双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：2月24日 不要嫉妒

2月24日

不要嫉妒

“心中安静是肉体的生命； 嫉妒是骨中的朽烂。”

箴言 14:30

三千多年前，扫罗做以色列王。一首传唱于街头巷尾的民谣，让他恼怒不已。这首民谣歌词实在很浅显，也只是街头流行的曲调。但是这首民谣被反复传唱，一次又一次地激怒了扫罗。在撒母耳记上18章，记载着这样的歌词：「 扫罗 杀死千千， 大卫 杀死万万。」 扫罗甚发怒，不喜悦这话。

以色列王扫罗开始嫉妒这个名叫大卫的年轻勇士。大卫所拥有的信心、名望、美誉、潜力、应许、俊美等，其实扫罗都曾拥有过，但最终失去了。所以扫罗就想：好吧，既然我不能拥有，那么大卫也不可以拥有！

事实上，圣经说，扫罗不喜悦那歌词。他看着这首歌，看着大卫，看着他自己，他的眼睛就使他的内心变得邪恶起来。当嫉妒占据了扫罗的心，而不再是上帝，他便开始对大卫怀恨在心了。

今日祷告：

主耶稣，求祢除去我心中的嫉妒，让我唯有在祢的里面找到平安。奉主耶稣基督的圣名，阿们！

February 24 – Rot

A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.

P R O V E R B S 1 4 : 3 0

Three thousand years ago there was a chart-topping pop song that must have gotten stuck in King Saul’s mind and driven him mad. The lyrics weren’t too deep really, just regular boy-band type of stuff. But they must have irritated Saul over and over and over again. The words from 1

Samuel 18 went like this: “Saul has killed his thousands, and David his tens thousands.” Saul didn’t like that song.

King Saul began to envy this young warrior named David. What David had (faith, fame, adoration, potential, promise, good looks, magazine covers?), Saul once had, but had lost. And so Saul thought, Well, if I can’t have it, then David can’t have it anymore either.

In fact, the Bible says that the song was “bad in the eyes of Saul.” He looked at the song, he looked at David, and he looked at himself, and his eyes made his heart malignant. Jealousy, not God, took control of the way he looked at his life, and so he “kept a jealous eye on David.”

Pray for the Day:

Lord Jesus, rid my heart of jealousy today. Let me find my peace in you alone. Amen.