Our loving God

Father of celestial light, Happy God

God is known as "a happy god".
He is a happy being with no beginning and no end, and his attractive qualities will never deteriorate or get worse.

He always wishs for the happiness of his children and acts for the eternal welfare of them.
God, the source of all good things, does not have to be taken care of by someone.
Rather, he is willing to work for the happiness of his children.

Everything in heaven and on earth came to exist due to the loving intent and purpose of this happy God.

God is the guarantor of our happiness.



The human family born from Adam and Eve was supposed to spread the paradise throughout the earth.

All the things necessary for human beings to live happily were given.
God does not want people to be slaves to others.

Human family made a happy start.
Only good things from this good God were intended and in store for us.

However, the human family came to be dominated by a spirit son of God who became selfish and later known as Satan.

Satan caused Eve to focus on her own profit by deception.
It was the road where Satan himself went through who became selfish by self-centered reasoning.

Genesis 3: 1-6
1 Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that YHWH God had made. So it began to say to the woman: "Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?" 2 At this the woman said to the serpent: "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. 3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.'" 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: "YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad."

6 Consequently the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something to be longed for to the eyes, yes, the tree was desirable to look upon. So she began taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it.

Eve believed the words of Satan, which suited her, and belittled the words of her loving God. Thus Eve became selfish being like Satan.

Adam also prioritized his convenience and belittled the words of his loving God.
He became also selfish like Eve and Satan.

Adam and Eve who became selfish, began to be dominated by Satan who first became selfish.

Our loving God promptly gave us a promise to rescue us from selfishness and Satan's domination.
Adam's family was given the hope of salvation right after they fell into the pit of sin.

The human family who became subject to Satan's rule came to live in a world that is driven by selfishness.
The world of Satan became a world that can not live without money.
It is a world where selfish and greedy people succeed, it is a world indifferent to the needs of others.

Life in the highly organized selfish world

In the world where the money is everything, people need to work to live, even though it is not what they really want to do.
If you get unemployed in this world, you won't get real help, then will become depressed, would become cancer and other illnesses out of stress and would become homeless people in the end.

This is not a society intended by our loving God.
This is the world of Satan which is driven by a selfish spirit, which is insensitive to the pain of others.

The Christians living in Satan's world live by the spirit of compassionate God.

Think about our compassionate God from the following parable of Jesus.

Matthew 20: 1-16
1 "For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who went out early in the morning (at 7:00am) to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 When he had agreed with the workers for a de·nar′i·us a day, he sent them forth into his vineyard. 3 Going out also about the third hour (at 9:00am) , he saw others standing unemployed in the marketplace; 4 and to those he said, 'YOU also, go into the vineyard, and whatever is just I will give YOU.' 5 So off they went. Again he went out about the sixth (at 12:00pm) and the ninth hour (at 3:00pm) and did likewise. 6 Finally, about the eleventh hour (at 5:00pm) he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have YOU been standing here all day unemployed?' 7 They said to him, 'Because nobody has hired us.' He said to them, 'YOU too go into the vineyard.'
8 "When it became evening, the master of the vineyard said to his man in charge, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, proceeding from the last to the first.' 9 When the eleventh-hour men came, they each received a de·nar′i·us. 10 So, when the first came, they concluded they would receive more; but they also received pay at the rate of a de·nar′i·us. 11 On receiving it they began to murmur against the householder 12 and said, 'These last put in one hour's work; still you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!' 13 But in reply to one of them he said, 'Fellow, I do you no wrong. You agreed with me for a de·nar′i·us, did you not? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last one the same as to you. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own things? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?' 16 In this way the last ones will be first, and the first ones last."

A thoughtful and good-hearted master gave a work to unemployed people for their living expenses.
He hired people in Denali a day in early morning at around 7:00 am.

After that, he went to the street at 9:00am, at 12:00pm, at 3:00pm, and at 5:00pm, and hired again unemployed people and said to them "go to my vineyard."

So far, what do you think is the main concern of this master?
Is it a crop yield at his vineyard, or is it compassion for people's needs?

The master is asking the people who hired at 5:00pm just before the end of the day's work.
6 Finally, about the eleventh hour (at 5:00pm) he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have YOU been standing here all day unemployed?'

People respond like this.
7 They said to him, 'Because nobody has hired us.' He said to them, 'YOU too go into the vineyard.'

I have not experienced "standing" on the street all day long to get a job.
However, I can only imagine the uneasiness of those who are in such a situation.
If I can provide what people need, I would like to do so as much as possible.

I think that the master in the parable must have felt the same way.



At that time, the master pays the wages to the hired people, preceding from the last to the first

Those who got employed at 5:00pm received their denarius and left.
Those who got employed at 3:00pm, 12:00pm, 9:00am also received their denarius and left.

Finally, people who were hired from the first in the morning comes around.
They thought that they would receive more.

However, they also received one de·nar′i·us payment, like the workers employed later.
They said to the master, "These last men just worked for an hour. Yet you made them equal to us who endured the day's burden and burning heat! "

Why is it that only those workers employed from the beginning turned their mind to the benefits they receive in comparison with others and proceeded such a self-assertion in a calculating manner?

Why do you think others employed at 3:00pm, 12:00pm, 9:00am didn't make such reasoning?
Isn't that because these people know the uneasiness and pain of unemployment?
Isn't that because they are being delighted for others to receive compassion and profit in the same manner as they themselves received?

Finally, listen to the master's words.

13 But in reply to one of them he said, 'Fellow, I do you no wrong. You agreed with me for a de·nar′i·us, did you not? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last one the same as to you. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own things? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?'

If we are calculative just keeping an eye on own profit, we will not be looking at the needs of others as it should be.
If that happens, we may even be dissatisfied with the goodness of others.

note
This parable is not meant to teach the principle of everyday fairness that you can expect appropriate results for your own efforts.
Those who can only see the parable from that perspective will lose sight of the main point of the story.

We will also learn an important lesson that keeping an eye upon the needs of others should come ahead of asserting our own rights.

It will often be a challenge for us who are descendants of Adam and Eve, borne in sin with selfish tendencies that give priority to our own matters.

But for God and Jesus it was natural.

The Bible states the influence of the inherited sin as follows.

Ro 3:9-12
9. What then? Are we in a better position? Not at all! For above we have made the charge that Jews as well as Greeks are all under sin; 10 just as it is written: "There is not a righteous [man], not even one; 11 there is no one that has any insight, there is no one that seeks for God. 12 All [men] have deflected, all of them together have become worthless; there is no one that does kindness, there is not so much as one."

Imperfect sinners cannot earn God's grace and salvation by their own efforts and works. The mercy of the loving God offers the same forgiveness of sins and blessings of life to all people. It has nothing to do with the believer's years or efforts.

A robber who was executed beside Jesus who demonstrated faith at the final moment got a promise of life on the spot.

Mt 20:16
16 In this way, the last will be the first, the first will be the last. "

Think about the goodness of God

Even though we are imperfect, life is still blessing.
The Satan's world is selfish, even merciless and dangerous, but the future judgment and hope of life are also blessing

For everyone, the life that the good God has promised us is no different in its blessings.

Under the Christ's 1000 years reign that is soon to begin, the distortion of the body and mind due to sin and imperfections will be cured, and everyone will regain an attractive perfect human body and clear mind and complete heart.

God's promise to all is as follows,

Ro 8: 21
21 that the creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

People who have job guaranteed in the present Satan's world and abundant money and substances will not look at the evilness and the sinisterness of the selfish Satan's world. Such people think that they can create a better world through their own efforts, and are content with a world that suits them, drawn by illusions that will never be realized.

Christ returns to end the selfish Satan's world.
Under the Christ's rule, people will not become a slave to others due to the cost of living.

The pyramid class system of Satan's world will be removed.

Lu 6: 24-25
24 "But woe to YOU rich persons, because YOU are having YOUR consolation in full.
25 "Woe to YOU who are filled up now, because YOU will go hungry.
"Woe, YOU who are laughing now, because YOU will mourn and weep.