双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：2月8日 平安归去

2月8日  平安归去

“你要细察那完全人，观看那正直人， 因为和平人有好结局。”

【诗篇 37:37】

我们这些已经把生命交给上帝的人，要学习布道家穆迪。他在临终前说，“大地开始退去，天堂已经为我打开。”他似乎在梦境中。然后他说，“一点也不可怕，相反，很美，恍若梦境。如果这就是死亡，那么它很甜蜜。没有幽谷。上帝在召唤我，我必须走了。”

穆迪在弥留之际醒来，表示上帝允许他透过那层将可见的世界与不可见的世界分隔开来的薄纱，看见了我们所不能看见的世界。在大门之内，眺望到大门之外的景象。他瞥见了一些他所亲爱的、却很久不见的、熟悉的面孔，穆迪想起自己早年传道时大声宣告的话：“有一天你们会在报纸上看到新闻：东娜斯菲尔德的穆迪死了。千万不要相信。那时候，我会比现在更有活力。那时候，我要高升，离开泥土做的旧身体，进入不朽的身体， 一个没有死亡、没有罪恶，像上帝一样荣耀的身体。从肉体生的将会死去，从圣灵生的永远长存。” 如果穆迪现在能给我们做见证，他一定会跟我们分享他在天堂的荣美，那里有天使在招待他，有主耶和华与他同在。

你能如此坦然地面对死亡吗？如果你相信上帝，相信他的应许，相信在死亡后的新生命，相信他带给穆迪的喜乐而不是绝望，你一定可以平安归去。

今日祷告：

天父，我们知道我们的结局是平安，因为我们信靠祢的儿子。奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们。

February 8

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF DEATH

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Psalm 37:37

We who have made our peace with God should be like the evangelist D. L. Moody. When he was aware that death was at hand, he said, “Earth recedes, heaven opens before me.” It appeared as though he was dreaming. Then he said, “No, this is no dread… it is beautiful, it is like a trance. If this is death, it is sweet. There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.”

After having been given up for dead, Moody revived to indicate that God had permitted him to see beyond that thin veil separating the seen from the unseen world. He had been “within the gates, and beyond the portals,” and had caught a glimpse of familiar faces whom he had “loved long since and lost awhile.” Then he could remember when he had proclaimed so vociferously earlier in his ministry, “Some day you will read in the paper that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall gave gone up higher, that is all-out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal; a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint, a body fashioned like unto His glorious body…That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever” (The life of Dwight L. Moody, by W. R. Moody). If Moody were to witness to us now, he would surely tell us of the glowing experience that became his as the angelic hosts ushered him into the presence of the Lord.

Can you face death with such confidence? You can if you know and believe God’s promises about life after death, promises that caused Moody to rejoice rather than despair.

Pray for the Day:

Father, we know that our end is peace because we trust in Your Son, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.