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James SungJin Park
When I was young I thought I had this special gift. It was the ability to see right through people.
I am probably exagerating but there was a time in my life, that I thought
I was able (or at least I thought I could at that time) to read a person's
insecurities in two minutes or less. I took so much pride in it that I remember practicing to better this craft.
Either it was only in my imagination or I must have used it for evil and God has taken it from me
because now I am terrible reading people.As I was meditating on today's message I thought to myself
that it would be cool to be able to read people. It would come in handy as long as I use it to build
HIS KINGDOM.
너나 잘해! Be humble and repent toward me. How many times have you judged and critiqued others
while you overlooked and turn the blind eye when it came to your own self? I AM THE ONLY ONE ABLE TO JUDGE and
no one else.
#2 Boating about Tomorrow
"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow." [v14]
Only when it wasn't going according
to my expectations I would cry out to God. So many times, i treated God as a genie that will align
my life the way I wanted with the snap of his finger.
I say I don't have control over my life but I still hold on to it dearly as if I do.The most difficult
part of being ME is letting God have full control of it. Not just speaking it but in action.
without considering God. Live my life as if it was my last and this is only possible when I believe in the
power of the Holy Spirit and the embracing love of Jesus Christ.
it was to justify myself. I live as I will be forever young and make plans thinking I still have much time
to return to you. Forgive me Lord.
James SungJin Park
Romans 1:18-28
“The wrath of God”
As I was meditating on today’s passage, I realized how I never really thought much about God’s wrath. The focus of my faith was more about the “righteousness of God” (v17), ever loving and understanding God. He loves me so much that I can get away with minor sins here and there….as long as I repent kind of deal of course. Maybe I’m wrong but it does make sense in a way. My Father in Heaven; the truly righteous….this must mean that he is indeed ever loving and understanding …all that good stuff and so much more. However, because of His true righteous nature, this must also imply his ability to render judgment and pass down wrath on us. I thought to myself why I try to block out the subject of God’s wrath. On a side note, in 35+ years of attending church I don’t remember a pastor ever saying directly “if you keep this up…you are going to burn in hell.”
The verse that really stood out to me today was v.21 “Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened”
God tells me today that I should keep asking myself this very exact question every chance I get. “Do you really know me? Then why are you so ungrateful? Are you suppressing my truth because of your wickedness?
I realized there was another god in me that always loves and understanding. But the problem is that it only existed to serve my own interests. This god tells me that I am wise, I can cut corners and exchange the truth about God for a lie, it was ok to lust and want the better things this world has to offer no matter the consequences.
Lord, I was saved by your grace. Let me not deny the reality of the just, sustained of your wrath because it would be the same as denying the necessity of the cross. You saved me through your only Son because it was necessary. Help me become a man that strives to be righteous in your eyes.
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James S. Park