Title The greatest source of happiness and unhappiness
Revelation (22) The greatest source of happiness and unhappiness
(Revelation 3:14-18)
< Keep your head cool! Heart is hot! >
The text contains the Lord's words to the church in Laodicea, the seventh among the seven churches. The Lord gave words of reproof to the church in Laodicea, saying, “I want you to be either cold or hot” (verse 15). In this verse, the phrase “I want to be cold” does not mean, “It is better to stay away from the church than to believe it in a foolish way.” It is better to take it as the meaning of “Have a cool head and lead a religious life!” It is the most desirable aspect of the religious life to lead a life of faith with a cool head and a warm heart.
If you have a hot head and a hot heart, you become a mystic. Believers should study the Word calmly and lead a life of faith. Conversely, if you have a cold head and a cold heart, you become a liberal, and you have a theory but no change and no ability. The saints God wants are balanced saints who study and meditate on the Word calmly, while praying fervently and serving diligently. If you want to live your life of faith well, you must have both 'filled with the Word' and 'filled with the Holy Spirit'.
The person being used is usually an unbiased person. If you are not biased in your relationships, you will be used at work and your relationships will be good. How much more will God bless us if we do not deviate from our relationship with God? There is no fast course and no royal road in faith. You have to be steady. It is more beautiful to have faith in pursuing an achievement award than an honor award. God wants faithful saints more than flashy saints.
< The greatest source of happiness and unhappiness >
The Laodiceans said, “I am rich! There is nothing I lack!” But the Lord sees them as wretched, pitiful, and poor, and challenges them to lead a humble life (verses 17-18). Verse 17 describes the consequences of pride well. What if you are arrogant?
1) Pride makes you miserable. Why does pride make the soul tired? It's because you know too much and care too much about unnecessary things.
2) Pride makes you miserable. When you see a proud person, they look miserable. I wonder how much I would act like that if I wasn't confident about myself.
3) Pride makes you poor. When you look at a proud person, you look like a poor and naked person. I think of myself as someone who has something, but people don't see it that way.
4) Pride makes you blind. Therefore, they are caught up in various prejudices such as regional prejudice, racial prejudice, and occupational prejudice, and cannot make accurate judgments.
5) Pride makes you naked. If you are proud, you will be ashamed. If you find the opposite sex later and think soberly, you can't be so ashamed when you were arrogant.
On the other hand, being humble gives you many happy things. The second half of verse 18 describes the consequences of humility well. What if you are humble?
1) Humility makes you rich. It is not pride to have high self-esteem and pride and pride in yourself in God. Rather, pride is low self-esteem and low self-esteem in a sense of failure and inferiority. A sense of failure and inferiority grows as a high person like himself refuses to admit that he lives in a low reality. When a person is truly humble, no matter what others say or what others think, he will not lose his confidence in God. After all, having something doesn't give you confidence, true humility gives you confidence.
2) Humility hides shame. If it is lowered, it will be more shameful, but the number disappears. In other words, if others humble you, you will be put to shame, but if you humble yourself, you will never be put to shame, and it will become more glorious as time goes on. Knowing this secret, exercising humility, and practicing humility will make your faith quite mature. How do you train humility? Training to bow down before God as a worshiper is the greatest way to train humility. In that sense, the daily dawn altar is the largest training camp for humility training.
3) Humility opens your spiritual eyes. To open your eyes means to hear your ears. Shamanistic and ups and downs often know that they need to wear clothes and see visions to open their spiritual eyes and hear the voice of God. But in fact, what is seen and heard through a humble spirit is the most reliable. In conclusion, people are most unhappy when they are proud, and happiest when they are humble. Pride is the greatest source of unhappiness and failure, and humility is the greatest source of happiness and success. What is the greatest blessing you get when you draw close to the Word and prayer? It is a humble character and a humble life.