A letter to a friend once wrote to share her joy in the commencement of a journey to knowing God.  We just received and read your letter.  The letter brought us true joy. Praise God our Lord for the work in your lives by His Holy Spirit. No one has ever changed anyone’s life except with the help of the Holy Spirit of God. If you saw light when you first heard the good news from your… Read More »To a friend who starts to see the light

Reading “Judges” and continuing on to “Ruth” is like traveling from a hopeless land to a place of joy. My heart suffers along with the Holy Spirit while reading “Judges” because of everything Israelites did before the Lord. It hurts me deeply because what the Israelites did were a vivid type of what our old life is and what it does to the Lord. Then just to the same extent, my heart is blessed while… Read More »From Judges to Ruth

Dear brother, I recall the years in which the Lord purposefully blocked the sight on the path ahead of me and patiently waited for the growth of my faithfulness.  (He still does, but only in a different way in my life at this time.) I was no Ruth, the blessed Moabite who with her pure and simple heart followed her mother in law Naomi, so faithfully and so beautifully, through death and humiliation, all the… Read More »A letter to a brother going through trials

I remember the several days after the event of 9/11 in the year of 2001:  I struggled through to come back to my senses then.  There are no right words for it.  Terror, sorrow, anxiety, anger, and all. But one night as I was praying, my heart sensed a gentle voice of the Holy Spirit asking me not to be buried under the rubble but look upon Him and Him only. The Holy Spirit pointed… Read More »A fearful destruction

With the time of Christmas focusing mainly on blessings and our own “warm feelings” (not to even mention the commercialization that doesn’t have anything to do with the the real meaning of the birth of our Lord), I ask myself: “Did the Lord come so that we may celebrate his birth?” Many Christians celebrate Christmas as if the real meaning of the Lord’s first coming were wrapped with a pretty glow, something that is glamorous… Read More »Remember His death

My Lord was born in a manger.  From a human perspective, there is nothing glorious about such a birth.  It took divine humility and infinite love for that to happen.  His birth in my life was the same.  When the Lord’s life entered into my heart, my heart was no cleaner than a manger.  I was saved and made joyful, just as the shepherds who witnessed the birth of Jesus were, but had no idea… Read More »He was born in a manger

Why is it that on the first day of every seven days God’s children go to churches to listen to sermons but refuse to come to the Lord’s table to fellowship with Him? Why is it that God’s children seem to enjoy ritualistic ceremonies called “holy communion” conducted by a trained person but immediately feel uncomfortable when the true meaning of Breaking the Bread (i.e., remembering the Lord’s death) is explained to them, not to… Read More »Come to the Lord‘s Table

Men squander the earth and their own lives, but refuse to acknowledge the Maker of heavens and earth, even their lives; Men build alters and “high places” in their minds to satisfy their idolatrous hearts but deny Jesus precisely because of, not in spite of, Jesus’ “lowliness” of coming down from heaven to die for men’s sin. Yet it is the very same men who are very certain they are morally justified and do not… Read More »The Cross is man’s judgment

In ultimate sense, who takes the responsibility of your life? If you are a child of God, your Father does. It may surprise you, but being able to take care of you in Christ to the end without shame is a part of God’s eternal will in Christ. Years ago, I saw a scene in TV news that I could never forget.  It was a cold winter day with heavy snow falling.  A war broke… Read More »Our Father will not be ashamed on that day