Understanding

Judges 13:15-25

2 “We are doomed to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen God!”

23 But his wife answered, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”

God is beyond understanding, so people tend to misunderstand Him like Manoah, the father of Samson. I heard in a cafeteria last weekend that some family members were talking about churches and cathedral, "which are better places to gather for pleasure or fun, where they could enjoy spending time while getting old?" Luckily, they are not opposing against them, but they have totally wrong information or knowledge about churches.

Churches are praying houses and the most precious and the holiest places that Jesus, the son of God, himself became ransom for. I've met an American professor at my graduate school whose mother was a missionary, but he introduced himself as an atheist. He asked me if God or gods were necessary to humans as he thought that they had played a wrong or harmful work for the mankind in history. I understand what he was talking about, but he made a big misunderstanding about God. God is generous enough to give His own son as a ransom for wicked and foolish humans and enduring until all of them could be saved from listening to the good news of His salvation.

I hoped and prayed that he could have a good understanding about God's identity well and dwell in Father in peace and joy, realizing His love to him because he didn't look happy like an orphan boy.

Joshua 1: 8

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written on it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.