双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月17日 温柔效主（圣灵工作）

5月17日

温柔效主（圣灵工作）

“我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式；这样，你们心里就必得享安息。”

马太福音11:29

神是不偏待人的。我们每个人都应该有从神而来的喜乐，神给我们的份都是一样的。我们不应该为自己生命中的不幸和逆境而唉声叹气。我们应该靠主得力，负基督的轭，“心里就必得享安息！”

“可是我受不了，我肯定会是个失败的基督徒。”你反对说。

耶稣说，负我的轭。是主的轭，他会为我们承受重担。

主在升天之前，应许给我们一位保惠师（约14:26）。他要帮助我们经历试炼和试探。保惠师，就是一路的帮助。他就是圣灵，三位一体中的第三位，祂大有能力。在我们重生的那一刻，圣灵就进驻在我们心里。

我们也许感受不到祂的存在，我们要再次凭信心而相信祂。接受这个事实，祂就在我们心中帮助我们走信仰的道路。

我们知道祂将神的爱浇灌在我们心中。在我们里面结出圣灵的果子：“仁爱、喜乐、和平、忍耐、恩慈、良善、信实、温柔、节制”（加拉太书5:22-23）。靠自己，我们不可能结出任何果实。只有圣灵在我们心里才能作超越的工作。

我应当顺服他，降服于他。让他掌管我的生命。因此而得享喜乐。

今日祷告：

父啊，我愿意顺服你，降服于你。让你掌管我的生命。求祢用圣灵充满我，使我能结出祢温柔、谦卑、恩慈的果子；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 17

MEEKNESS FROM THE MASTER

Take my yoke upon you,and learn of me;for I am meek and lowly in heart:and ye shall find rest unto your souls.Matthew 11:29

God is no respecter of persons.Each of us deserves our just share of happiness.Each of us has the same capacity for God.I should not stand back lamenting my bad luck and my bad breaks in life.I should be joined to the source of power.Take Christ’s yoke upon you,“and you shall find rest unto your soul”!

“But I can’t live it!I would surely fail in the attempt to be a Christian!”you protest.

Jesus said,“Take My yoke upon you.”It is His yoke,and I may rest assured that He will bear the heavy part of the load.

Before He left His disciples,Christ promised that He would send a Comforter to help them in the trials,cares,and temptations of life.This word comforter means“one that helps alongside.”He is the Holy Spirit,the powerful Third Person of the Trinity.The moment we are born again He takes up residence in our hearts.

We may not emotionally feel Him there,but here again we must exercise faith and believe it!Accept it as a fact of faith!He is in our hearts to help us in our Christian walk.

We are told that He sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts.He produces the fruit of the Spirit:“love,joy,peace,long-suffering,gentleness,goodness,faith,meekness,temperance”(Galatians 5:22-23).We cannot possibly manufacture this fruit in our own cannery.It is supernaturally manufactured by the Holy Spirit who lives in our hearts!

I must yield to Him…surrender to Him…give Him control of my life.Through that surrender I will find happiness!

Pray for the Day:

Father,I yield to You.I surrender to You.I give You control of my life.Fill me with Your Holy Spirit,that I will bear Your fruit with meekness and humility and gentleness of heart;in Jesus’Name,Amen.