双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：2月24日 上帝说话

2月24日

上帝说话

“我要听上帝—耶和华所说的话；因为他必应许将平安赐给他的百姓—他的圣民；他们却不可再转去妄行。”

诗篇85:8

在每一部优秀的小说和戏剧里面，都有冲突和矛盾的情节。但是。就是莎士比亚也写不出来的，是神学上的悖论。我们知道，人因有罪与神隔绝。因为上帝是圣洁的，他不可能自动赦免或忽视人的悖逆；又因为上帝是慈爱的，他又不可能对人置之不理。这很矛盾。上帝如何能既是义者又是称义者呢（“义”就是无罪；“称义”就是宣判罪人无罪）这正是约伯的问题：“人在上帝面前怎能成为义呢？”（约伯记9:2）

我小时候，广播刚开始走进我们的生活，我们会围在一个自制的简陋的收音机旁，调来调去搜寻波段。在调台搜寻的过程中，收音机发出电流的吱吱嘎嘎的声音。我们虽然不喜欢那些声音，但还是满怀期待。我们知道，只要调整到准确的频率，我们可以听到响亮而清楚的广播。经过好长一段时间折腾，我们终于听到音乐或播音。屋里的每个人都欢喜雀跃：终于调到了！

先知说上帝跟他们说话，你可能会有疑问，他会跟我们说话吗？他是否会告诉我们他在哪里？我们怎样才能找到他？我们怎样才能与他同在？上帝已经回答了我们。他告诉我们关于他自己的一切和他对我们的关爱。答案就是：启示。

启示的意思，就是“使人知道”或“揭开”。启示必然有一个启示者，就是上帝自己。启示也需要有听从者，那就是被拣选的先知和使徒，他们把上帝的启示记载在圣经里。启示就是上帝和人之间的交通。

在上帝与我们之间的启示中，我们找到一种新的生命维度。但是，我们必须要去调准。全新的生命在等待我们。我们会得到从未有过的平安、满足和喜乐。上帝要作工，天堂在呼唤，上帝在说话。你听见上帝的声音了吗？当你寻找上帝的时候，他就对你说话。

今日祷告：

天父，求你对我说话，求你向我显现。让我知道你的旨意。求你让我们明白并相信你所预告的真理。奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们！

February 24

GOD SPEAKS

I will hear what the Lord will say:for He will speak peace to His people,to His godly one…Psalm 85:8 NASB

In every good novel or play there must be conflict.But even Shakespeare could not have created a more powerful plot than the divine dilemma.We know that man is sinful and separated from God.Because God is holy,He couldn’t automatically forgive or ignore man’s rebellion.Because God is love,He couldn’t completely cast man aside.Conflict.How could God be just and the justifier?This is the question Job posed:“But how can a man be in the right before God?”(Job 9:2,NASB)

Radio was just coming of age when I was a boy.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.It wasn’t very exciting to listen to all those senseless sounds,but we kept at the controls with anticipation.We knew that somewhere out there was the unseen transmitter,so 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 sound of music or a voice would suddenly break through and a smile of triumph would brighten the faces of everyone in the room.At last we were tuned in!

Perhaps you have been puzzled that the prophets said God spoke to them.Does He speak to us?Does He tell us where He is-how we can find Him-how we can be right with Him?God has solved the problem:He does tell us about Himself and His loving concern.The key is a line of communication which is“revelation.”

Revelation means“to make known”or“to unveil.”Revelation requires a“revealer,”who in this case is God.It also requires“hearers”-the chosen prophets and apostles who recorded in the Bible what He told them.Revelation is communication in which God is at one end and man is at the other.

In the revelation that God established between Himself and us we can find a new dimension of living,but we must“tune in.”Levels of living we have never attained await us.Peace,satisfaction,and joy we have never experienced and available to us.God is trying to break through.The heavens are calling and God is speaking.

Have you heard God’s voice?At the same time you are searching for God,He is speaking to you.

Pray for the Day:

Father,speak to me.Reveal Yourself to me.Make known Your will to me,and I pray that I will be able to understand and believe when I hear Your prophetic truth;in Jesus’Name,Amen.