九月二十日
你降服了吗?
Do You Surrender?
“我们原是他的工作,在基督耶稣里造成的,为要叫我们行善,就是神所预备叫我们行的。”—–弗2:10
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.
—Ephesians 2:10 (TLB)
幸福和所有从天堂的府库中流淌出来的、无限的福分都取决于我们与上帝的关系。完全的信靠和完全的顺服是成为上帝孩子的条件。只有上帝的孩子才有权得到那些使他们幸福的东西。为了成为上帝的孩子,必须愿意降服于他。
我们必须承认在我们变得富有之前,我们是贫穷的。我们必须承认在我们成为嗣子之前我们是一贫如洗的。当我们意识到我们的善良在上帝的眼中就像污秽的破布一样,意识到我们顽固意志的破坏力;当我们意识到我们别无他法,只有靠着上帝的恩典完全信靠他时,我们就开始走上幸福之路了。
人不是通过行为来认识上帝,而借着恩典通过信心来认识上帝。你不能靠自己的方式走向幸福和天堂,你不能将你的方式道德化,你不能改革你的方式,你也不能购买你的方式。它是上帝借着基督赐下的礼物。
Happiness and all of the unlimited benefits which flow from the storehouse of heaven are contingent upon our relationship to God. Absolute dependency and absolute yieldedness are the conditions of being His child. Only His children are entitled to receive those things that lend themselves to happiness; and in order to be His child, there must be surrender of the will to Him。
We must admit we are poor before we can be made rich. We must admit we are destitute before we can become children of adoption. When we realize that all our own goodness is as filthy rags in God’s sight, and become aware of the destructive power of our stubborn wills; when we realize our absolute dependence upon the grace of God through faith and nothing more, then we have started on the road to happiness.
Man does not come to know God through works—he comes to know God by faith through grace. You cannot work your way toward happiness and heaven, you cannot moralize your way, you cannot reform your way, you cannot buy your way. It comes as a gift of God through Christ.
每日祷告
主耶稣,求祢使我们牢记,我们是靠着祢的恩典才认识祢;因着祢我们才能在祢面前称义 。
Prayer for the day
Ever impress upon us, Lord Jesus, that it is through grace that we came to know You; that it is because of You that we stand righteous before You.
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