“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
I want to live according to my name.
"The wise shall shine like the brightness
of the sky above;
and those who turn many to righteousness, like
the stars forever and ever"
(Daniel 12:3).
This Bible verse holds great significance for
me.
The reason is that my father gave me the name
"Jee Woun"
(which means number one in wisdom)
and shared this Bible verse with me.
However, I had previously focused
only on the aspect of "turning many to
righteousness" in this verse.
Yet, just recently, while exercising and
memorizing a Bible verse for church,
I gained a new insight from Isaiah 58:10.
The revelation is that I, Jee Woun, should live
a life reflecting the illuminated life of Jesus
by empathizing with the hungry and satisfying
the needs of the afflicted,
as mentioned in Isaiah 58:10.
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