2012-07-14 [TWO LESSONS LEARNED두 가지 교훈

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TWO LESSONS LEARNED

두 가지 교훈

「오늘의 양식」에 준법의 중요성에 관한 글을 쓰고 난 몇 주 후,

나는 제한속도를 지키기로 굳게 마음먹고 1,400킬로미터 거리의 여행을 떠났습니다.

A few weeks after writing an Our Daily Bread article

about the importance of obeying the law,

I set out on an 850-mile trip

-determined to stay within the posted speed limit.

뉴멕시코 주의 어느 작은 마을을 빠져나오다가

나는 샌드위치 포장을 벗기는 데 신경 쓰느라 도로표지를 보지 못했고

그만 속도위반 딱지를 받았습니다.

While driving out of a small town in New Mexico,

I became more occupied with unwrapping a sandwich

than with watching the road signs,

and I got a speeding ticket.

이날 얻은 나의 첫 번째 교훈은

부주의는 고의적인 법위반과 똑같은 대가를 치러야 한다는 것이었습니다.

게다가 나는 아직 1,140킬로미터나 갈 길이 더 남아있었습니다!

My first lesson that day was

that not paying attention costs the same

as deliberate disregard for the law.

And I still had 700 miles to go!

나의 두 번째 교훈은 우리의 결심은 항상 시험을 받는다는 것이었습니다.

약속의 땅에 들어가기 위해 준비하고 있을 때

모세가 하나님의 백성들에게 했던 말을 생각해보았습니다.

My second lesson was that our resolve will always be tested.

I thought of Moses’ words to God’s people

as they prepared to enter the Promised Land:

 “네 하나님 여호와께서 이 사십 년 동안에 네게 광야 길을 걷게 하신 것을 기억하라

이는 너를 낮추시며 너를 시험하사

네 마음이 어떠한지 그 명령을 지키는지 지키지 않는지 알려 하심이라”(신 8:2).

“You shall remember that the Lord your God

led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness,

to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart,

whether you would keep His commandments or not”.

목사 겸 작가인 유진 피터슨은 그리스도를 따르는 과정은

“방향을 바꾸지 않는 기나긴 순종”이라고 했습니다.

순종하겠다고 결심할 때마다 계속적으로 일관성 있는 결정들이 뒤따라야 합니다.

Pastor and author Eugene Peterson called

the process of following Christ

“a long obedience in the same direction.”

Every resolution to begin to obey must be followed

by many decisions to continue.

하나님은 내 마음이 하나님께 계속 순종하면서,

 동시에 내내 주의를 기울이는 것이 얼마나 중요한지에 대해 내가 겸손히 깨닫게 해주셨습니다.

God gave me a humbling reminder of how vital it is

to keep my heart set on obeying Him

-and to pay attention along the way.

                                                           -David McCasland

Deuteronomy 신명기 8:1-10  

[신] 8:1	Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers.
[신] 8:2	Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
[신] 8:3	He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
[신] 8:4	Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
[신] 8:5	Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
[신] 8:6	Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him.
[신] 8:7	For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills;
[신] 8:8	a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;
[신] 8:9	a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
[신] 8:10	When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

Thou who hast freely given Thine all in all for me, Claim this life for Thine own to be used, My Savior, every moment for Thee. To love God is to obey God.

나를 위해 당신의 모든 것을 값없이 주신 하나님 나의 구주시여, 항상 주님을 위해 제 삶의 모든 순간을 사용하소서 하나님을 사랑하는 것이 하나님께 순종하는 것이다.