双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：2月3日 照祂的形象

2月3日

照祂的形象

神阿，求祢为我造清洁的心，使我里面重新有正直的灵。

——诗篇51：10

你是照着上帝的形象被造的，你被造出来做上帝的朋友，不与上帝交通，你的心永远也无法得到满足。就像铁受磁铁的吸引一样，饥渴的灵也被上帝所吸引。尽管你也可能与千千万万的其他人一样，在罪性中更容易受属世的吸引，但总有一天，甚至在你读到这些文字的时候，你终将感到内心深处那属世的大熔炉也无法填补的空虚。那时你将会同遍尝犯罪的诱人之处却仍然感到空虚的大卫一起歌颂，“祢是我的神，我要切切地寻求祢，在干旱疲乏无水之地，我渴想祢，我的心切慕祢。”

今日祷告：

上帝啊，我是如此渴慕祢，我的心却也常常偏离祢的指引。我如大卫一样，祈求一颗清洁的心。奉耶稣的名，阿们。

February 3

In His Image

Create in me a new, clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires.
—Psalm 51:10 (TLB)

You were created in the image and likeness of God. You were made for God’s fellowship, and your heart can never be satisfied without His communion. Just as iron is attracted to a magnet, the soul in its state of hunger is drawn to God. Though you, like thousands of others, may feel in the state of sin that the world is more alluring and more to your liking, some day-perhaps even now as you read these words-you will acknowledge that there is something deep down inside you which cannot be satisfied by the alloy of earth. Then with David, the Psalmist who had sampled the delicacies of sin and had found them unsatisfying, you will say, “Oh God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.”

Prayer for the day: 

How I long for You, God, yet so often my heart is drawn away from Your leading. Like David, I desire a clean heart. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.