双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：7月15日 放下琐事

7月15日

放下琐事

（耶稣说）我为他们祈求，不为世人祈求，却为祢所赐给我的人祈求，因他们本是祢的。凡是我的，都是祢的；祢的也是我的，并且我因他们得了荣耀。

约翰福音17:9-10

我相信，不以自我为中心是圣灵果子的特征。那些声称“我被圣灵充满”的人，会使自己在众目睽睽之下显得相当尴尬。试问：有哪个使徒或门徒说过自己：“我被圣灵充满了”呢？只有别人会说：“他们被圣灵充满了。”那些自我感觉有爱心、自我感觉喜乐，自我感觉有平安的人，身上都散发着自我的味道。正如一位基督徒明智地评论道：“自我是灵性的体臭。”

有一天，一个小孩在玩一个昂贵的花瓶，他把手伸进去后，怎么也拔不出来。他父亲也竭力想把小男孩的手拉出来，但都徒劳。他们正想把花瓶打破时，父亲说：“我的孩子，现在让我们再试一次。像我这样伸直你的手指，然后拉出来。”

令他们惊讶的是，小家伙竟然说：“哦不，爸爸。我不能伸直手指，因为如果那样做，我的一分钱硬币就会掉下去。”

你觉得很可笑吧。但我们无数人都像那小男孩一样，总牢牢抓住世上没什么价值的一分硬币，以至于我们受捆绑。我恳请你放下心中的那点琐事，降服下来，让上帝在你的生命中掌权。

当你把自己完全交托主并向祂降服之后，请记住，上帝已经接受了你所献上的一切。“到我这里来的，我总不丢弃他。”（约翰福音6:37下）

你已经到祂面前来，祂也已经接受你了，祂绝不会丢弃你。

今日祷告：

天父，赐给我们智慧和渴慕的心，让我们紧紧地抓住祢，胜过一切，为祢国度的荣耀，放下世上琐事的追求。祷告奉耶稣的名，阿们。

July 15

THE WORLD’S WORTHLESS PENNY

[Jesus said,]I pray for them…for they are thine.And all mine are thin,and thine are mine;and I am glorified in them.John 17:9-10

I believe unselfconsciousness is characteristic of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.The person who says,“I am Spirit-filled”sets himself up for some pretty uncomfortable scrutiny.Did any apostle or disciple say of himself,“I am filled with the Holy Spirit”?But others would say of them.“They were filled with the Holy Spirit.”The person who is self-consciously loving,self-consciously joyful,self-consciously peaceful,has about him the odor of self.And as one Christian sagely observed:“Self is spiritual B.O.”（body odor)

A little child playing one day with a very valuable vase put his hand into it and could not withdraw it.His father,too,tried his best to get the little boy’s hand out,but all in vain.They were thinking of breaking the vase when the father said,“Now,my son,make one more try.Open your hand and hold your fingers out straight as you see me doing and then pull.”

To their astonishment the little fellow said,“Oh no,Father.I couldn’t put my fingers out like that because if I did I would drop my penny.”

Smile if you will–but thousands of us are like that little boy,so busy holding on to the world’s worthless penny that we cannot accept liberation.I beg you to drop that trifle in your heart.Surrender!Let go and let God have His way in your life.

Now after you have given yourself completely to Christ in surrender to Him,remember that God has accepted what you have presented.“Him that cometh to me.I will in no wise cast out”(John 6:37)

You have come to Him;now He has received you.And He will in no wise cast you out!

Pray for the Day:

Father,give us the wisdom and desire in our hearts to hold onto You more than everything else and to let go of the trivial pursuits of this world,for Your Kingdom’s sake and for Your glory;in Jesus’Name,Amen.