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출처: ♥열매들의이야기♥ 원문보기 글쓴이: 임마누엘
“We walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Cor. 5:7)
Did you ever stop to wonder why a baseball game is more exciting to most people than a prayer meeting? Yet comparative attendance records prove that it is so.
Or we might ask, “Why is the Presidency of the United States more appealing than overseership in an assembly?” Parents don’t say to their sons, “Eat your food and some day you may be an elder.” No, they say, “Clean your plate and some day you may grow up to be President.”
Why is a successful career in business more attractive than the life of a missionary? Christians often discourage their children from going to the mission field, content to see them rise to be “titled officials in secular enterprises.”
Why is a television documentary more absorbing than the study of God’s Word? Think of the hours spent before the TV set and the hurried moments before the open Bible!
Why are people willing to do for dollars what they wouldn’t do for love to Jesus? Many who are tireless in their work for a corporation are lethargic and unresponsive when the Savior calls.
Finally why does our nation loom larger and more important than the Church? National politics are colorful and engrossing. The Church often seems to lumber on without dynamic.
The reason for all these things is that we walk by sight and not by faith. Our vision is distorted. We don’t see things as they actually are. We value the temporal above the eternal. We value the soulish above the spiritual. We value man’s judgment above God’s.
When we walk by faith, all is changed. We have 20/20 spiritual vision. We see things as God sees them. We value prayer as the unspeakable privilege of having direct audience with the Sovereign of the universe. We see that an elder in an assembly means more to God than the ruler of a nation. We see, with Spurgeon, that if God calls a man to be a missionary, it would be a tragedy to see him drivel down into a king.” We see television as a never-never land of unreality, whereas the Bible holds the key to a life of fulfilment. We are willing to spend and be spent for Jesus in a way we would never be willing for an unworthy impersonal corporation. And we reckon that our local church is more important to God and to His people than the greatest empire in the world.
Walking by faith makes all the difference! |
"우리가 믿음으로 행하고 보는 것으로 행하지 아니함이로라" (고후5:7)
왜 사람들은 예수님을 사랑는데는 아무 것도 하지 않으면서 기꺼이 금전을 향해서는 기꺼이 일을 하려 하는지요? 사업을 하면서 일터에서 지친 많은 사람들은 구세주의 부르심에는 무기력하고 반응하지 않습니다.
우리가 믿음으로 걸을 때, 모든 것들은 변합니다. 우리는 20/20개의 영적 시야를 갖고 있습니다. 우리는 하나님께서 그것들을 보시는대로 봅니다. 우리는 기도가 우주의 주권자와 함께 바로 듣는자들에게 전해지는 말없는 특권이라고 가치를 둡니다. 우리는 모임에서 한 사람의 장로가 국가 권력자보다 하나님께 더 의미가 있음을 압니다. 스펄젼이 그랬는데, 하나님께서 선교자로 한 사람을 부르셨다면, 왕 앞에 주저앉아있는 그를 보는 것은 비극이었습니다. 우리는 결코 존재하지 않는 -네버랜드를 보는 반면에, 성경은 삶이 성취되는 열쇠를 갖고 있습니다. 우리는 결코 비인격적인 조합에 가치를 두지 않는 방법으로 예수님과 기꺼이 함께 하거나 하고 있습니다. 그리고 우리 지역교회가 세상의 가장 위대한 왕국보다도 하나님께 그리고 그의 백성에게 더 중요함을 간과하고 있습니다.
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