Friday, October 27, 2017

마 5:5 온유한 자는 복이 있나니 그들이 땅을 기업으로 받을 것임이요

유교 오복
  1. 장수무강
  2. 몸 마음
  3. 윤리
  4. 건강과 편한 죽음
예수님 팔복
복에 관한 세상과 예수님의 기준은 180도 다름
기복신앙 / 기복주의 ㅡ 복만을 원하는 좋은것만 원하는 세상적 이익만을 원하는 관점
성경적 복음 ㅡ 하나님과 동행 관계
온유
  1. 잘못된 흐트러진 온유 ㅡ 그냥 착한거 코스프레 하는거
  2. 제대로된 온유 ㅡ 비전 열정 능력 실력을 통제하여 하나님의 은혜와 영광을 위해 쓰는것
직책이 사람을 바꾸는게 아니라 직책이 사람을 드러낸다 ㅡ 유시민
프라우스 ㅡ 사나운 짐승이 길들여지는 것 ㅡ 온유의 그리스어
세상은 온유가 좋은것이 아니라 한다
하지만 역사를 보라 ㅡ 그 반대인 사나움과 힘이 정말 좋던가
하나님의 나라는 계속해서 세워져 가고 있다 ㅡ 예수님이 먼저 온유하셨다 ㅡ 우리를 먼저 사랑하셨다
칼로 흥한자 칼로 망한다 ㅡ 다른것도 다 적용됨
온유해지는것 ㅡ 온전해지는것
하나님 나라를 기업으로 받는길
내가 하는것이 아니라 하나님이 하신다
모세의 오유함이 온지면에 승하더라 ㅡ 광야가 그를 그렇게 만들수 있었다
성령의 열매
예수님의 모습을 본받는것
복수 < 용서 ㅡ 미움 < 사랑

피스메이커 ㅡ 내안에 그리스도가 사셔서 주님의 온유가 나를 통해 흘러 나갈수 있도록
따라서 성경이 말하는 온유는 천성적으로 부드러운 성품이 아니라, 예수님을 믿은후에 성령으로 길들여진 성품, 하나님의 말씀을 통해 변화된 성품, 믿음으로 성숙해진 온유한 성품을 가리킵니다. 그래서  온유함은 하나님에게 속한 온유함이고, 하나님을 주인으로 모시는 온유함이고, 하나님의 말씀에 충성스럽게 순종하는 온유함입니다.
마치 거친 야생마가 주인에게 길들여진 후에 철저하게 주인에게 속하여 주인의 말에 절대적으로 순종하는 것과 같습니다우리가 이 세상에 있을 때에는 거친 야생마와도 같았습니다본래 우리가 가지고 있는 천성이 조용하든 시끄럽든또 우리의 성향이 부드럽든 거칠든우리의 행동이 온순하든 난폭하든 그것에 상관없이우리가 주님을 알지 못하고 세상 속에 있을 때에는 주님의 뜻과 무관하게 살아가는 거친 야생마였습니다
참으로 온유한 사람은 하나님이 무시당할 , 하나님의 뜻이 손상될 , 하나님의집이 더렵혀질  분노하는 사람입니다. 그래서 이것을 거룩한 분노라고 합니다. 온유한 사람은 거룩한 분노를 발할  있어야 합니다. 주님의 교회가 상처를 입었을 , 하나님의 뜻이 위기에 처했을 , 분연히 일어설  있어야 합니다. 

심령이 가난하다고 하는 것은욕심이 없거나 소유가 없는 사람이 아니라하나님 앞에서 내세울 것이 아무 것도 없는 사람하나님 앞에서 정말로 무가치한 사람이라고 했습니다.
그래서 하나님이 없이는 천국에  자국도 들어갈  없는 사람이 심령이 가난한사람들이었습니다예수님은 그것을 깨닫는 사람들은 복이 있다고 하셨습니다왜냐하면 천국이 그들의 것이기 때문입니다.

애통하는 자는 남의 아픔이나 다른 사람 때문에 애통하는 사람이아니라, 바로  때문에, 내가 너무도 불쌍해서 애통하는 사람입니다. 하나님 앞에서그저 애통하고 통곡하는  밖에   있는 일이 아무 것도 없는 사람 입니다.
그래서 이 애통은 회개의 애통이요 하나님의 도우심을 구하는 애통이라고 했습니다예수님이 이렇게 애통하는 자들이 복이 있다고 말씀하셨습니다왜냐하면 하나님이 그들을 위로하실 것이기 때문입니다이 세상에는 없는 평강과 하늘의 위로가그들에게 임할 것이기 때문입니다.


Sunday, October 22, 2017

부르심에 합당한 삶

작은 일에 충실한 삶 ㅡ 부르심의 시작 ㅡ 다윗의 첫 임무는 미쳐가는 사울왕을 섬기는 것이었다 ㅡ 하나님의 영광을 위해서 충실하게 하는것
부르심에 합당한 삶
소명 ㅡ 클래시스 ㅡ 그리스어로 초대라는 뜻
하나님의 일꾼으로의 부르심은 동역자로의 초대이다
하나님의 자녀로의 초대
그러므로
고민 생각 질문하자
삶으로 살아야 하는것
엡 4:1-6 ㅡ 사랑, 용납, 평안, 성령, 소망, 믿음, 세례, 하나님
에클레시아 ㅡ 밖으로 부르심을 받은 사람들
합당하게 행해야 한다 ㅡ walk in a manner worthy of the calling
하나가 되고 하나됨을 배워야 한다 극복해야 한다
빌 2:6-8
겸손 ㅡ 하나님 앞에 서 있다면
온유 ㅡ 통제된 부드러움 ㅡ 쉼이 없는것 분열이 일어나는것 온유하지 못해서
오래참음 ㅡ 하나님의 기다림
용납 ㅡ 그대로 받아들이는것 ㅡ 하나되는것 (7번 나옴) ㅡ 함께 지어져 가느니라 (엡 2:22)
롬 11:29 ㅡ 은사와 부르심에는 후회하심이 없다


내생각:

우리는 계약을 맺고 살아간다. 우리는 그 계약을 충분히 지킬수 있는 능력이있다. 근데 우리는 그렇게 안한다. 내 편함 내 이익을 추구한다.
예수님이 우리를 위해 보증을 서셨다.
우리는 온전할수 있는 능력이 있다

그렇지만 그렇게 안한다 못한다
우리 삶을 계속 채워야 한다. 말씀으로, 기도로, 찬양으로. 그리고 기억해야 한다. 잊지말아야 한다. 하나님을 의지 하며 살아가야 한다.

Saturday, October 7, 2017

과거와 화해하고 미래를 준비하라 - 사무엘상 16:1-13

700절 정도를 외우고 있는 25살 청년의 이야기
상처입고 치유받은자의 이야기가 성경에 자주 등장한다
변방의 집안 막내 아들 다윗
사울왕이 변질되어 사무엘은 영적 depression 에 있었다
하나님의 부르심은 한쪽길이 닫히면 한쪽길이 열린다
이생망 - 이번 생은 망했다 … 이게 아니다. - 하나님은 이런 마음을 기뻐하시지 않으신다
하나님은 지금도 “일어나라 나와 새로운 길을 가자” 하신다
상처는 묵상하면 안된다. 계속 아물려는 상처 딱지를 때려는 것과 같다. 이러면 상처는 낫지 않는다. 상처는 내버려두고 잊어야 한다.
우리는 제인생의 미래를 가르쳐 달라 하지만 하나님은 알려하지마라 볼거없다 나를따르라 하신다
너는 나만 바라보면 된다
우리는 오히려 미래를 알게된다면 겁을 먹거나 노력하지 않거나 하나님을 의지 하지 않을것이다
겉모습만 보고 사무엘이 기름부을뻔 하였다
다윗은 8번째 아들이고 이새는 다윗을 사무엘 앞에 부르지도 않았다
막내 히브리어 하카톤 - 하찮고 중요하지 않은 사람
오히려 사무엘이 막내를 찾고 올때까지 기다렸다
우리가 언제 상처를 많이 받아요? 우리는 무시당할때 상처를 제일 많이 받는다
시편. 내 부모는 나를 버렸으나 하나님은 나를 붙드신다.
그러나 다윗은 과거와 화해했다. 상처와 결별했다. 신세한탄하지 않고 풀밭에서 찬양하고 양을 치고 돌보았다.
상처때문에 괴롭힘 당하면 안된다. 딛고 일어나야 한다.
하나님 중심으로 살아야 한다.
사람은 겉을 보지만 하나님은 우리의 마음을 보신다. 오뚜기처럼. 세상이 아무리 흔들어되도 절대 쓰러지지 않아요.
남들 신경쓰니까 우리가 상처받는거에요
하나님의 시선을 의식하며 살아가야 한다.
하나님 겟 인. 상처 겟 아웃!
성령의 기름부으심을 사모해야 한다.
아무리 화려하게 꾸며도 평범해 보이는 사람이 있고 아무리 평범해 보여도 화려하게 보이는 사람이 있다.
왕관 씌우는것과 같은 상징.
사무엘이 기름부은후 다윗의 인생은 완전 변했다 성령으로 붙잠힌바 성령충만한 삶이 되었다 성령의 인도함을 받는것
상처를 튕겨내는 능력을 키워야 한다
그럴수도있지모
치유를 받을려면 하나님의 말씀의 따뜻한 빛을 쬐야한다

상처받을려고 마음먹으면 다 상처가된다

Friday, October 6, 2017

노동의 고통 - 크리스찬과 노동

컴퍼니 ㅡ 라틴 원어: 쿵파네 ㅡ 파네는 빵이랑뜻 ㅡ 먹고 살기 위해서 존재하는 공동체
일을 통해서 창조주를 닮아간다?
모든것은 타락으로 인해 오염되었다?
노동중에 제일 고통스런 노동 - labor - 태산의 고통
그럼에도 불구 자식은 기업이요 상급이다
아이를 낳는것도 힘든데 아이를 키우는것도 더 힘들다
결혼 남녀 갈등도 힘들다
땀을 흘려야만 살수있는 존재
성경은 우리삶에 가시덤불과 엉겅퀴가 많고 당연히 어렵다
내가 하고자 하는 모든일이 어렵다 ㅡㅡ
다 저주받았다…
그렇구나… 만연하구나… 받아들여야 한다
수고함으로 낙을 누리는 것이 하나님의 선물이더
여호와께서 위로하시고 긍휼이 여기신다
너희는 무엇을 하든지 하나님의 영광을 위해서 그일을 할수 있다 ㅡ 우리가 먼저 그의 나라와 그의 의를 구하기 때문에
과연 이일이 영광과 무슨 상관있을까?

노동이 곧 기도가 되고 예배가 되는것 그렇게 우리의 의식을 바꾸어야 함

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The Meaning of Marriage - Timothy Keller

Chapter 1. The Secret of Marriage
  • This is a profound mystery.
  • Like the relationship with God, coming to know and love your spouse is difficult and painful yet rewarding and wondrous. The most painful, the most wonderful.
  • Chris Rock: "Do you want to be single and lonely or married and bored?"
  • Widespread belief and misplaced assumption that most marriages are unhappy.
  • Worldly cure (cohabitation) may be worse than the alleged disease
  • Stats: if you are reasonably well-educated person with a decent income, come from an intact family and are religious, and marry after twenty-five without having a baby first, your chances of divorce are low indeed
  • Marriage provides a profound "shock absorber" that helps you navigate disappointments, illnesses, and other difficulties
  • Spouses hold one another to greater levels of personal responsibility and self-discipline than friends or other family members- accountability
  • Media focuses on the broken because there is drama
  • Media do not focus on the happy, long-term marriages because there are no surprises - 'all happy couples are the same; they're just boring'
  • Linda J Waite: "benefits of divorce have been oversold"
  • general public "underestimate the prospects for a good marriage" 
  • Stats: people who are married consistently show much higher degrees of satisfaction with their lives than those who are single, divorced, or living with a partner
  • Children who grow up in married, two-parent families have two to three times more positive life outcomes than those who do not
  • Listen to some successful people talk about their parents
  • Paradoxically, pessimism comes from a new kind of unrealistic idealism about marriage
  • John Witte Jr: "ideal of marriage as a permanent contractual union designed for the sake of mutual love, procreation, and protection is slowly giving way to a new reality of marriage as a 'terminal sexual contract' designed for the gratification of the individual parties
  • Protestants taught: purpose of marriage was to create a framework for lifelong devotion and love between husband and a wife - sacrament of God's love and serve the common good - benefit the entirety of humanity - especially for children, for children thrive in stable environment
  • Older cultures taught their members to find meaning in duty, by embracing their assigned social roles and carrying them out faithfully
  • During the enlightenment - meaning of life came to be seen as the fruit of the freedom of the individual to choose the life that most fulfills him or her personally
  • Marriage was redefined as a contract between two parties for mutual individual growth and satisfaction - from fulfilling broader good such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children
  • Modern relationship: people are looking for a partnership, and they want partners who make their lives more interesting who help each of them attain valued goals
  • Marriage used to public institution for the common good - now it is private arrangement for the satisfaction of the individuals
  • Marriage used to be about "us" - now it is about "me"
  • Seek mental or emotional rewards through sexual gratification / sexual chemistry
  • Individuals express resentment toward those who try to change them
  • Traditionally, men married knowing it would mean a great deal of personal alteration
  • Classic purposes of marriage was very definitely to "change" men and be a "school" in which they learned how to conduct new, more interdependent relationships
  • Individuals are adamant that their relationship with another should not curtail their freedom at all
  • Cohabitation gives men regular access to sexual ministrations while allowing them to lead a more independent life and continue to look around for a better partner
  • Traditional purpose of marriage: to change their natural instincts, to reign in passions, to learn denial of one's own desires, and to serve others
  • man who indulged in excess and failed to rule himself was considered unfit to rule his household, much less polity
  • Simply: individuals want a marriage in which they can receive emotional and sexual satisfaction from someone who will simply let them be themselves
  • Traditionally, sexual restraint rather than sexual prowess was once the measure of a man
  • Looking for someone with very low maintenance: then you are searching for an ideal person - happy, healthy, interesting, content with life
  • Oxymoron: Never before in history has there been a society filled with people so idealistic in what they are seeking in a spouse, yet they are not one
  • Pornographic media culture may contribute to unrealistic expectations
  • Extreme idealism leads to deep pessimism that you will never find the right person to marry
  • Individuals are determined to get more than they deserve and to reject anyone remotely like themselves
  • What people really want? "Wanted: To be alone"
  • Marriage is a "haven in a heartless world"
  • Christian answer: no two people are compatible - everyone is unique 
  • Appreciate the unique incompatibility that unifies and magnifies in love and forgiveness.
  • It is not the institution of marriage that is in trouble; we ourselves are.
  • Give up. Sacrifice. 
  • God's purpose: relationship between Christ and his redeemed people (church)
  • Do for your spouse what God did for you in Jesus, and the rest will follow
  • Choice is not binary
  • We die to ourselves, first when we repent and believe the gospel, and later as we submit to his will day by day
  • Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel's remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up
  • Love without truth is sentimentality, it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws
  • Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it
  • Radical truthfulness and unconditional love - deeper and deeper in union - mystery of the gospel
  • Good marriage will be a place where we experience more of this kind of transforming love at a human level
Chapter 2. The Power of Marriage
  • Be filled with the Holy Spirit
  • "Spirit of Truth" - remind and remember what Jesus said
  • "Make known" 
  • "the eyes of your heart be enlightened" that they might "have power to grasp how wide, long, high, deep is the love of Christ"
  • Life of Joy, sometimes quiet, sometimes towering
  • Each spouse should already have settled the big questions of life 
  • Worship of God with assurance of his love - "run on" in marathon
  • Radical change - in humility consider others better than yourself - Phil 2:2-3
    • means to please others than please ourselves
    • Christ did not please himself
    • self interest < other's interest
  • Serve with joy; not coldness, resentment, or selfish insistence
  • Also, "serving" to be in control is not serving at all; it is heart of wanting to "earn" everything
  • Refusing service of others is refusing to live life on the basis of grace
  • Freely give and freely receive; head < heart
  • "Self-centeredness" - barrier to development of relationship 
  • Matt 16:25 - if you seek happiness you will lose it; if you seek God you will have both"
  • Theory of everything: you must be willing to give something up before it can be truly yours
  • Christian view: selfishness is not caused by mistreatment but magnified and shaped by it
  • Don't set people up for failure: help them to love God and love people
  • Don't spiral into unspoken agreement: tit-for-tat bargaining
  • Christian principle: not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less
    • Taking your mind off yourself 
    • Liberation: small mindedness to big mindedness
  • "Fear of the Lord" means authority: to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God: to bow down in amazement at his glory and beauty
  • Only God can fill God-sized hole
  • William Blake "Songs of Experience"
  • "We love - because he first loved us"
Chapter 3 The Essence of Marriage
  • World: "Why do we need a piece of paper in order to love one another? I don't need a piece of paper to love you! It only complicates things."
  • Bible: Love is measured by how much you are willing to give and sacrifice (to lose, to forsake, to invest)
  • World: I love you, but I don't want to close off all my options. I don't love you enough to give myself to you under binding contract. My love for you has not reached that level.
  • Bible: Love is both emotional and passionate AND active and committed in service and duty
  • World: Love is overly subjective
    • People find "love" outside of marriage; it has become a thrill and/or a game
  • In marriage, sex has become frustrating (boring): frustration of an artist who has in his head a picture or a story but lacks "X" to express it
  • Some mistakenly equate sexual stimulation and love: dangerous sex, fetish, etc
  • Best sex makes you want to weep tears of joy, not bask in the glow of a good performance
  • It is so easy for parents to give to child no matter their mood or emotional attachment; why is it so hard for husband and wife to give to each other 
    • Because we view such relationship in economical term - we want something back in return when we do something
  • Think of the Covenant of God and what he has done for us no matter our mood or situation - grace, mercy, and love
  • Become one flesh - be united to = cleave = unite to someone through a covenant, a binding promise, or oath
  • It is a covenant with God also - so to break faith with spouse is to break faith with God
  • Covenant is where duty and passion - love and law - is compatible and blended
  • Consumer relationship is driven by impressing and enticing, promotion and marketing, and breaking up and move on to new relationship that excites
  • Real love is secured in permanence 
  • Song of Solomon 8:6-7
  • Jesus said we get divorced become our hearts. have become "hard"
  • Lewis Smedes: "....feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. ....the things we accomplish always leave a core of character unrevealed. ...visions can only tell us what we want to be, not what we are."
  • Smedes answers that we are largely who we become through making wise promises and keeping them
  • Promising is the key to identity = stable identity and relationship
  • When you are seventy-five, which would you rather have: years of steady if occasionally strained devotion, or something that looks a little bit like the Iraqi city of Fallujah, cratered with spent artillery?
  • You are more free when you do what you promise 
  • "You have created a small sanctuary of trust within the jungle of unpredictability"
  • Only humans can make a promise
  • Romantic fling is intoxicating and addicting because the person is actually in love with a fantasy rather than a real human being
  • Ego-gratification
  • Soren Kierkegaard: aesthetic, ethical, and religious outlook on life
    • the person dominated by aesthetic sensibility is controlled by circumstances
      • Is not master of himself at all - leads accidental life
      • Aesthete loves feelings, thrills, ego rush, and experiences
    • Ethics and religion enable stability and longevity
  • CS Lewis: Greatest secrets: When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. You can change your heart over the long haul through your actions.
  • True: Actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love
  • Feelings of love does not go on forever
  • Essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love
  • Let the thrill go, let it die away: keep doing acts of love in ordinary ways
  • Parents are very generous with children's needs
  • Husbands and wives are not very generous with each other's needs: sometimes think of it as a bargain or business
  • Look to Jesus: Jesus loved us no matter our actions or emotions
Chapter 4 - The Mission of Marriage
  • The purpose of marriage - God said it was good
  • It was not good for man to be alone
  • Make man in our image
  • Man were made for relationship
  • Helper-companion, a lover, a friend
  • Iron sharpens iron, friend sharpens friend
  • Constancy and transparency and sympathy: features of friendship
  • Essence of friendship exclamation: "You too?!"
  • Common passion and common vision will unite people together
  • That is why you cannot want friend alone: you must have interest and passion that can draw other people to you 
  • The purpose of marriage: sanctification, refinement, holiness, glory, transformation
  • 2 Cor 4:16-18 - we are renewed everyday; fix our eyes on the unseen
  • Worldly reasons and factors of marriage is just not durable
  • Every single person is a work in progress
  • Finished statute v block of fine marble
  • God and Jesus: to make us lovely, to make us holy, to make us in the image of God
  • Our culture overvalue beauty over common interest and friendship
  • Beauty may fade, and because you don't share interest, you may lose interest in another: when your spouse is not first priority, marriage can fall apart
  • Paul likens marriage to the health of your body
Chapter 5 - Loving the Stranger
  • We think we married a person, but that person is a total stranger who will change
  • We change with age, social circles, jobs, schools, people, day, night, rain, sunshine
  • Of course, people are not naive - people believe they will reach an agreement
  • Spiritual journey - grow up into Christ
  • Power of truth, power of love, and the power of grace
  • Soren Kierkegaard: take masks off at midnight hour - the real you is exposed
  • Marriage is the closest, the most inescapable contact with another person possible 
  • In such setting, everything is magnified
  • Spouse does not create weakness, they reveal them - like a truck on defective bridge
  • Like a treatment that is painful - you don't wish the doctor didn't find them - you are glad the doctor found them so it can be treated however painful 
  • It makes us more thoughtful and empathetic; more gentle and gracious
  • Marriage is a gift - free treatment
  • "Perfect spouse" does not exist
  • "Godly tantrum" - unrelenting insistence on being heard
    • Wife was breaking one dish at a time, but was not angry; she was calm totally in control, intense and laser focused 
  • Many people have a never-ending loop of self-talk that berates them for being foolish, stupid, a failure, a loser 
  • World may look at you and see Clark Kent, but I look at you and see Superman 
  • Spouse affirmation is profoundly comforting
  • LOTR: "The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards." 
  • To be highly esteemed by someone you highly esteem is the greatest thing in the world
  • To know that the Lord of the universe loves you is the strongest foundation that any human being can have
  • The world condemns us but God forgives and loves us despite them
  • Family background difference - love expressed differently in each family
  • Radio-frequency - one spouse may be sending a signal on one frequency, but the other spouse may be on different frequency
  • Giver and receiver  
  • Five different love languages, or more
  • Greek language for love
  • At first love sweeps you up involuntarily, but eventually, love is a deliberate choice - even mechanical
  • Marriage difficulties can come from deep-seated patterns of idolatry, from semiconscious anger, and from fear that needs to be rooted out
  • Love can be consciously expressed through: 
    • eye contact
    • sitting close
    • caress
    • holding hands
    • walks
    • scenic drives
    • picnics
    • signs
    • gifts
    • playfulness
    • verbal affirmations
    • encouragement
    • messages
    • praises
    • appreciation
    • thanks
    • chores
    • gardening
    • entertainment
    • common interest / hobby
    • reading poems / books
    • help
    • pray
  • Marriage has enormous potential for spiritual growth
  • What we need: to feel so loved by our partners that when they criticize us, we have the security to admit our faults (even parent-child)
  • Gospel humbles us into the dust and at the same time exalts us to the heavens, completely loved and accepted in Christ
  • Completely knowledge of spouse's sin and forgiveness 
  • 2 Cor 4:16-18 - outwardly we are wasting away, but inwardly we are being renewed day by day
  • "As great as you look today, someday you will stand with me before God in such beauty that it will make these clothes look like rags."
Chapter 6 - Embracing the Other
  • Gender roles is contentious and controversial
  • In the beginning, God created man; male and female he created them
  • God stamped very cell in our body with gender
  • in the image of God, we are equally blessed, equally given dominion over the earth
  • It is not good for man to be alone
  • We are complementary - suitable - like puzzle
  • After the fallout, gender roles become exploitative
  • Dance of Trinity: each wishes to please the other; each wishes to exalt the other
  • Female: interdependent, perceptive, nurturing
  • Male: independent, look outward, they initiate
  • Both can turn into hyper-femininity and hyper-masculinity - idolatry
  • Sinful drive for self-justification - human heart's alienation from God - base on specialness, superiority, and performance
  • Embracing another and embracing each other is really what makes the world go around
  • Reciprocal self-surrender and self-giving
  • Servant-leader means you gotta work on both - being a servant and being a leader at the same time - if you are lacking in one area, you should have the discipline to develop it
  • There was perfect unity without anxiety, worry, doubt, sin before the fall - but when sin entered, everything disrupted the unity
  • The only person over whom have control is yourself
  • You can change no one's behavior but your own
  • First, you must embrace yourself, love, and forgive yourself - pray
  • See what God does next

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