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๐Ÿ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰Autumn Journey - Day 14. To be soaked into the Lord

๐Ÿ ๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰ #14

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”~ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋™ํ–‰ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„~

์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งค์ผ ๋งค์ผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ์ฃ ?

ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ดํ•˜๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๋„ˆํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ดํ•˜์‹œ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์ฃ„์ธ๋“ค์•„ ์†์„ ๊นจ๋—์ด ํ•˜๋ผ ๋‘ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ํ’ˆ์€ ์ž๋“ค์•„ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ผ (์•ผ๊ณ ๋ณด์„œ 4:8)

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์€๊ฑฐ ์•„์‹œ์ฃ ? ์˜์–ด์˜ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…œ์„ ๋ชจ์•„์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋‹จ์–ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋“ฏ์ด, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ ์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋ฌต์ƒ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„์ธ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ์ž˜ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฐ”๋กœ <์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋‹ค>์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. <์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋‹ค>๋ž€ '์ฃผ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋‹ค'๋ผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ๋งค์ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋ฌต์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ถ์„ '์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“œ๋Š” ์‚ถ'์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ง ์†๋‹ด์— '๊ฐ€๋ž‘๋น„์— ์˜ท ์ –๋Š”๋‹ค'๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚ด ์•ˆ์— ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋ผ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋„ˆํฌ ์•ˆ์— ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋ฆฌ๋ผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋„๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•˜๋ฉด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์—ด๋งค๋ฅผ ๋งบ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋„ˆํฌ๋„ ๋‚ด ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•˜๋ฆฌ๋ผ (์š”ํ•œ๋ณต์Œ 15:4)

์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„์ธ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ธ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์„ฑํ’ˆ์€ ๋ˆˆ์— ํ™• ๋„๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„ํ˜น ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์„ ๋“ฃ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์‚ฌ์‹ค 'ํ™•~' ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ 'ํ™•~' ์›๋ž˜๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ? ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ€์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์„ฑํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ฒฉ์€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋™์•ˆ ์„ธ์›”์„ ๊ฒช์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋„ˆํฌ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ฐฉํ•œ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹  ์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„ ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜์˜ ๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋ฃจ์‹ค ์ค„์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๋…ธ๋ผ (๋นŒ๋ฆฝ๋ณด์„œ 1:6)

์ด๋ฒˆ <๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰>๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๋ผ์„œ ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ณ  ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์‹ค๊ฑฐ์—์š”. ์ด๋ฒˆ 2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„์„ ๋ง์”€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ 2026๋…„์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์นœ๊ทผํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋™ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์–ต์ง€๋กœ ํ•ด์„œ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ๋„ ์—†๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋œ ๋“ฏ ํ•ด๋ณด์—ฌ๋„ ๊นŠ์ด์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋„ ์ œ ๊ธ€์ด๋ผ๋„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ฝ์œผ์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด <์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“ค๊ณ > ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ๋งค์ผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ธŒ๋กœ <์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ>๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•ญ์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ง๋ฏธ์•”์•„ ๊ฐ์ฒ˜์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„๋ฅผ ์•„๋Š” ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์‹œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋…ธ๋ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์› ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋„์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋‹ˆ (๊ณ ๋ฆฐ๋„ํ›„์„œ 2:14-15)

2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๋Š”

์ด๊ธธํ‘œ๋ชฉ์‚ฌ ๋“œ๋ฆผ

<๊ฐ€์„๋™ํ–‰> ๋‚˜๋ˆ” ๋งํฌ

๐Ÿ Autumn Walk #14

Hello, Walking Together Family! ๐Ÿ‚

Are you still drawing a little closer to God each and every day?

โ€œCome near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.โ€ (James 4:8)

Did you know that in Korean, new words are constantly being createdโ€”often by blending syllables or initials just like English acronyms? One of my favorite new expressions beautifully describes the life of a Christian who lives in daily meditation: โ€œJoomyeodeulda (์ฃผ๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋‹ค)โ€, which literally means โ€œto be soaked into the Lord.โ€ To โ€œlive a life of joomyeodeuldaโ€ means to be slowly and gently permeated by Godโ€™s Word every day. Itโ€™s much like the Korean saying, โ€œEven a light drizzle will eventually soak your clothes.โ€

โ€œRemain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.โ€ (John 15:4)

I believe that true Christian transformation happens slowly, quietly, and unseen. A personโ€™s character and heart rarely change overnight. Sometimes we hear people say they were โ€œcompletely changed,โ€ but deep down we wonderโ€”will that sudden change last? Real transformation takes time because our character and temperament are formed through years of experiences and relationships.

โ€œBeing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.โ€ (Philippians 1:6)

Itโ€™s the same with this Autumn Walk. Some of you may still feel awkward or unfamiliar with walking together with God through His Word. Thatโ€™s okay. If it feels new this year, it may feel more natural and comfortable in 2026. Nothing forced ever lasts long, and deep change never comes from pressure. If youโ€™ve simply taken a moment today to read this reflection, you are already being soaked in the Lord. My prayer is that each day, little by littleโ€”โ€œshinabroโ€ (Korean for โ€œslowly but surelyโ€)โ€”you may live a day that is gently soaked in His presence.

โ€œBut thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christโ€™s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.โ€ (2 Corinthians 2:14โ€“15)

May your life today carry the fragrance of Christ, and may your heart be gently soaked in His love and Word. ๐ŸŒฟ

Walking in the Fall 2025

Rev. Gil Lee

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