Title: Truth comes from rice
John 21:17 The truth comes from rice (John 21:13-14)
<I need love above all else>
There was a student in the first year of middle school. He made it to the top of middle school, but after a few months he was badly broken. His grades have gone down, but his personality has also gone down. He rebelled, became rough, refused classes, and later his friends shunned him.
The teacher wondered why. It turned out that his parents were separated. According to the environmental survey, both parents went to church. From then on, the teacher began to pray for the parents. One day, my heart was moved and I called both parents and told me that they wanted to discuss their son's sexual problems, so they came to school at the same time.
When I came to school that day, both of them looked annoyed when I found my spouse. the teacher said “I needed both of you to help me with my child, so I brought it together.” Then he said, "Look at this," and showed the student's English test answer sheet. On the answer sheet, I did not write down the answer to any question, only scribbles, but there was a scribble like this where the teacher put a red line at the end of the scribble. "Mom! Dad! If I get a divorce, who do I live with? I need both! Do mom and dad really love us?”
Both of them bowed their heads when they saw the article. the teacher said “Do you both go to church? I will pray.” As soon as the teacher prayed, the classroom became a sea of tears. From that day on, the family became one again.
The wounds of the parents are amplified into great wounds on the hearts of their children. Unjust feelings and attitudes, unjust words and tying of parents leave a great scar on their children. Those memories and scars remain for a long time and adversely affect the child's personality. Parents should not send their children out into the world with bruises at home, but they should release their bruised children from the world at home.
Right now, society is sick and it is a perfect situation to get bruised wherever you go. love is getting cold At this time, the greatest mission of parents is to raise their children as loving children and send them out into the world to become a source of clean water. What you need most of all is love. The text clearly shows the importance of love.
< The truth comes from rice >
Verse 15 begins like this: “After we had breakfast.” The Lord clearly wanted to say something to the disciples who betrayed their faith, but he did not do it before eating, but first made a warm table of love and fed them well.
According to the Bible, the Lord placed great importance on feeding. Even in the wilderness of Bethsaida, he did not just give the word but also filled the hungry crowd with the miracle of five fish. Looking at the Lord's Prayer, the Lord taught us to pray for praise first. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
After teaching you to pray, what did you ask first? “Give us this day our daily bread.” What did you ask me to do next? “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” The Lord made us to pray for ‘daily bread’ rather than ‘pray for forgiveness of sins’. As such, he valued ‘feeding rice’.
Sharing rice is the most precious thing. When people say, “Eat earnestly,” ‘Sincere’ is a word that elevates the ‘food eaten by adults’, and there is a theory that the word comes from the word ‘Sinji’, meaning ‘true wisdom’. Perhaps our ancestors thought, “Truth comes from rice.” In fact, many fights these days are usually rice bowl fights rather than truth fights. On the other hand, if you try to share food, you will gain wisdom, and you will be given external and internal peace.
In John 6, Jesus said, “I am the bread of life” (John 6:38). In that statement, rice cake is more accurate if it is expressed as ‘rice eaten daily’ rather than ‘rice cake eaten occasionally’. At that time, it would have been better if the Lord had said more noblely, “I am the king of life!” But when he said, “I am the food of life!” Hearing that, people said, “It is so difficult. There's nothing wrong with that. It is strange.” and left the Lord (John 6:60,66).
The reason Jesus said “I am the bread of life” was to become our food and give us life. There is truth and blessings in the life of sharing food. The happiest person in this world is someone who tries to steal a bowl of rice. The second unlucky person is the one who only takes care of my rice bowl. A truly blessed person is a person who distributes food. Among them, the most blessed are those who feed themselves and are 'those who are ostracized for holy things'.
If you want blessings, pay attention to 'distributing warm love and food to those in need'. Mission is to ‘share the Lord’s love and food’. Sincere faith leads to a deep interest in mission.
The missionaries are going out to the front and doing spiritual warfare on my behalf. It is an unimaginably heavy burden. If we don't bear that burden together, who will? On the one hand, fighting for their lives, while on the other side, resting in an armchair is not only a great sin but also a human problem. If you want to live alone, your soul will die, your blessings will die, and everyone will die, but if you burn yourself and dedicate yourself, I will live, you will live, and everyone will live.
Faith is not about sucking the honey of blessing with a straw in God's bosom. God, the Triune God, was mobilized to open the way of salvation, and there was a lot of hard work, sweat and drops of blood by many advanced believers and missionaries until I became a child of God. Thinking of that grace and willingly bearing the burden of the cross is the right life of faith. The greatest interest in life should be in ‘sharing warm love and rice’.