[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong Seok
[Scripture] Job 8:7
7) Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
1 Peter 5:7
7) Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Hebrews 11:1-2
1) Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
2) This is what the ancients were commended for.
Romans 15:13
13) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I bless that the love of the eternal Holy Father God and the peace of the Holy Son will fill you abundantly.
After planting a fruit tree, if you look only at the <present>, you will have to give it fertilizer, pull the weeds, and tend to it with sweat and [hard work] for a few years. For the first few years, it will not bear fruit even when autumn comes. Therefore, you will be disappointed and discouraged if you look only at the <things of the present>.
On the other hand, if you look at the <future>, hope springs up. After a few years pass by, every fruit tree will bear clusters of fruits and you will obtain ten or twenty boxes of fruit from each tree. It becomes like clusters of money hanging from the fruit trees.
In this way, do not look only at the <things of the present> and get discouraged, but look at the <things of the future> and work diligently with hope.
if you live your life loving God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son, then the ‘hope’ will absolutely rise in all of your futures and you will fulfill your hopes in your individual ways. Every day, as the days pass, your hopes will be fulfilled according to what you have done in the past.
You must not give up in the middle but do it ‘to the end.’
It is at the end that the fruits are produced, ripened, and picked for fruit trees.A life in a womb also grows in the womb and then comes out at the end.
Likewise, if you work hard in the <present>, at the end, the door will open and the problem will be solved.
You must do it completely till the end. This is the ‘way of succeeding in life.’
You will also surely do better in the <future>than in the <present>. There is great hope [for you]. Therefore, I bless you to take action vigorously, diligently, and boldly!
