Title: Whatever You Sow (Galatians 6:1-10)
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Whatever you sow (Galatians 6:1-10)
As I reflect on today's text over and over again, the following scene comes to mind. Several people cautiously walk on the icy road. After walking for a while, two of the party slipped and fell. One of them had a broken arm and the other sprained his ankle.
Some of the people I was with at that time saw them sitting on the icy road in pain and scolded them with ridicule, saying, “Look at that, we are not as careful as we are, and it is all self-inflicted.” Meanwhile, some of them from the other group rushed to the injured co-workers, comforting them instead of accusing them, and taking turns carrying the injured to the orthopedic clinic, where their injured co-workers were well treated, and they took them to the hospital. Leaving it on, they walk carefully, lest they slip like them.
People all have their own burdens to bear. In some ways, life itself is both a heavy task and a burden. The burden is your life that you have to realize and your own flaws and wounds hidden in it. There are many dangerous pitfalls that can lead to temptation or fall into evil because of such a burden. Weaknesses that are not particularly visible on the surface can have a negative impact on life as a whole when the burden of life becomes heavy.
For young people, how should they live their lives correctly? Along with the hefty task of being a child, there are the burdens of fate that he inherited from his parents, the wounds he has developed along the way, and the burdens of personality. Along with that, there are many temptations, along with the ambition, ambition, and passion they have. The older generations also bear the burden of responsibility for the lives they lost, their unsatisfactory history, their families and society. In addition to that, they too, along with such an unsatisfactory life, have many obstacles lurking in their path.
Any honest person admits those things in himself and is always vigilant. However, if you are a fool, you will not be able to look at any of those aspects of yourself, and you will become proud by comparing yourself to those who have made mistakes along the way of life. Such an attitude is deceiving yourself.
Because we are human, we always compare ourselves to others. In comparison, when you see someone weaker than you, you can be rather proud. However, when a person with a truly upright spirituality sees a person who is subjected to such a test, he learns a lesson from it and becomes alert. And he goes to those who have fallen into temptation, comforts them, and binds up their wounds. They too have their own burdens to bear. But they do not neglect the burdens of the weak. The burden is shared by going to them and comforting and helping them.
In a way, you can lighten your own burden by carrying someone else's burden. Teilhard de Chardin said this. It is said that when he traveled on horseback through the wilderness of China, his luggage was hung on one side of the horse and stones on the other side for balance. We know from experience that when we lift our clothes trunks, it is easier to lift them with two than with one. It's such a difficult life, but when we share the burden with each other, the burden becomes light.
Although life is such a burden, for some people, there are people who discover what kind of path they have to walk and live creatively by using their shortcomings and wounds as the foundation of their life. On the other hand, there are those who cannot, and waste their lives by imitating other people's things in a competitive spirit. Self-sufficiency and pride in life do not come from being better than others. When our standards are always different, we become self-sufficient and fall into the snare of jealousy, envy, and frustration.
How much more successful are we in comparing ourselves to others in our own life's journey? How much more economic wealth have you acquired? should not be the focus of your attention. What we should be interested in and ask ourselves is what is going on consistently in my life.
Some people achieve social success faster than others, make a lot of money, and live outwardly lavishly. However, almost all of his lifestyles ignore truth and honesty, righteousness and fairness, and live a life of lies, cunning, and selfishness. And he is very optimistic about his future. His future destiny is convinced that the power and money he has secured will make him happy. And I think the children who have learned such a way of life will be great.
On the other hand, in contrast to such a person, he discovers his own way ahead of time, squints here and there, does not compare himself with others, always fears God, gives love and tolerance to those in need of justice, truth and help, and saves his life There are people who live consistently. Living that way, he doesn't expect great success or rewards.
There is no competitive spirit to be better than others, nor the nervousness or anxiety that comes from not being able to do so. His concern is always in mind that he will have to stand before God on the last day of his life.
If we believe in God, we must also believe in that order of life. A person who believes in such a God, that order, always has a “quiet center” deep inside him. A person who lives with such a heart has a spiritual eye to see the other side of things rather than the surface.
In verse 1 of the text, there is the phrase “you who are spiritual”. In other words, this word can be translated as “you who live under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.” Or “you who are not spiritually dry.” If we analyze today's text strictly, the content begins with the previous chapter, 5:25.
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit, not seeking vain glory to provoke one another, or to envy one another. Brethren, if a man is found guilty of any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, in a meek spirit correct such a person, examine yourselves, lest you too be tempted.”
A person who is led by the Holy Spirit does not condemn or criticize his brother when he makes a mistake. First, he admits to himself that he has flaws and handicap that can be the same. In doing so, he helps a brother who has fallen into temptation to be healed. The phrase “when a man is found guilty of anything” in the text does not mean that he sins intentionally. It has the same meaning as carefully walking on the ice and sliding.
God heals us when we have shortcomings and faults. Its purpose is to use it as a minister to help the weak. It's not that I want to show off in front of weak people as if I'm perfect. To help them.
Many years have already passed. During the Yushin regime, parents of an elementary school in Ui-dong, Dobong-gu, Seoul collectively refused to send their children to school. The reason is that the school admitted children with negative leprosy. Parents campaigned against school saying they couldn't let their children study with them. At that time, the Korean seminary located in that area, who heard the news, expressed its intention to receive and educate the unborn children if the Ministry of Education grants them permission to establish an elementary school.
Hanshin National School was established with permission from the Ministry of Education. And as promised, I received the unborn child. After some time, a young female teacher was newly appointed to the school. The school atmosphere reflected in the eyes of this new female teacher was very different from the school she had served before.
One morning, this female teacher came to work and entered the schoolyard, and in the corner of the playground, children were screaming and screaming. Strangely, when I went there, a certain male student was surrounded by students. After a while they took the student to the bathroom. The teacher also followed back to see how they did it. When I went, I saw that the students took off the student's trousers, washed them, and then put on another child's trousers and brought them out. The teacher asked a student what happened. Here's the student's story: The student is Park Bak-ah, who comes to school from time to time to pee in his pants. Each time, it was the story of the classmates helping other students not to see it. When the female teacher heard the story, she wondered, how is such a school possible in Korea?
Then, one winter, all the students went to the skating rink and skated, and at that time most of the teachers were guiding the new students who entered that year. Then a girl from another grade fell on the ice and injured her leg. The assistant principal and the female teacher took the student to the orthopedic clinic. He said he had to cast because he broke his ankle. After the treatment was over, I took the student home in the vice-principal's car. At the student's house, her parents were down in the countryside and she was with her grandmother. The assistant principal left the students in the car, got off first, went to the grandmother, and told me that your granddaughter fell and hurt her leg during today's skating special, asking for forgiveness as I am responsible for everything. Grandma did not take it well at first, but accepted the vice principal's earnest apology.
From the next day, the granddaughter's homeroom teacher came to the house after school was over and gave her granddaughter private instruction on all the tasks that she had learned that day. At first, the stubborn grandmother said, "I'm sorry, I'm just being sarcastic. Let's see how far we go." The next day too, the homeroom teacher stopped by on the way home from work to tutor my granddaughter. Grandma thought, “I will go for a day or two.” I thought. So, the teacher went home every day to teach her granddaughter until she was completely healed and returned to school.
At that time, the grandmother became a consultant on her own. How can such a school exist in this country? What the hell kind of school is this? I was interested and looked into it. The grandmother found out that the school her granddaughter went to was a Christian school. My grandmother, who did not like Christianity very much, attended church from then on and became a very faithful member of the church.
Dear brothers and sisters, we find very encouraging and hopeful ministry through today's text. It is none other than that we, with our flaws and wounds, can rather help the wounded under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. To God, we are never useless.
And if that way of life is a way of life we're consistently pursuing, then there's no need to worry. We certainly have hope. We are not fools who live by deceiving ourselves. Actually, you just need to check this. In reality, it doesn't matter what you get that's very popular right now.