双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：7月17日 因他得生

7月17日

因他得生

“但记这些事要叫你们信耶稣是基督，是神的儿子，并且叫你们信了他，就可以因他的名得生命。”

约翰福音20:31

著名的剑桥板球运动员和宣教先驱施达德（C.T.STUDD）在剑桥大学读书时写下了以下两句话：

仅此一生，转眼即逝；为主所作，永远长存。

如果生命是为永生而预备，那么生命就是一次荣耀的机会。如果我们在这件事上失败了，即便我们在其他方面成功，我们的人生还是失败的。一个人若是浪费了预备见主面的机会，他根本毫无出路。

穆迪说：“让神掌管你的生命吧；他能比你更多地使用它！”穆迪还说：“圣洁的生活会产生最深远的影响力。灯塔不会吹响号角；它们只会发光。”

我们的生命也是不朽的。上帝把人造得与其他生物不同。他按照自己的形象创造了人，一个活的灵魂。当这个身体死去，我们在尘世的存在结束时，灵魂将永远存在。一百年后，你会比现在更加富有活力。圣经教导我们，生命不会止于墓地。那些信靠上帝之子耶稣基督的人，将来会与神同在。所有拒绝、排斥或忽视接受上帝之子耶稣基督的人，将来也会进入地狱，与神分离。

维克多·雨果曾经说过：“在我里面，我感受到了未来的生命。”据说居鲁士大帝曾宣称：“我无法想象灵魂只活在这个必死的身体里。”只有我们对基督的盼望才能除去死亡的毒钩，并给未来的生命架起希望的彩虹。我们的锚是耶稣基督，他战胜了死亡，借着福音将永恒的生命带到光明之中。

今日祷告：

天父，我们永恒的盼望在于耶稣。我们知道我们将永远活在他的里面；奉耶稣的名，阿们。

July 17

LIFE AND LIGHT

…These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,the Son of God;and that believing ye might have life through his name.John 20:31

C.T.STUDD,the famous Cambridge cricketer and missionary pioneer,wrote the following couplet while still a student at Cambridge:

Only one life,‘twill soon be past;

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Life is a glorious opportunity if it is used to condition us for eternity.If we fail in this,though we succeed in everything else,our life will have been a failure.There is no escape for the man who squanders his opportunity to prepare to meet God.

D.L.Moody said,“Let God have your life;He can do more with it than you can!”D.L.Moody also said,“A holy life will produce the deepest impression.Lighthouses blow no horns;they only shine.”

Our lives are also immortal.God made man different from the other creatures.He made him in His own image,a living soul.When this body dies and our earthly existence is terminated,the soul or spirit lives on forever.One hundred years from this day you will be more alive than you are at this moment.The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery.There is a future life with God for those who put their trust in His Son,Jesus Christ.There is also a future hell of separation from God toward which all are going who have refused,rejected,or neglected to receive His Son,Jesus Christ.

Victor Hugo once said,“I feel in myself the future life.”Cyrus the Great is reported to have declared,“I cannot imagine that the soul lives only while it remains in this mortal body.”Nothing but our hope in Christ will take the sting out of death and throw a rainbow of hope around the clouds of the future life.Our anchor is in Jesus Christ,who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.

Pray for the Day:

Father,our eternal hope is in Jesus.We know that we will live forever in Him;in Jesus’Name,Amen.