双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：8月24日 罪之根

8月24日

罪之根

靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了。

——罗8:37

我们的世界面临的基本问题并不只是社会不平等，或者教育的缺乏，甚至也不是身体上的饥饿。我们发现那些受过高等教育、衣食无忧的人所具有的贪婪、憎恨、激情和肉欲并没有被教育所消除。罪的根源深植于我们每个人的心里，这才是世间问题的根本原因；只有主的烈火才能烧尽它。这也正是基督来要做的。他来不是要治疗症状，他来是要医治人类之病的核心。

今日祷告

父啊，求你拔除我生命里的罪之根，那些生命中的缺点，用你的爱充满我，好叫我能与今日世间的邪恶争战。

August 24

Root of Sin

Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us.

—Romans 8:37 (TLB)

The basic problem facing our world is not just social inequity, or lack of education, or even physical hunger. We are finding that highly educated and well-fed people have greeds, hates, passions, and lusts that are not eliminated by education. The root of sin in each of our hearts is extremely deep, and this is the basic cause of the world’s problems; only the fire of the Lord can burn it out. This is precisely what Christ came to do. He didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.

Prayer for the day

Father, root out the sin in my life—the shortcomings that are there—and fill me with Your love, so I may fight against the evil present in the world today.