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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)
It is a mere modern expression of what Jesus has taught in Beatitudes. We have been taught in this word to seek “Win-Lose” or “Win-Win” deals through our education. Only Jesus told us to seek “Lose-Win” deals. Jesus has lived such life. That is why His teaching is so powerful. Ever since Jesus was baptized at the river Jordan where the Holy Spirit came down on Him, Jesus was living a life which was totally obedient to the Father in heaven. He was dead, totally dead to Himself long before He was crucified.
Christ was truly God. But he did not try to remain equal with God. Instead he gave up everything and became a slave, when he became like one of us. Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross. (Philippians 2:6-8)
Yes, Jesus was a slave to His Father because He loved so much, and He was a slave to all others because He loved them as Himself, in order to fulfill the commandments:
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.’ They also say, ‘Love your neighbors as much as you love yourself.’ (Luke 10:27)
Loving someone is the same as being a slave to someone. One can easily exchange ‘love’ with ‘a slave’ in following famous scripture:
A slave is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. A slave isn’t selfish or quick tempered. It doesn’t keep a record of wrongs that others do. (1 Corinthians 13:4-5)
A slave always stands where he cannot win but lose, and stands where he can make others (masters) win.
We Christians love the Lord Jesus Christ, so we are slaves to Him and to all others (neighbors). We should stand where we can make others win, just like what Jesus did! This is denying self. Didn’t He say,
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24)
Jesus did not mean to make us all losers. Look at Jesus the ‘loser’.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11)
He was not a ‘loser’ at all but gained the Lordship over all lords! He even said to His disciples that all the losses might have occurred when they seek lose-win deals for His sake will be recovered 100 times not 100% and even a lot more:
“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.” (Mark 10:29-30)
We Christians must seek “Lose-Win” deals for Jesus’ sake. We will partake His glory and honor if we take sufferings for His name’s sake because we love Him. We will enjoy the powers of heavens and earth just like Jesus!
Now is not the time to keep our neck stiff and upright. Think about numberless neighbors who are still waiting for us slaves to bring His love. Seek “Lose-Win” deals in love of Jesus Who is the same yesterday, today and forever!
 When a baby is born, all aspects of atmosphere of the house are greatly affected by the new arrival. Even the thoughts and future of the household can be changed. A baby totally depends on parents although they sometimes scold or spank the baby. Furthermore purity and innocence a baby’s behavior melt hearts of parents. They may talk to themselves “Oh, I was wrong. I better take care of this baby.” It is not a great figure among grown-ups but a baby who could renew and purify those grown-ups with calculus and callous minds. It is hard to imagine that a family without babies, a church without freshly born believers, and a society or a nation without young-bloods could be successful.
Love believes all things. The power of God is like the power of a baby. As God believe all people, a baby trusts all without any doubts, so that there is peace in baby’s mind and smile on the face. A real blessing starts from a baby. If not a baby, the filthy and ugly hearts cannot be filtered. We need babies in our lives. God so gave us our Christ as baby Jesus.
Our Lord said “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” (Luke 18:17) We have to be like babies if we want to build new families, new neighbors, and a new society. Let’s live a life of a baby by embracing the Lord in our hearts who came in us as the eternal baby.
And said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.” (Luke 9:48)
By Rev. CS Lee, “You are the Church.” pp. 14-15
This world is in its last days. The last days mean the end of all resources or end of any business that extends existence. All things in the last days, including our bodies, our children, etc., do not have any excess of resources or hopes.
The world is the farm where the devil is working hard. Your cars, jobs, houses, even children belong to the farm. Devil hides the last days from people’s eyes by letting them focus on worldly joy and pleasures. He deceives people with false consciousness which merely is an amplified imaginations triggered by 5-sense. Everyone, therefore, who was born since Adam, was trapped by a snare called the last days. Our Lord too came to this world of the last days. But He escaped from this trap and went to heaven by the death and resurrection.
Only the Lord has overcome the world, escaped the last days, and successfully ascended to heaven: He only has given hope to us all who believe. This is the living hope.
The world of the last days cannot be altered or stopped by any human endeavor. God so gave the Lord as the rope of salvation to us, by whom we can escape from the devil’s farm which is the last days. We believers can now overcome the last days by hoping and following the Lord who has prepared our salvation by destroying the powers of the last days. We are more than conquerors in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, (1 Peter 1:3-4)
By Rev. CS Lee, “You are the Church.” pp. 16-17
There is no present in this world because the world consists of movements. The present instantly becomes the past. The past is a mere production of the movements of my body. The future is nothing more than a plan to repeat good things but not to repeat bad things, based on the past experience. The future is not there by it self but simply a result of taking the fruit of the tree of knowing good and evil which forces us to take good over bad (Gen 2:17.) These are ‘my past’ and ‘my future’ in this world.
God did not make us through time and space or past and future. Our life is His predestination seen through His eternal eyes from outside of time and space, long before the foundation of the world.
There is neither past nor future in the kingdom of heaven. Life in the world, however, always is pushed by past and pulled by future, but life in heaven is free from the past, future and hope. The present is so good and satisfactory, thus things of the future have no meaning. Heaven therefore is a kingdom where only present continues.
Anyone who lives in the world can not avoid agonizing, regretting, blaming and feeling cursed because of his/her past. Furthermore the future gives recklessness, fear and burdens because it is uncertain. But the heaven gives eternal present without recklessness, worries, regrets, pains, sorrows, past, nor future. God prepared this good kingdom and invites us.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (John 5:24)
Men have their future through their past. The past would gives burdens to repeat good things or to avoid bad things. Men therefore lose peace because of their past.
The future of our lives opens up as much as the past is fixed. The smaller the past becomes or the more of past is erased; the lesser are life’s basic problems and the lighter our burdens. But this cannot be done by any human being. Only the Holy Spirit, the Healer, makes us to escape from all the burdens of the past such as scars and fear. Our fundamental problems can only be solved by the Holy Spirit.
When the Holy Spirit comes and washes our past, we will be set free from our past, and our future will then be opened. Thus there is freedom where the Holy Spirit is (2 Cor 3:17). The Spirit looses us from our fates of the past, and set us free from the future. We can then to enjoy the eternal present which is opened by the Spirit. This way we can enjoy the freedom of heaven while we are in this world.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17)
Darkness can not overcome light. Light simply overcomes any darkness however dark it is. God overcame darkness because He is light (John 8:12). We also have the power to overcome darkness because we are children of light. We, therefore, have the joy of overcoming darkness, too.
The earth was formless, empty, and dark over the deep (Gen 1:2). God however filled the emptiness with His fullness, the formless with truth, and the darkness with light. God demonstrated this to us so we can have the joy of giving, joy of overcoming, and joy of filling. Rejoice and praise God who has overcome, God who has filled, and God who is full. God’s joys are overcoming joy, filling joy, and giving joy.
God continuously blesses us from heaven. He enjoys this joy of giving forever. The heaven is a kingdom which is full joy where people eternally serve and give each other. We thus ought to live with the joy of sharing with and filling others with thing the Lord has given. We should not live a life of fulfilling own lives. This joy of giving is the most precious joy which we have to live with.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
There is no one who is not burdened by his/her superior(s) because people do not like their superiors. People often pull those above them down as low as their own level. For example, when some of church members do not like their pastor, they deface their pastor by fabricating some reasons why they do not like, and self-justify their claim through their self-consciousness.
God however never said that you should be obedient to good pastor, good father, good husband, good parents, or good bosses ONLY. He said you should obey to all of your superiors. God, furthermore, said that you should not correct your husband, father, etc, BUT you should correct yourself first. The existence of your superiors means that your life can be corrected. If you say your pastor is not good enough, it is based on your own thought. Do not waste your precious life by the deception of your own self-consciousness.
Although you go to your church, listen to the preaching, serve the church, and receive grace of God, when you go back home, you have to obey to your superiors whom God designated over you, in order to perfect your salvation. You can not correct your life without your superiors who can deny and coach your ways. We should give thanks that we have superiors. We may enjoy the blessing of God that comes through our superiors when we obey them.
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. (Colossians 3:22)
The most wanted of all people is happiness. It is peace in Christian language. Happiness (peace) is the most common value which humanity ultimately seeks.
People pay their own endeavors to gain happiness. Some study hard, others exercise hard for their health or work hard to be rich. But happiness does not come from such ways. If you hold on to money, you will eventually be held by your own money, and the money will leave your grip. Some wise, therefore, try to put their trust on self or someone close, they will soon realize that they should not have trusted any human. People only get hurt by others. Thus neither riches nor man can give you happiness.
Apostle Paul said “Our sufficiency is from God” (2 Cor 3:5). Remember the people who built Babel Tower? They fought each other and scattered away because God was not in them. Whether you are making or spending money, you should do with a mind which desires to receive or give away in the love of God. The ultimate thing we should seek is the peace that the Lord is giving. Hope and seek the peace in the Lord who is with you when you trust Him and obey His teachings.
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, (2 Corinthians 3:5)
Men have common divisors with insects: They are breathing, eating, digesting, and sexual reproduction. Emotionally exciting is similar with high animals. Deep pondering is a common ability with the devil. We who are living in this Last Days should not live lives like that of insects, animals and/or the devil.
We have to have common factors with God. It is because man is the image of God, as well as a child of God (John 1:12). God is love. Love is patience. The Lord put up with Judas Iscariot for three years although He knew that he would sell Himself for money.
God had perfect faith in us. He foresaw and believed us even before He created us, before the foundation of the world. He accepted us as His children even though He knew that we would commit sins.
Hence we shouldn’t be overly excited or depressed by deep ponderings or agonies according to our own sights and thoughts. We have to accept and bear with someone who makes mistakes, as God has faith in that someone. When we endure and put faith, we may become children of God and live a life as His believers.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
There are two types of people among church goers: One having hard time because of Jesus and the other not. The one, who is experiencing hard time because of Jesus, lives in heavenly realm, and the other believes Jesus under the devil’s influence. Most of job places are under the devil. This includes religious business and activities in church buildings. 
We must escape from the snares of devil by being awake in praying. We should cross the boundaries of the devil’s territory by dealing invisible things not visible things. This overcoming power comes only by praying. Praying is to forsake own things and interests. Your prayers are best answered when things are NOT done according to your thoughts and plans, when you cannot use your own possessions as you like to, or you can not associate with your favorite friends. Accept persecutions for your Lord’s sake.
The Lord said that My Father’s house is a house of prayer. It is not a building under the devil’s control so that people use it for religious business or religious politics. Church is a house of prayer which overcomes the world. We should find our own haven of rest in our church. “Lord, let my church be my peaceful spiritual home. I will invest my life there.”
Saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” (Luke 19:46)
Practicing develops habits, habits form a character, and a character builds life. One’s life thus heavily depends on what is practiced through the life. A successful life is resulted from habits that would give success. So is true for a failed life which sometimes is a simple product of bad habits. If you want to enjoy a blessed life, you need to develop blessed habits. And if you want to build blessed habits, you should know God who blesses you.
God fills earth with His words and we fill the heaven with our prayers. Parents’ hearts can not be fulfilled by themselves but only by their children. The same is true for God. God’s heart can be content only by us, His children (Ephesians 1:6). We should fill God’s empty, waiting, and desiring heart with our praises and thanksgiving.
We have to fulfill God’s heart first even though we may have to momentarily suffer poverty, lose things, or be mocked by others. We may rise and rise upward to the third heaven and enjoy every blessing of the heaven, when we give thanks and praise and serve His body in order to fulfill God’s heart first. We ought to build our blessed life only by habitually offering prayers and praise and worship Him.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:10)
People in the world consider that the most important thing is being blessed. If you believe in Jesus just for going to heaven or being peaceful or solving lifelong problems, you are expecting to receive one of the worldly blessings. True blessing is to receive the kingdom of heaven.
God does not satisfy by Himself because He does not have self-consciousness, but content only by loving us. God gave us the kingdom of heaven because He loves us. Every believer is a heavenly port through which the heavenly blessings are delivered. He gave us the kingdom of heaven in order to bless us. We become kings of the kingdom of heaven when we receive all the blessings of heaven (Revelation 22:5). 
God dwells in His fullness and we are partial beings. Although He tries to give us His fullness at once, we partial beings cannot receive all but partial blessings which are delivered by angels. Devils, on the other hand, take unnecessary things away from us. God however did not call us to work like angels or demons, but called us to be kings. A king has powers to make choices.
There are angel like, devil like, animal like, and plant like people in this world. All these people are there to support kings like us. A kingdom needs all things. We kings have to manage all resources through angels and devils. We should not give up such kingship in any situations including persecutions.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (1 Peter 2:9)
Earth is a shadow of heaven. Shadow is useless. Our lives turn into useless shadows as we live longer. The Lord came to earth in order to fill our shadow lives. Our lives became useful because of the Lord Jesus.
The Lord gave the living hope to us. The Lord fills all things with His fullness. All things mean every moment we lived through. It is the resurrected Lord who fills and heals all things including sorrows, despairs, disputes, pains, agonies, etc. (Isa 53:5).
Man never is content by adorning self. There is no one whom we can blame on because our lives have passed in vain, or that no one recognizes us at all. We are the very people who are responsible for our own lives.
Anything on this earth can not fill your inner emptiness because they all are mere shadows. Fill yourself with the substance, the Lord. Keep your faith that only the Lord Jesus will fill you. Only the Lord can sublimate your life and make you holy.
He that came down is the same who also went up above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. (Ephesians 4:10)
Freedom is a fundamental need of a man. Loving needs freedom. Love gets rid of all burdens. Married couple usually loves more before their marriage because they have less burdens each other. One way to keep love longer is to give freedom each other (Gal 5:13).
Creative works may bear out from love. Some marry with empty hands and live a successful married life. It is because of the freedom from the Lord. A marriage started with full of resources may wreck eventually, if they do not have freedom in their marriage. Good parents, good teachers, good pastors, or good presidents are people who have given freedom to the other side.
Spirit of God is omnipresent. Therefore the devil and angels who are spirit bodies are burdened by God. We people however are not burdened at all because we are of earth. We are so free that we sometimes say “God doesn’t exist.” God made us free because He loves us.
We have to give thanks to God for He made us of earth. Love God all we can who gave us freedom. Heaven and earth, rich and poor, health and sickness, even sorrows and joy, are God’s providence for us to have freedom. Let’s live free life and give thanks to Him for every phenomenon which is happening on this earth.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17)
Using money with a heart-full of love is the best way of spending money. Money flows in and out though people.
The law of God’s love guarantees that you will have rewards when you give according to God’s love. God manages and controls all the parameters of our life stage so that we would never lose, but get returns 30, 60 or 100 times of initial investment which has been made into the accounts of the Bank of Love or the Bank of Universe, according to His promise. This is the reason why we should carefully use material resources in love when we interact with other people around us.
We will never be lacking if we use material resources in love when we deal with our neighbors. We will face losses when we calculate how much we have and how much we gain without considering people around us. God has programmed before His creation that anything in the world will eventually turn to vanity if love of God is not in it.
God gave us the power of His children so that we may have all things as our own. Only love of God is perfect, practiced over and over, and growing bigger. The kingdom of heaven is run only by love of God.
The only way we may live our lives in abundance without any lacking is living by the love of God.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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