“ 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...
사랑하는 사람의 사정을 알아가기 위해선 ... 사랑하는 사람의 사정을 알아가기 위해선 먼저 내 마음의 그 사람을 향하여 쌓아놓은 " 벽들 " 을 예수 그리스도의 복음과 십자가의 사랑으로 부서트리고 녹여 없애야 한다 . 그래야 나는 그 사람의 말을 선입관 없이 마음 문을 열고 귀담아 들을 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 그 사람의 심정을 조금씩이나마 이해하게 될 것이다 .