8月23日 我们必须降卑 We Must Decrease

8月23日

我们必须降卑

We Must Decrease

我们当深深考察自己的行为，再归向耶和华。

——哀3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

—Lamentations 3:40

我们自立更生和自给自足的现代哲学，使许多人相信没有神我们也可以取得成绩。他们争辩说，“宗教对某些情绪化的人来说或许是正确的，但你不能打败一个相信自己的人。”但是这自信的一代人产生了比以往的任何一代都更多的酗酒者、更多的吸毒者、更多的罪犯、更多的战争、更多破碎的家庭、更多的袭击、更多的贪污、更多的谋杀以及更多的自杀事件。是时候让我们反思自己的失败、过犯和代价高昂的错误了。是时候让我们对自己少点信心，对神多些信靠和信心了。

Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we are putting less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God.

今日祷告

当我检视自己的内心，我看到了那里有如此多的自我。我请求你宽恕我，主，我的信心将由你引领。

Prayer for the day

As I examine my heart, I see so much of self there. I ask that You would forgive me, Lord—my confidence will be in Your leading.