Title Looking back on failure (Isaiah 30:8)
looking back on failure
Isaiah 30:8-14
Among American films, there is a movie called <Song of September>. The main character is a middle-aged man who lives on his own without having anything, and what he does is a person who wanders around with only one checkbook and the wind blows. Then, if you fall in love while traveling, you don't buy an apartment, furniture, and cookware, but rent it out, and when the love ends, you return it and go away again with just a checkbook. The character of this protagonist is called in one word. what do you mean? Just like the car we rent, we can call it a life where we rent everything we need at a reasonable price and live every now and then.
What this film suggests is that a house, furniture, even a wife and children are not [a life in the concept of to have], but rather [a life in the concept of use] without the need to have it as mine. .
A futurist [Elvin Toffler], who came to Korea, wrote a book called Predicting the Future in the next 30-40 years in the 1970s. This is the era we are living in right now, 30-40 years ago. The future he looked at in shock at the time is so accurate that it is impossible not to be surprised at his insight at the present time. To borrow what he said in that book, he prophesied that the life of the 21st century would move from one place to another, and he said that selling and buying would be a dying industry, and borrowing and lending would become a promising industry.
In the United States, it is said that the growth rate of borrowing is higher than that of owning a car, and sales of disc discs are decreasing, and instead of recording songs you want to listen to from time to time, it is said that it is rapidly increasing. Since one of the two married couples is divorced in the United States, it is becoming common knowledge to rent a bed until divorced, and love has entered the lease era. It is said that half of the single people in the United States live without marriage, and this is the effect of an accident, which is proof that men and women are coming to a time when they need each other as they live, not each other throughout their lives. You can see the strange idea that the concept of use, not the concept of possession, is also applied to the relationship of reason.
Neighboring Japan has also grown rapidly. It is said that chain stores nationwide are popping up all over the country for renting out furniture and ornaments that are easy to get tired of or borrowing clothes for a limited time. Of course, they even rent necklaces, earrings, handbags and shoes. The concept of giving cheap clothes rather than high prices for good clothes you want to wear is established.
It is said that Japanese publishers and magazines do not create books by owning many employees at high wages in each field, but renting the necessary manpower of about one or two editors only for the required time period. Therefore, it is prospering whether it is supplying or supplying professional manpower by registration.
In Korea, although not as good as the United States or Japan, there are already many lending businesses. There is a leasing industry that lends machines and equipment, and there is a variety of things from renting flowerpots in everyday life to children's toys, books, and even cars. In addition, from the concept of owning a house unconditionally, there are now surprisingly many people who want to rent a new house again after renting it for a suitable period of time. If you look closely, the generation who starved for the desire to have anything too much in the reward mentality of losing a lot during the great wars of World War II and the Korean War is relieved only when possessiveness is satisfied without giving up their desire. I have thoughts. Now, as time goes by, it is a reality that has disappeared. Maybe this is the world's wind speed that changes naturally, I don't know. Also, I don't know if it's a stark reality that I have to accept. However, there is a very troubling side. The rate of infection in Korea from the United States or Japan is exceptionally fast, so it is fearful that the American movie <Song of September> will become popular.
This is not to say that Inai is wrong. Perhaps it is the most necessary and appropriate business in this age. But if it goes too far and shakes the basic human way of life, ethics, morals and even fundamental human consciousness, it is clearly wrong. I am afraid that I will become a model of a helpless life that has no purpose for success, no will to achieve, and no effort.
Everyone, there is one thing that you can borrow and use in your life, but you cannot borrow it for the rest of your life, and there is one thing that you cannot lend. That is faith. No matter how prosperous the borrowing business may be, faith cannot be borrowed or loaned. There is no life that lends faith. Faith is property. that's what i have to have This is what I have to get before God. In a difficult world, the thing that I must have dearly is faith. You cannot borrow from others. It's not something you can just rent for a while. So we must be successful in our faith. But, everyone, where can you find success in your life of faith? It's not. That's right. Of course, there can also be failures in faith. Wouldn't it be great if everyone could become successful in faith? But you should know that there are more important facts. It is the fact that faith also has a way to rise above failures. Those who realize the method and do not repeat the same failures will be the ultimate successors of faith.
Today, we will discover what causes failure to repeat through the text. Knowing the cause of failure is also the story of not making the same failure over and over again. Today's text is about the various sins that Judas brought to God's punishment. Judas failed in faith because of these things. Looking at the reproofs and warnings given to them, we too should be able to learn the wisdom of faith not to repeat failures. Now look at their failures.
占쏙옙First of all, those who fail to look back on the past will fail again and again. You will know the saying. It means sleeping on a tree, licking the bitter bear gall, and burning thoughts of revenge. In other words, it contains the desperate feelings of the protagonists of Gosa who volunteered to live a hard life in order not to forget the shame they suffered in the past. Those who try not to forget past failures will not repeat the same failures. On the contrary, the chosen people of Israel continued to commit the same types of crimes and received the same punishment each time. If Israel had remembered God's chastisement for their sins and had been wary of the sins that caused it, they would have been blessed and enjoyed prosperity and peace according to God's promise recorded in Deuteronomy 28:1-14. However, Judas always had the same failures in his sin. In verse 8, God tells Isaiah to record this fact as a witness to the people who did not obey.
We, too, will have memories of being defeated in the fight against the temptation to sin at one time or another and being punished by God's scourge. If you really don't want to fail, you should never forget these memories. And we must not turn around and repeat the same sin.
In the case of both Israel in the north and Judah in the south, one peculiar phenomenon appeared at the end of the period. It was that false prophets arose and deceived the hearts of the people. Unfortunately, the people not only believed the words of these false prophets and did not acknowledge their sinfulness, but did not repent of their evil deeds. I gave up on myself the opportunity to move from the failure of faith to the success of faith.
The great inventor [Charles Kettering] gave the advice needed to turn failure into success. First, admit your failure honestly. Second, use failure. Never waste your failures and learn everything you can from failures. Third, even if you fail, don't use it as an opportunity to decide, 'I'm not going to do anything anymore'. It's a story that can turn failure into success when you keep these things.
Dear saints!
Do you want to live as a failure of faith? Do you want to become a successful person in your faith?
Stand at the end of the year and look back on the year that has passed. If there is a religious failure I have experienced, I must honestly admit it before God and look back on that failure and do not repeat the same failure. Hope you can avoid failure.