双语灵修（葛培理牧师） ：1月19日 再见主面

1月19日

再见主面

“恶人在所行的恶上必被推倒；义人临死，有所投靠。”

箴言14:32

有人开玩笑说，人生有两件事躲不过去：死亡和纳税。事实上，他只说对了一半。因为有些人并不交税，要么是非法逃税，要么是收入低不需要交税。唯一躲不过去的，就是死亡，谁也免不了。

希伯来书9:27说：“按着定命，人人都有一死，死后且有审判。”（希伯来书9:27）

很多人不接受死亡这个现实。我们喜欢用”离开”“过世”“逝世”来描述一个人的死亡。我们不喜欢“死亡”这个词。“死亡”似乎意味着完结、不可回头、没有希望。但是，对于相信并接受耶稣为救主的人而言，死亡只是一个开始，而不是结束。

​​作家C.S.Lewis说，跟将来的荣耀相比，今生只是个影儿。有一首优美的诗歌[We Will See Him As He Is]这样写道：

仿佛透过浑浊的玻璃，我们看不到眼泪背后的痛苦。这个世界无法理解什么是永无止境的爱，什么是永远存在的生命。在那里，超越时间的，是神的智慧，真理的宝座，光明的道路。在不久的将来，在荣耀的日子，他就会回来，带他的子民回家。我们要再见他，圣洁的天父，无限的荣耀；我们要再见他，岁月的智慧；我们要再见他，我们的救主。

不管遇到怎样的光景，这是我们荣耀的信念。只要我们对基督有信心，有一天我们就一定会再见他。

今日祷告：

天父，我们何等感谢你！我们感谢你赐下你的独生爱子。我们因此得永生，因祢而喜乐。因为我们有盼望，也知道我们回家的路。奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们！

January 19

DEATH AND TAXES

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness:but the righteous hath hope in his death.Proverbs 14:32

Someone once observed that there are only two great equalizers in life:death and taxes.Actually,that person was only half right,because some people manage to avoid paying taxes at all,either because of loopholes in the tax law or because they do not make enough money.

The only true equalizer is death.

Everyone dies.

The writer of Hebrew says,“And as it is appointed unto men once to die,but after this the judgment”(Hebrews 9:27).

Much of the world pretends that death does not exist.We like to speak of the dead as“departed”or persons who have died as having“passed on”or“expired.”We do not like the word“death.”It seems so final,so irreversible,so hopeless.

But not for the person who has trusted Christ as Savior.Death is only the beginning of the beginning,not the end.

C.S.Lewis once observed that this life is only“shadowlands”compared with the glory that is to come.

There is a wonderful song which says,“It’s as though we see through clouded glass,our eyes cannot see past this veil of tears our present pain.

“This world can never comprehend a love that will not end,a life that always will remain.For there,beyond the edge of time,is wisdom so divine,the throne of truth,the shining way.For soon in majesty He’ll come to take his people home,and in that bright and glorious day…we will see Him as He is,the Father God so holy,the truth in endless glory;we will see Him as He is,the wisdom of the ages,the One who died to save us.We will see Him.”

What a glorious thought with which we can comfort ourselves,no matter what our circumstances.We will see Christ someday if we have put our faith in Him.

Pray for the day:

Father,we thank You so much.We thank You that You have given Your Son for us.Because of that,we have eternal life,and so we rejoice in You,for we have hope,and we know the home to which we go;in Jesus’Name,Amen.