Archive for July, 2014
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord ? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
A Man Who Trusted God, 1906~1956
1. “1926년 6월 제재소에서 일하고 있던 20세 청년 도슨 트로트맨은 성경 암송을 통하여 주님께 돌아오는 회심을 경험하였고, 이후 하나님의 말씀을 열심히 섭취하고 그대로 순종하는 믿음의 삶을 시작하였습니다.”
2. “1931년에 도슨 트로트맨은 친구와 함께 예레미야 33:3을 주장하며 40일간 매일 아침 이른 시간에 기도하였습니다. 이 기도의 결과로 영적으로 훈련하고 격려하는 교제인 Minute Men이 형성되기 시작하였습니다. 1933년에 웨스트버지니아 호의 해군이었던 레스 스펜서를 만나 양육하기 시작하고, 이어 레스 스펜서가 다른 동료를 양육하기 시작하여 군인 성경 클럽(The Service Men’s Bible Club Minute Men)이 태동하였는데, 1935년에 미국 순회 전도 여행을 하던 중 The Service Men’s Bible Club Minute Men을 The Navigators로 부르기 시작하였으며, ‘그리스도를 알고 그를 알게 하라(To Know Christ, and Make Him Known)’를 모토로 삼았습니다.”
3. “주님을 위해 창의적인 믿음의 시도를 했던 도슨은 점차 하나님의 약속을 자기 것으로 주장하는 믿음을 키워 나갔으며, 양육과 재생산에 대한 비전을 통해 질적인 일꾼을 재생산하는 일에 평생을 드리다가, 1956년 수양회 도중 슈륜 호수에서 물에 빠진 한 소녀를 건지기 위해 생명을 바쳤습니다.”
“Even today, only God can judge our righteousness. Therefore, even if Satan attacks us with the exaggerated guilt of the past, we do not need to be shaken. Satan’s accusations will be rejected by Jesus Christ and, with the evidence of the cross, God will judge us ‘righteous’.”
“Stereotyping is a lazy pursuit, of course. If there is a kernel of truth to a cliché, it is swiftly magnified by confirmation bias. … Stereotypes linger. Warren Buffett’s adage that ‘it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.’”
JAS 5:16 ESV
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
