2月27日
神是安慰者
“惟有我，是安慰你们的……”（赛51:12）
哀痛者，必得安慰。有主耶稣活在我们的生命中，他会将哀痛转为诗歌，这是一首安慰之歌。安慰可以使一个虔诚的英国信徒在他的房屋被轰炸成黑洞时，仍然充满感恩地说“我一直想要一个地下室，现在我决定再建一个带地下室的房子，就像我一直想要的那样。”安慰可以使一个年轻牧师的妻子在他丈夫葬礼那天，依然能够在附近的教会教导在上主日学的孩子们。她在哀痛中充满希望，这是在神的良善和智慧里满有信心的哀痛。他们深信不疑，我们的天父始终都不会犯错。
今日祷告
天父，因着你爱子耶稣基督的牺牲，你深知我们的痛苦和忧伤，谢谢你安慰了这些爱你的人。
February 27: God Our Comforter
I, even I, am he that comforteth you . . .
—Isaiah 51:12
There is also comfort in mourning, because in the midst of mourning God gives a song. His presence in our lives changes our mourning into song, and that song is a song of comfort. This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a devout Englishman to look at a deep dark hole in the ground where his home stood before the bombing and say, “I always did want a basement. Now I can jolly well build another house, like I always wanted.” This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a young minister’s wife in a church near us to teach her Sunday school class of girls on the very day of her husband’s funeral. Her mourning was not the kind which had no hope-it was a mourning of faith in the goodness and wisdom of God; it believed that our heavenly Father makes no mistakes.
Prayer for the day:
Oh heavenly Father, who knows what agony and grief are because of the sacrifice of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ-I thank You for the comfort which embraces all those who love You.
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