双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月15日 拣选生命

3月15日

拣选生命

“我今日呼天唤地向你作见证；我将生死祸福陈明在你面前，所以你要拣选生命，使你和你的后裔都得存活；”

申命记30:19

在航天飞机投入使用之前，宇航员都是通过太空舱落入大海返回地球，救生船和救援直升机就发挥了很重要的作用。在浩瀚大海中直升机定位太空舱后，就抛下救生绳索，把宇航员提上来，再送到救生船上。

每次我在电视上看到这些情景的时候，我就想起神的工作。他在全世界搜寻丧失的灵魂，他把救生绳索抛给他们。抓着的，就得救，得到神所赐的爱子耶稣基督，最后可以升到天国。也有那些不要抓的，他们相信靠自己就可以得救。

你能想象那些宇航员或是在海上遇险的人拒绝被救么？然而，每天都有无数人拒绝接受神的拯救。国家也是这样。尽管神说，“公义使邦国高举；罪恶是人民的羞辱。”（箴言14:34）但是列国和他们的首脑认为没有神的帮助，照样可以生存。我们的钞票上印着：“我们信仰上帝”。但是我不知道究竟有多少人真正信靠上帝。

我们的灵魂向神发出求救信号。当神抛来救生绳索的时候，我们是拒绝还是接受？决定权在我们自己手里。做正确的选择，有永生的福乐；做错误的决定，就有永远的后果。在你的生命中，你做过哪些选择呢？

今日祷告：

天父，在我一生中我选择跟随我的主耶稣。我选择顺服。求你用圣灵充满我。奉耶稣的名，阿门。

March 15

SEARCH AND RESCUE

…I have set before you life and death…therefore choose life,that you and your descendants may live.Deuteronomy 30:19 RSV

Before the space shuttle program,American ships and helicopters used to recover astronauts who had returned to earth at sea.The tiny spacecraft would be located in the enormous ocean,and the astronauts would be lifted out of their capsule into the helicopter,which would then fly them to the safety of the ship.

I have often thought,as I watched these scenes on television,how like God this operation is.God hovers over the entire world,seeking to pluck from sin immortal souls who are in danger of“drowing”in hell.He tosses out a line to all those who are in trouble.Some grab on to God’s line and freely receive the gift of His Son,Jesus Christ.They are pulled to safety,and,eventually,taken to heaven.Others ignore the line,believing they can make it on their own.

Can you imagine an astronaut or anyone in trouble at sea refusing to be rescued?Yet vast numbers of people daily refuse the help of God.

Nations refuse this help as well.Though God has said,“Righteousness exalts a nations,but sin is reproach to any people,”nations and national leaders think they can survive without God’s help.We have“In God We Trust”on our money,but I wonder how often it is really in the money that we trust?

Our souls send out a distress signal to God.When God hovers over us dangling a saving lifeline,do we refuse His help,or do we grasp the line so that we can be saved?The choice is ours alone.There are eternal benefits that come from making the right choice.There are also eternal consequences for making the wrong choice.Which choices have you been making in your life?

Pray for the Day:

Father,I choose in my life to follow my Lord Jesus.I choose to obey.Fill me with Your Holy Spirit,in Jesus’Name,Amen.