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 ...
‘Because you had become so dear to us’ [1 Thessalonians 2:7-12] If you have only one hour left to live and can only make one phone call, who will you call and what will you say? When I asked myself this question, I will make one phone call to my beloved wife and I will tell her "I love you". What would you say to who? We have to think about what to say to our loved ones in terms of death. The reason is because we only have time to love. We live a short life even if we live only to love. If we know this, we must live our lives confessing "I love you" to those whom we love. And we must live to express our love to them. This is what Apostle Paul said to the Thessalonians church saints in 1 Thessalonians 2:8, “We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.” We can see ...