When Human Beings Declare Spiritual Bankruptcy by Saying, “We Cannot Save Ourselves,” God Performs the Miracle of Salvation by Passing Camel-Like Sinners Through the Eye of a Needle “Jesus looked at him and said, ‘How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’ Those who heard it said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But He said, ‘The things that are impossible with men are possible with God’” (Luke 18:24–27). (1) As I read today’s passage, Luke 18:24–27, first in the Korean Bible and then in the Greek New Testament, the very first thing that caught my attention was the phrase “ὁ Ἰησοῦς [περίλυπον γενόμενον]” (ho Iēsous [perilypon genomenon]), which is not translated in the Korean Bible. What does this expression mean, and why was it omitted from...
If our foolish spouse
does not support and help us in faith ...
Covered in painful sores
from the soles of his feet to the top of his head,
Job sat among the ashes,
using a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself.
Seeing him, his wife
said to Job, "Are you still maintaining your integrity?
Curse God and die!"
Job replied to her, "You are talking like a foolish woman.
Shall we accept good
from God, and not trouble?"
Despite all this, Job
did not sin in what he said
(Job 2:7-10).
When I reflect on this
passage,
I think about how Job
maintained his integrity even in extreme suffering.
It shows that he valued
maintaining his integrity more than his own life.
Usually, our instinct is
to value our own life more than maintaining our integrity.
If we experience extreme
suffering, we might succumb to Satan’s temptation,
compromising our
integrity to protect our life, and end up speaking and acting falsely.
Especially if our
foolish spouse does not support and help us in faith,
we are at even greater
risk of falling into Satan’s temptation.
However, a person of
faith who acknowledges God's sovereignty
will accept not only
blessings from God but also calamities with faith.
And even in the face of
such calamities,
that person will not sin
against God with his lips.
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