双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：11月12日 无尽盼望

11月12日

无尽盼望

我们有这指望，如同灵魂的锚，又坚固又牢靠。

希伯来书6:19

不信的人只看到生命无望的结局，但基督徒却看到一个无尽的盼望。在一个网络电视节目中，马尔科姆·蒙格瑞奇表示，一个真正的基督徒“渴望生命的终结，就像一个人在生命的最后三天渴望结束漫长而艰苦的三周海上航行一样。我怀着几乎无法抑制的渴望，期待我的生命进入永恒。”

也许马尔科姆·蒙格瑞奇的这些话并不能描述你对死的感受。也许你怕死，无法体会这位著名的英国记者和电视名人所感受到的那种平静自信。对于任何还没来到主面前的人来说，对死亡的焦虑和恐惧，是完全正常的。面对死亡人们会本能地退缩。然而，对于基督徒来说，惧怕已经被挪走了。他确信自己死后要受审判的罪已经解决了，而非基督徒却没有这样的确信。我并不期待死去——但我对于死后的事充满期待。它将是一种荣耀的释放。它将是一切我所渴望的满足。圣经说：“在祢面前有满足的喜乐；在祢右手中有永远的福乐。”（诗篇16:11）。

今日祷告：

父啊，我们的盼望全在乎祢，我们全然倚靠你；奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们。

November 12

AN ENDLESS HOPE

We have this hope as an anchor of the soul,firm and secure.Hebrews 6:19,NIV

An unbeliever only sees a hopeless end to life.But the Christian sees an endless hope.In a network television program Malcolm Muggeridge reflected that a true Christian“is longing for the termination of life in time as one longs for the end of a long and arduous three-week sea voyage when one is in the last three days.I look forward to the time when my life will partake of eternity with near irrepressible eagerness.”

Perhaps these words of Malcolm Muggeridge do not describe your feelings about death.Perhaps you are afraid of death and don’t relate to the quiet confidence of this famous British journalist and TV personality.The torturing,tormenting fear of death is a condition that is perfectly normal for any who have never come to Christ.Death is an experience from which people instinctively shrink.Yet for the Christian the fear is removed.He has the assurance that the sins for which he would be judged at death have been dealt with,whereas the non-Christian has no such assurance.I do not look forward to the prospect of dying-but I do look forward to death itself.It will be a glorious release.It will be the fulfillment of everything I have ever longed for.The Scripture says,“In thy presence is fullness of joy;at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore”(Psalm 16:11).

Pray for the Day:

Father,our hope is in You,and our trust is in You;in Jesus’Name,Amen.