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  Day 18: Proverbs 9:8, Amos 5:13-15, Micah 6:8       How should we live in this evil time?       We are living in a time where we dislike those who rebuke honestly within love.  Therefore, the wise advise us not to rebuke the arrogant, lest they hate us (Prov. 9:8a).  Even in the time of the prophet Amos, leaders and judges would pronounce judgments and decrees at the city gates, but the arrogant people of Israel did not acknowledge them, rather, they despised them.  Another wickedness that occurred in his time was that judges took bribes and oppressed the poor.  Referring to such times, in Amos 5:13, it is called a time of evil.  In this time, similar to when Amos lived, how should we live?   Firstly, we should learn from the wise and remain silent.  This silence serves as a judgment against the arrogant.  Secondly, we should not seek evil, but pursue goodness.  By hating evil and lo...

How should we enjoy the blessings  we receive?     “They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.   But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they put your law behind their backs. They killed your prophets, who had admonished them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.” (Nehemiah 9:25-26)     During the first week of this month, during the Friday and Saturday prayer meeting, I consecutively praised God with the hymn "When Upon Life’s Billows.”   I particularly focused on verses 1 and 2, emphasizing that when faced with the storms of life, and when burdened by worldly anxieties, we should count the blessings that the Lord has granted us.   I shared that I have come to reali...

How to build?     [Nehemiah 3:1-3]     A phrase often used during President Bush's speeches at the Republican Convention was ‘Building a safer world and a more hopeful America.’   During his speech, President Bush mentioned several names: ‘… I am lucky to have the best Vice President   ...   I am honored to have him by my side ....’   He said that he was grateful to be walking through life with Laura Bush, saying that the American people were seeing the goodness, the kindness and the virtues of Laura Bush that she had seen 26 years ago.   He then mentioned his two daughters and close friends and parents.   During his speeches, especially at the end, as he spoke to the soldiers and their families who died fighting for freedom, I was moved and the TV showed people who shed tears.   As I listened to President Bush's speech, I compared President Bush and Nehemiah.   President Bush who wants to make America a safer and ...