Title: Wisdom of a Traveler
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The Wisdom of a Traveler (James 4:13-17)
Jacques Attali's '21st Century Dictionary' predicts that these changes will come in the 21st century.
As predicted, one of the characteristics of people living in the 21st century is
They are said to be urban nomads.
I am not a nomadic wandering like in the old days, but living in a city and living like a nomadic
Nomads wandering here and there raising animals by living with values
Rather, it is that their hearts and minds are nomadic.
I live in the midst of many people, but I am lonely, there is no stability, for no reason
We move every two years, but this is the heart of a nomadic people who cannot live without moving.
You cannot settle in one place.
Among the nomads, they could not eat a single meal, so they only had to eat.
There is such a poor nomad who has to wander from morning to night,
If you have enough material and all the conditions in your own way, and say 'enough'
It is said that there are nomads who are narcissistic and live with satisfaction.
Jacques Attali struggled for freedom in the 19th century, where freedom was the standard of value.
It was an era of beating, and the 20th century was an attempt to achieve equality with equality as the standard of value.
We tried our best to create communism, and we couldn't achieve equality and
However, it is said that the value that the 21st century aims for is philanthropy.
What city nomads need the most is philanthropy.
I think the best value is philanthropy, which is to love each other because we all die
He predicted that such a generation would come.
Life is called a stranger, and there are three kinds of strangers.
1. A person who does not know that he is a stranger
As if this world is everything, I try to live frugally and gain stability.
In fact, it is all in vain and cannot be achieved.
It's funny, but he builds a house so well, he doesn't want to die if he's well furnished
The traveler has to leave, and there is no place in the world to stay long.
Someday it will all have to be demolished, but is it hard to build a strong stone and make many people suffer?
I feel very pity for the thought of being a stranger but not a stranger.
2. A person who knows that he or she is a stranger and lives a barren life
As someone who knows that he is a stranger and lives a life that is limited, eat and drink as much as he wants We're going to die tomorrow, so let's eat and drink
You can see the secularists, which is also a big problem.
The gang called Maggapa is the people who live with this kind of thinking.
3. A pilgrim who is a stranger with a settlement.
In you strangers, the concept of us believers must be changed to a pilgrim.
We are not strangers, we are pilgrims Where are we heading now?
You shouldn't live the world haphazardly, one hour, one hour, one by one
They are all precious, and you must return to your hometown, so you cannot go to your hometown in shame.
There was a virtuous person living in a certain town, and a person who was traveling in that town
Hearing rumors, it's hard to meet this wonderful person in my lifetime, so I'm looking for one.
I thought I should go and say hello, so I went to the wise man's house and found a table, a chair,
When I saw a house that was too shabby with only a few books, I said, "Teacher, there is no study, no bedroom,
Are you living a sluggish life?" I asked, "Why don't you have anything?"
"I'm traveling anyway, so I only have one bag and I'm traveling lightly right now.
is in progress. So that's why I'm a stranger."
He smiled and said, "I'm a stranger too."
We know that a stranger is a stranger, but a pilgrim who is a stranger with a final destination.
You have to remember it in your heart and live it today.
4. Pride of a Traveler
According to the text, there is nothing to boast about, that is, a stranger must boast.
If you look at what people are proud of, there are a lot of people who brag about the past.
What did you say in the past, but what do you mean now?
The sooner you forget the pride of the past, the better, but in the past, I lived well and succeeded...
In fact, people who talk a lot about the past have no present and no future.
When my grandfather, who works by fishing, came from fishing, the grandmother brought the basket.
When I received it, I caught a few small crucian carp. Yeah, when grandma says "to the kid"
Grandpa explains, "Actually, I missed a huge fish."
They say I stopped and missed it. "That's what I've been talking about for decades. Just tell me."
All the missed fish are huge. I think the old days were awesome.
If you listen to what the prisoners in the prison have to say while sitting in a small room,
No one has come to his yard without tying a golden calf. all lived well,
My hometown is the best, what, what, what????. There is a lot of bluff.
The more glamorous the past is and the more it is remembered, the more miserable it is today.
The past was difficult, but today it is better to be much better than that.
While the pride of the past holds onto that heart, it gets harder and harder for me.
All places boasting of the past are false boasting.
Do people brag about what they have, what they know, what they are young, and what knowledge they have about the present?
Knowing that, it's all vain pride.
When the bride and groom stand up for the wedding ceremony, they are happy, but
Now is the best time for you guys. Today is a rough day. best so far
After the wedding is over, I think that the whole world is like that.
I can't stand it because I like it, but you immature person thinks so
The present youth will soon pass, so there is nothing to be proud of.
In the old days, my memory was good, but after I get older, it becomes hazy.
I can't be proud of this. my memory, my knowledge, especially my health,
What we call the present will soon disappear and will soon pass, so it is nothing to be proud of.
You have to admit the fact, and even now, there is nothing to brag about.
Some people boast about the future
You who say, in the Bible, I will go to any city and spend a year in business and see it.
What is life, isn't it a mist that appears for a moment and then disappears? (verse 13).
one year later? Who guarantees one year later?
Foolish people boast of an absurd and unrealistic future.
We know that there is a destination as pilgrims who do not know what to do tomorrow
There are omega points and there is a final goal.
I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. I will go and prepare and come
I will take you where I am
The Lord first showed us and confirmed our future with certainty.
Let's not forget that there is a day.
Everyone, those who believe that the land of Canaan is in front of us and live today,
Who is happier with the person you think you don't have?
In the West, before someone died, he wrote his own epitaph.
After he died, a tombstone was erected, but passers-by, as you are now.
So did I. So now you must die, just as I am dead.
Prepare to follow me. Everyone who writes this tombstone reads it.
After reading this tombstone, a traveler wrote more on it.
"Unless you know which way you have gone, I have no intention of following you."
Those who do not know where they are going, there is no need to follow.
The meaninglessness of life, the impermanence of life, is not the truth, and it must live forever.
We must not forget that the wisdom of a stranger is to know the will of the Lord.
What can and cannot be done, what can be known and what cannot be known,
You have to know what you can have and what you can't
More importantly, you need to know what you can and should do.
Today we have work to do as strangers.
Verse 17 If you know to do good and do not do it, it is sin.
My job is to do good, and let's live a good life in the world we have to leave anyway.
I know I know, I have high ears, I don't know anything,
But the problem is that we know it and don't do it.
If you know how to do good and do not do it, you must know that it is a sin.
I want my ears to be narrow and my hands to be wide.
Where is the need to hate and fight each other in a world that will be short-lived?
Let's love and live as long as we live.
Dear saints,
We will all become wise travelers who do good on the path of a stranger's life.
I bless you to become believers who promise.