双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月3日 起初拣选

3月3日

起初拣选

“主所爱的弟兄们哪，我们本该常为你们感谢上帝；因为他从起初拣选了你们，叫你们因信真道，又被圣灵感动，成为圣洁，能以得救。”

帖撒罗尼迦后书2:13

神的爱并非从十字架上的舍身才开始。在伊甸园之前，在群星闪烁之前，在第一道明光照亮世界之前，在第一片嫩叶破土而出之前，神就是爱。

回到那些尚未载入史册的年代，在上帝创造天地之前，“地是空虚混沌，渊面黑暗”，上帝的荣耀光辉灿烂，祂的天使基路伯和撒拉弗用翅膀遮住脸，敬拜圣洁至高神。

天堂纵然高远，上帝无比圣洁，我们却得知，借着那从创世以来被杀的羔羊，上帝就将他的爱倾倒在我们身上。

甚至在创世之前，甚至在他造你之前，他就记念着你。上帝如此爱你，祂渴望与你建立最深、最亲密的关系。

从起初就是如此，现在依然如此，因为上帝永不改变。祂是慈爱的神，祂永远爱你。

今日祷告：

天父，您永不改变。你的奇妙和荣耀永不改变。感谢你;奉耶稣的名，阿门。

March 3

IN THE BEGINNING

God hath from the beginning chosen you….2 Thessalonians 2:13

God’s love did not begin at Calvary.Before the morning stars of the pre-Eden world sang together,before the world was baptized with the first light,before the first blades of tender grass peeped out,God was love.

Turn back to the unwritten pages of countless millennia before God spoke this present earth into existence,when the earth was“without form and void”and the deep,silent darkness of space formed a vast gulf between the brilliance of God’s glory and His cherubim and seraphim,who covered their faces with their wings in awe and reverence toward Him who is high and holy.

Yet lofty as the heavens may be,and pure as God’s holiness glistens,there comes to our ears the word that the majesty of His love was moved for us,and the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.

God thought of you even then,even before He made the world,even before He made you.It is that God who loves you and longs to have the deepest and closest relationship possible with you.

That is what it was like in the beginning.That is what it is still like today,for God never changes,whether it be in His personality or His love for you.

Pray for the Day:

Father,You never change.You are always wonderful and glorious.Thank You;in Jesus’Name,Amen.