Shining Faith (1)

People all over the world are having a difficult time with one issue that is difficult to face once in a lifetime. That is the corona virus situation. Pneumonia virus caused a global pandemic. COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill, which has been a huge global barrier.

It’s not easy to stand still. It is in fact impossible for a person to arbitrarily stop life from the moment he is born crying until he dies. Since you were born, you have to keep running like a person standing on a treadmill. You are also involved in a struggle for survival. People around you won’t let you go, and they keep pushing you away. The appearance of a life that cannot be stopped is different for each person. But something happened that brought all these people to a standstill at the same time.

At this time the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

We have been driven by the winds of the world and have lived a life that never stops like a bicycle without brakes. A life I have lived without having time to ask anyone where I should go, or to check where I am right now. Our lives have been constantly driven by a bloody struggle for survival, in order not to fall behind, and to live by leaving behind such ultimate questions as to why we live. The problem is that most of them are ruined as they drift away.

If I had stopped and looked around, if I had only known where I was going, I would not have continued. If I had only known who I am, I wouldn’t have done anything in vain. The problem was that I couldn’t stop and ask the most important question! This was the common theme that inevitably led to the destruction of the entire human race. Then the Lord says ‘Stop! You think your life is going well, but stop!’ Unfortunately, we couldn’t stop on our own.

But now we are forced to stop. The special significance of the past year is that everyone was physically stopped together. When I was busy running towards my goal, I didn’t even have time to look left and right, but when I stopped, I started to see situations I couldn’t see. The reality of the world, which seemed so huge and so solid to us, was exposed as if naked.

When the world just ran smoothly, everything seemed to be going right, and there was nothing to see except the world. But when the world stopped, I saw how vain and unbelievable it was to be the world we believed and relied on.

It was a world that, no matter what the Bible said, we ran in the dark, ran mad for the pleasures, luxury, and success of the world, and perhaps felt even more real than God. However, the medical system of advanced civilizations, the power of the country, and international relations that we believed in were all revealed how powerless and futile with a single virus. The reality of the world began to appear. Now is the perfect opportunity to stand in the way we have come, and to see where the ancient paths, the good way, is and to walk on it. (January 2021) <Continued> [Gospel Prayer News]

Missionary Kim, Yong Eui

(World Mobile Mission missionary. Representative of LOG Mission)

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