双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：5月31日 预备主来（意想不到）

5月31日

预备主来（意想不到）

“所以，你们也要预备，因为你们想不到的时候，人子就来了。”马太福音24:44

你有没有遇到一些意想不到的事情？惊喜和惊悚一字之差，取决于我们当时在哪里，在做什么。一张突然收到的支票可能正好支付我们的帐单。一位亲爱的亲戚或朋友突然打电话或来看望我们。这些都是惊喜。然而，令人不快的意外可能包括车祸，或者银行通知说账户透支了。

耶稣再来，也将是一个大惊喜。对我们每一个认识他、委身于他的基督徒而言，那是一个最荣耀、最奇妙的时刻。对于那时候还活着的人来说，他们的身体瞬间将发生变化，他们会在空中与基督相遇。想象一下，这将是多么大的惊喜啊！你本来平平常常的一天，突然间你的身体就完全变成基督复活后身体的样式，你就腾空而起，在空中与基督相遇！

对那些不认识基督的，那时候就不是惊喜了。因为审判就要来临！那些不信基督的，将会永远在地狱之中。

我们应该抓住每一个机会，告诉别人，荣耀的救主耶稣希望所有人都与他在天上相会，并与他同驻到永远。

今日祷告：

天父，求祢赐予我们爱邻舍和朋友的心，让我们为他们祷告。天父，也求祢赐给我们勇气与他们分享福音的好消息，让他们在救主再来时有机会进入祢荣耀的同在；奉耶稣的名，阿门。

May 31

HOPE FOR HIS HOUR

Therefore you also must be ready;for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Matthew 24:44 RSV

Have you ever had something unexpected happen to you?Surprises can be fun or they can be disastrous,depending on where we are and what we are doing.An unexpected check may arrive in the mail just in time to pay a financial obligation.A relative or friend we may love very much might call or visit.Unpleasant surprises might include a traffic accident or word from the bank that our account is overdrawn.

The return of Jesus Christ is going to be a surprise,too.It will be the most glorious and wonderful surprise of all for those who know Him and have committed their lives to Him.For those who are alive,their bodies will be transformed“in the twinkling of an eye”and they will meet Christ in the air!Imagine what a surprise that will be.You are going about your daily routine when,suddenly and without warning,your body is completely transformed into the likeness of Christ’s resurrected body,and you“take off”to meet Christ in the air.

For those who do not know Christ,His return will also be a surprise-but a very unpleasant one.For the judgment will soon follow,and those without Christ will spend eternity in hell.

We should use every opportunity we have to tell others of our glorious Savior who wants all of us to meet Him in the air and to live with Him forever.

Pray for the Day:

Father,give us the hearts to love our neighbors and our friends enough that we will pray for them.Father,give us the courage to share the Good News of the Gospel with them,so that they will have the opportunity to enter into Your glorious presence at the time of the return of the Savior;in Jesus’Name,Amen.