Title The World... (Psalm 111)
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How the hell is the world going...
A few days ago, a young mother of a young baby was beating an old grandmother with a plastic bottle because she had touched her baby on the subway, and just yesterday, a grandfather in his 80s told a young man in his twenties sitting cross-legged on the subway. Keep your legs straight so that you don't disturb others." The scene of a young man in his twenties swearing at his grandfather with vulgar hexagrams in the process of telling him to keep his legs straight, heated up the Internet.
While watching the videos of the two incidents, I literally felt like my heart was bursting with tantrums.
People around me tried to dry me, and sometimes to Tyler, but both of them were ignorant.
Aside from basic manners, I thought, 'What in the world are there all these people?' 'Children's Solitary Zone'... They seemed like people who were the only ones in the world.
As I was thinking about how the world we live in came to this point, a thought suddenly ran through my head.
It was that their appearance could be the very appearance of us before God.
In today's text, it says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all who keep His commandments have good understanding..." (verse 10).
Christians who believe in Jesus always live with the word 'fear God' in their mouths.
But, are we really honoring God and fearing God as much as we say with our mouths? Are you acknowledging God as God and living your life in fear of God? Sometimes we too, like people who don't care, are there times when we live our lives as we want, as if God does not exist in the world? Have you ever lived your life without hesitation in doing things that you would never do if you truly feared God?
Looking at these things happening in the world these days, it makes us think again about our life as Christians and what the mission of the church is.
The reason we have to preach the gospel is not only to give them new life in Christ, but also to make this world we live in a more inhabited world. Until Jesus comes to this earth, the kingdom of God must be established on this earth, but the appearance of the world today is no different from Sodom and Gomorrah, where God's judgment came.
I feel deeply the need to diligently and specifically teach children, youth, and young people "how to fear God" at church.
Because there is no law against our sons and daughters to go out and do that.
Those who do not fear God cannot fear their parents either, and such people do not know how to respect anyone in the world.
It's bittersweet, but we all agree that this is the responsibility of all of us, so we need to put ourselves first in our lives to truly fear God.