Today we Koreans are in the valley of skeletons. We must pour the oil and water of life on this valley. We must make the valley revive. Do you feel this? Why is Korea facing this terrible whirlpool? Why is Korea so miserable? It is not until the Koreans take off their old clothes that they can wear the new clothes. They cannot take off their old clothes in the heavenly world. After they take off their old clothes in the evil world, because those clothes are the ones of the evil world, they must go forward to the new world. If they create a path for the people to go on, that people will bring brightness to the world. We are a people who are silently fighting a war. We are silently pioneering the castle of the future. If we avoid this position, our ancestors will sigh and the thirty million Koreans and their descendants will suffer tens or hundreds of times more greatly. So we must take this responsibility. DonOt cry for yourself even if you cry. Jesus shed many tears. He cried longing for his family, his people and the world. OThe foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." (Matt. 8:20) When we think about these words of Jesus, we can understand He was so miserable. Why did the Messiah endure such miserable circumstances? What ought Jesus to have taken on the basis of God's suffering of four thousand years? If a person experiences JesusO heart, appeals for the restoration of the lost heaven and is devoted to God's will, we must attend that person as Abel. God cannot leave the chosen people because God always stays with the chosen ones who must pioneer the road of cross. We must follow this way because God chose us. We cannot return to our hometown because we have to go this way. After we complete this way, what shall we do? We must chase out these miserable circumstances and banish the bitter way of the cross forever from this people. We must do our utmost to usher in the day of accomplishment of God's will. (13-270)
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