๐ ๊ฐ์๋ํ #26 '๋ง์น์ ๋ชป'
์ค๋ ์์นจ ๋์ ๋จ์๋ง์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ์์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์์นจ ๋๋จ์๋ง์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ '๋ง์น์ ๋ชป'์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ์ฃผ ์ฝ๋๋ฐ์ค ๋ฐ์์ ๋๋ ์ค์ ๋์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ผ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ผ์์์ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์๋ ์์ ์ธ ์๋ชฉ๊ณผ ํต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ์ค์ ์๋ง 1๋ถ๋ ์ฑ ๋์ง ์๊ฒ ์ ๊น ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ์ง๋ง ์ค๋ ์์นจ์ ๋์ ๋จ์๋ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค๋ ๋ฏ์ด ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ฌํธ์์ฌ, ์ด์ ์ฃผ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์๋ฒ์ง์๋์ด๋ค ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์งํ์ด์ ์ฃผ๋ ํ ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ด์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ค ์ฃผ์ ์์ผ๋ก ์ง์ผ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋์ด๋ค (์ด์ฌ์ผ 64:8)
์ด์ฌ์ผ 64์ฅ 8์ ๋ง์์ ๋ํ๋๋ ํ๋๋๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ 'ํ ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ด์ ์งํ'์ ๋น์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, '๋ง์น์ ๋ชป'์ ํ๋๋๊ป์ ์ฑ๋ น์ '๋ง์น'๋ก '๋ชป' ๊ฐ์ ๋์ ์ธ์์ ๋๋ ค ์ด๋๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ผ์๊ณ ๊ณ์๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ ๋ฒ 'ํ'ํ๊ณ ๋๋ ค์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ฒ ํ์ ์ฃผ์ด ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ณ ์ง์ด ์ผ๊ฑด์ง ์ข ๋ ๋ง์์ผ(?) ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณ ์งํผ์ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๊บฝ์ด์ง๋ฉด ์๋ ํ ๋ฐ...๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ค์ ์์ํด์ผ ํ ํ ๋ฐ...๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ ๋ง์์ผ ํ๊ณ ...๋ฑ๋ฑ ๋ง์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ง๋๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋จ์ด์ ธ์ ์ด๋์ ๋ฐํ์ผ ํ๋์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ์ฑ ์์ง ์์ ๋คํ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
์ฃผ๊ป์ ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋ํ์๋ ์๋ฅผ ์ง๊ณํ์๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด์๋ ์๋ค๋ง๋ค ์ฑ์ฐ์งํ์ฌ์ด๋ผ ํ์์ผ๋ ๋ํฌ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์์ ์ง๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํจ์ด๋ผ ํ๋๋์ด ์๋ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ฐํ์๋๋ ์ด์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ์ง๊ณํ์ง ์๋ ์๋ค์ด ์์ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง๊ณ๋ ๋ค ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ํฌ์๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ฌ์์์ ์น์๋ค์ด ์๋๋๋ผ (ํ๋ธ๋ฆฌ์ 12:6-8)
๋ค๋ง ์ด๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ ์ค์๋ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ํ๋๋ ์ด๋ ํ๋์ ์ธ๋ด๋ฅผ, ์ธ๋ด๋ ์ฐ๋จ์, ์ฐ๋จ์ ์๋ง์ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ์ค ์์ด๋ก๋ค (๋ก๋ง์ 5:3-4)
๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค๋ 'ํ ๊ธฐ์ฅ์ด์ ์งํ' ํน์ '๋ง์น์ ๋ชป'์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋๋๊ณผ ์์ ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋น์ ํ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ์ฐพ์๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค์ผ ๋งค์ผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค ์ค์ ํ๋๋๊ณผ ๋์์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํํํด๋ณธ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์(ํ๋๋๊ณผ์ ๊ด๊ณ)์ ์๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ , ์ข ๋ ๊น๊ณ ์ธ๋ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ํ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ ์์ ์ธ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ ์๊ฒ ์นดํก์ฃผ์ธ์~ ใ ใ ใ
์ฃผ์ ๋ง์์ ๋ด ๋ฐ์ ๋ฑ์ด์ ๋ด ๊ธธ์ ๋น์ด๋์ด๋ค (์ํธ 119:105)
์ค๋ ์๋กญ๊ฒ ์์๋๋ ํ ์ฃผ๋ '๋ง์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป' ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ํ์ด ๋์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค~
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๐ Autumn Journey #26 โThe Hammer and the Nailโ
This morning, the very moment I opened my eyes, a simple image entered my mind: a hammer and a nail. It probably came from our Coram Deo sharing last week. We talked brieflyโless than a minuteโabout spiritual insight in everyday life. Yet the moment I woke up today, that small idea was waiting for me, as if it had been standing by all night.
Just as Scripture describes God and us as the potter and the clay, this image came to my heart:
โYet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.โ โ Isaiah 64:8
In my imagination, the Holy Spirit was holding a hammer and driving my lifeโlike a nailโinto the place He desires. It would be nice if one clean strike drove the nail straight in, but my heart is stubborn. So He strikes again, and again, shaping, correcting, aligning me.
My worry is not the pain of being struck. My worry is bending in the processโbreaking, resisting, or refusing His hand. If a nail bends, the carpenter has to start over. That means more hammering. More shaping. More waiting.
But then I realized something encouraging: At least I am not lying forgotten on the ground, not knowing where I belong. If God is still hammering, it means He is still working, still placing, still using.
Scripture reminds us:
โThe Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone He accepts as His son.โ โโฆIf you are not disciplinedโฆ then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.โ โ Hebrews 12:6โ8
โโฆWe rejoice in our sufferings, because suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope.โ โ Romans 5:3โ4
So I want to invite you to try something this week:
Just as we see ourselves as clay in the Potterโs hands, what if we discovered other images in everyday life that reveal our relationship with God?
You see these things every dayโin your room, your kitchen, your workplace, your car. When the Holy Spirit opens our eyes, even ordinary objects become parables. If something comes to your heart this week, send me a message. I would love to hear the spiritual insight God shows you.
And as we begin a new week, may the Word guide each step:
โYour word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.โ โ Psalm 119:105
Praying that these autumn days will be filled with warm companionshipโ walking with the Lord and walking with the Word.
Walking together through the autumn of 2025,
Rev. Gil Lee
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