bible says, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for us."
I don't know how much this word has a deeper meaning the more you savor it.
We humans are not capable of loving God.
That is why it is said that love is love from above.
It means that no children can love their parents.
That's why he told them to obey their parents.
?쏞hildren, obey your parents in the Lord.
This is right.??It means that parents love their children and children do not love their parents.
The children say, "Mom, Dad, I love you!" What you are saying is nonsense.
Because love must have the pain of giving it away.
And because the action has to be revealed as a reality.
If God had only said that he would send a son to us, we would not have felt God's love yet. But you confirmed your love to us because you did not just say that you would send your son, but you did.
Moreover, it is the fact that they were sent as a peace offering, as a sacrifice.
What a painful love this is!
True love does not even say the word love itself, but puts it into action.
Pain is always accompanied by practical actions.
3. Therefore, love leaves an eternal trace.
The world goes, its lusts go, everything goes, but love is eternal.
Only traces of love remain in the world forever.
Traces of love grow into life.
It stretches out forever.
Moreover, love with pain leads to another love baton.
Because love breeds and connects another love.
A person who has received someone's true love will not forget that love and will continue to give love again.
Please see the side of people who live by helping others and giving love.
It's not because they're all rich.
Because they are in debt to love.
He can't forget that love, so he acts like that to share even a small sacrifice of himself.
I saw the story of an engineer.
When he finished working, he saw that he was paying off his debt of love by taking portraits of his grandmother and grandfather in the countryside.
In our religious life, there must be exhortation, discipline, and discipline from the Word, but we must become believers who leave traces of love.
On the last week of May, as I look back on the past and think about how many traces of love I have in my life, if there is unfulfilled love, it should be a life that I live by practicing from now on.
Because love is eternal.
Jesus loved us so much that he gave everything on the cross without leaving a drop of blood or water. Therefore, supreme love is an act of supreme sacrifice.
Missionary Appenzeller (1858-1902) arrived in Korea through the Port of Incheon with the North Presbyterian missionary Underwood on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1885, and devoted himself to Korean missions until his death (age 44) on June 11, 1902. I did.
He died in an instant when he collided with the Kisogawa Maru, a steamer of the same company, while riding a steamer named Kumagawa Maru to attend the Bible Translation Committee in Mokpo.
It is said that he made a desperate effort until he went to rescue Cho Han-kyu, an investigator who was with him, and a student at Ewha Hakdang, and he became a victim with the Koreans he loved. Appenzeller even gave his life for the souls of Koreans.
1) God loved us first.
2) As a result, we became children of God.
3) Therefore, he also said that we should love one another.
And he said that love belongs to God.
There is nothing more precious than loving someone.
The more painful that love is, the more precious it is.
Even today, I know that our society is maintained even to this extent because of the people who practice this kind of love. We should all ask God to make love with pain.
And we must become people who can leave many traces of love that will remain in the world forever. ??