“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
바로 그 때가 "주의 인자한 말씀을 듣"는 좋은 기회요, 주님의 가르침으로 주님의 뜻을 행할 수 있는 귀한 기회입니다. " 희망을 잃고 깊은 절망 가운데 빠져 있 " 을 때 과거에 주님께서 우리에게 행하신 일을 묵상하면서 주님을 간절히 찾을 때에 , 바로 그 때가 " 주의 인자한 말씀을 듣 " 는 좋은 기회요 , 주님의 가르침으로 주님의 뜻을 행할 수 있는 귀한 기회입니다 . 그러므로 결국에 가서는 주님은 우리를 그 절망적인 상황에서 건져주시므로 우리를 향하신 주님의 한결같은 사랑을 경험하게 될 것입니다 ( 시편 143:4-6, 8, 10-12, 현대인의 성경 ).