Luke 18:9 - 14

"The God who corrects Human Beings"

　

by: Pastor Hironori Furuya

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"The God who corrects Human Beings"

◆ Mr. Jorg Zink, a pastor of the Germany, added an explanation in the beginning of his prayer titled “Becoming Silent” as below;

“For recent several years, I spend my time in a small house located in right front of the Ocean, but nothing else. Every day, since early morning, subtle breeze almost unnoticeable blows from the land toward the Ocean there. Listening still in this quiet environment, even just for half an hour, is much more meaningful and influential than in one-week recuperation.“

◆ Entering into the road, the Lord Jesus noticed that people does not recognize that they were standing at the position where they unknowingly had began justifying themselves by themselves. Though they just did their best to come close, the rabbi and the Pharisees were found far away from the God. However, a tax collector just stood with hitting his own chest was knowingly staying far away from the God . Jesus stood on the side of the tax collector who prayed "O God, Please forgive me, a sinner in front of you" and declared that "It was the person who was justified and went back home."

◆ The place where the God exists is not in our strength but in our weakness indeed. As you know that the outset that Moses took the Israel people out of Egypt was to hold a snake's tail in accordance with the words of the Lord and changed it the cane upon which Moses relied upon since then. The God did tell him to hold not the head of the snake but to pick up its tail instead. It is indicated thereby that the God talks to the mind of a person who is not arrogant, makes him a weak person then presents himself to the God.

◆ The God is always nearby anyone who stands in the foot of the cross of the Christ. Stepping a feet back from the society where one must show his strength, even just for half an hour, we wish to be the people who gather in the Worshipping service like the aforementioned tax collector who stepped backward and listened still to the voice of the God.

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