双语灵修（葛培理牧师） ：1月11日 家庭第一

1月11日

家庭第一

“儿女是耶和华所赐的产业；所怀的胎是他所给的赏赐。”

诗篇127:3

今天，家庭所面临的压力，远远超过历史上的任何时候。无论是出于无奈，还是出于自己的意愿，越来越多的女性在外工作。许多人对于把儿女托给别人照看或者让孩子们自己回到空无一人的家里而感到内疚。很多单身的母亲不得不出去工作来养活自己和孩子。这样现象在我们的生活中已经比比皆是。

然而，很多人宁愿投身于事业，甚于家庭。那么，家庭和婚姻出现问题也就不足为奇了。套用圣经的一句话，人若赚得全世界，却失去了家庭，有什么益处呢？人生中有什么成就可以与拥有一个幸福家庭相比拟呢？又有什么可以等同于养育出成功的儿女们呢？他们在父母的鼓励和赞许中健康成长，还有什么比这更重要的吗？每一个物质方面的目标，实现与否，都会逝去；儿女是上帝所赐的产业，不断传承。有人说，儿女是我们向未来所传达的信息。他们会告诉将来不认识我们的人：我们是谁，做了什么。更重要的是，儿女是上帝托付给我们的产业。他们是按照上帝的形象创造的，同样获得主耶稣基督救赎的恩典。

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我们的主要责任，并不是保证儿女们衣食无忧，而是要确保他们在一个有上帝、有主爱的家庭里长大，通过耶稣认识上帝。世上还有什么比儿女成功、家庭幸福更有价值呢？

今日祷告：

天父，我们祈求，教会和家庭中的孩子们都能得到必要的爱和关注。我们喜悦他们，他们也信赖我们，我们要与他们分享认识主耶稣的奇妙恩典，带领他们走主的道路。祷告奉主耶稣基督的名，阿们。

January 11

THE FAMILY AND THE WORKPLACE

Children are a gift from God;they are his reward.Psalm 127:3 TLB

Today there are more pressures on the home than perhaps at any time in the history of the human race.

By necessity or by desire,more women are working today than ever before.Many feel guilty about leaving their children in the care of others or having them return to an empty home while they are at work.Many divorced women must work to support themselves and their children,a phenomenon which is becoming more and more common in the age in which we live.But many woman(and men,too)devote more time to their working life than they do to their family life.Is it any wonder,then,that so many marriages are in trouble?

To paraphrase the Bible,what shall it profit a man(or a woman)who gains the whole world but loses his(or her)own family?What achievement in life is equal to a happy home and rearing successful children who grow up in praise of their parents?Every material goal,even if it is met,will pass away.But the heritage of children is timeless.Someone has said that our children are our messages to the future.They will tell others who will never know us who we were.

More importantly,our children have been entrusted to us by God,children made in His image and for whom Christ died.Our primary responsibility is not to make sure they have the best clothes and live in the best houses.It is to make sure they grow up in homes where God is present and the love of Christ reigns so that they will come to know God through His Son.

What could be more valuable than successful children and a happy home life?

Pray for the Day:

Father,we pray that the children in our churches and in our homes will get the attention that they need and the love that they need—and that we will enjoy them and that they will look to us—and that we will share with them the wonder of the grace of knowing Jesus,and bring them up in the way of the Lord.We pray in Jesus’Name,Amen.