12月13日
上帝所成就的
What God Has Done
却要以永远的慈爱怜恤你。这是耶和华你的救赎主说的。—— 以赛亚书 54:8
With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.
—Isaiah 54:8
如果说上帝是全能的神,满有慈爱,那么祂若允许任何人失丧,则似乎与祂的本性不符。在这里,我们再次将这个说法合理化,是因为我们并不了解神的本性。上帝不能违背祂自己的律法和祂自己的本性。上帝是圣洁的。祂不能容忍罪在祂的面前。祂造我们,让我们自由选择如何去生活。祂邀请我们走祂的道路,但祂也给我们自由意志,追求自己的目的,尽管最终会带来悲剧性的自然后果。我们伶牙俐齿地说,“慈爱的上帝肯定不会让祂所爱的人失丧。祂就是不允许。” 岂止是不允许,上帝竭尽所能来阻止这样的事情发生。“神爱世人,甚至将他的独生子赐给他们……”这是个好消息。因着上帝在爱里为我们所做的这一切,我们才不会失丧。
If God is all-powerful and all-loving, it would seem inconsistent with His nature to allow anyone to be lost. Here again we rationalize because we do not understand the nature of God. God cannot go against His own laws and against His own nature. God is holy. He cannot tolerate sin in His presence. He created us free to choose how we would live. He invites us to come His way, but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences. We glibly say, “Surely a loving God would not allow a person He loves to be lost. He just wouldn’t allow it.” Far from allowing it, God has done everything He can to prevent it! Talk about love! “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son . . . ” This is good news. Because of what God in love has done for us, we need not be lost.
今日祷告
全能的上帝,每一天我生活在祢的儿子耶稣基督的恩典当中,因着这恩典,我感受到祢的鸿恩大爱!
Prayer for the day
Almighty God, your magnanimous love is felt in my life, as I live each day through the grace of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
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