8月31日 盼望超越死亡 Hope Beyond Death

8月31日

盼望超越死亡

Hope Beyond Death

义人临死，有所投靠。

——箴14:32

The righteous hath hope in his death.

—Proverbs 14:32

我们不喜欢讨论死亡，这是我们这代人的禁忌话题。然而死亡对我们每个人来说都是真实的。有时候我在电视上看到由已过世演员主演的电影，在画面上他们看起来活力充沛，但却已经死去。他们中有些是我的好朋友。死亡是真实的，而当我们面对死亡，只能独自作战，那一刻无人陪伴。但大卫说他已经发现了能消除死之恐惧的答案。他说死亡有个答案，有个能够超越死亡的盼望。这盼望的中心就是复活的基督。保罗写到“离开肉体”就是“与主同在”。这样就消除了对死亡的恐惧。

We don’t like to talk about death; it’s the forbidden subject of our generation. Yet it’s real for all of us. Sometimes on television I see motion pictures featuring actors who are no longer living. They seem very much alive in the picture, but they are dead. Some of them were my personal friends. Death is real, and when we die, that is a battle we have to fight all alone. Nobody can be with us in that hour, but David said he had found an answer that would take the fear of death away. David said that there is an answer to death, there is a hope beyond death. That hope is centered in the risen Christ. Paul wrote that to be “absent from the body” is to be “present with the Lord.” So the fear of death is removed.

今日祷告

主耶稣，我带着完全的信心，盼望我的灵魂永远与你同在的那一天！

Prayer for the day

Lord Jesus, with complete trust I look toward that day when my soul will be with You for eternity.