4月17日
真正的满足
因我们还软弱的时候，基督就按所定的日期为罪人死。
罗马书5:6
我们常常无法自拔。我们不能抵制诱惑。我们渴望得到的东西，就一定要拥有它。我们的病症就是：得到的越多，越觉得自己拥有的太少。这种病让我们贪得无厌。这是一个螺旋式的恶性循环：渴望–获得–失去，渴望–获得–失去，再渴望–再获得–再失去。当我们陷入这种循环的时候，我们内心的空虚也就越来越强烈。
一心追逐自我满足，一定会对自己的徒劳无功感到失望。所罗门在传道书1:8提醒我们：万事都令人厌倦，人说，说不尽；眼看，看不饱；耳听，听不够。不管我们看见了多少，我们永远不知足。转瞬即逝的快感不能满足我们内心对完美的深切渴望。但是耶稣可以帮助我们。他能给我们的，是我们靠自己的能力所无法掌握的。唯有基督，可以满足我们，使我们重新回到受造时的美好。
今日祷告：
耶稣，为什么我要不停地追逐那些我最终不需要的东西？我只需要你。只有你能帮助我克服生命中无谓的循环往复。阿们。
April 17 – Helpless
When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.
ROMA N S 5 : 6
We often can’t help ourselves. We see something tempting and we can’t resist it. We hunger for something and we must consume it. Our diagnosis is this: The more we gain, the less we feel like we actually have. This sickness only fuels our thirst for even more. It is a perpetually spiraling cycle: craving and conquest and loss, craving and conquest and loss, craving and conquest and loss. When we live loopy like this, our emptiness is emphasized.
The pursuit of our own happiness leaves us disappointed in our own futility. “No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied,” Solomon reminds us (Ecclesiastes 1:8). The fleeting pleasures we have sought cannot satisfy our deep thirst for wholeness. But Jesus can help us. He is able to give us what we cannot grasp by our own power and strength. Christ alone can give us the fulfillment we were created to have.
Pray for the Day:
Jesus, why do I keep trying in vain to grab things I don’t ultimately need? What I need is you. Only you can help me overcome the looping repetitions of my life. Amen.
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