2월 25일 스펄전 아침묵상 “임박한 진노.” [마태복음 3장 7절]
February 25 "The wrath to come" (Matthew 3: 7). It is pleasant to pass over a country after a rain and to smell the freshness of the herbs. That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a land where the storm has spent itself upon his Savior's head. If there are a few drops of sorrow falling, they distill from clouds of mercy. Jesus cheers him by the assurance that they are not for his destruction. But how terrible to witness the approach of a tempest, to see the forewarnings of the storm. How terrible to await the dread advance of a hurricane--such as occurs, sometimes, in the tropics--to wait in terrible apprehension. And yet, sinner, this is your present position. No hot drops have as yet fallen, but a shower of fire is coming. No terrible winds howl around you, but God's tempest is gathering its dread artillery. As yet the water-floods are dammed up by ...