Your grief will turn to joy

I tell you the truth,

you will weep and mourn

while the world rejoices.

You will grieve, but

your grief will turn to joy.

John 16:20 

The disciples' sorrow

can not be describable if they

hear their teacher wonder himself

Jesus will be executed the greatest

penalty of crime the crucifixion.

But their grief turns to undescribable

joy as his resurrection follows

Jesus tries hard to help his disciples

at the last night.

22 years ago we hoped to have

an educational center built on

Jesus Garden.

The construction man poorly

made the cross figure foundation

and received $ 40,000 and

disappeared.

Then the best rice paddy costed

$10 per 1m³ in our village.

It was a fortune of village middle

class house.

Still young church members in

our new village church and I

were collapsed before the Lord.

The willingly given loan

$ 20,000 from the church where

my late father served without

interest had to be paid in 2 months.

The 10 elderly members were

hesitating leaving the church

after dawn prayer service, and

I set down on the floor and

reading the Bible because I had

to hear God's word.

This verse, John 16:20,

the NASB verson

“You will be sorrowful, but

your sorrow will be turned to joy.”

Yaah . . , this turns to joy?

God sees this in me sorrow!

At the very moment my sorrow

and heavy burden were flied

away and my old Sunday School

song seemed replacing,

" . . there is no sorrow and

worries in my heart like the sky

without cloud."

In fact the educational center

construction was confirmed to

be left in vain, I came down

from the hillside on which the

building supposed to be finished

to the Love House I asked myself

"Why have I come here?

Not to have a building built."

"Why did I come?"

I wrote down what I have been

telling for the last 10 years

in the village after village.

It took no time.

That is the Love Story, lj

which we want to deliver

every house in the world.

And the loan $ 20,000 was payed

off in time by the deacon

Kim Sun Doo visiting from

Canada we did not know each

other and immediately returned

Canada.

One day 20 years after this he

called me, and last year he

returned home, the eternal home.

Now of course the Father God has

welcomed him in his glory; and I

do believe the Father pays off

him the $ 20,000 in heavenly

calculation.

Glory to Jesus who foretold this!

Thanks to deacon Kim Sun doo!

Praise God who will accomplish

ljtcm!

    


* ljtcm is a ministry to help 

the contents of the Love story and

Joyful Growth be a common knowledge

of all people in the world and

Today's Christmas, tc spiritual

nurturing meni text booklet

be a song of all christians.

Today’s Christmas booklet page 41

is continued, the Bible chapter to

memorize each month.

These chapters are the core

Christianity, only in Christian faith.

Now it is the chapter, John 14.

John 14-16 are the most heartfelt

Jesus’ promises and request for

his beloved 11 disciples: It was his

last night on earth after last passover

supper before his crucifixion about

12 hours.

“Let my love and my life and my

inheritance be made known to all ”

For this he promised everything:

He promised sending his Spirit,

the Holy Spirit.

His beloved 11 disciples received

Jesus promises of all privileges

as his children and workers.

Now this is the same to all

his children.