빛나는 방랑자(RADIANT DRIFTERS)

💙 빛나는 방랑자

 ✝  빌립보서 3:10 - 3:21 

“ 오직 우리가 어디까지 이르렀든지 그대로 행할 것이라 “[빌립보서 3:16]

2020년 봄 밤하늘 아래 서퍼들이 샌디에이고의 해안을 따라 생명체에 의해 빛을 발하는 파도를 탔습니다. 이 빛의 향연은 식물성플랑크톤이라고 불리는 미세한 유기체들에 의해 생성되는데, 그 이름은 “방랑자” 또는 “떠돌이”를 의미하는 그리스 단어에서 유래한 것입니다. 
낮 동안에 살아 있는 아주 작은 생명체들이 적조를 만들고 햇빛을 포집하여 그것을 화학 에너지로 바꾸었다가 어두울 때 파도가 생기면서 방해를 받으면 파란 빛을 만들어냅니다.

예수님을 믿는 사람들도 적조류처럼 땅 위에서 방랑자, 나그네처럼 사는 천국 시민들입니다. 그러다가 잘 짜인 우리의 계획이 어려운 상황으로 방해받게 되면 성령님은 우리에게 세상의 빛이신 예수님처럼 반응할 수 있도록 힘을 주시고 어둠 속에서도 주님의 빛나는 성품을 발하게 하십니다. 

바울 사도는 그리스도와 친밀한 것과, 그를 믿는 믿음에서 나오는 의보다 더 소중한 것은 없다고 말합니다(빌립보서 3:8-9). 바울은 예수님을 알고 그의 부활의 능력을 알게 되면 우리가 변화되며, 시련이 우리 삶을 거스를 때에 우리의 사는 모습과 대응하는 방법도 달라진다는 사실을 그의 삶으로 보여주었습니다(10-16절).

날마다 하나님의 아들 예수님과 함께 시간을 보내면 성령님이 우리에게 필요한 진리로 채우셔서, 우리가 이 땅에서의 모든 도전에 직면할 때 그리스도의 성품을 보여줄 수 있게 하십니다(17-21절). 하나님께서 우리를 본향으로 부르시거나 아니면 다시 오시는 그날까지, 우리는 어둠을 가르는 하나님의 사랑과 소망의 등불이 될 수 있습니다.

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그리스도께서 우리를 위해 행하신 일들을 생각하면서 삶의 여러 도전에 대한 시각이 어떻게 달라졌습니까?그리스도의 성품이 우리에게서 빛나려면 어떻게 해야 할까요?

<자비로운 예수님, 어려운 상황이 닥칠 때 저를 통해 빛을 발하셔서 사람들에게 주님을 나타낼 수 있게 하소서.>

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[빌립보서 3:10 - 3:21]
10. 내가 그리스도와 그 부활의 권능과 그 고난에 참여함을 알고자 하여 그의 죽으심을 본받아
11. 어떻게 해서든지 죽은 자 가운데서 부활에 이르려 하노니
12. 내가 이미 얻었다 함도 아니요 온전히 이루었다 함도 아니라 오직 내가 그리스도 예수께 잡힌 바 된 그것을 잡으려고 달려가노라
13. 형제들아 나는 아직 내가 잡은 줄로 여기지 아니하고 오직 한 일 즉 뒤에 있는 것은 잊어버리고 앞에 있는 것을 잡으려고
14. 푯대를 향하여 그리스도 예수 안에서 하나님이 위에서 부르신 부름의 상을 위하여 달려가노라
15. 그러므로 누구든지 우리 온전히 이룬 자들은 이렇게 생각할지니 만일 어떤 일에 너희가 달리 생각하면 하나님이 이것도 너희에게 나타내시리라
16. 오직 우리가 어디까지 이르렀든지 그대로 행할 것이라
17. ○형제들아 너희는 함께 나를 본받으라 그리고 너희가 우리를 본받은 것처럼 그와 같이 행하는 자들을 눈여겨 보라
18. 내가 여러 번 너희에게 말하였거니와 이제도 눈물을 흘리며 말하노니 여러 사람들이 그리스도의 십자가의 원수로 행하느니라
19. 그들의 마침은 멸망이요 그들의 신은 배요 그 영광은 그들의 부끄러움에 있고 땅의 일을 생각하는 자라
20. 그러나 우리의 시민권은 하늘에 있는지라 거기로부터 구원하는 자 곧 주 예수 그리스도를 기다리노니
21. 그는 만물을 자기에게 복종하게 하실 수 있는 자의 역사로 우리의 낮은 몸을 자기 영광의 몸의 형체와 같이 변하게 하시리

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💙 RADIANT DRIFTERS

 ✝  Philippians 3:10 - 3:21 

“ Let us live up to what we have already attained. “[ PHILIPPIANS 3:16 ]

Under the night sky in the spring of 2020, surfers rode bio- luminescent waves along the coast of San Diego. These lightshows were caused by microscopic organisms called phytoplankton, a name derived from a Greek word meaning “wanderer” or “drifter.” During the day, the living organisms cre- ate red tides and capture sunlight that converts into chemical energy. When disturbed in the darkness, they produce an electric blue light.

Believers in Jesus are citizens of heaven who, much like the red-tide algae, live like wanderers or drifters on earth. When difficult circumstances disturb our well-laid plans, the Holy Spirit empowers us to respond like Jesus—the Light of the World—so we can reflect His radiant character in the darkness. 

According to Paul the apostle, nothing is more valuable than our intimacy with Christ and the righteousness that comes th rough our faith in Him (PHILIPPIANS 3:8–9). His life proved that knowing Jesus and the power of His resurrection changes us, impacting the way we live and the way we respond when trials disrupt our lives (VV. 10–16).

When we spend time with God’s Son daily, the Holy Spirit equips us with the truth we need—enabling us to face every challenge on this earth in ways that reflect Christ’s character (VV. 17–21). We can be beacons of God’s love and hope, cutting through the darkness until the day He calls us home or comes again. 
-XOCHITL DIXON

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How has your perspective on life’s challenges changed as you’ve considered what Christ has done for you? 
What can you do to become radiant with the character of Christ?

<Merciful Jesus, when difficult circumstances come, please shine through me and help me point others to You.>

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[Philippians 3:10 - 3:21]
10. that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
11. in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12. Not that I have already obtained [it], or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
13. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of [it] yet; but one thing [I do]: forgetting what [lies] behind and reaching forward to what [lies] ahead,
14. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
16. however, let us keep living by that same [standard] to which we have attained.
17. Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
18. For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] enemies of the cross of Christ,
19. whose end is destruction, whose god is [their] appetite, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
20. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21. who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself