바울의 마지막 문안 인사 (30) 바울 은 마지막 문안 인사에서 이렇게 말씀했습니다 : “아킵보에게 이르기를 주 안에서 받은 직분을 삼가 이루라고 하라” ( 골 4:17). 아킵보는 자신의 직분을 충분히 입증하라는 말씀 입니다 . 신약성경에 나타난 주요 직분으로는 목사 , 장로 , 집사 등이 있습니다 . 직분자들은 자신의 직분을 충분히 입증하기 위해선 (1) 그리스도 예수님께 감사해야 합니다 . 디모데전서 1 장 12 절입니다 : “나에게 힘을 주신 우리 주 그리스도 예수님께 내가 감사하는 것은 나를 충성스러운 사람으로 여겨 나에게 직분을 맡겨 주셨기 때문입니다 . ” 바울은 자신이 예수 그리스도를 믿지 않았을 때에 모르고 하나님을 모독하고 성도들을 핍박하던 난폭한 사람이었는데 하나님께서 자신을 불쌍히 여겨 주시사 회심케하셨을 뿐만 아니라 사명을 주시사 이방인의 사도로 세우셨기에 예수님께 감사했습니다 . (2) 은혜의식 속에서 더 많이 수고해야 합니다 . 고린도전서 15 장 8-10 절입니다 : “맨 나중에는 부족하기 짝이 없는 내게도 나타나셨습니다 . 나는 사도들 중에 가장 보잘것없는 사람이며 하나님의 교회를 박해했기 때문에 사도라고 불릴 자격마저 없습니다 . 그러나 오늘날 내가 이렇게 된 것은 하나님의 은혜로 된 것이며 내게 주신 그분의 은혜가 헛되지 않아 내가 다른 모든 사도들보다 더 많이 일했습니다 . 그렇지만 그것은 내가 한 것이 아니라 나와 함께 하신 하나님의 은혜였습니다 . ” 그래서 그는 은혜 의식 속에서 다른 모든 사도들보다 더 많이 일을 했습니다 . 우리도 그 리 해야 합니다 .
All God’s breakers
“For You had cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current engulfed me All Your breakers and billows passed over me” (Jonah 2:3).
There are too many people who break the family. Many husbands are breaking their families and many wives are breaking their families as well. Even their children are breaking their families. Many parents and parents-in-laws are breaking their families as well. It seems like everyone is breaking the family. Everyone is breaking the peace of the home. The spiritual family, the church is same. There are too many people who are breaking the church. Not only the pastors are breaking the church but also the elders are breaking the church as well. Now even the wives of the elders are starting to break the church from behind. Furthermore, now even the deacons are getting up and breaking the church. There are too many people who are breaking the peace of the church. It seems that there are so many people around us who are breaking the church unity. Obviously, the Lord wants Lord. We are disobeying the Lord's command. We are more and more destroying than building. We are destroying our families and even the Lord’s churches. Although we must become the peacemakers, we are becoming the peace-breakers. What would Jesus do to us, the breakers, who disobey the Lord's command? The Lord sends the waves of life to break our harden hearts of the disobedient.
In Jonah 2:3, Jonah prayed to God in the stomach of the great fish, saying that “You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.” Here, the “breakers” are the waves that break themselves (Park Yun-sun). The Creator God was breaking Jonah's harden heart by using his tools such as, the great wind, the great storm, the Gentile captain and the sailors. As a result, Jonah prayed in the stomach of the great fish while looking at God because of his broken heart due to the great wave of the Lord. Jonah, who had fallen asleep at the below deck of the ship and didn’t even pray to God when the ship was about to break up, was broken by the great wind that God had sent to him. As a result, he finally prayed to God in the stomach of the great fish. The Lord broke Jonah’s harden heart so that he could pray to God. In other words, only those whom the Lord breaks look to Him and pray humbly.
We are breaking the families and the churches. Although it is obvious that God wants to build His church and our families, we are disobeying God's command to build His church and our families. Thus, God is now breaking the heart of those who disobey, those who break the peace of the church and the family. He does so in order to build us up as peacemakers, not peace-breakers. God even use such disobedient servants like us to proclaim the Word of God to such sinners like Ninevites so that they can repent their sins and reconciled not only with God but also with each other. In order to faithfully bear this ministry of reconciliation and of making peace, we must become more and more broken. I hope and pray that our harden hearts will be broken so that we may humbly cry out to God and obey God’s command even through it will be painful when the great waves of the Lord will come into our lives.
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