Grace over All Nations

Success of our lives depends on whether we live as one unit or two.  An infected human body may be easily treated if hostile bacteria cells in the body are localized at one place.  If the bacteria are spread all over the body, the body has less chance to survive.

In this world, there is nothing that is in one unit.  Only God is in one unit.  Thus God is invisible.  All things are in God (Eph 4:4-6).  Everything, therefore, starts from God.

Any life, however it has plethora of problems, becomes one, if the life lives by God only who is in one unit.  We may think back our past lives.  We have been living in very complicated lives which could have been very simple if we had lived by God.  God not only unifies and simplifies our lives, but also fulfills our lives.  It is His fullness.

Once people try to solve problems with numbers, calculations and brain powers, the problems get deeper and complicated; which are nothing more than the games of the devil.  Let God manage your life, leave your life in God’s hand, and forsake what you have.  Leave your children in God’s hand also.

God runs all things in the universe and fulfills ‘I’.  Let God fix ‘I’ who is the center of all problems, and enter into the fullness of God.  God alone is more than sufficient.

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.  (Ephesians 4:6)

The life of Jacob was that of a worm; passive and simple. It was filled with conflicts and problems (Gen 49:9). How is your life? If you consider that your life is like that of a worm as Jacob, the blessings which Jacob had received may be yours.

A worm lives as an environment is given; breathing, eating, digesting, and moving. It does not have a head, nor sex. When we come before the Lord as a worm, we may receive the blessings of Jacob. God helped Jacob, redeemed him, and became his Almighty.

The higher animal it is, the farther its life is from reality and blessings of earth (ground). One example is the ‘cyber life’. This is the glory of the world. Do not raise self, but lower yourself to a worm. The blessings of a worm are the blessings of ground. Live an individual life like a worm, and relate with others through the blessings of Abraham.

It is wise to live like a worm. This life may not require any regrets or repentances. Enjoy the fullness of a worm and the satisfaction of a worm everyday. There are God’s power and Joy in the life of a worm.

Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

(Isaiah 41:14)

All different results may come out even though people perform one task. It is because that those different results come from various movements (actions) driven by different spirits. A spirit calls like spirits. However a person is outwardly dressed and adorned, the person is nothing more than a container of spirits. A spirit of man in a person, therefore, will recognize and be attracted by other spirits of man which are in other people, and will eventually flock together with those like spirits.

People in this world succeed or fail because of other people. A person with a spirit of failure entices others who have the same spirit. They simply endeavor for the love of the world without the Spirit of Jesus who fills all things with fullness of God (1 John 2:16). It is far more imperative to cleanse our own spirits, than much endeavoring for better lives. If your spirit is clean, your clean spirit will call other clean spirits, and you will be blessed. Possessing worldly riches is not a blessing. We only can enjoy all of God’s possession with the Spirit of God in the Lord.

We ought to seek keeping the Holy Spirit. Fill yourself only with the Spirit of Jesus, the holy Companion.

The word of God still lives, judges with righteousness, and guarantees the kingdom of God to all believers. It does not matter how much the world is wicked and adulterous. Thus do not seek people, material, skills, wisdom, appearances, etc. Seek, instead, only the Lord who will fulfill all in all. Praying is to cleansing your spirit so that you may meet the holy Companion. We should be successful in spiritual adorning and meeting with the holy Companion, the Holy Spirit.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. (2 Timothy 2:20-21)

People expect returns as much as they move or work in their lives. But the world cannot respond as much. We better be delivery men of blessings of God, rather not trying to receive blessings through own endeavors. Blessings come from God and are delivered through people to others. Thus someone always is waiting for me to deliver God’s blessings, as much as I am waiting for someone to bring. We have this responsibility and mission of delivering God’s blessings to others. We may enjoy the happiness from God when we exchange blessings (letters from Jesus) and respond each other according to God’s design.

We all have the glory we had with God before the creation of the world (John 17:5). We are indeed the gazing stock in the kingdom of God. We have been the most interested beings, whom God pleases most, from before our coming into this world. Consider the glory which cannot be tainted by any sicknesses, failures, oppressions, or anxieties.

Sins, failures, or pain in this world are just momentary. Even fame or achievements in the world are nothing to do with eternal ‘me.’ Our lives are determined only by His letter sent to the receivers and the One who sent. The letter from the Lord will become clear in our souls when we are resting in His bosom.

Let’s live a successful life as His delivery men (and women) of blessings who carry the letter from Christ, by finding the hidden treasure Jesus in us.

And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. (2 Corinthians 3:3)

One side of the earth is day and the other night. And one side is summer and the other side winter. Our life, just like the earth, one side is joyful and the other sad. Are you young? Then your old age will come. If you are old, then you had a youth before. Everything in this world has opposite to itself: you cannot hold of one side over the other, nor avoid.

Nursing homes sometimes show slogans like “Now young will be old later”. Handicap people say “A healthy one now is a preliminary for a handicap.” We are all same sinners. We cannot boast our selves for current health, or disappoint at current weakness. Sickness is at the other side of health, and health is waiting for a change at the other side of sickness.

Nothing in this world is unchanging. The world is rotating. There is nothing firm we should hold on, or avoid. Things I have been holding on may stab on my back the next moment. Trying to avoid bad things may cause you losing other good things. Don’t be satisfied by good things now you have, but neutralize bad things with the good things you already have. We have to utilize all things in our lives. So the Bible says “Give thanks in all circumstances.” (1 The 5:18)

If we try to solve a problem, we may fall deeper into the problem. Only God can perfect our lives. Believe the great love of God who operates whole universe to bless us all (Rom 8:32). Put yourself on the cosmic conveyor belt and dash toward the Lord.

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32)

Earth (soil) is a finite matter which is confined in time and space. Since its basic motions are circular, everything of earth will eventually return to its original state. A father who has inherited all of his belongings to his son sued against his son because the son did not take care of his father. The father is a loser even if he wins at the court because his belongings will soon be his son’s possessions. It is only a matter of time.

One may enjoy more content and successful life when he sets his life’s goal as giving and serving others. Giving needs wisdom, too. We have to guard our heart with the love of the Lord before we give and before we feel our giving seems unfair. Giving is not easy thing to do.

The light, however dim it may be, cannot be made with all the matters of the world. Without this light, whole universe may disappear and lives may simply return to dust (1 Pet 1:24).

Only the light of God, the Spirit of God, is my hope, is my reason to rejoice, and is what I have to count.

The Lord Jesus who came in me is like a ‘nuclear furnace’ of the universe which could generate the light. This furnace cannot be operated by movements (activities) of a flesh (outside). But the light is generated from inside.

A life of darkness without the light, a life so empty that it has nothing to give, may turn to a bright and giving life, when the Lord generates the light inside.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24)

A couple, when they marry, prepares all things they may need for their married life, such as appliances, sets of dishes and utensils, etc. They prepare all things to fulfill their love. Likewise God prepared all things in the universe and all nature to fulfill His love toward us. That is why miracles and works of angels manifest when things are planned and sought in love. On the other hand, the devil attacks (fully supports) when I try to fulfill my own dreams.

All of movements in this world are expressions of the love of God which explains how God works. Change of a non-believing grown up in a household by a believing child is certainly an example of the works of God’s love. Anything which has been declared, started and stated in the love surely comes true (2 Sam 22:45; Isa 40:5).

This universe will eventually be filled with the love of God. Look at the love of God which works through the universe (1 John 4:12). God will become visible when you read all things in the love. Toss all things into the love of God; including the sky, clouds, waters, winds, trees, and flowers… even your life.

Feel and look at the Lord and praise Him together who is now operating and moving in the universe.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

Man builds up self-consciousness by moving own body in time and space, and obtains what he needs based on his self-consciousness. Men in general gather for their lives until age of 40 then lose afterward. We lose youth, health, dreams, desires, time, etc., as well as those resourceful people around us. Things, which would appear successful when we are young, turn to not-so-promising things as we get older. Worries and doubts increase as we grow older, and nothing appears possible when our lives are at ends.

We sometimes try to rely on our children and parents, but we find they are not so resourceful either. It is also true between husband and wife although they may try all possible things together in their lives. We all return to our starting point, eventually. We sometimes cry, blame, fight, even try to avoid when we face life problems, but our unfavorable lives are still standing firm with ever strengthened grip before us. We are simply trying anything what we can. Some come to a realization of this helplessness and say “I have decided to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus.” This is a fresh start after forsaking all (Matt 16:24).

Becoming a child means lowering self-consciousness (Matt 18:4). The higher one’s self-consciousness, the more garbage one has to throw away.

Let’s have fresh starts before it is too late and follow only the Lord Jesus with our hands up in surrender. Receive blessings of taking off our flesh and of getting younger like a child in the Lord. Escape from the time and space through prayers. Enter into the bosom of the Lord which has been before the foundation of earth and rejoice our God.

And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven… (Matthew 18:3)

God’s blessings began since Abraham. Adam was beginning of our linage, but Abraham was the beginning of God’s blessings. We may receive God’s blessings when we forsake our own, just like Abraham received God’s blessings when he escaped from his own.

We usually consume our lives for building up our own possessions. If we want well manage our own life, we have to understand and well manage the people around us. The value of us often stems through our neighbors. Even money or lands become valuable when they are valued by more people. Thus true value is not on materials but on people.

Most of problems arise when ‘mine’ and ‘yours’ are not balanced. God, therefore, instructed us “Leave from yours” (Gen 12:1). God even told us not to pray for ‘mine’ but to leave cares unto the Lord (Phil 4:6). Good things never come from what we have. That is why the Lord said “Only love your Lord God and your neighbors with all your strength and all your heart” (Matt 22:37-40). It is the condensed message of whole Bible and the way of life according to the words of God.

The blessing of Abraham makes us unburdened and younger. Let’s have a trip to outside of time by hopping on the spaceship of the Spirit, and throw away our garbage of consciousness, ‘It is mine’, just like Abraham. Enjoy the blessed life and stay younger!

These things I command you, so that you will love one another. (John 15:17)

Liberty is love. God created our life that can freely turn. Creation of inner and outer person, too, is to allow us love freely. When an inner person is in love, the love outwardly manifests through the outer person. When, on the other hand, an outer man loves, the love goes inside of him. If the Lord creates outside things by the power of His words, the Holy Spirit who is in us makes us sense the love of God by moving our hearts.

The Holy Spirit fills our inside. The Spirit moves the inner person so that the person may give thanks and love the Lord. The Spirit is God who dwells in us. Give thanks to the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of love, and the Spirit of liberty. We will never have liberty with any worldly things which are outside. Our freedom is possible only by the Spirit. The Lord is the only One who fills the heavens and the earth with His fullness, and gives us freedom.

Do not lose your freedom which God has granted for you, nor beg freedom from any others. Let’s enjoy, declare, praise, and love the freedom which is given by the Holy Spirit who already is in you,

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)