Even though my wife and I are not US citizens, we took great interest in the presidential election some weeks ago. In fact, the whole world was watching, as the leader of this big nation affects the political, economic, and military geography of the whole globe. I never spoke about my thoughts in public about the election, but I was still interested in how things turned out. And I am curious to know what the world will look like in the next few years.
On Tuesday evening at 10:20 pm Korean time, the Korean president issued an emergency martial law. This took everyone by surprise, and the whole nation was shocked. No one saw this coming. There weren’t any international threats, and there was no civil issue that law enforcement couldn’t control. There was absolutely no reason for martial law, and yet it happened. Within 2 and a half hours, the Korean parliament unanimously voted to stop the martial law. And now the Korean citizens are coming out to the streets to protest and demanding to impeach the president. I can say that this is an international embarrassment as to why the president did this. This isn’t something you would expect in one of the most advanced nations in Asia. While living across the Pacific here in Wisconsin, my wife and I were upset about this, and we have been following the Korean news all week long because it was about my country.
What I gather from above is that how and what we decide affects our lives and the groups we belong to. Your voices and opinions matter. When they are expressed it helps us to find the right direction. Acts 15 talks about one of the first business meetings that took place in the early church, the Jerusalem council. The church at that time gathered to discuss the conflict over circumcision and sought the Holy Spirit to make decisions as “we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.” Acts 15:11. They gathered because it was their church and they all had the same goal of all being saved.
I invite my church family to our annual business meeting at 6 pm this evening. This is our church, and we all have a common goal, to make this church a community leading to salvation. With the leading of the Holy Spirit, your voice and vote will help guide the church in the direction that God planned for us.
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