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우리가 알거니와 하나님을 사랑하는 자 곧 그 뜻대로 부르심을 입은 자들에게는 모든 것이 합력하여 선을 이루느니라 - 로마서 8:28

교회를 다니기 시작하면서 자주 듣고 나누는 말씀 중에 하나입니다.
힘들고 어려울때, 믿음의 선배님들과 친구들이, 

“명구야, 지금은 네 상황이 어렵고 힘들고 너무 아프겠지만, 하나님께서는, 이 안 좋은 상황, 힘들고 어려운 것들을 다 모아서 나중에는 너에게 좋고, 아름다운 축복으로 선물해주실거야. 그렇게 만들어가실거야, 그렇게 합력하여 선을 이루실거야. 그러니 힘내!”

라는 위로의 말과 함꼐 이 말씀을 나눕니다.

하지만 어느 순간부터 로마서 8장 28절의 말씀이, “지금은 상황이 안 좋고 힘들지만, 이 힘들고 어려운 상황을 하나님꼐서 합하셔서 미래에 아름다운 축복으로 만들어 주신디”라는 뜻이 아니라는것을 배우게 되었습니다.

이 말씀 중에, 모든 것이 합력하여 선을 이룬다는 말씀은,
[지금은 안 좋은 상황이지만 나중에는 다 잗될거야, 희망을 포기하지마!]가 아니라
[보기에는 전혀 좋지 않은 상황 같아 보이지만, 지금이 바로 하나님께서 합력하여 선을 이루신 최선의 상황이야!] 라는 뜻에 더 가깝다고 생각합니다.

다시 말하면,
지금 안 좋은 상황을 미래에는 좋게 만들어주신다는 것이 아니라, 이미 벌써 나의 지금이 최선이라는거죠!

에게?
전능하신 하나님께서 만들어 놓은 최선이 고작 요것밖에 안되는거야? 라고 생각할 수 있습니다.
하지만, 아시다시피 - 내 꾀, 내 욕심, 내 죄때문에 하나님께서 만들어 놓으신 최선을 망쳐놓을때가 더 수두룩합니다.

여러분!
내 눈으로 봤을때는 짜장면 찌그레기 같은 구린내 나는 상황 같아 보이지만,
실제로는 우리 전능하신 하나님께서 강하신 팔로 나를 붙드시고 나의 생명을 놓치 않으시고,
오늘, 지금! 내가 영생을 풍성히 얻을 수 있도록 최선을 이루시는 하나님을 신뢰합시다!

이 글이 여러분에게 위로와 격려와 도전이 되길 원합니다.
현재를 살아가시고 나의 지금을 최선으로 이루신 전능하신 하나님을 더욱 더 사랑합시다!
할렐루야~ 

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

a part of my body hurts like crap and it wakes me up during my sleep. i try to bear it but can’t, so i run to the toilet. i look at the clock and its 530am ‘Mango, its time to go to the morning prayer :P’ He personally wakes me up by squeezing my tummy. i ponder and ponder and wonder if i should go or not while brushing my teeth. jacket on top of me i drive. i arrive and dang, its locked. try everywhere and crack the door knob. nope still locked. then i see a sign with a cell phone number. call the number but just hung up after the first ring. ‘the pastor might just be very tired and not coming to the prayer service i guess.’ - aren’t i a gentleman with a very good manner, i hate waking up people who are sleeping. anyways, i turn around and see a white sonata in middle of the road. stared it for 5 seconds and it did too. i shrug and go back to my car. drive around the corner and see somebody coming out of the car and open the church door. yaddy yaddy yaddy. i park my car go in ,say hi, praise, listen and pray, then visit the toilet to leave a trace and mark my territory before leaving the church. 

ok ok. this is the good part. as we go out, the pastor tells me to be careful. he tells me that there are many homeless people who comes to church and sneak in, trying to get a warm cozy place to sit around for a min. and i nod my head with curiosity. then he says…

“even today in the morning i saw one homeless guy trying to get into the church. he wondered around the church and tried to open every doors there were. i saw him trying for a couple more times. then i guess he noticed the sign beside the door and calls my cell. he just let it ring once and hangs up. you know. i was surprised that he actually called… so be careful in the morning.”

and i was like…….. in my head…………… ‘yup.. that homeless guy was me…..’

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

—Isaiah 1 : 16-18

… Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

—John 13:1

I just love the autumn (:

I just love the autumn (:

town, i would love to live in a town,

town, i would love to live in a town,

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’

— Winnie The Pooh (by A.A. Milne)

i think, i need this right now right here!

i think, i need this right now right here!

hello sunny, welcome to mg’s life (:

hello sunny, welcome to mg’s life (: