Title My Meritorious Person (1 Samuel 1:1~8)
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In life, everyone meets countless people in the field of life. Meeting your parents will have an absolute impact on your life. In particular, the presence of a mother has a great influence on personality formation and thinking attitude.
Cultural clashes everywhere create a third culture. Our government has been raising the question of past liquidation ever since its inception. Among them, the liquidation of the past between Korea and Japan has a serious impact on the cultures and diplomacy of both countries.
Even with the same past, there are striking differences between Japan and Korea. In Germany during World Wars I and II, Hitler murdered six million Jews and confiscated the property of Jews living in Germany.
The Germans acknowledged and reflected on their past, and made reparations to the Jews. And we are conserving the camps where Jews were killed with gas, and creating and using educational sites in the sense that we should not leave this kind of history to future generations. And even today, Germans still offer tax breaks to Jews who do business in their country. It is an attitude of thorough reflection and reparation.
On the other hand, Japan occupied Korea and ruled it as a colony for 37 years. For 37 years, our people have been deprived of their language. Because of all the public offerings, I had a difficult life.
Numerous patriots were killed. Thousands of young people were taken to the army and killed. Flowery virgins were taken as comfort women and ruined their lives.
Korea, for such Japan,
1) You are asked to repent and apologize.
2) Japanese textbooks are correctly described and taught.
3) They are told not to visit shrines.
4) They say you should pay compensation.
However, Japan, towards Korea,
1) The 37 years of Korean domination were rather a period in which Japan contributed to the development of Korea.
2) It was an undeveloped country, but due to Japanese rule, railroads and bridges were built. It has played a part in economic development.
3) Reparations and responsibilities between countries through the Korea-Japan negotiations have already ended.
4) It means that even textbooks cannot be corrected.
In any event, anger and anger coexist at the same time. You have to think deeply about whether to choose the ball or the fire. We need a change of thinking to turn anger into a ball.
It is true that in the process of modernization, uneven development in regions has deepened the gap between regions. I went on a business trip to Ulsan. When I woke up in the morning, each factory was spewing soot from the burrows, and it was difficult to breathe in Ulsan city air. There was no place for people to live.
I have been to Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province several times due to a site issue for the Full Gospel General Seminary. It has been preserved in its natural state and has not been polluted. Although the economy is a bit weak compared to other provinces, the environment is better than anywhere else.
In every aspect of the world where art and anger coexist, the choice is yours. If you change the way you think about the person who hurt you and gave you pain, you can become a contributor again. The way you think, speak, and act from the perspective of others as one of your own is the key to successful human relationships.
In today's text, a man named Elkanah appears. The Bible introduces his two wives, the principal being Hannah and the second wife Peninnah. Elkanah had a second wife, Peninnah, because Hannah was barren. When Peninnah found out she was pregnant, she tormented Hannah.
(1 Samuel 1:6-7) “[6] Peninnah, her adversary, provoked her and troubled her very much, because the LORD prevented her from giving birth. provoked him, and he wept and did not eat.”
Because of the enemy Peninnah, Hannah comes to God and opens her heart to pray. In the end, that prayer moved Eli the priest's heart, and he received God's answer and received the prophet Samuel.
As Hannah kept her vow, God blessed her and opened the door to her womb again, and Hannah, who had never had children, had three more sons and two more daughters. It was Peninnah who contributed to Hannah's blessing. He was not an adversary, but a meritor. Had it not been for Peninnah, it might not have been possible to produce children forever.
Who made Joseph the second son of Egypt? It was my brothers. Potiphar's wife was a meritorious man.
(Genesis 37:28) “Now the Midianite merchants were passing by, and they brought Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and the merchants brought him to Egypt.”
(Genesis 39:1-3) "[1] Joseph was led down to Egypt, and Potiphar the Egyptian, the captain of the guard, Pharaoh's servant, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him there. [3] And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and he saw that the LORD prospered in all his affairs."
(Genesis 39:19) “When the master heard that his wife had told him, ‘Your servant has done this to me,’ he was very angry.”
(Genesis 39:20-22) "[20] So Joseph's master arrested him and put him in prison, which was the place where the king's prisoners were kept. Joseph was put in prison, [21] but the LORD was with him, and he [22] The prison gave all the prisoners in the hands of Joseph, and Joseph took care of all the affairs of the prison.”
It was in the thorn of Satan that the power of God was revealed to Paul.
(2 Corinthians 12:7-10) “[7] Because the revelations I received were exceedingly great, so that I would not be overslept, a thorn, an angel of Satan, was given to me in my flesh, so that I would not be overzealous against me. I pleaded with the Lord three times to depart from me, [9] and he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. [10] Therefore, for Christ's sake, I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, needs, persecutions, and hardships, for when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Those who hurt me and those who help me are actually what I make. This is because it is up to me to decide whether to make others my enemies or meritorious ones.
Even a poison that kills people can be a great medicine to save an incurable disease if used properly. Whether I turn those around me into helpers or enemies depends on how I look at them.
In God we are always victors. Believe that we can work together for good, and acknowledge all the negative people around us as our merits. At that time, I believe that God's grace to help will come. (Rev. Jeongsan Kim)