双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月4日 神的位置

5月4日

神的位置

“就生了头胎的儿子，用布包起来，放在马槽里，因为客店里没有地方。”

路加福音2:7

这个世界没有耶稣的位置吗？没有万王之王的位置？是的，但是却有位置给其他的人和事。这个世界本是主耶稣所造，居然没有他的容身之地？！

自两千多年前伯利恒的那个夜晚到如今，这一点并没有真正的改变。在我们大部分人的生命里面，神只是处在边缘的地方。当我们感到方便时就让祂进来；但是当他对我们提出要求时，我们就很生气。如果神可以呆在一个小盒子里，可以随时拿出来就好了。

我们的生活被填得如此之满，太多事要做。当我们在一切的忙碌中，将创造我们的那一位排除在我们的内心和生活之外，这样是不是很危险？我们是否有时间以读经祷告来开始每一天？我们是否有时间在祷告中为创造我们的那一位腾出位置呢？我们是否有时间求问神，祂要我们做些什么呢？

哦，主啊，求祢进入我的内心。我的心中有祢的位置。

今日祷告：

主啊，求祢指教我们我们当做的事。让我们对您圣灵的引导和带领保持敏感。让我们以正确的心态做出正确的优先选择，引导我们在生活中以祢为先；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 4

MAKE ROOM FOR GOD

And she brought forth her firstborn son,and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,and laid him in a manger;because there was no room for them in the inn.Luke 2:7

No room for Jesus?No room for the King of kings?No,but room for others and for other things.There was no room for Jesus in the world that He had made-imagine!

Things have not really changed since that Bethlehem night two thousand years ago.God is still on the fringes of most of our lives.We fit Him in when it is convenient for us,but we become irritated when He makes demands on us.If God would only stay in His little box and come out when we pull the string.

Our lives are so full.There is so much to be done.Are we in danger in all of our busy activities of excluding from our hearts and lives the One who made us?Do we have time enough to begin each day by reading God’s Word and praying to the One who made us?Do we have time to make room for God in our prayers?Do we have time to ask God what He wants us to do?

“Oh,come to my heart,Lord Jesus;there is room in my heart for you.”

Pray for the Day:

O Lord,teach us what You want us to do.Let us be sensitive to the leading and guiding of Your Holy Spirit.Fill us with the right heart attitude,the right priorities,that will lead us to make room for You in our lives;in Jesus’Name,Amen.