2月25日
心的回转
如果你们听了他的道，领了他的教，学了他的真理，就要脱去你们从前行为上的旧人，这旧人是因私欲的迷惑渐渐变坏的……（弗4:20-22）
保罗在回转之前很悖逆，骄傲残酷，他也迫害过很多基督徒，并且试图毁灭他们。他曾经真的很顽固、自私、自夸。但是当他写信给加拉太教会的时候，他说“圣灵所结的果子是…温柔、良善、顺服”。保罗的顺服来自神，不是人为的。温柔并不是我们的本性，反之，我们的本性里充满骄傲自大。这就是为什么新生对我们来说如此重要的原因，耶稣不单教导尼哥底母也教导我们每一个人“你们必须重生”。重生带来顺服，我们必须改变自己的本性。
今日祷告：
天父，求你给我一颗顺服的心，就像主耶稣基督顺服你一样。
February 25: Change of Heart
Christ taught you! If you have really heard his voice . . . then throw off your old evil nature-the old you that was a partner in your evil ways . . .
—Ephesians 4:20-22 (TLB)
Paul before his conversion was not meek. Proudly and brutally, he apprehended all Christians and sought to destroy them. He was bigoted, selfish, and vaunted. But when he wrote his warm and affectionate letter to the churches of Galatia, he said, among other things, “The fruit of the Spirit is . . . gentleness, goodness . . . meekness.” His meekness was something God-given, not something man-made. It is not our nature to be meek. On the contrary, it is our nature to be proud and haughty. That is why the new birth is so essential to each of us. That is why Jesus frankly and pointedly said not only to Nicodemus but to every one of us, “Ye must be born again.” Meekness begins there! You must have a change of nature.
Prayer for the day:
Heavenly Father, give me the same kind of meekness that You gave to Jesus.
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