双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月16日 知我心思

3月16日

知我心思

“神啊，求你鉴察我，知道我的心思，试炼我，知道我的意念，看在我里面有什么恶行没有，引导我走永生的道路。”

诗篇139:23-24

这是一篇伟大的领袖自我反省的诗篇。大卫王知道，一个民族的崛起，在经济、科学或政治方面的水平取决于他们的灵性所达到的高度。大卫谦卑地认识到并且承认，国家和民族的问题也归因于人民的灵性出现问题。

大卫不想疲于开大会、听辩论、做调查这些无效的政治，他来到神的面前，寻求解决国家和民族问题的答案。他祈祷神复兴他的国家，祈祷神首先燃起他自己内心的复兴之火。

他不仅祈祷自己可以认识神，更祈祷神可以鉴察他。他的内心在呼喊：神啊，求你鉴察我。

他的心渴望与神有密不可分的、亲密的个人关系，正如今天我们所渴望的那样。简而言之，他祈求与神建立全新的、确定的关系，并且真实地经历神。

除非神通过我们的亲身经历向我们显示祂自己，否则我们永远也无法真正认识祂。我们大多数人只是认识神，但并不真正了解神。这有很大的不同。

那起初创造我们的，就是唯一可以再造我们的那一位。相信这一点，岂不是很合乎逻辑吗？如果你的手表坏了，你不会把它拿到铁匠那里去修理；如果你的汽车需要检修，你不会去找水管工；如果你需要动手术，你不会去金工车间。

我们灵里的问题，只能由那起初造我们的神来解决。他按照自己的形象造了我们，今天，因着他独生爱子的恩典，他可以按照自己复活的样子再造我们。凭着在耶稣基督里的信心，我们成为新造的人，见证祂的生命。

“若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。”（哥林多后书5:17）

大卫的祷告，记载在诗篇139中，包含着一个次序。他先祈求神鉴察他，然后他祈求神洁净他，最后，他祈求神引导他。这样的祷告，使大卫得到完全、彻底的转变。同样，他的国家，以色列，也进入与神的同在之中。当我们与神亲近，我们也可以得到平安。信靠神，是获得平安的唯一途径。。

今日祷告：

天父，我们渴望你了解我们；我们渴望你洁净我们；我们也求你来引导我们。主啊，我们愿意顺服你的指引；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

March 16

REALLY KNOWING GOD

Search me,O God,and know my heart!Try me and know my thoughts!And see if there be any wicked way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting.Psalm 139:23-24 RSV

Here was a wise confession on the part of a great leader.David knew that a people can rise no higher economically,scientifically,and politically than the level of their spiritual resources.Here was a humble admission and an acknowledgement that a nation’s sicknesses can be attributed to its spiritual ills.

Weary of assemblies,hearings,conferences,and investigations designed to reveal the root causes of state difficulties,David turned his face to the altar of God.He prayed earnestly for God to begin the revival of his nation by kindling the fires of revival in his own heart.

Not only did he pray that he might know God,but that God might know him.“Search me,O God!”

His heart yearned,as indeed our hearts yearn today,for a personal,vital intimacy with God.In short,he was praying for a new,definite,real experience with his God.

Unless God is revealed to us through personal experience,we can never really know God.Most of us know about God,but that is quite different from really knowing God.

Is it not logical to believe that the only One who can recreate us is the One who created us in the first place?If your watch were out of order,you wouldn’t take it to a blacksmith.If your car needed overhauling,you wouldn’t take it to a plumber.If you needed an operation,you wouldn’t take it to a plumber.If you needed an operation,you wouldn’t go to a machine shop.

Our spiritual problems can only be solved by the God who created us originally.He created us in His own image and likeness:today by the grace of His Son,He can re-create us in the likeness of His resurrections.Through faith in Jesus Christ,we are recreated and become partakers of His life.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ,he is a new creature:old things are passed away;behold,all things are become new”(2 Corinthians 5:17).

David’s prayer,recorded here in Psalm 139,contained a proper sequence.First he prayed that God might know him;then he prayed that God might cleanse him;and last he prayed that God might direct him.David’s transformation,as a result of this prayer,was full and complete.Likewise,his nation,Israel,was brought into harmony with God.We,too,can find peace as we are rightly related to God-and this is the only path to peace.

Pray for the Day:

Father,we pray that You will know us.We pray that You will cleanse us.And we pray that You will direct us.And Lord,we choose to obey Your direction;in Jesus’Name,Amen.