“Look at the wonderful and beautiful things of the nature….The sunshine and the rain, that gladden and refresh the earth, the hills and the seas and plains, all speak to us of the Creator’s [God’s] love. The thorn and the thistle…were appointed for his [man’s] goods. …God is love, is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass. The lovely birds making the air vocal with their happy song, the delicately tinted flowers in their perfection perfuming the air, the lofty trees of the forest with their rich foliage of living green,- all testify to the tender, fatherly care of our God, and to His desire to make His children happy.”
“God has bound our hearts to Him by unnumbered tokens in heaven and in earth.”
“He (Jesus), spent the most happy times together with God in Nature.”
“I was sitting under a small waterfall when a certain friend with a cool hand began to massage my shoulders and hips in the hot weather. I turned around, and it was my water-friend. When people give me a massage, I have to keep reminding them to be gentler. But when the water-friend gave a massage, it was so refreshing and did not hurt at all.
And so I started up a conversation with the water “Hey water, for what reason were you born in this world?” And the water answered. “By sacrificing myself, I was born to be swallowed up by others. Also, I was born in this world to serve others by cleaning their dirty bodies and insides.”
I was so surprised. In this world only the water-friend was born in this world to be swallowed up by others. Though there are many human beings who try to use others, living only for self-gain, there are no human beings willing to let themselves be used and give themselves to others. However, the water was born to be swallowed up by others and to offer services in washing their dirty insides and out. Upon seeing this water with no selfishness or jealousy, this self-sacrificial selfless water, I was astonished.
So, I asked the water-friend another question. “Hey water, how it is that you can fall off from such high places without fear and to your heart’s content? Also, how can you go in and out of those dark and dangerous forests, laughing without fear?”
Then the water-friend replied, “Oh, how you worry over the slightest things… What is there for me to be afraid of when God is with me? Because I completely believe in God’s love and have given Him my all, no matter how high it may be, I can jump down to my heart’s content,”
It was the first time that I realized what great faith this water-friend had.
I asked a third question. “Hey water, what is your happiness and pleasure in living in this world?” And this water-friend replied, “My happiness and pleasure in life is in obeying God’s word day and night. Before obeying Him, I always got angry and so my insides became rotten and smelly. The deer and the birds did not want to be my friends; they did not even want to touch or caress me. But once I started to obey God, deer and birds became my friends, songs of joy burst out from my heart, and only new songs just kept flowing out of me. So it is for this happiness that I live on”.
The water finds happiness in life by obeying God. God had commanded the water, “You must humbly flow downwards.” But when the water disobeyed God and only wanted to stay in the high places not flowing down then it’s inside immediately rotted. And there was such a bad smell that bugs would appear, the deer would not drink of it, and the birds would not come to sing or drink from it. But, when the water itself was able to live, and whenever it flowed into a new place, new songs kept gushing out.
As the Lamb, Jesus was a being who was born to be devoured by humans like beasts, to clean out the filthy insides of sinners. On the other hand, because Jesus entrusted His whole life completely to the heavenly Father, He was able to jump down from that heavenly throne without fear, and from this earth jump down into the grave. All this was possible because He entrusted His whole life completely to the Father, Jesus was this very water.
On the day when winter is about to set in on the autumn, some trees with their tops off, both big and little, will show their red skin in an open space, boasting of their muscles with an “ehem” too.
If we try to ask them, “Hey, why are you standing there like that?” and these trees would answer as this, “The ill-tempered severe winter, that persecutor, is on its way, and so we want to have a round with him, to fight and win.”
And so, at a look to the next spring, both the big and little tree had gained victory.
A great tribulation that has never been since creation will confront us, and there is no law that states because one is an aged person, he will win, or that because one is a child, he will lose. Whoever it should be, if they equip themselves with the word and boast of their muscles, then anybody can be victorious. It is rather the big trees that freeze and die. I hope that all of us will become trees to equip ourselves with the powerful word of the living God.
– By Teacher Suk Sun –
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