The river to cross (Genesis 31:12-29)
Content 1. Life like Jacob
I can still remember it vividly, but it was when someone in my family entered the delivery room to give birth to their first child. I heard that you can tell the character of women by looking at the attitudes of women entering the delivery room. It is also true that the pain of childbirth is so great that all the unspoken words come out unconsciously. Some women swear at the whale's husband from the moment they walk in. Some women even cursed their lives. However, I have heard from a nurse I know that they do not know how earnestly those who believe in Jesus pray. Entering the delivery room, that is, giving birth, is an experience that leads to the threshold of death. Among women, you cannot see a beautiful baby unless you experience this pain. He loved the child more than death because he had an experience that led to death. If death was in front of us, who wouldn't be serious? If we felt death approaching every minute, how could we not become serious and not make a decision?
After evangelizing in a hospital for a long time, I saw a person dying of cancer in a hospital bed. It is said that when a person is sentenced to death for death, he usually reveals three types. The first is to deny it. It is not accepting death itself and denying it, firmly believing that it was a dream, accidental, or misdiagnosed. The second step is to increase the cause of the death to others. So you get frustrated. Because of whom, by anyone's error, and because of the carelessness of doctors and the indifference of my family, I