双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：2月27日 神是安慰者

2月27日

神是安慰者

“惟有我，是安慰你们的……”
（以赛亚书 51:12）

哀痛者，必得安慰。有主耶稣活在我们的生命中，祂会将哀痛转为诗歌，这是一首安慰之歌。

安慰可以使一个虔诚的英国信徒在他的房屋被轰炸成黑洞时，仍然充满感恩地说“我一直想要一个地下室，现在我决定再建一个带地下室的房子，就像我一直想要的那样。”

安慰可以使一个年轻牧师的妻子在他丈夫葬礼那天，依然能够在附近的教会教导在上主日学的孩子们。她在哀痛中充满希望，这是在神的良善和智慧里满有信心的哀痛。他们深信不疑，我们的天父始终都不会犯错。

今日祷告：

天父，因着祢爱子耶稣基督的牺牲，祢深知我们的痛苦和忧伤，谢谢祢安慰了这些爱祢的人。奉耶稣的名，阿们。

February 27

God Our Comforter

I, even I, am he that comforteth you……
—Isaiah 51:12

There is also comfort in mourning, because in the midst of mourning God gives a song.

His presence in our lives changes our mourning into song, and that song is a song of comfort. This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a devout Englishman to look at a deep dark hole in the ground where his home stood before the bombing and say, “I always did want a basement. Now I can jolly well build another house, like I always wanted.”

This kind of comfort is the kind which enabled a young minister’s wife in a church near us to teach her Sunday school class of girls on the very day of her husband’s funeral. Her mourning was not the kind which had no hope-it was a mourning of faith in the goodness and wisdom of God; it believed that our heavenly Father makes no mistakes.

Prayer for the day:

Oh heavenly Father, who knows what agony and grief are because of the sacrifice of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ-I thank You for the comfort which embraces all those who love You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.