双语灵修（葛培理牧师）4月8日 复活在主

4月8日

复活在主

“耶稣对她说：「复活在我，生命也在我。信我的人虽然死了，也必复活；”

约翰福音 11:25

复活的意思，就是从死亡里站起来。成为“不死族”，当下很流行。它可以让你拥有关于自己的电视或电影系列剧。不过，当“不死族”，并不是很酷的事情。两千年前，一个名叫拉撒路的人病死了。一场悲伤的葬礼正在进行，直到耶稣来，叫他这位死去的朋友的尸体可以行走。 他对着坟墓大声喊到：拉撒路，出来！于是，拉撒路就从坟墓里走出来了。众人自然惊奇万分。接着，大家帮拉撒路换下麻衣，一起吃饭，庆祝。对耶稣来说，这并不是什么奇事。他的使命，就是让人有重生的生命。而人们却不知如何看待这件事。他们从来没有见过死人复活。尽管拉撒路不是“僵尸”，他们还是吓得半死。当然，他们也因此开始害怕耶稣。人们必须作出选择：要么接受可以赐生命的主，要么赶紧逃离他。

今日祷告：

主耶稣，今天让我听见你的声音，给我新的生命。阿们。

April 8 – No-Zombie Zone

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.”

JOH N 1 1 : 2 5

Resurrection means to “raise from the dead.” To be undead is all the rage nowadays. It could get you your own TV or movie series. But it wasn’t always cool to be undead. Two thousand years ago a man named Lazarus had gotten sick and died. A funeral full of wailing was well underway—that is, until Jesus decided to try out this undead thing on his recently deceased friend. He yelled into the tomb, “Lazarus, I want to hang out, bro!” (or something to that

effect). So, as anybody would do when Jesus speaks life, Lazarus came out of the tomb walking, much to the astonishment of everyone (except for Jesus, who played it all very cool).

A little later, after of course people unwrapped Lazarus’ burial cloths, they ate dinner together—for Jesus, this was just another day of work.

Raising people to life is what he does for a living. People didn’t know what to think about this situation. They had never seen an undead person before. And even though he was no zombie, Lazarus scared them. And this of course made them scared of Jesus too. The people were challenged to either accept the life-giving power of Jesus or to run away.

Pray for the Day:

Jesus, let me hear your voice calling me to life today. Amen.