双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：11月27日 调谐收听

11月27日

调谐收听

我亲爱的弟兄们，这是你们所知道的；但你们各人要快快的听，慢慢的说，慢慢的动怒；……只是你们要行道，不要单单听道，自己欺哄自己；因为听道而不行道的，就像人对着镜子看自己本来的面目；看见，走后，随即忘了他的相貌如何。惟有详细察看那全备使人自由之律法的，并且时常如此，这人既不是听了就忘，乃是实在行出来，就在他所行的事上必然得福。

雅各书1:19,22-25

启示是一种交流方式。它的字意是“使人知晓”或“揭示”。启示需要一个“启示者”，在这里就是上帝；也需要一个“聆听者”，上帝的聆听者就是被拣选的先知和使徒，他们把神的启示记录下来。因此，这是一条沟通的线路，一端是上帝，另一端是人。

当我还是个孩子的时候，收音机才刚刚进入那个时代。我们会围坐在一台粗糙的自制收音机旁，转动三个调音盘，努力与发射台接通。通常喇叭里发出的声音都是吱吱嘎嘎的噪音，但我们知道，在某个地方有个看不见的发射器，如果接通，频道调好了，我们就能听到响亮而清晰的声音。经过长时间的辛苦调谐，遥远的声音会突然传来，屋里所有人脸上都会露出欢欣的微笑。我们终于调好了！

在上帝给我们的启示中，我们可以找到新生命和新的生活维度，但我们必须“调谐”。那里有我们从未体验过的更高层次的生活，有我们从未经历过的平安、满足和喜乐。上帝正试图使我们突破。天堂在召唤！上帝在说话！让人们听到祂的声音。

今日祷告：

天父，求祢帮助我留心聆听祢的话语，聆听圣灵的声音，并顺服祢一切的命令；奉耶稣的名，阿们。

November 27

TUNE IN!

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.Do what it says, Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to this…he will be blessed in what he does.James 1:19,22-25, NIV

Revelation is a means of communication. It means“to make known”or“to unveil.” Revelation requires a‘revealer,” who in this case is God, and it also requires a“hearer.” God’s hearers were the chosen prophets and apostles who recorded God’s revelation. Thus it is a line of communication, at one end of which is God, and at the other end, man.

When I was a boy, radio was just coming of age. We would gather around a crude homemade set and twist the three tuning dials in an effort to establish contact with the transmitter. Often all the sound that came out of the amplifier was the squeak and squawk of static, but we knew that somewhere out there was the unseen transmitter and if contact was established and the dials were in adjustment, we could hear a voice loud and clear. After a long time of laborious tuning, the far distant voice would suddenly break through and a smile of triumph would illuminate the faces of all in the room. At last we were tuned in!

In the revelation that God established between Himself and us, we can find a new life and a new dimension of living, but we must“tune in.” There are higher levels of living to which we have never attained.There is peace, satisfaction, and joy that we have never experienced. God is trying to break through to us. The heavens are calling. God is speaking!Let man hear.

Pray for the Day:

Father, help me to be tuned in to what You are saying, to hear from Your Holy Spirit, and to obey all that You command; in Jesus’Name, Amen.