๐ ๊ฐ์๋ํ #30 ์๊ตฌ๋
์ค๋์ ํ ์ฃผ๊ฐ ๋๋๋ '๊ธ์์ผ'์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์๋ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ฌผ์ค์ ํ๋๊ฐ '๊ธ์์ผ์ด ํน๋ณํด์ง ๊ฒ'์ ๋๋ค. ๋ช ์ฃผ ์ ๋ถํฐ ๊ธ์์ผ์ด ๋๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ต๋๋ ๋ถ์ด ์๊ฒผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ช ์ฃผ ์ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ธ์์ผ ์ค์ 6์์ <๊ฐ์๋ํํธ์ง>๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด์ง ์์ ๋ ๊ธ์์ผ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ ๋ฒ ์ '์ค์๋ก' ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ์ง ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ , ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ ๋ฒ์ '์ฃผ๋ณด์ ํจ๊ป ๋ฐ์กํ๋ ๊ธ์์๋ฒฝํธ์ง'์ '๊ฐ์๋ํํธ์ง'์ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ๋น์ทํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ '์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ' ๋ฐ์กํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์๋ ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ธ์์ผ์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ด ๋ฐ์ก๋์ง ์์์ ๋๋ง๋ค "์ค๋ ๊ฐ์๋ํํธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ด์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค"๋ผ๊ณ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ ๋ณด๋ด์ ๋ถ์ด ๊ณ์ญ๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ์๋ค๊ฐ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์๋ก ๋ณด๋ด์ง ์์ ์ฃผ ๊ธ์์ผ์๋ "๋ชฉ์ฌ๋, ์น์ ํ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํ๋๋๊ป์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์ฌ๋ ๋ง์์ ์๊ฒจ ๋์
จ๊ธฐ์, ์ ๋ ๋จ์ง ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋์งํธ ํ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ด ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถํ๋๋ ธ์ ๋ฟ์
๋๋ค." ๋ผ๊ณ ํ์๊ณ , ์ง๋ ์ฃผ์๋ "๋ชฉ์ฌ๋์ ๋ท์ ๋์์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฃ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ ํ ์ฃผ๋ ์์ฑ๋์ง ์์ต๋๋ค." ๋ผ๋ ๋ฉ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด์ฃผ์
จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ฉ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ํฐ ์๋ก์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ป์๊ณ , ์ด๋์ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ๋ค ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ธ์์ผ์ด ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ถ์ด ์๋์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐ๋๋ค์~ ์ค๋์ ์ด๋ค ๋ฉ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด์ค๊น? ๊ถ๊ธํด์ง๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์ ใ
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์ค๋์ <์๊ตฌ๋>์ ๋ํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.
โ์๊ตฌ๋โ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ ์ฒซ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ ๋ค๊ฟ์น์ ๋ฌผ์ง์ด ์กํ์ ํ๋์ ์ํ์ ์ฐธ์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์ด๋ค๋๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ๋ฌผ์ง์ด ํฐ์ง๋ฉด ๋ฐด๋๋ฅผ ๋จ๋จํ ๋ถ์ด๊ณ ๋ค๋
์ผ ๊ทธ๋๋ง ๋ ์ํ๋๋ค. ํ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค๋๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด ์๊ตฌ๋๊ฐ ์ต์ํด์ ธ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ ์ต์ํด์ง๋ฉด ๊ตฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ด ๋ ๋ณด์๋ ๋์์ธ๋ ๋ค์ ๋ ์ด์๊ฒ ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์ ๋ด ๋ชจ์ต๋ ์ด๋ป๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋๋ ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ท์ ์
์ผ๋ฉด ๊ตฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง ์ ์๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ฟ๋ฏํด์ง๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์์ผ ์ง์ง ๋ด๊ตฌ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ถ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฒ์์๋ ์ด์ํ๊ณ , ๋ถํธํ๊ณ , ๋๋ก๋ ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ณ ๊ท์ฐฎ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฐ์ ๋
ธ๋์ ํ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ์ต์ํด์ ธ ๋ด ์ถ์ ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. <๊ฐ์๋ํ>๋ ์ด์ ๋ฑ! 10์ผ ๋จ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ค์ ์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ซ์๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋ก ์นด์ดํธ ๋ค์ด์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์๋ง๋??? ๋งค์ผ <๊ฐ์๋ํํธ์ง>๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ผ์
จ๋ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ ํธ์ง๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ฐ์ค์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฆ
๋๋ค~ ใ
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๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ณด๋ด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค~ ใ
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์๋ํ๋ฉด <๊ฐ์๋ํ>์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋์ค๊ฐ <๋ง์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ํํ๋ ์ถ>์ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ์ธ๋ก์ํ์ด ์์๋๊ป์ ์ค์ค ๊ธธ์ ์ค๋นํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ (์1:23), ์์ ์ ๋ฅผ ํผ์ ํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ค์์ ์ก์์ฃผ๋ ์์ ์ฌ์ฉ ์ฌ์ฉ ๋๋ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์์ฒ๋ผ, ์ถฉ์ฑ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์น ์ ์๋๋ก ๋๋ชจ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์์กํ๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์ฒ๋ผ (๋คํ2:2), ์ ์๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ ์ป๊ฒจ์ฃผ์๋ฉฐ '๋ด๊ฐ ๋ํฌ์๊ฒ ๋ณธ์ ๋ณด์์ผ๋ ๋ํฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ผ'๊ณ ๋ณธ์ ๋ณด์ด์
จ๋ ์์๋์ฒ๋ผ (์13:14-15), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์กฑ์์ผ๋ก ์ ์๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผ๋ผ๊ณ ํ์
จ๋ ์์๋์ฒ๋ผ (๋ง28:19-20) 40์ผ๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฅด๋ ๋๋ ์ ์ง์ ์ด์ฌ์ผ์ ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ์ฃผ์ ๊ธธ์ ๊ณง๊ฒ ํ๋ผ๊ณ ๊ด์ผ์์ ์ธ์น๋ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ก๋ผ ํ๋๋ผ (์ํ๋ณต์ 1:23)
๋ ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ง์ ์ฆ์ธ ์์์ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์ฑ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ถํํ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์น ์ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ (๋๋ชจ๋ฐํ์ 2:2)
๋ด๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๋๋ ์ ์์ด ๋์ด ๋ํฌ ๋ฐ์ ์ป์์ผ๋ ๋ํฌ๋ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ ์ป์ด ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ณ์ผ๋๋ผ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ํฌ์๊ฒ ํํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ํฌ๋ ํํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ค ํ์ฌ ๋ณธ์ ๋ณด์๋
ธ๋ผ (์ํ๋ณต์ 13:14-15)
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ๋ก ๋ํฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์ ์ ์๋ก ์ผ์ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์๋ค๊ณผ ์ฑ๋ น์ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ํฌ์๊ฒ ๋ถ๋ถํ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์ณ ์งํค๊ฒ ํ๋ผ ๋ณผ์ง์ด๋ค ๋ด๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๋๋ ๊น์ง ๋ํฌ์ ํญ์ ํจ๊ป ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ํ์๋๋ผ (๋งํ๋ณต์ 28:19-20)
์ด์ ๋จ์ 10์ผ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ์ ๋์ฑ ํน๋ณํ ์ฌํ์ด ๋๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ๋ค์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ค๋ค์์ฃผ์๋ ์ ๊ฐ ์ง์ง ์งํ์ธ๋์ฐจ ์ง์ง ์ฌํ์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ใ
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๋ค์ ์ฃผ์๋ ํ ๋ก ํ ์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ <์ฒญ์ฝ(์ฒญ๋
์ฝ์คํ)>์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ก ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋๊ตฌ์. ๊ทธ ๋ค์ ์ฃผ์๋ ์์นด๊ณ ์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฒญ๋
์๋ จํ <2030 ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค>์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ก ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง <๊ฐ์๋ํ>์ ๋ณํจ์์ด ์งํ๋๊ตฌ์. ์ฃผ์ผ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋์ค์ ์ฃผ์ผ์๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฃผ์ผ์๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ชจํ๋ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋๋ก ์ค์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
์ค๋๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณ์ด ์์ด ๋ ์์ฒญ ๊ธด ๊ธ์ด ๋์๋๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋๋ '์ฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง' '๋๊น์ง' ์ฝ์ด์ฃผ์ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป๋ง(?) ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค~~~ ์ค๋๋ ๋ง์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ณ ํ๋ณตํ ๋ํ์ ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์๋งํ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค~ ์ฌ๋กฌ~
์ค๋์ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ธ๋ ํ ๊ณก ๋ค์ด๋ณด์๊ฒ ์ด์? <ํ๋ฃจ>๋ผ๋ ์ฐฌ์์ธ๋ฐ์. ์ด ์ฐฌ์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ ์ค๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ง๋ด์๊ธธ ์๋งํฉ๋๋ค~ ํ๊ธ์ฐฌ์ผ์ด์ด์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ ์์ด๋ก๋ง ๊ณต์ ํฉ๋๋ค~
2025๋
๊ฐ์์ ํจ๊ป ๊ฑท๊ณ ์๋ ์ด๊ธธํ๋๋ฆผ
<๊ฐ์๋ํ> ๋๋ ๋งํฌ
๊ฐ์๋ํ ํ์ด์ง ๋ฐ๋ก๊ฐ๊ธฐ
2026 ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋๋์ค ๋น์ ํธ๋ฆฝ
๋ฑ๋ก๋งํฌ (1์ฐจ ๋ง๊ฐ: 2025๋ 11์ 30์ผ)
๐ Autumn Journey #30 New Shoes
Special Fridays!!!
Today is Fridayโthe day that closes our week. An unexpected gift during this Autumn Journey has been this: Fridays have become special. A few weeks ago, something changed. On two separate Fridays, the Autumn Journey email did not go outโone time due to an honest mistake, and another time intentionally, because the Friday Dawn Letter already carried a similar message.
Each time the email didnโt arrive, one person sent me an email saying, โPastor, I did not receive todayโs Autumn Journey letter. Could you please send it again?โย
And then, on the week I intentionally skipped the letter, that person replied, โPastor, thank you for your kind note. But the message was already written on your heart by God. I simply asked that it be delivered to me in digital form.โย
Last week I received another message: โPastor, my week is not incomplete until I hear your five days of uplifting messages.โ - (What wonderful, encouraging, and warm words!!!)ย
Those words lifted my spirit in such a tender way. And now that this is the fourth Friday weโve had this little rhythm, I naturally think of that person again. Iโm already wondering: What message will he send today? ๐
The Story of New Shoes
Thereโs something unforgettable about the first day I wear a pair of new shoes. Blisters form on the back of my heel, but I keep walking anyway. When the blister breaks, I patch it with a bandage and continue moving. After several daysโwithout even noticing when it happensโthe new shoes begin to fit my feet. I can even run without pain.
And suddenly, the shoes start looking beautiful again, just as they did in the store. I feel good in them. I even start choosing outfits that match them. Only then do the shoes feel like they truly belong to me.
Iโve realized that my life often works the same way. Whenever I step into new rhythms and disciplines, they feel awkward, inconvenient, or exhausting at first. But when I keep walkingโdespite the discomfortโthose rhythms slowly become part of who I am.
Now weโre just 10 days away from finishing our Autumn Journey. Next week, we begin counting backwards. Some of you might even miss these daily letters. ๐ But I wonโt continue them, because the purpose of this journey has always been simple and clear: I wanted to help our Greenlanders walk with God, with Scripture, and with joy.
Just as John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ (John 1:23),
just as a father lets go of the bicycle so his child can ride alone,
just as Paul trained Timothy to teach faithful people (2 Tim 2:2),
just as Jesus washed His disciplesโ feet and said, โDo as I have done for you,โ (John 13:14-15)
and just as He commanded us to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20) โ
these 40 days have been my way of helping you learn to walk with God on your own feet.
John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'" (John 1:23, NIV)
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Timothy 2:2, NIV)
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. (John 13:14-15, NIV)
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20, NIV)
The Last 10 Days
My hope is that the remaining ten days will become an even richer journey. Next week and the week after, Iโll be travelingโserving as a speaker at Cheong-KO (KOSTA Young Adult Conference) in Toronto, and the following week at the 2030 Conference in Chicago.
But the Autumn Journey will continue as usual. And on Sundays, Iโll be right here with our Greenland family to worship. Please come with expectation and longing for Godโs presence.
This letter has become long againโmy apologies. But for those who stayed with me โuntil the end,โ thank you. Truly. May today be filled with joy as you walk with Scripture, and walk with God. Shalom.
Before you goโwould you listen to one song today? Itโs called โHaru (One Day)โ by HisWill. Since the song is in Korean, Iโm sharing only the English lyrics below. Have a Terrific Day in Christ!!!ย
๐ต One Day (English Lyric Version)
Verse 1ย
Youโve given me another day,ย
A gift I didnโt earn.ย
Familiar yet so new again,ย
Another chance to learn.
With a quiet stirring in my heart,ย
I take my step to start.ย
Wondering what this day will bring,ย
What grace will fill my part.
Pre-Chorusย
It may be just an ordinary day,ย
Or a surprise day where dreams find their way.
Chorusย
But every step I takeย
On the path of love You pave,ย
Turns into joy for me,ย
A story that You gave.
Verse 2ย
Looking back I see how farย
Your faithful hand has led.ย
I may not know where this road goes,ย
Or whatโs a mile ahead.
Yet walking here beside my Lord,ย
I trust the road You choose.ย
And at the end of this long way,ย
I know I will not lose.
Final Chorusย
For every step I takeย
On this road with You today,ย
Will blossom joy in meย
And guide my heart Your way.
Walking with You here,ย
I feel Your mercy stayโย
And when this journey ends,ย
I know Iโll smile that day.
*You can listen to the song by clicking belowย
Walking together through the autumn of 2025,
Rev. Gil Lee
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