6월 29일 스펄전 아침묵상 “예수 안에서 자는 자들도 하나님이 저와 함께 데리고 오시리라.”[데살로니가전서 4장 14절]
June 29 "Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him" (1 Thessalonians 4: 14). Do not think that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise" is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night in His temple, singing hallelujahs to Him who washed them from their sins in His blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of dirt beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is rest, and that is the thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep shuts the door of the soul and bids all intruders to wait for a while. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps like a weary child who slumbers on his mother's breast. Happy are they who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors, and their works follow them. Guarded...