Paddy doesn't envy blood
John 21 (16) Rice does not envy blood (John 21:13-14)
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What is another sweet scene that verse 13 shows? It shows the disciples eating together at the table of love served by the Lord Himself. In that harmony, their brotherhood became stronger. Not long ago, there was no trace of the fight over “Who is the tallest?” Such harmony is the greatest blessing above all.
The scariest thing than suffering is loneliness. The loneliness you create for yourself for prayer time is good, but there is no pain like the loneliness that someone ignores. Even if a person loses everything, it is not difficult to overcome the pain as long as you are sure that someone is with you. In fact, there is nothing more blessed than the harmony between brothers.
In the movie Cast Away, the main character, who fell on a deserted island in an airplane accident, drew a human face on a volleyball ball to appease his loneliness, and named him 'Wilson' as a friend. One day, the protagonist made a decision, put Wilson on a raft and set out to search for land. However, while he was sleeping exhausted during the voyage, Wilson was washed away by the waves. When all his attempts to rescue Wilson failed, he wept as if he had lost his family.
If you don't know the pain of loneliness, you don't know the value of the people around you. So the star has a lot of potential for misfortune. Because you can know the value of the soul in a funny way. Because there are so many people who flock to me, if I laugh at a soul and think of it as an annoyance like a surplus human, then the star becomes a 'self-deceived person'. In fact, ‘a heart to cherish the people I have’ is more important than ‘a group of people around me’.
<You don't become a saint at once>
In verse 14, the scene in the text is the third appearing to the disciples after the resurrection. After the Resurrection, the Lord appeared first to Mary Magdalene (John 20:1) and also to two people on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). The expression 'two disciples going to Emmaus' is often used. Judging from the record that they met Jesus on their way to Emmaus, and returned to Jerusalem, they met the 11 apostles and those who were with him (Luke 24:33), they belonged to the 12 disciples. people were not
When the resurrected Lord first appeared to the disciples, it was when all the disciples had gathered in the absence of Thomas (John 20:19-23), and a week later, when the other disciples including Thomas were present (John 20:26- 29). Since he appeared in the text next, he appeared more than three times in total, but only the ‘appearance to the disciples’ was the third scene in the text.
The continued appearance of the Lord means the need for a constant encounter with the Lord. A person does not become a saint through one experience.
Daedo (大盜) Jo Se-hyeong also met the Lord once. And that Daedo (大盜) met the Lord and was changed, became the first testimonial lecturer and attended numerous churches. One day, he went to Japan and was caught stealing. When I heard the news, I doubted my ears at first. "Ah! This is not real! The Japanese police have misunderstood the person!” All day long, I desperately wanted that the person caught wasn't Jo Se-hyeong, but it was true.
The Lord will continue to appear after three meetings. Without that encounter, humans fall again sooner or later. In order to know the weakness of man and to meet him continuously, the Lord stayed on this earth for 40 days, and after ascending to heaven leaving only the evidence and footprints of the resurrection, he came again as the Holy Spirit.
Man needs constant encounter with the Holy Spirit. It is not enough to experience grace once or twice. Some people have experienced grace once or twice in their old years and have been going to testify for several years. In Christianity, which values communion with the Holy Spirit, faith is always present. The old beliefs are futile.
It is more important to receive grace now than to receive grace in the past. It is more important to be loyal now than to be loyal in the past. Even the huge Soyanggang Dam will have a water emergency if there is no rain for six months. No matter how much you have, if the rain of grace does not continuously fall, a crisis will come in your life. Grace must continue to be supplied. You shouldn't do the old-fashioned taryeong, and you shouldn't say, "It's enough!"
< Rice does not envy blood >
The saints need the constant grace of the Holy Spirit. Knowing that fact, the Holy Spirit is still looking for me. I need to meet the Holy Spirit and overcome all the sense of defeat that is latent in me and be renewed again. The biggest problem is not that the world is rotten and the church is not doing its job. The real problem is my sense of defeat.
Don't be discouraged even if your outward appearance is weak. I just need to be certain of my inner center. Don't be overly envious of other people's successes. When I go to the field, the weeds grow much better and seem to be successful. Even in paddy fields, blood grows better than rice. How to tell the difference between rice and blood? Usually the blood is tall. If you see only one aspect of external growth and see rice and blood and are disappointed, God is not pleased.
Saint Francis was originally the son of a rich man. His father named his son Francis, meaning "Live as prosperous as the French!" However, when he grew up, he realized the love of the Lord, sold all his possessions, gave to the poor, and practiced love, living a humble life contrary to his father's wishes. But later generations called him a saint. On the other hand, few people know who the pope was at the time and who was the head priest of the largest church at the time.
Appearance doesn't matter. Don't cling to what you've lost. What is lost is well kept in the heavenly warehouse. Even if we lose and fail, as long as we do not lose our faith, a greater blessing than what we lost will be given to me in a mysterious way.
A young man was so upset that he could not pass his graduate thesis, he went up to the roof to cool off. I was so sad that I burst into tears, and suddenly, the distant Bukhansan seemed to be talking to me. “What is so sad! I have been standing like this for tens of thousands of years...” At those words, the young man gained courage and said, “Yes! Let’s do it again!” he decided and stood up.
Don't get wet with a sense of defeat. Who brought us to this earth? God made it I am not a product that God made in a factory and dropped on this earth, but God's great work of art. Mother Teresa is a work of God, but I am also a work of God. There is nothing to be offended by comparing yourself to others. I just have to keep doing my job.
There is no one like me. As in the eyes of a carpenter there is no wood to discard, so in the eyes of the Lord there is no one to discard. The Lord sees me as precious. The unchanging love of the Lord is with me. The light of the Lord surrounds me, the power of the Lord keeps me, and the love of the Lord embraces me. No matter how ugly I look, the Lord, who has continued to visit his disciples after the resurrection, will continue to visit me as well.
He came again at this time. Just as the disciples decided not to betray the Lord again, quietly weeping at the love of the Lord serving with their nail-marked hands, make a new resolve in front of the Lord who came to me now. "Lord! From now on, I will never again betray the Lord and will live courageously according to the mission given to me.”