双语灵修（葛培理牧师） ：1月5日 神的人性

1月5日

神的人性（上帝是人）

“我们不致消灭，是出于耶和华诸般的慈爱；是因他的怜悯不致断绝。每早晨，这都是新的；你的诚实极其广大！”

耶利米哀歌3:22-23

小时候，我想着上帝可能是个白胡子老爷爷，毕竟米开朗基罗也是这样画他的。后来长大了，我读圣经，接受耶稣做我的救主，我意识到上帝是个灵，但是也有人的属性：他有思想，有言语，有交流，有仁爱，也有愤怒和悲伤。

因为上帝有人性，所以他能够对我们感同身受。我们都是他按照自己形象造的，他也期待我们跟他建立关系，向他表达最深的情感。

上帝用两种方式与我们交流：一是圣经，他的话语。通过圣经，我们知道上帝是谁，我们又是谁？为什么我们需要救赎，断开罪的捆绑，与上帝那和好？

二是耶稣，他的爱子。耶稣说如果不借着他，没人能到上帝那里。通过救恩，我们来到耶稣面前，从而来到上帝的面前。

上帝昨日、今日、一直到永远，是一样的。祂永不改变。

今日祷告：

天父啊，你的恩惠何等广大，每早晨都是新的。主啊，你信实、慈爱、良善。你爱我们，因我们是你的创造。而你不仅仅把我们看作是你创造的一部分，你看我们如珍如宝，你竟赐下你的儿子为我们而死。我们感谢你的救恩，主啊，我们祈求，将我们的生命当作活祭献给你。奉耶稣基督的圣名，阿们！

January 5

GOD IS A PERSON

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed,because his compassions fail not.They are new every morning:great is thy faithfulness.Lamentations 3:22-23

When I was a small,I thought of God as an old man with a long white beard.After all,hadn’t Michelangelo painted Him that way?

Later,as I read the Bible,and after I had accepted Christ as my Savior,I realized that God is a spirit,yet He has the attributes of a person:He thinks,He speaks,He communicates,He loves,He becomes angry,He grieves.

Because God is a person,He feels that which we feel.After all,we are made in His image,so it is to be expected that we would be able to communicate our deepest feelings and emotions to God.

God communicates with us in two ways.First,He communicates with us through His written Word,the Bible.It tells us who God is,who we are,and why we need a Savior so that we might have that relationship with God which sin has broken.

Second,God communicates with us through His Son.Jesus said that no man can come to the Father except through Him.We have that access to Jesus,and thus to God,through salvation.

God is the same yesterday,today,and forever.He never changes.

Pray for the Day:

Father,Your mercies are great and they’re new every morning.You are faithful,O Lord,and you are loving,and You are kind.And You have valued us as part of Your Creation,but not just part of Your Creation,but as ones whom You treasure as precious.You have given Your Son to die for us.So we thank You for Your salvation,and we pray,Lord,that you will take our life as a living sacrifice for You;in Jesus’Name,Amen.