双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月9日 心灵寻求

3月9日

心灵寻求

“夜间我想起我的歌曲，我的心默想，我的灵仔细省察：”

诗篇77:6

当一个航天飞机按照它的轨道返回地球的时候，会出现大约四分钟的通讯中断。这是由于航天器重返地球大气层时摩擦产生的高热造成的。

圣经告诉我们，人类也正经历一段灵命的黑暗期。在灵里，处于盲目状态。“我们用手摸墙，好像盲人，四处摸索，如同失明的人；中午时我们绊倒，如在黄昏一样，在强壮的人中，我们好像死人一般。”（以赛亚书59:10）“这些不信的人被这世界的神明弄瞎了心眼，使他们看不见基督荣耀的福音。基督本是上帝的像。”（哥林多后书4:4）

在灵里，人也听不见。“人子啊，你住在悖逆之家中；他们有眼可看却看不见，有耳可听却听不到，因为他们是悖逆之家。”（以西结书12:2）耶稣甚至说，“如果他们不听从摩西和先知的话，就是有人从死人中复活，他们也不会信服的。’”（路加福音16:31）

在灵里，人还会死去。“从前，你们因着自己的过犯罪恶而死了。”（以弗所书2:1）

这一切都意味着神与人之间的交通出现中断。有一个奇妙世界充满喜乐、光明、和睦、平安、满足，可惜很多人却视而不见、充耳不闻、甚至死去。他们寻求安宁，渴望幸福，却似乎永远找不到。

很多人放弃追求，陷入悲观主义。消沉沮丧导致他们借酒浇愁、寻欢作乐。这都是人在绝望中的表现，他们寻求逃离这种被罪恶折磨的冷酷现实。神一直在向我们说话并且召唤我们。祂发出爱的信息，但是我们必须在正确的波段。我们要甘心乐意接受祂的信息，顺服祂的旨意。

今日祷告：

父啊，我的心切切寻求你，我爱你。求你引导我归向你自己，开通我的耳朵去听，打开我的眼睛去看；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

March 9

SEARCHING

My spirit made diligent search.Psalm 77:6

When a spacecraft returns from its orbital flight,there is a blackout period of about four minutes when all communications are broken.This is due to the intense heat generated by the spacecraft’s reentry into the earth’s atmosphere.

The Bible teaches that man is in a period of spiritual blackout.Spiritually,he is blind.“We grope for the wall like the blind,and we grope as if we had no eyes:we stumble at noon day as in the night;we are in desolate places as dead men”(Isaiah 59:10).“The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not”(2 Corinthians 4:4).

Spiritually,man is also deaf.“They have ears to hear,and hear not”(Ezekiel 12:2).Jesus went so far as to say,“If they hear not Moses and the prophets,neither will they be persuaded,though one rose from the dead”(Luke 16:31).

Spiritually,man is even dead.“Who were dead in trespasses and sins”(Ephesians 2:1).

All of this means that the communication between God and man is broken.There is a wonderful world of joy,light,harmony,peace,and satisfaction to which millions of persons are blind and deaf,and even dead.They search for serenity,they long for happiness,but they never seem to find it.

Many give up the search and surrender to pessimism.Often their despondency leads to a frantic round of cocktail parties where vast amounts of alcohol are imbibed.Sometimes it leads them to narcotics or illicit sex.It is all part of man’s desperate search to find an escape from the cold realities of a sin-blighted existence.All the while God is there speaking and beckoning.God is sending forth His message of love,but we must be on the right wavelength.We must be willing to receive His message and then to obey it.

Pray for the Day:

Father,my heart searches diligently for You,and I love You.Lead me to Yourself,and open up my ears to hear and my eyes to see;in Jesus’Name,Amen.