Lucas Garden

I had a sparkling thought that it is stupid to repeat the same sin which was already experienced. Let's think of a Christian man who used to become lustful whenever looking at women. He instantly feels guilty, and repents in front of God by praying and reading the Bible. But, he accidentally becomes fascinated by a gorgeous woman just in a few minutes after repentance, shortly devoured by sexual desire, and he ultimately repeats to commit the same sexual sin. He is not able to escape from the dual cycle of sin and repentance by himself. He was seemingly faithful in God, but his sinful life does not show any stop sign. What was wrong for him? I assume that he perhaps misunderstood the true meaning of faith. Repentance, praying, and reading the Bible are not the essential bricks for building the house of a faithful life, but rather they can be deemed to be just a kind of tools which may be instrumental to make a better house. If so, what should be the bricks for my faithful life? I...

How can we love enemies? We can't. Can you love anyone who killed your children? We can't love others by ourselves. Yet Jesus ordered, " Love your enemies. " But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ( Matthew 5:44-45 ) Amen. I am still inwardly cursing them, but I would love my enemies with all my heart. It is not because I really love them. It is not because I became like a saint. Rather it is because my redeemed soul wants to praise Jesus's grace and glory as He loves us unconditionally and gave himself by being crucified on the Cross.

I firmly believe that God is leading us to heal ourselves and recover all our broken hurts. Surprisingly, the genuine hope starts to sprout from the soil of complete abandonment, complete loneliness, complete sacrifice, and complete death. Indeed, my Lord Jesus taught Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. ( John 12:24-25 ) God asks us to disarm all my own weapons, like guilt, desire, wisdom, pride, before He gives us his eternal gift of the Holy Spirit. God, please let us throw away all our weapons. God, please let us be poor and miserable, so that we can cry out to you. For You are Great and Glory!

Miracle Emptiness is not empty, For she will be filled. Loneliness is not alone, For she will meet a friend. Sorrow is not sad, For she will be in peace. Hurt is not hurt, For she will be healed. She, empty, alone, sorrowful, deeply hurt, but would be filled with the Holy Spirit, would meet her bridegroom, Jesus Christ, would be caressed by His hand, and would experience His miracle. For God is Great.

Someone suggested me to read an article by Pomnyun , a renowned Korean Buddhist monk. He told me, "The Bible is not always practical for us living in modern society. This Pomnyun's article is very inspirational for me to change my life dramatically. I highly recommend to read his article and apply for your life." This article's teaching suggests that human life is just a sequence of choices by free will, and therefore happiness is simply determined depending on how we make the best choice like "smiling" instead of "crying", "loving" instead of "hating". It sounds plausible, but I shortly realized this teaching is totally opposite to Christianity. We Christians know we live out not by human wisdom but by God's grace. I know I am not able to make the best choice by my own wisdom at all. This article was suggestive of Gnosticism as well as Buddhism that, strictly speaking, would be certainly heretical and ultimately detrimen...

I just gave a passing thought to the ultimate reason for this stanchless problem in human relations. It may be simply viewed as a consequence of wrong communication. We may have different psychological language in interpreting the opposite's mind, so that we could never understand genuine intentions of the other but always listened to the other's speaking through a perverted lens. According to this theory, the best solution in a broken relationship would be quite straightforward; it is just to speak and listen in the opposite's language. However, we are very adamant to use our own emotional language. We misunderstood it is servile and self-deprecating to abandon my language. I thought the authentic humility would be to abandon my own language but to use their languages to communicate with others. This is exactly the way of what Jesus Christ did as He came us with the human body even if He was the Son of God. So, what is the solution? It is to become humble like Jesus as H...