双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：6月29日 赢得生命

6月29日

赢得生命

“我实实在在地告诉你们，那听我话、又信差我来者的，就有永生；不至于定罪，是已经出死入生了。”

约翰福音5:24

虽然我们很难相信，但这是不争的事实——神不会违背我们的意愿将新生命强加给我们。我们必须准备好全心接受基督为我们的救主，然后重生的奇迹就发生了。我们应该像相信有原子弹一样简单地相信重生。

我对核裂变、制造核爆炸所用的铀和其他元素知道得很少，但我相信有原子弹——你也一样相信。但是，当我们不了解它的制造方式和工作原理时，我们怎么能相信它的存在呢？

答案显而易见——通过阅读有关它的性质和工作原理的描述，并相信接受所读的内容。人类的思维有能力接受或拒绝所读到或听到的。

我花了很多时间细读《圣经》这本书，它对我们每个人发出一个信息，就是：“你们必须重生。”

这信息包含命令和应许，这意味着：我可能会拥有一个全新的、转变了的、改头换面的生命。它也更进一步表明，如果我没有重生，就不能见神的国。你有没有接受圣经中的基督进入你内心和生命中呢？如果没有，这永生就不属于你。如果你向祂敞开你的心，它就已经是你的了！

今日祷告：

天父，我向你敞开我的心，将自己献给你，向我的罪死，向基督活；奉耶稣基督的名，阿们。

June 29

THE LIFE THAT WINS

Truly,truly,I say to you,he who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me,has eternal life and does not come into judgment,but has passed out of death into life.John 5:24,NASB

While it is difficult for us to believe,it is nonetheless true-God will not force the new life upon us against our will.We must be ready to receive Christ as Lord and Savior with all our hearts.Then the miracle of the new birth takes place.It should be as easy for us to believe the new birth as it is to believe in the atomic bomb.

I know little about nuclear fission,or of uranium and other elements used in making nuclear explosives;yet I believe in the atomic bomb-so do you.But how can we believe that it exists when we possess no scientific knowledge of how it is manufactured and how it works?

The answer is obvious-by reading accounts of its nature and work and by believing and accepting them.The human mind possesses the ability to accept or reject whatever it reads or hears.

I spend much of my time perusing the pages of a Book-the Bible.It has a message for each of us,and that message is,“Ye must be born again.”

That message contains both a command and a promise.It implies the possibility that I may have a new,changed,transformed nature.And it also implies more emphatically that I will never see the kingdom of God unless I am born again.Have you accepted the Christ of the Bible into your heart and life?If not,this endless life does not belong to you.If you have opened your heart to Him,it is yours already!

Pray for the Day:

Father,I open up my heart to You.I give myself to You,to die to my sins and be made alive again in Christ;in Jesus’Name.