双语灵修（葛培理牧师） ：1月17日 出死入生

1月17日

出死入生

“人为妇人所生，日子短少，多有患难；人的日子既然限定，他的月数在你那里，你也派定他的界限，使他不能越过，”约伯记14:1,5

人生就像一个影子，就像浮云一片，在太阳下面飘过。大卫说，我们在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，与我们列祖一样。我们在世的日子如影儿，不能长存。（历代志上29:15）这个世界不是我们的永恒的家，只是一个临时的居所。

1683年，英国爱国爱国者威廉·罗素爵士上绞刑架之前，从口袋里掏出手表，交给临终时照顾他的医生，说“你把我的手表拿走吧。我已经用不着了。我现在面临的是永生。”

对我们每个人来说，时间，都由不得自己。

我有一个年轻的朋友，有一天和他的朋友开车出去。他怎么也不会想到，那一天是他在世最后一天。为了避免撞上一辆汽车，却跟另一辆车相撞了。他被从车中抛出而死。报纸上每天都有类似的消息，要么是意外死亡，要么是暗杀，要么是战争。这些人早晨起床时，都不会预料到那日是他们的最后一天。
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如果你知道今天是你在世上的最后一天与上帝面对面，你会有什么不同的活法？我们应当有这样的准备，把每一天都当作是最后一天来过，终有一日，它会到来。圣经说，耶和华已经限定了我们的日子。我们不能越过。我坚信，当一个人预备好死的时候，他也就预备好生了。因此，人生的首要目的就是为死而做好准备。其他的一切都是次要。

今日祷告：
天父，我们祈求祢今生与我们同在，相信主耶稣使我们得永生，祢也会为我们死后的永生做好准备。奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们。

January 17
TIME AND ETERNITY
Man that is born of a woman is of few days…His days are determined,the number of his months are with thee,thou hast appointed his bounds that be cannot pass.Job 14:1,5
Life is like a shadow,like a fleeting cloud moving across the face of the sun.David said,“We are strangers before thee,and sojourners,as were all our fathers”(1 Chronicles 29:15).The world is not our permanent home,it is only temporary.David went on to declare that“our days on the earth are as a shadow,and there is none abiding.””
When English patriot Sir William Russell went to the scaffold in 1683,he took his watch out of his pocket and handed it to the physician who attended him in his death.“Would you kindly take my timepiece?”he asked.“I have no use for it.I am now dealing with eternity.”
For every one of us time is slipping away.
I had a young friend who went for a ride one day with a friend of his,never dreaming it would be his last ride on earth.He swerved to avoid hitting a car,ran into another car,and was thrown from his vehicle and killed.The newspapers are daily filled with stories of the death of people by accident or by assassination or by war.Those people did not know when they got out of bed that they were beginning their last day on earth.
How different would today be if you knew it would be your last one on earth before meeting God face to face?We should strive to live every day as if it was our last,for one day it will be!
The Bible teaches that God knows the exact moment when each man is to die(Job 14:5).There are appointed bounds beyond which we cannot pass.And I am convinced that when a man is prepared to die,he is also prepared to live.The primary goal in life,therefore,should be to prepare for death.Everything else is secondary.
Pray for the day:
Father,we pray that You will be with us in this life,that we will trust in our Lord Jesus for eternal life,and that you will prepare us for the eternal life that will happen after we die;in Jesus’Name,Amen.