5월 4일 스펄전 아침묵상 “인생이 어찌 신 아닌 것을 자기의 신으로 삼겠나이까” [예레미야 16장 20절]
May 4 "Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?" (Jeremiah 16: 20). One great troublesome sin of ancient Israel was idolatry. Spiritual Israel, however, has a tendency to lean in the same direction. Self, in various forms, struggles to place the chosen ones under its dominion. Favorite children are often the cause of much sin in believers. The Lord is grieved when He sees us doting on them in the above measure. Spoiled children may live to be as great a curse to us as Absalom was to David. If Christians desire to grow thorns to stuff their sleepless pillows, let them dote on their dear ones. Why are we so vain? We pity the poor heathen who adores a god of stone, and yet we worship a god of flesh. Where is the vast superiority between a god of flesh and one of stone? The principle is the same in either case; only in ours, the crime is more aggravated because we h...