Title New Year's Day and Hometown
Content Title: Lunar New Year’s Day and Hometown
Bible: Hebrews 11:13-16
This week, the national holiday 'New Year's Day' is included. During this week, so many people visit their hometowns that it is truly a national migration. Thousands of people stay up all night with a return ticket to their hometown. Despite the time it takes from 7 to 10 o'clock to get to my hometown, which usually takes 4 hours by car, I try to think about what my hometown is in this season of looking for my hometown.
Our people seem to be truly home-oriented. These days, when I travel, I see a lot of restaurant signboards specializing in food related to my hometown, such as my hometown Sancheon, Doume Mountain Valley, country noodles, and hometown doenjang-gukjip. seems to be going
Why do Koreans long for and think about their hometown so much? It is said that a person did a comparative study between Japanese people's view of hometown (觀) and Koreans' view of hometown (觀) and found this difference. Japanese people consider their current hometown to be their hometown. However, no matter how long Koreans live in a foreign country, that place is still a foreign country and cannot become their hometown. Hometown is only one place, the place where you have your roots.
There is a people like us, the Jewish people. At the end of Genesis, Joseph, who left his hometown and served as prime minister in a foreign country, misses his hometown.
When we talk about homeland, we don't say father "bu" (父) or rich country (父國), but mother "mo" (母) and mother country (母國) in this sense. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud has explained that humans have a regressive instinct to return to their homeland, to return to their original place of birth, because humans are born in the womb of their mother. As these words suggest, hometown is a hidden meaning of "a place to return to" or "one's source." In that sense, our hometown will actually be our hometown, and we always want to go back to where we left off.
So, where do humans go? Where did humans first leave? Hometown on this earth is only the birthplace, not the original hometown of man. Here, we hope that our hometown should be connected with eternity, where our human suffering and toil will be offset. is. In this sense, the words of today's Bible offer us such a hometown, or homeland.
The second important thing is that this hometown is not a place where you feel the futility of life and go back to the twilight, but after righteously overcoming all the trials of life, fighting the good fight, finishing the race, keeping your faith, is meant to mean that place to write . 2 Timothy 4:7 says: Of course, life here is a life of hardship. How do you go home? I go by faith. Here, faith is not simply believing, but a person who has overcome all the temptations and unrighteous tests of this world, and has lived his life according to God's commands without compromising with the world, relying only on God's righteousness. Such people do not have any regrets about their hometown in this world, but live by looking at their eternal hometown. In this season of returning to your hometown, think of your eternal hometown and earnestly wish that the blessings of reaching that homeland be with you. Amen.