双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：6月29日 大能的手

6月29日

大能的手

因为我饿了，你们给我吃，渴了，你们给我喝；我作客旅，你们留我住。

——太25:35

在战争期间，德国斯特拉斯堡的一个教堂完全被摧毁。但是在祭坛边上耶稣的雕像几乎没有被毁坏，只是雕像的双手遗失了。当这个教堂被重新建立的时候，一位著名的雕塑家提议重新为耶稣的雕塑安装一双手，但是认真考虑过后，大家最终决定保持他原来的样子——没有双手。他们说“虽然基督没有双手，但是我们的双手在世上所做的是他手里的工作。如果我们不把食物给饥饿的人吃，不把水给渴的人喝水，不接待陌生人，不探访狱中的人，不送衣服给赤身露体的人，谁还会去做这样的事呢？”基督通过我们去做这些事情，当他在世的时候也是这样做的。亲爱的朋友们，如果我们所传的福音没有社会应用性，如果福音在这个忙碌的世界上失去功效，我们所传的就不是基督的福音。

今日祷告

主耶稣基督，求祢使用我的双手，让我清楚地意识到那些受伤的人的需要。祷告奉耶稣的名，阿们。

June 29

The Hands of Jesus

……I was hungry, [and] you gave me food……
—Matthew 25:35 (NEB)

During the war a church in Strasburg, Germany, was totally destroyed; but a statue of Christ which stood by the altar was almost unharmed. Only the hands of the statue were missing. When the church was rebuilt, a famous sculptor offered to make new hands; but, after considering the matter, the members decided to let it stand as it was—without hands. “For,” they said, “Christ has no hands but our hands to do His work on earth. If we don’t feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, entertain the stranger, visit the imprisoned, and clothe the naked, who will?” Christ is depending on us to do the very things which He did while upon earth. My friend, if the gospel we preach does not have a social application, if it will not work effectively in the work-a-day world, then it is not the Gospel of Christ.

Prayer for the day：
I look at my hands, Lord Jesus, and ask You to use them this day. Make me conscious of the needs of those who hurt. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.