South Korea, It is Time to Renew Your Covenant

Word for South Korea
December 2025

"O South Korea,
The time has come for a renewal of my covenant with you.

Your extended seasons of chasing after idols must come to an end.
For you have sought your elevation over salvation;
Your eminence above penitence.
You have traded honest and integrous pursuits for shortcuts and quick deals.

But where have your efforts led you?
And what is there to show, for all your chasing and striving?
Your fruit baskets are empty in a season of harvest.
There is no grain in your husks.
A nation and a people opulent in their exterior,
yet perishing in (spiritual) malnourishment within.

Your legacies are discontinued,
yet no new movements can be birthed.
You face the end of your spiritual heritage;
the death of a righteous lineage.
Do not count on the prayers of the faithful generations gone before you,
for they cannot uphold you further.
Do not think that the covenant I made with you
has no terms for termination.

Yet I will speak to those who are immature yet pure.
I will lend wisdom to the foolish who consider turning.

O Korea, it is time to renew your covenant.
It is time to assemble the young and old,
the faithful and the fallen,
the ardent and the apathetic,
the poor in spirit, and the rich that hunger.
It is time for you to come to ME, just as you are -
in sorrowful acknowledgement of
your many other loves and pursuits.

Decide,
Decide your future, O people.
Decide where you will go from here.
Decide whether you will shrink back and be lost,
as if none of my goodness has ever been spent on this land;
for I am not afraid to annul my plans for you, if I must.

Decide to forget the glories of your past,
Decide to forget what used to be,
for a chance at bringing forth a future;
a glorious path and destiny that still await.
Decide to wipe your slate clean
and start from ground zero once again.
Demolish what you have built with your hands in pride.
Forsake the monuments of yesterday,
that you may find places of encounters anew.

As you draw near to ME in hunger and repentance -
new encounters shall arise in the West and the Southeast.
From the hearts of pure and purified individuals
from surrendered communities
shall rise the mighty force of renewal.

The hand that signs and seals my new covenant with you
shall descend in your midst
as you cry out for a future you have not been able to see
or even dream of
thus far.

I shall renew my covenant with you o
not from the pulpits that speak to tens of thousands,
and not from sophisticated online platforms,
but in the small but sacred assemblies
of those who decide to set themselves apart
even when they do not fully know what it is
that they are differentiating themselves from."