Title Do You Know What God Wants?
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In the 70s, when my parents were at their best, the slogan of those in those difficult times when they were talking about barley is ‘Live a good life’. It was a time when living well once was the wish of life, or even the highest goal. At that time, the story of a miner working in a makchang in Gangwon-do was also an event that reminds us of what is most precious.
Man is an inner being. We have the most important thing. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Guard your heart above all else. For this is the origin of life.” If you lose your heart even after gaining everything else, everything is over. Amos 3:3 says, “How can two walk together unless they agree?” When it comes to living together, the most irreplaceable thing is how can we walk together without being of one mind...
As I preach the gospel like this, and meet several couples around me, I see that they seem like a couple without any problems, but in reality they are living with many problems. Of course, if you ask the newlyweds you meet at the airport what they live for, they will reply with a smile and say, “I will live by love.” Then what do we answer? It's not that I'm envious, it's just the heyday, and you laugh and tell me that you haven't tasted the bitter taste of our organization yet. Being a person can't be that different. Living together is no joke.
A sister, who had been married for about 10 years, was lying in bed one day and saw her husband snoring badly next to him. Can you think of this? That you can dare to be. I don't know how many people think this way. We got everything else, but unfortunately, we don't know how many people are in situations where they lose each other's hearts.
It is important to live together, but it is of no use if you lose the most important heart. Also, God made man a relational being, and it is a fact that a personal relationship with God is the same as the whole existence that sustains our lives.
What a person's worth is can be seen by looking at the goals he is aiming for. What is the most important thing in our life? The most important thing is our relationship with God, that is, the matter of the soul. However, you should not think of these problems as just coming to church to worship. Faith is more fundamentally the personal relationship that takes place between the living God and me. So what does it mean to have good faith? That is, there is a living personal relationship between the living God and me. These are not my words, but the words of the Lord Himself. Here are the words of the Lord how close he wants to be with us.
Hos 6:6 “I want mercy, not sacrifice, I want to know God rather than burnt offering” God doesn't want sacrifices, not ceremonies, not great choir singing. What I really want is your heart with all your heart.” He says that what the Lord wants is not worship, it is not what you have, it wants you. What you want to meet is not what you brought with you, but what you want. What I want is that I want you to know me, God, rather than your success package, I want you to know God's heart. Going one step further, I want to know God rather than burnt offerings...
If you look at the original Hebrew text of the word ‘know’, it is ‘yada’. This is not just the level of knowledge, but it is the story of knowing through experience. When we get to know a person, we usually don't say that we know the person's personal information, such as family register information. I've been spending less time with my family now. Since our source is 8 years old, we have been married for 8 years. Everyone, even after all this, my householder is the person who proposed to me first. Please believe in this.
By the way, is there anyone here who knows my wife's family register better than me? In this case, do not answer God. Then there's nothing that can't be answered... Yes, I'm an office worker. Of course, the head of the family register at the district office knows more about my wife than I do. Does that mean that he knows my wife well? If that person had been bragging about knowing about my wife, I would have run right away and cocked him. Who dares to say that he knows my wife better than the one I live with? So, can we say that we know about a person because we live together for a long time? However, the sad thing is that even if a person lives together for a long time, they are not interested and if they do not take care of them, no matter how long they live, it is not possible to know about them immediately. Since we are personal beings in the image of God, we cannot know about him unless we pay attention to him and pay attention to him. The same is true between God and us.
If God wants us to be interested in him, it means that he wants to know as much as Yada in today's text. “I want you to know me as I know you.” Beloved, God knows us. It's just that, not knowing our profile, it's that he loves us and knows us enough to put all of us in his heart.
Ladies and gentlemen, how do parents feel when their children are injured in an accident? Will your child get sick? Will the parents get sicker? The hearts of parents are torn. Likewise, God's heart says that I want you to know the heart of the Lord my God rather than your burnt offerings. It means that God is the one who has been so harsh on us.
You know the Lord, who knows the sorrows, the wounds and the pains that are deep in our hearts better than anyone else, that's why he says to us. “Come to you, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and you will give you rest.” Our sorrow is the Lord's sorrow. When we love someone, what happens to him becomes what happens to us. We need to know how people react to the Lord like this. Look at Isaiah 29. Let's read Isaiah 29:13 together...
People of Israel These people, who are God's people, worshiped God, but in God's eyes, they did not want to receive worship that left their hearts. Beloved, if you lose your mind from your personal existence, it is as if you are all gone. Everything is over. No matter how hard you try to hold onto someone who has left your heart, it is of no use. Conversely, if you hold onto your heart, you have captured everything. This tragedy of praising God with their lips and lamenting that their hearts are away from those who worship God outwardly is not happening anywhere else, but in the lives of God's people. This tragedy occurred between Israel and God throughout biblical history.
Our Lord is saying that such a tragic thing can happen in the end times as well. Let's see it together from Matthew 7:21.... "Everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord..." This is a story of fear and trembling. This is the story of what happens on the Last Judgment Day. But surprisingly, the names of the people here are those who call them lord, lord. I have done many things in the name of the Lord, but the Lord says that I have never known you. An even greater tragedy is that they cannot realize these circumstances even on the Last Judgment Day. But if such a terrible thing can happen to me and you living today, we must not let this happen beyond today. Amen? The Lord is not the one who criticizes our mistakes and executes judgment. He is the one who restores our relationship with God by restoring what we have lost.
The last time Won-i was in a car accident and was about to undergo surgery... It was a surgery that performed under general anesthesia, so I was a little nervous and nervous... “God, this is my son... Please take care of me... Otherwise, God The good relationship between me and I is breaking....” Seeing the child lying in the recovery room after surgery, how painful it must be... I can feel the pain... It took a lot of time. How much less can we just sit and realize the heart of Almighty God? “God loved the world this way… No… God so loved me… He gave his only begotten Son…”
If you live with bitter pain and pain in your life today, rather thank God. I believe that God has called you here today to heal and touch your broken hearts, and to come to us with the Holy Spirit and fill you with the wisdom of knowing God. The greatest happiness for us in our lives is the grace of pouring out the love of God among us. That grace first comes to those who hit the cross head-on. Lord, why did you have to die on the cross for me? Second, give your whole being to the Lord. Then the Lord will pour out all His heart on you.... Transfer ownership to the Lord.