‘과유불급을 실천하라!’
본문관찰과 묵상
‘과유불급,’즉 지나침은 부족함만 못하다. 과장, 과식, 과친, 과신, 과오, 과비평, 과다툼, 과비굴, 과욕은 는 하나님과 인간과의 관계를 깨트린다. 내가 주님의 은혜를 받은 만큼만 원수도 먹이고 마시게 하면 하나님이 갚아주신다.
QT를 통하여 듣는 주님의 음성
죄성을 가지고 사는 그리스도인은 지나침이 많다. 나 자랑하고 나 먹고 싶은 것 다 먹고, 이웃집에 마실 가고 싶은대로 가고, 진실되지 못한 사람 너무 믿고 마음 상한자의 마음을 긁어대고 우리는 살아간다.
결단과 적용
눈 앞의 사람과 과친하고 다투지 않고 먼 땅에서 오는 주님의 멧세지에 귀를 기울인다. 주님의 원수였던 나를 먹이고 마시우고 살리신 주님의 은혜를 받은 만큼 남에게 나누어주며 산다. 더함도 덜함도 없다. 주님이 상 주신다.
‘Practice to be satisfied with a lack of something.’
Pr. 25:14-28
Observation and meditation on the text
‘Too much is worse than too little.’ Over praise of myself, over-eating, over get to know of others, over self-confidence, over mistakes, over criticism, over fight, over servility, over covetousness easily break my relationship with God and people. God will fill up my lacking anything as long as I share with others as much as I have received from God.
I hear the voice of the Lord through QT
Even though I am a Christian, I experience my mistakes with over-desire since I am still carrying sinfulness. I am inclined to praise myself, eat whatever I want to, visit, and talk too much with neighbors, want to go wherever I want, over trusting a wicked, and hurt the wounded people unconsciously.
Decisions and applications
Instead of having too much free talk and hearing from neighbors to reveal other’s secrets or causing fights, I rather pay attention to hear the message from God intimately. As long as I share with others as much as I have received God’s immeasurable grace who has revived my dead life by feeding and providing spiring water of the Holy Spirit with his words, there shall be not too much or too less. If I am lacking anything, it is God who will fill up by his grace. That shall be my rewards from God.