双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：9月29日 得胜逆境

9月29日

得胜逆境

你们学了基督，却不是这样。

以弗所书4：20

曼彻斯特杰出的传道人亚历山大·麦克拉伦（1826-1910）写道：“在这个世界上，让我们烦恼的不是麻烦，而是我们对麻烦的对抗。一切让我们烦躁、恼怒和消磨我们生命的真正来源不在于外在事物，而是我们的意志抗拒神在永恒事物中的旨意。”

埋怨和抵制神管教的手，会让基督徒失去在天堂可以享受到的最大的一个属灵祝福。

无论是恼怒、忧虑、逆境、气愤、对抗——如果我们不知道神的恩典足以应付每一个试炼，我们就还没有学到基督的样式。

虽然约伯遭受的苦难少有人及，但他在苦难中从未忘记神与他同在。他能在悲伤和试炼中得胜，因他从不让怨恨遮蔽他与神的关系。

希伯来书的作者表达了可以得胜怨恨的态度：“凡管教的事，当时不觉得快乐，反觉得愁苦；后来却为那经练过的人，结出平安的果子，就是义。”（希伯来书12：11）

今日祷告：

天父，求祢带领我们领受祢的管教，从中学习功课，并藉着管教在基督里成长；祷告奉耶稣的名，阿们。

September 29

LEARNING FROM ADVERSITY

You did not so learn Christ!Ephesians 4:20,RSV

Alexander Maclaren,a distinguished Manchester preacher(1826-1910),wrote,“What disturbs us in this world is not trouble,but our opposition to trouble.The true source of all that frets and irritates and wears away our lives is not in external things but in the resistance of our wills to the will of God expressed by eternal things.”

To resent and resist God’s disciplining hand is to miss one of the greatest spiritual blessings we Christians can enjoy this side of heaven.

Whatever it is-aggravations,trouble,adversity,irritations,opposition-we haven’t“learned Christ”until we have discovered that God’s grace is sufficient for every test.

Though Job suffered as few men have,he never lost sight of God’s presence with him in the midst of suffering.He emerged victorious on the other side of sorrow and testing because he never allowed resentment to cloud his relationship with God.

The attitude which can overcome resentment is expressed by the writer to the Hebrews:“No discipline seems pleasant at the time,but painful.Later on,however,it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it”.

Pray for the Day:

Father,lead us to accept Your discipline and to learn from it and to grow in Christ through it;in Jesus’Name,Amen.