The Year of Jubliee

It is in the 50th year since Church of God established by Christ Ahnsanghong .
Heavenly mother proclaimed this 2014 was the Year of Jubliee ,the Year of Freedom ,saying there 'd be overflowing blessings from God for us.
That really makes my heart fluttered
Back from in the history of Israel , there was The Year of Jubliee
Lev25:8~13 "count off seven sabbaths of years -seven times seven years -so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty -nine years........consecrate the fifieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.It shall be a jubilee for you;each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan..."

Seventh day is the Sabbath day
Seventh year is the Sabbath year
Then,what about the fifth year after 49years?
It is just the Year of Jubliee ,the Year of Freedom.
As the name implies,those who lived as a slavery were longing for the Year of Freedom since it was the only chance for them to be free without conditions. It was once -in -a life time -luck
Back from 2014 ,it is the Year of Jubliee, the Year of Freedom ,the Year of Blessing . According to the prophecy of the year of Jubliee, we ,our souls may be freed ,blessed wt overflowing God's gace .I cant wait for it

Mother's Heart [Christ Ahnshanghong and God the Mother]

When I arrived home, I noticed a scar on my second child’s face.
I got really upset seeing that scar, on no other place but on his face.
Though I asked him where he got that scar, he said it was just a scratch he got from a bookshelf.

Of course, I couldn't believe what he was saying, because it didn't look like a scratch at all.

My child couldn't lie in front of me, since I raised him strictly.
When he happens to lie, he surely gets caught.
He couldn't seem to look into my eyes, which made me doubt that he was telling the truth.

Later, I could hear the whole story.
He got into a fight with his elder brother, and eventually got a scar.
Though at times they had arguments, what made me furious was because it was the first time to see an actual scar.

I couldn't stand what they have committed, so I grounded them.
Though they cried, that they didn't mean to actually hurt each other, I couldn't possibly just get over with what they have committed.

I was just angry that they have actually hurt each other, when there were no other siblings than themselves.

Though many days passed, I was still upset seeing the scar on my second child's face.
But seeing my second child carefully putting medicine on my first child's face, it really made me laugh.

Through this, I could realize how hurt our Heavenly Mother must be when She sees Her children not being able to get along with each other, and being all sulky without knowing how to consider or to understand.

How painful would our Heavenly Father Christ Ahnshanghong  and Heavenly Mother's hearts must be?

"How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!"

Seeing my children, I could engrave God's words in my heart, of how God bestows life forevermore when brothers and sisters live together in unity.

It is truly a difficult task for the people with different personalities and understandings to unite.

That is why it must be a great blessing when that is accomplished.

I earnestly long to meet Heavenly Father,Christ Ahnshanghong when all of our brothers and sisters are covering each others' scars, and are united with continuous smiles and laughter.

I give all thanks to our Heavenly Father, Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother for allowing me this realization through my children.

With this realization, I want to become Their child who follows Them, by serving and considering all brothers and sisters in Zion.

A little assistant given by God the Mother and Christ Ahnsahnghong

Mother

Why did You wear the clothes of a sinner

and come to this earth

for this sinful child full of faults?

Mother

For what are these sinners to You

that You give us love that is deep and broad like the sea,

and give us the courage

becoming the resting place for our souls?

Oh, Mother

I earnestly shout to You

I love You

I thank You

I love You eternally


This is a poem written by my eldest daughter who is in the 5th grade, after the recent third day worship.


The sermon of that day was about ‘Mother’s love.’ I guess with a child’s mind she was touched, and when we got home, she wrote this poem with colorful pencils.


Reading this poem, I felt that a child’s love towards Mother is as deep as the grownups’.

My eldest child is my little gospel assistant.


She usually practices the teachings of Mother and greets people in a loud voice with a smile.

When the elders praise her, she smiles and says to me that God will also be happy about it.


She cannot work for the gospel since she is still young, but it was lovely seeing her efforts practicing the smallest things that she can afford.


She quickly wants to become a part of the student members so that she can bring friends to Zion, and tell them about God the Mother.


When I couldn't possibly stop home once in a while, she feeds her eight year old sister and takes her to the institute.


When I am exhausted with the hot weather, she plays the piano; the new song, for me.


I didn't do anything for my child.


I am just thankful to God the Father, Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother, making my child to realize and practice the teachings of Mother by herself.


I also thank God for filling up my lacking areas through my child, and for giving our family such a great blessing.


I will repay for God the Father, Christ Ahnshanghong and God the Mother’s grace by practicing the teachings of Mother with a thankful mind.


Mother thank You. I truly love You.

Father’s love that I later realized

Father’s love that I later realized

My father raised us; three children, all alone.

And among those children, he loved me most, who resembled him.

During childhood, he used to take me on his motorcycle when he went hunting or fishing.

I also loved to follow him wherever he went.

As I became a junior high, I liked hanging around with my friends instead of spending time with my father.

“Your dad’s here.”

It was when we were having P.E.

I quickly said it wasn’t my father and ran away.

Noticing that I was embarrassed of him, he silently left without calling my name.

From that day, he didn’t visit my school.

As I became a grownup, I started to come home really late.

My father used to save meat dishes that he made for dinner. Then, he would call me to his room and fed me.

With annoyed look and voice, I would go to my room, saying that I was exhausted and sleepy.

In those years, I couldn’t realize.

The love of my father who waited for me spending all night without sleep, making sure the room was warm enough.

There was a time when I received a gallstone operation.

Since I had no mother, it was my father’s duty to look after me.

My gallstone got infected after the operation and had to be hospitalized for a month.

My father would come to the hospital 7 in the morning and went home 11 in the evening.

Though he spent his whole month for me, this immature daughter was annoyed of him being closed to me and thinking that my friends were uncomfortable with him, I would go to places where he was not present.

I would fume and fret to my father who looked after me every day.

I even starved myself saying that I’ve lost my appetite.

My father would then pack some food at home and come to the hospital which took 3 hours by bus.

Worrying that I needed to eat well in order to take strong medicine, he would always prepare the food nice and warm.

Early morning till late night he would only consider me, but I fumed and fretted and was annoyed with him.

When I finally realized my father’s silent love, he was no longer with me.

That regret still remains in my heart thinking that I should have realized sooner.

As time passes by, I realize how deep and wide my father’s love was.

And then I started to think about Heavenly Father.

I see myself how carelessly I considered Heavenly Father’s untiring love, coming to this earth to give us life.

How painful his heart must have been whenever I neglected Father’s love.

I promised myself not to leave regret in my heart again.

As a child who has received Heavenly Father’s great love, I now want to get on his side and become a child who can give him joy.

 

The power of laughter (God the Mother, Christ Ahnshanghong)

I work as a computer-related consultant for staffs in the company.
When their computers are broken or get infected by the virus, we do some consultation or control and repair them remotely.

We sometimes guided them to the wrong way though, since there are phone calls coming in dozens of times a day and their problems vary.

The manager whom I work with raises point about something he could have just let it go,
which offends me from time to time.  Moreover, while others compliment me about something, he rather keeps rebuking me.

 Ever since I realized he does not change at all, I have been having a bad feeling about him.

 Even though we were working in the same place,I always thought to myself, “I’m going to work like I’m here alone.”  

Every word he was saying went in one ear and out the other and my feeling of hatred toward him got bigger and worse.

One day, when I was walking through the corridor by accident, he was walking toward me from the opposite side.

Think myself that “Here comes the target of training for me” and I hope he passes by me quickly.

At that time, he suddenly nodded with smiling face and passed by me.

Looking at him cracking a smile, all the bad feeling and hatred toward him just disappeared atone time.

I was so much surprised that the bad feeling I have been having for a long time could be changed and even disappeared in a second just by his bright smile.

Then I even thought, ‘why did I have a bad feeling toward him?  Did I really hate him?’
Feeling this amazing emotional change, I thought,‘This surely must be the power of laughter Heavenly Mother told us!’

I truly experienced how powerful the bright smile toward someone is.
The laughter has amazing power that could get rid of all hatred toward someone at one time.

Looking back into the past, I have been having a hard-set smile these days.  When I say hi, the risorious muscle gets still hardened and bluntly greet with an awkward smile.

Through this, I could have a chance to repent that I am such a sinner who does not obey God’s words at all.

From now on, I would like to try hard to practice the everyday laughter given from Heavenly Mother when I’m in and outside Zion.

Believing firmly that the bright smile could be the great power to our brothers and sisters in Zion, I  would like to become a child of light and salt in this earth.

I sincerely give thanks and praise to Elohim God for giving me this beautiful enlightenment.

Church of God (Witness of Ahnsahnghong) believes Ahnsahnghong as our Savior in the age of the Holy Spirit with the belief in Heavenly Mother.  According to the Bible, God the Father and God the Mother who are the Spirit and the bride are to give us the water of life in this last age of the Holy Spirit.  In order to receive the water of life in this age, we should come toward God the Father and God the Mother. 

A toenail

A toenail

It was on one sizzling hot summer day, as if the heat would melt down the road.
My seven-year-old son kept on pestering me to go to the cool fountains in the park.
Thinking that I had to wait in the heat with a towel, for him to have fun in the water, I couldn’t even consider about going.

But of course, my child would never give up.

“Okay… okay… Fine. Let’s go.”

Having a smile ear to ear, my son was full of joy and kept on humming.

When we arrived at the park, seeing him enjoying the cool water, I also felt refreshed and I thought I made the right choice.

“Ouch!”

Checking one of my text messages, I heard a shrieking sound. My son was sitting on the bare ground and crying. When I went close to him, I noticed his toe was bleeding. While I was looking away from him, playing with his shoes off, his toe got stuck in one of the fountains. And trying to get his toe out, his toenail fell off.

I carried him on my back and ran to the ER.
For that small moment, my toes felt so painful as if my own toes were cut off. I was also so anxious. He took an X-ray examination on his toe to make sure he didn’t break any bones.

Fortunately, there weren’t any bones broken. The doctor took off the piece of flesh narrowly hanging on to his toe, and put on some ointment after disinfecting the wound. Though it hurt, my son couldn’t possible cry because he was nervously glancing on me, because he knew he refused to listen to his mother who told him not to take his shoes off.

‘That little toe dressed in a bandage…

How painful would it be?

Oh, I told him to listen to his mother.

No, I had to watch him every single moment….’

I regretted and felt guilty at the same time.

‘This is mother’s heart. Even if there’s a small scar on her child’s body, it is heart-rending.

Seeing just a little toe falling off from his feet really hurts me. I realized how anxious Heavenly Mother must have been seeing her loving children waiting to be sent to this land of death.

It was a natural thing for us to go through for our sins, but our Heavenly Mother sheds tears even today, considering Herself as a sinner.’

Coming back to our house, seeing my child sleeping on my back after being all exhausted from being frightened, I shed tears thinking about our Heavenly Mother.

Though I let Her worry even in Heaven, I still don’t seem to fully repent and always leave a scar on Her heart.

Seeing my foolish self, I couldn’t possibly forget how sorry I was.

I promised myself to change.

Without forgetting Her words that “We must be born again with a flawless faith,” I want to obey all Her words, to become a daughter who can give smiles to Her instead of scars.

Many Christians often say they preach the gospel.  However, the core of the heavenly gospel that Jesus came to this earth and sent Himself is very the Passover.  Church of God delivers the same teachings as the early church.  Please come to Church of God and keep the Passover. (Matt.26:17)

The Happy Moments for Families to Share Love Together(Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother)

The Happy Moments for Families to Share Love Together

In May, called the “month of family” in Korea, when summer was just around the corner, a meaningful event was held at the Okcheon Go&Come Training Institute.

On May 10, the “2nd New Jerusalem Festival for Families” was successfully held; over 12,000 people including the members and their families from the northern areas of Gyeonggi Province were invited to the event.

Under the clear blue sky spread out like a picture, each family gathered together to share food they’d prepared. After lunch, they spent quality time with their family, taking a look around the Institute and posing for pictures in front of the man-made waterfall pouring down cool refreshing water.

They also took a look at the photos exhibited in the main building and the education hall, through which they found out the present status of the domestic and overseas missions. In addition, they watched a Church video containing an overview of volunteer activities on the big projector screen installed in front of the Theological Seminary.

Around 1 p.m., the welcoming ceremony began. Mother expressed Her warm welcome and gratitude to the members and their families who participated in the Festival and made the event more meaningful and successful. 

She told them about the blessings of the kingdom of heaven, their spiritual home, and expressed Her wish for them to live joyful and happy lives by sharing the blessings of heaven with their loving family members.

General Pastor Joo-Cheol Kim prayed for all the members of each family to be bound together in love and live in peace and harmony. Then he briefly introduced the history of the Church of God, saying that the Church of God believes in God the Mother, following the truth of the Bible.

In addition, he expressed his hope that they would have a great time with their family members sharing love together and enjoying the beautiful weather and that they would also become bonded together in the heavenly family.

The event started with a magnificent and powerful performance by the Brass Band. It was accompanied by a medley of children’s songs, a fan dance and floral coronet dance by the cute little angels.

Their performances livened up the atmosphere of the event. Then there were performances by the Messiah Orchestra, the 38th Overseas Visiting Group and the United Choir and the Men’s Choir, and it made the event much more enjoyable.

After the performance event, traditional Korea folk games were played in the outdoor soccer field: neolttwigi (seesaw jumping), gulungsoi (trundling a hoop), tuho (arrow throwing game), jegichagi (shuttlecock kicking), ttakjichigi (slap-match game), etc.

All the members of each family, from grandparents to grandchildren, had fun playing the games in spite of the hot sun in early summer.

This day, love was in full bloom among the members of each family. All the participants returned with joy and satisfaction, saying, “We don’t get together often because each of us is so busy.

Today, all of our family members have gathered together after a long time. We had a really good time.” The New Jerusalem Festival for Families will be continuously held for each Union of the local Churches.

Church of God (Witness of Ahnsahnghong) believes Ahnsahnghong as our Savior in the age of the Holy Spirit with the belief in Heavenly Mother.  According to the Bible, God the Father and God the Mother who are the Spirit and the bride are to give us the water of life in this last age of the Holy Spirit.  In order to receive the water of life in this age, we should come toward God the Father and God the Mother. 

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