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We don’t focus on our love.

Hosea 6:4 (Modern Korean Bible) says,

‘…Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.’

Our love is like the morning mist that appears briefly and then quickly vanishes.

Our love is by no means eternal.

Therefore, if we live our lives focusing on such fleeting love,

whether in marriage or in human relationships, we are bound to be disappointed.

If we are loving our family and neighbors with temporary,

false love rather than God’s eternal, authentic love,

that love will not remain in our hearts for long.

It will disappear quickly, just like the early dew.

This is why we do not focus on this kind of love.

James 4:14 (Modern Korean Bible) says,

'You do not know what will happen tomorrow.

What is your life?

You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.'

Since we are like a mist that appears briefly and then disappears,

we do not worry about what we will eat, what we will drink,

or what we will wear for our bodies

(Matthew 6:25, 31).

The reason is that we believe our Heavenly Father knows

that we need all these things (v. 32).

Also, we believe in Jesus' words:

'Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses

their life for my sake will find it'

(Matthew 10:39; Ref.: 16:25).

Therefore, we do not focus on our own lives.

We are those who lose our lives for the sake of Jesus and the gospel

(Mark 8:35).

We do not consider our lives worth anything to ourselves,

if only we may finish the race

and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given us

—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace

(Acts 20:24).