双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月7日 选择基督（忠心不二）

5月7日

选择基督（忠心不二）

“一个人不能事奉两个主；不是恶这个、爱那个，就是重这个、轻那个。你们不能又事奉神，又事奉玛门。”

马太福音6:24

耶稣以慈爱又毋庸置疑的口吻说，「你们要进窄门。因为引到灭亡，那门是宽的，路是大的，进去的人也多；引到永生，那门是窄的，路是小的，找着的人也少。」（马太福音7:13-14）

祂像飞行员准确无误地驾驶飞机。飞行员知道，在暴风雨中飞行，哪怕只是一点点粗心大意，都可能导致机毁人亡。

一次，我们乘飞机从韩国飞日本，遇到暴风雪，到东京机场上空时，能见度几乎为零。飞行员只能靠看仪表进行降落。我和飞行员一起坐在驾驶舱里，看着他很紧张地跟地面控制中心进行联络，塔台指挥小心地引导我们进入机场。

他们不能有任何闪失，因为这是性命攸关的事。因此，当我们将来要降落在天国的机场时，也必须全神贯注，小心谨慎。

我要精准降落在天国，即便被人看作是狭隘的，我也要确定能够安全到达。

基督不能容忍人类的失丧。他离开天上的宝座，降世为人，在恶人手中遭受苦害，被羞辱、被残酷地钉在十字架上，成为我们的救赎。人类已经落入如此的困境，神绝不会轻忽。因着爱，对这个被各种欲望和罪恶所掳掠的世界，祂也不可能等闲视之。“不与我相合的，就是敌我的；不同我收聚的，就是分散的。”（马太福音12:30）“信子的人有永生；不信子的人得不着永生，神的震怒常在他身上。”（约翰福音3:36）

我们有能力去选择事奉哪一个主。但是不选择基督，后果是必将灭亡。基督说了，宽阔、易行、众人都走的路，通向死亡和毁灭。只有十字架的路，才能带你回家。

今日祷告：

天父，我们祈求你使我们成为福音世界的光明，使人们获得自由。父啊，我们祈求我们能像耶稣那样宣告那条窄路，以便其他人也能拥有生命，就像您赐给我们的一样；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 7

THE INTROLERANT CHRIST

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.Matthew 6:24

In loving,compassionate intolerance Jesus says,“Enter ye at the strait gate…because strait is the gate,and narrow is the way,which leadeth unto life”(Matthew 7:13-14).

His was the intolerance of a pilot who maneuvers his plane through the storm,realizing that a single error,just one flash of broad-mindedness,might bring disaster to all the passengers on the plane.

Once when we were on a flight from Korea to Japan,we ran through a rough snowstorm;and when we arrived over the airport in Tokyo,visibility was almost zero.The pilot had to make an instrument landing.I sat up in the cockpit with the pilot and watched him sweat it out as he was brought in by ground control.A watchful man in the tower at the airport talked us in.

I did not want these men to be broad-minded.I knew that our lives depended on it.Just so,when we come in for the landing in the great airport of heaven,I don’t want any broad-minded advice.

I want to come in on the beam,and even though I may be considered narrow here,I want to be sure of a safe landing there.

Christ was so intolerant of man’s lost estate that He left His lofty throne in the heavenlies,took on Himself the form of man,suffered at the hands of evil men,and died a shameful death on a cruel cross to purchase our redemption.So serious was man’s plight that the Lord could not look upon it lightly.With the love that was His,He could not be broad-minded about a world held captive by its lusts,its appetites,and its sins.

Having paid such a price,He could not be tolerant about man’s indifference toward Him and the redemption He had wrought.He said,“He that is not with me is against me”(Matthew 12:30).He also said,“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life;but the wrath of God abideth on him”(John 3:36).

We have the power to choose whom we will serve,but the alternative to choosing Christ brings certain destruction.Christ said that!The broad,wide,easy,popular way leads to death and destruction.Only the way of the Cross leads home.

Pray for the Day:

Father,we pray that You will make us lights to the world of that Gospel that can set people free.We pray,Father,that we will declare that narrow way,just as Jesus did,so that others can have life even as You have given it to us;in Jesus’Name,Amen.