9월 29일 찰스 스펄전 아침묵상 “문둥병이 과연 그 전신에 퍼졌으면 그 환자를 정하다 할지니.”[레위기 13장 13절]
September 29 "Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague" (Leviticus 13: 13). This regulation appears strange. Yet, there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease are lepers and may read the law of lepeers as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined and pleads guilty before the Lord, then he is made clean through the blood of Jesus and the grace of God. When sin is seen and felt, it has received its death-blow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy on the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness or more hopeful than contrition. We must confess that we are nothing else but sin, for no confession short of this will be the whole truth. If the Holy Spirit is at work within us, convincing us of sin, there will be no difficulty about making such an acknowledgment. It...