Title: To be loved and to love
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Isaiah 55
1. You who thirst, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2. Why do ye give silver for that which is not bread, and toil for that which is not satiated? Obey me, and you will eat good, and your hearts will rejoice in the fatness of your heart.
3. Incline your ear and come to me, and hear, and your souls will live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure grace of David.
4. I made him a witness to all nations, and I made him a leader and commander of all nations.
5. You will call on a nation you do not know, and a nation that does not know you will run against you because I, the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, I have glorified you.
1 John
7. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9. In this way the love of God was revealed to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10. Here is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
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Subject: To be loved and to love
Text: Isaiah 55:1-5, 1 John 4:7-12,
This is a reference to Erich Fromm's maternal love, who studied psychoanalysis and sociology in the 20th century and performed extraordinary activities in the realization of a peaceful world without psychiatry and military force. ‘Most mothers can give [milk], but only a few can give [honey]. To become a mother who also gives honey, you must be a happy person as well as a [good mother]. However, very few people reach this goal. A mother's influence on her children is profound. Like the love of life, the mother's anxiety is also contagious. These two attitudes have a profound effect on the overall personality of a child. We can, in fact, distinguish between children - and adults - who ate only [milk] and those who ate [milk and honey].' He documented the biblical creation (Genesis 1) and Exodus accounts.
A mother's love plays an almost absolute role in the life she is born with. It differentiates maternal love into unconditional love and fatherly love into conditional love, and refers to the beginning of being loved and loving. Maternal love is an unconditional affirmation of a child's life and needs, and has two aspects. The first is the protection and responsibility absolutely necessary for the maintenance and growth of a young child's life. The second is to teach the love of life slowly. [It's good to be born into this world, it's good to be a boy and a girl, it's good to be on earth!]. It is a role that represents the affirmation of ‘it was good’ (Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31) that the Creator repeated during the creation process. The role of the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey, is also applied in the same context. The love of God revealed on the cross contains these two.
The society he analyzed and diagnosed was ‘the era of the loss of true self’ and ‘the era of loss of true love’. He pointed out that “the bleakness of human relationships without true love, the wretchedness of a society that lacks love, and a marriage relationship where nothing but rituals remain without true love” It is said that even if you try to love, you only fail repeatedly, so separation, isolation, painful loneliness overlaps, and you live with the fear of love itself. However, since they are creatures that cannot live without love, it is said that they are searching for even pseudo-love. He pointed out one of these causes as ‘the pathophysiology of a society inclined only to being loved’. I wrote the expression ‘commercialization of quality as well’. He said that it has nothing to do with the market economy that promotes the virtue of consumption culture.
The prescription he suggested is ‘training to love’. It is suggested that we should realize the ignorance and misunderstanding of love, the highest peak of human virtue. He said that training requires the acquisition of theory and practical skills. This is the content of his later work, The Art of Loving (1956). So far, I agree. However, I cannot agree with his efforts to evade his faith in God, who is love itself. It is because every human being is born with a thirst for love and needs God's love (Ecclesiastes 3:11; Isaiah 55). “You who thirst, come to the water. Come even those who have no money. Come and buy and eat; come and buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1). Instead of [milk and honey] (Exodus 3:8), He says [wine and milk]. He said that he does not need money, which is a symbol and idol of this age. Let's make a commitment to love each other and train according to the command of the Lord of love (1 John 4:7-12). “Beloved, let us love one another!” Amen.