Title Meditation on Advent (2010.12.11)
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Title: Trust in the Lord to the End
Text: (2 Thessalonians 3:13)
Hymns: 460. kneeling in vain
Date: December 11, 2010 (Sat) 5 am
Venue: Jeonju Yebut Church Small Worship Room
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“Brothers and sisters, do not become discouraged in doing good.”
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A few days before the Chuseok holiday in 2010, I came across the absurd death of a migrant woman. It was news of the death of the late Ms. Kang Chek, a Mongolian immigrant woman who was living in Korea with her mother-in-law, raising a four-month-old daughter, and raising a strong family. She died a tragic death instead of trying to protect another Mongolian woman who had migrated to Korea from her husband's violence. It is very sad because it happened again before I could completely forget the sadness over the incident of the late Vietnamese immigrant Tat Ti Hwang-ok, who was killed by her husband just three months ago, just a week after coming to Korea.
Korea is already a multiracial, multicultural society.
Immigrant women decided to move to Korea in search of dreams and happiness, forming families and raising our children, and they will become valuable members and resources in our country and in the future. However, Korean society still has a culture of treating them as strangers and strangers. We Christians must first become their neighbors with a repentant heart.
I came to realize the love of God again through a Cambodian immigrant woman named Leungeng, who returned to Cambodia this August. She was forced to use a weapon as a way to stop her husband's violence to protect the child in her womb. Sometimes he was a violent husband, but he ended up being a murderer who killed the husband he loved. A young and fragile 20-year-old Leung-eng, who was incarcerated in prison, met God there and started a new life of faith by relying on God. The day he was released as a special envoy for Liberation Day and forced to leave Cambodia, he accompanied her to Cambodia. Hearing my confession that I will entrust all these things to God and obey and follow as He leads me, I also gained great courage. She praised the living God for giving her new courage and not giving her up in the midst of extreme suffering.
The story of Ruth, who was protected under God's wings, must be revealed in our church and in the lives of Christians today.
“When you were harvesting grain from the field, you forgot a bunch of grain, and do not go back to get it. It belongs to foreigners, orphans and widows. Only then will the Lord your God bless you in all that you do” (Deuteronomy 24:19).
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1. Be with the marginalized and vulnerable in this land, especially migrant workers!
2. The harvest is plentiful, but workers are scarce. Send faithful co-workers!
4. For the 2nd Elementary Recruitment Examination - Sister Lee Hyun-ji (Daughter of Butler Lee Sook-hyun)