기적으로 사람을 믿게 할 수 있다면, 예수님이 지상에서 활동하셨을 때 이스라엘 민중은 다 예수님을 믿었을 것입니다.
그러나 주님은 죽은 사람이 다시 살아나서 증거한다 해도 믿음이 생기는 것이 아님을 가르치셨습니다:
아브라함이 이르되, “그들에게 모세와 선지자들이 있으니 그들에게 들을지니라.” [부자가] 이르되, “그렇지 아니하니이다 아버지 아브라함이여! 만일 죽은 자에게서 그들에게 가는 자가 있으면 회개하리이다!” [아브라함이] 이르되 “모세와 선지자들에게 듣지 아니하면 비록 죽은 자 가운데서 살아나는 자가 있을지라도 권함을 받지 아니하리라.” (누가복음 16장 29-31절)
물론 여기서 “모세와 선지자”라 함은 “토라와 느비임” 곧 성경을 의미합니다.
온갖 자살 소문으로 떠들석 하네요.
물론 우리는 죽은 사람 보다도 유가족들을 도닥여 주어야 할 것입니다.
죽은 사람에게 해 줄 수 있는 것은 아무 것도 없기 때문입니다.
“명복을 빕니다”는 말도 유가족들을 위해 하는 말이지 결코 죽은 사람 들으라고 하는 것이 아닙니다.
사람은 죽으면 곧 바로 하나님의 심판을 받으러 갑니다.
하나님은 사람 처럼 정분 때문에 공의를 저버리시는 분이 아니시기 때문에, 저 세상에서 편히 쉬시라는 우리의 염원도 효과는 없는 얘기입니다.
(Thoughts after reading Chapter 2 of “On Offering” by H. C. Kim)
What does “worship” mean in the bible? It is the translation of the word that literally means “bow down” (Exodus 34:14; Revelation 4:10). Arthur Pink says,
“We owe worship to God. It is his due. We owe love to man and obedience to parents, but worship to God. It is our first duty toward him. He is the all holy, all wise, the Almighty, the Infinite, all perfect One, and our rightful attitude toward him is that of bowing before him, or prostrating ourselves before him, in adoring contemplation of his infinite loveliness and glory, of his attributes, of himself. If we do not worship God, we are robbing him of what is his due. It is not enough that we obey him, that we pray to him, that we return thanks to him, that we seek to serve him and do his will. We must worship.” (Arthur Pink, Worship)
It is worth while to remind ourselves that worship is not a collection of prayers, singing, preaching, and others. One my pray earnestly, and sing gratefully, listen to preaching carefully, but yet, participation in a “worship service” doesn’t mean that we bowed and that God has accepted it. We have to bow, consciously.
Now a little more thought on worshipping, that is, bowing to God:
Suppose you have opened a folder, and you want to open a terminal with that folder already chosen as your working directory. All you have to do is open a terminal, drag-and-drop the folder icon on top of the window to the terminal pane… (and add “cd” command to the front.)
Or, you might want to use OpenTerminal.
Recently my MacBook started to “freeze” (with the “spinning wheel of death”) when I tried to log on after it went to sleep, or even when I tried to shut it down. After some investigation (involving painful modifications) I realized it was Spotlight issue; Spotlight stalled at some point and could not finish indexing.
The cause: For my case, I found that there were several big but corrupt files. After deleting them, I am not encountering any of the previous issues at all.
Meanwhile, during the “investigation” I mentioned earlier, I made myself a new account. So I was trying to move my RSS subscription in Mail to my new account, but I couldn’t find any “Export” menu. Well, a solution for this is to just copy the RSS folder in the Library.
