双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月20日 ‪美好未来

5月20日

‪美好未来

“天国好像宝贝藏在地里，人遇见了就把它藏起来，欢欢喜喜地去变卖一切所有的，买这块地。”

马太福音‬13:44

西奥多·罗斯福总统说：“当你对人在思想上而不是在道德上进行教育时，这种教育就会对社会构成威胁。”

科学正在逐步控制除人类以外的一切事物。我们尚未解决仇恨、欲望、贪婪、偏见等问题。这些问题会导致社会不公正、种族冲突，并最终引发战争。我们的未来正面临诸多威胁。例如毁灭性的核武器阴云正笼罩着我们。

然而，最大的危险来自内部。在我们之前的每一个其他文明都是由于内部力量而不是军事征服而解体和崩溃的。古罗马文明的衰落就是一个突出的例子。尽管外国入侵加速了它的解体，世界著名考古学家亚瑟·魏格尔却认为，正是好几个世代的行贿和腐败之风的盛行才导致它的崩溃。

无论发达程度如何，任何一代如果忽视灵性和道德上的建造都将走向崩溃。这是人类的历史，也是我们现代人的问题。

尽管目前社会的现有结构终将消失，一切的发展都会因人类的失败和愚蠢所导致的自我毁灭而消灭得一干二净，基督徒对未来却有美好的盼望。

从某种意义上说，在所有真信徒的心里，神的国已经在永活基督的同在中降临了。然而，还有万物的结局，就是那被称为神的国度。这就是美好的未来！一个没有战争的未来，没有贫困的未来，我们欢喜快乐，有无限的机会发挥我们的才能。人与神之间，种族与种族之间，国家与国家之间，将达到完全的和谐。

今日祷告：

天父，我们知道我们周围的世界已经支离破碎，我们的社会正在衰败。祈求祢赐下怜悯并使用我们将和平的福音带到世界各地。我们祈求祢的国度降临，带来美好的未来。愿您的旨意行在地上如同行在天上；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 20

A FABULOUS FUTURE?

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field,which a man found and covered up;then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.Matthew 13:44

President Theodore Roosevelt said,“When you educate a man in mind and not in morals,you educate a menace to society.”

Science is learning to control everything but man.We have not yet solved the problems of hate,lust,greed,and prejudice,which produce social injustice,racial strife,and ultimately war.Our future is threatened by many dangers,such as the nuclear destruction that hangs over our heads.

However,the greatest danger is from within.Every other civilization before us has disintegrated and collapsed from internal forces rather than military conquest.Ancient Rome is the outstanding example of the fall of a civilization.While its disintegration was hastened by foreign invasions,in the opinion of Arthur Weigall,a world-famous archaeologist,it collapsed“only after bribery and corruption had been rife for generations.”

No matter how advanced its progress,any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate.This is the story of man,and this is our modern problem.

The Christian believes in a fabulous future,even though the present structure of modern society should disappear and all its progress should be wiped out by self-destruction as a result of man’s failure and folly.

There is a sense in which the kingdom of God is already here in the living presence of Christ in the hearts of all true believers.There is also,however,the ultimate consummation of all things,which is called the kingdom of God.This is the fabulous future!It will be a future in which there will be no war.There will be no poverty.There will be happiness and opportunity to exploit all our abilities.There will be a state of complete reconciliation between man and God-between race and race-between nation and nation.

Pray for the Day:

Father,we know that our world around us is broken and that our society is in decay.We pray that You will have mercy and bring the Gospel of peace through us into the world.We pray that You will bring about the fabulous future of Your Kingdom on the earth,that Your will be done here on the earth as it is in heaven;in Jesus’Name,Amen.