靈命日糧 Daily Bread 2010-12-26
讀經: 雅各書1 : 21~27 James 1 : 21~27
1:21 所以,你們要脫去一切的污穢和盈餘的邪惡,存溫柔的心領受那所栽種的道,就是能救你們靈魂的道。
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22 只是你們要行道,不要單單聽道,自己欺哄自己。
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 因為聽道而不行道的,就像人對著鏡子看自己本來的面目,
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
1:24 看見,走後,隨即忘了他的相貌如何。
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 惟有詳細察看那全備、使人自由之律法的,並且時常如此,這人既不是聽了就忘,乃是實在行出來,就在他所行的事上必然得福。
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein , he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. deed: or, doing
1:26 若有人自以為虔誠,卻不勒住他的舌頭,反欺哄自己的心,這人的虔誠是虛的。
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
1:27 在 神我們的父面前,那清潔沒有玷污的虔誠,就是看顧在患難中的孤兒寡婦,並且保守自己不沾染世俗。
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
申命記 30 : 20 Deuteronomy 30 : 20
且愛耶和華─你的 神,聽從他的話,專靠他;因為他是你的生命,你的日子長久也在乎他。這樣,你就可以在耶和華向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許所賜的地上居住。」
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
全年讀經:
哈該書1-2章 啟示錄17章
妻子告訴我白天發生的一件事。我們的孫女艾蓮娜到我家玩,她玩了一些玩具之後,就想跑去房子的另一邊,此時妻子告訴她:「艾蓮娜,你得先把手裡的玩具放好才可以去。」她不假思索地說:「我沒有時間啊!」
艾蓮娜只有兩歲,所以她肯定沒有排滿事務的行程表,等著她去疲於奔命!
這使我想到,是不是有些時候,當上帝聽到我們對祂旨意的反應時,也會感到驚訝?
比方說,當耶穌說
馬太福音 11 : 28 Matthew 11 : 28
凡勞苦擔重擔的人可以到我這裡來,我就使你們得安息。
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
而我們卻說:「我活不下去,我有太多麻煩了!」我好奇祂會怎麼想。當祂說:
詩篇 46 : 10 Psalms 46 : 10
你們要休息,要知道我是 神!我必在外邦中被尊崇,在遍地上也被尊崇。
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
而我們嚷嚷:「我的行程表太滿了,我無法留時間給禰。」我好奇祂會怎麼想。當祂說
彼得前書 1 : 16 1 Peter 1 : 16
因為經上記著說:「你們要聖潔,因為我是聖潔的。」
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
而我們說:「這世界看起來充滿樂趣。」我真的很好奇,面對我們的回應,祂會怎麼想呢?
上帝已經說了,如果我們要榮耀祂;尊榮祂為我們所做的一切;並表明我們有多愛祂,其最好辦法就是遵從祂的旨意。JDB
上主開口已預備我,
祂的聲音確實可聽;
我要樂意穩固順從,
平靜聽話順從主旨。Havergal
遵從上帝乃為了討祂喜悅。
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