“ True Believers Like Wheat ” and “ The Wicked Like Chaff ” “John answered them all, ‘I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’” (Luke 3:16–17). Let us meditate on this passage and receive its spiritual lessons: (1) When the people, who had long awaited the coming of the Messiah, began to wonder in their hearts whether John the Baptist might be the Messiah (Luke 3:15, Modern Translation ), John testified clearly that he was not the Messiah, but that the One coming after him was. (a) John 1:8 says: “He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light” ( Modern Translation : “He was not the light himself but came only to bear witness to the light”). (i) The purp...
덤불과 같은 마음 덤불과 같은 내 마음 ( 시 142:2 - " 내 원통함 "), 마치 많은 실들이 엉켜있듯 어디서부터 무엇을 어떻게 해야 할지 모를 뿐만 아니라 엄두도 생기지 않아 막막한 가운데 멍하니 있을 때에도 , 여러 어려운 문제들과 고통스러운 일들로 인해 덤불과 같은 내 마음을 하늘에 계신 우리 아버지께 소리 내어 (1 절 ) 토해내고 쏟아낼 때에 주님께서는 꽃 자수처럼 비록 내 눈으로 보는 내 삶의 엉켜있는 모든 실과 같은 문제들도 합력하여 선을 이루어 나아가시사 ( 롬 8:28) 마침내 내 인생의 걸작품을 만드시고 계시다는 믿음을 주시사 마음에 확신 속에서 인내하며 견디므로 하나님의 영광을 볼 것입니다 .