Peter
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Now I am travelling in Hokkaido, and writing this in the train on the way to Otaru. It is
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snowing outside. Whenever I see snow, I am happy and peaceful.
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Yesterday we had a assembled Sunday service of Hokkaido Kohitsuji no Mure at Christian
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Center in Sapporo. I was planning to talk about "Look at a wild flower," but instead, I talked about the story of snow. It might be just because the place of assembly service was near the Hokkaido University, where Dr. Ukichiro Nakatani created artificial crystals of snow for the first time in the world.
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The number of snow flakes on the roof of a house would be more than hundreds millions,
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but I have heard that each of the snow crystals have a different and unique shape. Imagine that some snow flakes cover the ground and others melt in a few minutes after falling down from heaven, and that millions or billions of every snow flake has its own unique shape. What a splendid art God created for them! If that is how God created with love every snow flake, which is here now and in a few minutes disappears, then imagine how much more God created man and loves every one of us as an unique being. What a close love God is! What God does is beyond our limited comprehension and imagination. Nothing is more mysterious and wonderful than the love of God.
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"Renewal in Christ" for me is that my eyes are opened to the unfolding mysteries of the
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Sovereign God. Renewal is a synonym "for being moved." I believe simply like a child that every single day is a new discovery and an opportunity to touch the mysteries of God. I am convinced that God who loves every single flake of snow loves all His creatures, and it renews the eyes of my soul to discover one by one.
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This is totally a different aspect from making efforts to view things positively, or to view
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things differently. The different point of view can be adjusted by the efforts up to a certain level, i.e. the one who always looks at his life negatively learns the positive thinking methods and becomes successful in business or at school as a positive person. However, the different way of thinking is a tincture of knowledge after all. Pretty soon he gets weary and tired of everything.
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However, the one who sees the mysteries of God will assimilate with His mysteries, and the
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same life begins to exchange between the One who sees and the one who is seen. By meeting God, we will be transformed. We will never get weary. We will be more refreshed as we meet God.
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I wrote the first part and took a rest for a few days. Now I came back here today. It is still
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very early 2:00 a.m., but I woke up and could not get back to sleep even though I tried. Yes! Today is December 3, the twelfth anniversary of "White Dove." To tell the truth, while I was half awake, I heard the voice in English, "Behold, I make all things new." I thought it had to be from the Revelation, and looked into the Scripture. It was Revelation 21:5.
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He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!"
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White Dove was the great event that threw my life upside down. The more time went by,
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the bigger the impact it had, which amazed me. Of course, I could never imagined that a tiny ripple which took place in a corner of New Jersey twelve years ago became the swell of the ocean. During these twelve years, so many various things happened and the life of holy God poured into the countless and numerous number of people. In the Revelation, the phrase describing the praise in the heavens, "thousands upon thousands, ten thousand times ten thousand," is not exaggerated. White Dove already prevailed the love of Christ among the people of thousands upon thousands. A few months ago, the Lord told us, "Do you say that you already saw enough? You, fool, are just standing at the entrance c" It seems like cosmic progression.
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The scientists says that the universe where we live now has begun billions years ago by a Big
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Bang (great explosion), and still now this cosmos is expanding at a enormous speed. Watching over the explosion of the life after White Dove, I think it is quite similar to the big bang of the cosmic generation. According to the theory of Big Bang, tiny, tiny thing which is much tinier than a muster seed exploded loudly. In addition, the cosmos is still now generating, expanding and progressing by every second. Thus, we do not know even a part of the galaxy that is only a part of the cosmos, much more about our solar system that is only a part of the galaxy.
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Therefore, as well as everything is included in a tiny seed which was at the big bang, the
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essence of all the miracles and miraculous healing which are taking place everyday is in a tiny seed of White Dove. It is my conviction that everything and all was already in the White Dove. Every phenomenon in later days was derived from the big bang of White Dove.
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I am amazed the mysteries of God. "Unfolding mysteries of God" is my favorite phrase, and
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the renewal for me is to see the unfolding mysteries of God everyday.
December 3, 1999 in the new morning of the twelfth anniversary of White Dove.
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