11月13日 心的问题 Heart Trouble

11月13日

心的问题

Heart Trouble

我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲……—— 彼得前书 2:11

I beg you to keep away from the evil pleasures of this world . . .

—1 Peter 2:11 (TLB)

     我们都知道绝对的自由是根本不存在的。我们不能以100英里的时速在街上开车。你不能在我面前挥舞你的拳头，因为你的自由止于我的鼻尖。我们可以说，我们想要自由地去出版色情作品，去推销毒品，去拥有无限制的性行为，去说谎，去欺骗；但如果我们继续这种放任的自由，我们终将毁灭自己。

     人唯有依靠道德力量来抑制其欲望才能保持自由。我们的问题从根本上说是心的问题。我们的心需要被改变…人性若不改变，若不以彼此相爱来代替彼此相恨，我们便永远不能有平安。

We all know there is no such thing as absolute freedom. We cannot drive down the street at 100 miles an hour. You can’t swing your fist at me, because your freedom stops at the end of my nose. We can say that we want freedom to publish pornography, to push harmful drugs, to have unrestricted sex, to lie, to cheat; but if we continue with that kind of permissive freedom, we shall destroy ourselves.

Man can remain free only so long as he has the moral power to restrain his appetites. Basically, our problem is heart trouble. Our hearts need to be changed . . . peace will never come until we have changed human nature, until people begin loving each other instead of hating each other.

今日祷告

主啊，我需要祢来引导我的生活。爱祢使我从私欲的束缚中得释放。

Prayer for the day

I need Your guidelines in my life, Lord. Loving You frees me from the bondage of my carnal appetite.