하나님은 누구라도 사용할 수 있다
2022.10.12
(왕하7:3-20)
3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, "Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, 'We'll go into the city'--the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die." 5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there, 6 for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!" 7 So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives. 8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents. They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also. 9 Then they said to each other, "We're not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace." 10 So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, "We went into the Aramean camp and not a man was there--not a sound of anyone--only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were." 11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace. 12 The king got up in the night and said to his officers, "I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, 'They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.'" 13 One of his officers answered, "Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here--yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened." 14 So they selected two chariots with their horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, "Go and find out what has happened." 15 They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king. 16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, as the LORD had said. 17 Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. 18 It happened as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria." 19 The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!" 20 And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
하나님이 쓰시는 사람
엘리사 같은 사람
그러나 그렇게 그럴만한 사람만 사용하는 것이 아니라
오늘은
문둥이들도 사용하신다는 사실을 알게 한다
하나님은 아람군대로 하여금 환청을 듣게 한다
거기다 플러스 엄청난 주체할 수 없는 두려움을 쏟아 부어주신다
그리고 착각(錯覺) 오판(誤判)하게 하신다
북이스라엘을 위하여 헷 군대 + 애굽 군대라는 원병이 몰려오고 있다고...
하여 얼마나 서둘로 도망을 하였는지... 그들은 그저 몸만 빠져 나가 버렸다
이런 사실을 까맣게 모르고 있는 여호람과 사마리아 성내(城內)의 모든 사람들...
누군가는 이 사실을 알려 주어야 하는데...
하나님은 오늘 문둥이4명을 사용하심을 본다
그들의 마음을 움직여 이판사판 죽으면 죽으리라는 심정으로 아람군대를 향하는데....
그로 말미암아 엘리사의 전언(傳言)이 하나님의 말씀이요 은총이었음을 성에 돌아와 알려준다
하여 들은 기쁜소식
도무지 믿을 수 없어서
여호람은 두 전차를 보내 아람의 후면을 정탐해 오도록 하였는데...사실확인!
너무나 기뻐하는 사마리아 성내의 모든 사람들...
어찌 여호람 최측근에서 보좌하고 있었던 장군의 망발(妄發)을 전해들었었는지...분노폭발...밟아 죽임으로 역시 엘리사의 선포대로 성취!
바닥난 곡식
아예 자취를 감추다 시피 한 가루와 보리
아람진영에서 가져온 그것으로 시장이 형성되고
가루 4되에 ₩10,264
보리 8되에 ₩10,264 =0.8말= 약 1말
어찌되었든지
오늘의 말씀을 통해서는
하나님은 엘리사와 같은 존재만을 사용하시는 것이 아니라
문둥이들처럼 하나님께서 사용하시지 않을 것만 같은 존재조차
나의 상상을 깨고 사용하실 수 있다는 점에 나의 관점시각판단(觀點視角判斷)을 교정(矯正)한다
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