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每日箴言|刻意留心,作出感谢




每日箴言

刻意留心,作出感谢


“你们或吃或喝,无论做什么,都要为荣耀神而行。” - 林前 10:31

 灵修

感谢的心,是要我们睁大眼睛生活,去留心周围的事物。它要求我们认识到,一切美丽、正直、完全,和可爱之物,都是从神而来的,而我们应该感谢祂。我们要认识到在宇宙的中心,是这位大能美善的神。我们也要认识到,最值得我们感谢的是什么——就是当我们无助、无望,死在罪恶过犯中的时候,基督赐给我们一个新的生命、一个清白的记录,和一个圣洁的人生目标。我们明白到,虽然我们不配,但因着神的恩典,我们已经得到了一切。在日常生活中,一颗刻意留心以致感恩的心,对我们自己有很大的影响,对我们周围的人也有很大的影响。


保罗盼望我们好好活出我们的信心来,我们回应神的恩典的喜乐和感恩,应该让人感受到你是在祝福他,而不是在批判他的。


有人说,基督徒如果能停止责骂那些我们反对的事,而开始更具热诚地宣扬那些我们支持的事,我们的见证必定会更强大更有果效了。这应该不是一件困难的事,因为我们相信,神是毫无保留地为了我们和这个世界的。


今天,我们应该怎样去向我们的邻舍见证神美妙的真理呢?


 祷告


神啊,祢多么爱这个世界,甚至赐下祢的儿子来拯救它,为此我们从心灵深处感谢祢。求祢帮助我们怀着感谢的生活,以致我们的邻舍也被感动归向耶稣。奉祂的名求,阿们。


普世佳音每日箴言

 Mindful Gratitude

"Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." — 1 Corinthians 10:31


 Devotion


Gratitude requires mindfulness —living with eyes wide open. It calls for knowing that every good gift, everything beautiful and right and perfect and lovely, comes from God. And we must know where to direct our thanks. We know that at the center of the universe is the God who is strong and good. And we know what we’re most thankful for—that when we were helpless and hopeless and dead in our sins, Christ gave us a new life, a clean slate, a holy purpose. We understand that although we deserve nothing, we have been given everything through God’s grace. Going about our days with mindful gratitude makes a difference in us. And it makes a difference to those around us.

Paul wants us to be careful about the way we live out our faith. Our joy and thankfulness for God’s gifts should be something that others find contagious, not condemning.

It’s been said that our Christian witness in this world would be much stronger and more effective if we stopped shouting about the things we are against and started speaking more compellingly about the things we are for. That shouldn’t be hard for us, for we believe that God is overwhelmingly for us and for this world.

How might we demonstrate that beautiful truth to our neighbors today?


Prayer


God, you love this world so much that you gave your Son to save it. From the depths of our hearts we thank you. Help us to live with gratitude that moves our neighbors toward Jesus. Amen.


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