I’m not going to
deliver a sermon but just share what caught me the most on last Sunday’s sermon
…
It’s not the
priest who had speech but one of the Church Assembly. He read texts on papers
that were prepared but caught our attention with his loud voice. Even he just
read the jokes without having eye contacts with the congregation. However, what
he delivered was good and I want to keep it here …
The verse taken
was from Psalm 73 which talked about struggle and hope: how someone who had
done all good things still got pain and bad luck while they who did bad things
got all comfort and happiness of life.
He gave the
analogy of married to picture our relation with God …
When you are
dating a girl, you will feel that she is everything for you. She is the one who
understands and matches you the most. World is beautiful because you have her.
You cannot live without her. If you are a twig, she is the rose. If you are a
fish, she is the aquarium. If you are sick, she is the cure.
After marriage, everything
about her is changed. You think that she does not understand you. She is
different from you. You regret to have married her. If you are a rose, she is
the caterpillar. If you are a fish, she is the frying pan. And if you are sick,
she is the virus.
Then you both
arrive in a junction. One option is to get divorce from her and the other is
living with her …
When you love someone because she understands
you and makes you happy, it means you don’t love her but you love yourself
because what you want is for your own sake …
Our relation with
God is same with above analogy. God doesn’t always give “yes” as an answer.
Even, He might often give “no” for your prayer. If we always want “yes” and
force our own desire, we want to be a god.
So, the question
is when He answered “no”, what will we do: leave Him or keep our faith in Him …
?
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)
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