2월 16일 스펄전 아침묵상 “어떠한 형편에든지 내가 자족하기를 배웠노니” [빌립보서 4장 11절]
February 16 "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content" (Philippians 4: 11). Philippians 4: 11 shows us that contentment is not a natural inclination of man. Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorn as are to the soil. The precious things of the eart must be cultivated. If we would have wheat, we must plow and sow. If we want flowers, there must be the garden and all the gardener's care. Contentment is one of the flowers of heaven. If we want it, it must be cultivated. It will not grow in us by nature. It is the new nature alone that can produce it, and even then we must be especially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has shown in us. Paul says, "I have learned. . .to be content;" as much as to say, he did not know how at one time. It cost him some pains to attain to the myster...