I Am Also Committing Myself to Practicing a Love That Makes Everything Visible to My Three Children “Then Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes’” (John 5:19–21). (1) I do not want to meditate on the entire passage of John 5:19–29, whose subject is “The Authority of the Son” (as titled in the New Korean Revised Version), all at once. Instead, I would like to divide it into several parts. Today, I want to meditate only on the first section, verses 19–21. When I read ...
'You are our glory and joy' [1 Thessalonians 2:13-20] What should we do if we love someone? If we love someone, don’t you think we are going to think about him/her? Not only that, we will concern about him/her and will try to figure out his/her mind. And we will pray to God, remembering our beloved one. And we will sincerely confess that we love him/her. Apostle Paul confessed his love to the Thessalonian church saints: “… you had become very dear to us” (1 Thess. 2:8). Based on this word and 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12, we already meditated about how Paul loved them. He loved them five ways: (1) Paul was gentle among them like a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children (v. 7). (2) Paul was delighted to share with them not only the gospel of God but his life as well (v. 8). (3) Paul worked night and day in order not to be burden to them while he preached the gospel of God to them (v. 9). (4) Paul lived holy, righ...