双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月19日 使命和目标

5月19日

使命和目标

……常常服侍主，在指望中要喜乐……

——罗12:11-12

每一代人都越来越沉迷于生活的麻木中，以麻木来缓和生活带给他们的创伤。人们被琐事和挫败感深深地压迫，找不到有价值并且吸引他们的目标或使命，找不到他们存在的意义以及内在的动力。神可以把你从空虚的恐慌中解救出来，他在等着你回转，为你预备新的方向并且拿去你生活中的不满。最近我与社区的一个朋友交谈，他不久前刚回转归向神，他告诉我：“以前我不知道如何打发空闲的时间，现在我有了一种从未有过的使命感和人生目标。”

今日祷告

主啊，我所做的即使再小的工作都是在服侍祢，求祢让圣灵充满我，不管做什么我都会满心欢喜。奉耶稣基督的名，阿们。

May 19

Commitment and Purpose

. . . serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope……
—Romans 12:11,12

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living. Oppressed by a sense of triviality and thwarted purpose, men find no great goal or commitment to draw them, and no inner stimulation to give meaning to their existence. Christ can save you from the bane of boredom. He waits to give you a fresh sense of direction and to take dissatisfaction out of your life. I talked recently with a man in my own community who was converted to faith in Christ. “I hadn’t known what to do with my leisure time,” he told me, “but now I have a sense of commitment and purpose that I never knew before.”

Prayer for the day：

Even the smallest job I do today is part of my service to You, Lord. Help my heart to be so filled with Your Spirit I will rejoice whatever task is set before me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.