Day 5 - All Good Things

All Good Things
We all seek happiness. We are all searching for love, peace. But so often we look in the wrong places. God is the source of all good things.

Psalm 4:1-8
1. The source of joy and peace
People think money, possession or success will be the answer for joy and peace but these are delusions and false gods. True joy and peace are to be found in a relationship with God.
Prosperity, despite the apparent security it brings, does not necessarily lead to peaceful sleep. Only in God's will can we truly dwell in safety.

Lord, let the light of your face shine on me. Fill my heart with joy of your presence and grant me peaceful sleep.

Matthew 4:23-5:20
2. The source of God's favor and true happiness
The 8 Beatitudes (beautiful attitudes) Jesus highlights and receive God's favor and blessings:
 1) Be spiritually desperate for God
   - Blessed are the poor in spirit.
 2) Weep over your condition : God's comfort goes beyond any kind of ordinary comfort
   - Blessed are those who mourn.
 3) Be content with who you are
    - Blessed are the meek: show your kindness and love for others.
 4) Be hungry for God
    - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
 5) Receive forgiveness and be merciful
    - Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
    - 'To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.' by C.S Lewis
 6) Be completely sincere
    - Blessed are the pure in heart including integrity, openness, sincerity and authenticity
    - A pure heart starts with your thought because your thoughts become your words, your actions and your character.
 7) Strive to bring peace
    - Blessed are the peacemakers
  8) Expect nothing in return except persecution
    - Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness

Lord, help me this year to live by the values of the Sermon on the Mount and to be characterized by the Beatitudes, so I might be a light to the world around me.

Genesis 9:18-11:9
3. The source of love and unity
The Holy Spirit brings love and unity across churches, languages and nations.

Lord, may we never seek to make a name for ourselves or our own church, denomination or movement. Rather may we seek to glorify your name. Pour out your sprit, O Lord, on the church as on the day of Pentecost. May there be a reversal of Babel. May there be an end to disunity. May your Spirit and the values of the kingdom of God bring love, joy, peace, true happiness and unity.

                         
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restless
1. (지루하거나 따분해서) 가만히 못 있는, 들썩이는 He was strangely restless at that time
2. 제대로 쉬지/잠들지 못하는 a restless night

delusion: a false idea
1. [C] 망상 She is suffering from the delusion that he will love her.
2. [U] 착각, 오해 He was under a delusion about the test.

abound 아주 많다, 풍부하다
Stories about his travels abound.

self-seeking 이기적인, 사리사욕적인

for its own sake: because you're interested in it and not because you could gain an advantage from doing it.
love literature for its own sake. 문학 그자체를 위해 문학을 좋아하다.
Pursue knowledge for its own sake.

work up an appetite 일하여 배가 고파지다
All this talking has worked up an appetite. 떠들과 나니 배가 고프다
She went for a long walk to work up an appetite.

inexcusable 용서/용납할 수 없는
inexcusable rudeness 용납할 수 없는 무례

persecution (종교적) 박해, 학대
Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.

provoke (특정한 반응을) 유발하다
The announcement provoked a storm of protest. 거센 항의를 유발했다

insatiable 채울(만족시킬) 수 없는; 만족할 줄 모르는
an insatiable appetite/curiosity/thirst/desires

go hand in hand : be closely connected with something 관련되다; 함께가다
She goes hand in hand with that spy. 그녀는 스파이와 관련되어 있다

Pentecost: a Christian festival that takes place on the seventh Sunday after Easter and celebrates the sending of the Holy Sprit to the first followers of Christ 성령 강림절 (부활절 뒤 7번째 일요일)

reverse (정반대로) 뒤집다. 뒤바꾸다