11월 22일 스펄전 아침묵상 “이스라엘이 아내 얻기 위하여 사람을 섬기며 아내 얻기 위하여 양을 쳤고.” [호세아 12징 12절]
November 22 "Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep" (Hosea 12: 12). Jacob, while reasoning with Laban, describes his own toil: "This twenty years have I been with you. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto you: I bare the loss of it; of my hand you did require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sheep departed from mine eyes" (Genesis 31: 38). Even more toilsome than this was the life of our Savior here below. He watched over all His sheep until He gave as His last account, "Those that thou gavest me, I have kept, and none of them is lost" (John 17: 12). His hair was wet with dew, and sleep departed from his eyes. He was in prayer all night, wrestling for His people. No shepherd sitting beneath the cold skies could ever utter such complaints as Jesus Christ might have, if He had chosen to do so,...