025. Rhythm (n) 리듬, 율동, 변화
Giving Table SE2 Day 5
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From the Book
Jesus came down to us, lived a perfect life, and fulfilled the law of God, forever changing our relationship with the law so we don’t have to look at it anymore. Now, we look to Jesus. He came so that you and I will be moved on the inside.
Barnard of Clairvaux describes this mysterious movement this way: “If you ask me how I know that the Lord is present, since His ways are past finding out, my answer is that the Word is living and active, and as soon as ever He entered me, He aroused my sleeping soul, and stirred and softened and pricked my heart, that had been sick and as hard as stone.”
Now we are invited to move with the rhythm of his Spirit. The only way we can do that is because his Spirit lives within us.
What does this have to do with our desire to uncover our art? Everything. Because now I have a new heart, a new purpose, a new movement taking place within me. As believers in the gospel, as partakers of the new covenant, as fellow sojourners on the road of the new way, maybe we don’t have to be so suspicious of desire.
Pursuing desire is only toxic when we demand our desires be satisfied on our terms and in our timing. As recipients of the new heart of the Spirit, our deepest desire, when honestly reliazed, will always lead us to God.
<A Million Little Ways> Emily P. Freeman p52-53
Ashley's Note
God tears down our old hearts with painful incidents. I know it’s so much more than terrifying. No one likes to get hurt, but I dare to believe that’s that’s where the undeniable and unbelievable grace comes in. From the ruins, He himself cleanses piles of ashes that were once as hard as stone. And bit by bit, He rebuilds pieces of our hearts with His spirit and gives us soft, and responsive hearts that response to other people who are going through the suffering that we once experienced. When we let God shine His light through our newly-healed scars, then we would be able to see us already dancing to God’s life-changing rhythm. The question is not about how to dance. The question is about whether to choose to feel His rhythm or not. Feel the rhythm. Take His hands. Let Him lead your steps. Dance with Him. Are you a horrible dancer like me? Let us now worry. Our heavenly dance partner is not there to rate our dance performance; He is there to take delight in our new hearts that are learning to feel His rhythm. You are safe in His arms. We are safe in His arms.
Giving Table Members' Sentences with "Rhythm"
I love the word of today, rhythm. Just by thinking of it, I can feel my heart pounding and my feet tapping on the floor. - C.
Close your eyes and stay tune to feel the rhythm of God's heart. - S.
I am curious what beautiful harmony will come when I move with the rhythm of God. - P.
How interesting it would be to ride the rhythm of Holy Spirit whose one day as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. - D.
I want to dance to His rhythm today, too. - C.
Dancing with God in the rhythm that He makes; I am so ready for it! I can not be more excited that letting myself lean on His rhythm. In His rhythm, He turns my mourning into happiness, worries to freedom and emptiness to satisfaction. - J.
보배합에서는 판교책방의 북 펀딩 서클인 북 커뮤니티, 기빙 테이블이 진행되고 있습니다.
보배합지기 여름나무 Ashley와 테이블 멤버가 함께 크리스천 여성작가인 에밀리 프리먼의 <A Million Little Ways>를 발췌하여 읽고, 매일의 미션 단어로 짧은 글을 영작하며 10일을 보냅니다.
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