双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月12日 成长的基督徒

3月12日

成长的基督徒

弟兄们，我从前对你们说话不能把你们当作属灵的，只得把你们当作属肉体，在基督里为婴孩的。

 

——哥林多前书3:1

一些人虽然信了耶稣，也一直参与教会活动，但灵里却从来都没有成熟过。他们被称为“属灵幼童”或“在基督里的婴孩”。他们不太了解圣经经文，很少祷告，生活中也罕见基督徒应有的行为。人嘴上说“我要做的更好，用自己的意志改变生活方式”，但却毫无意义。尸体也可以说“我要靠自己的努力走出棺材，重新变成活人”。但其实，人是无法凭一己之力摆脱恶习的捆绑，你需要耶稣基督的帮助。

每日祷告：

上帝啊，今天请在我身上做工，让我成为成熟的基督徒，更多地亲近祢，并了解祢对我的旨意。奉耶稣基督的名，阿们。

March 12

Outside of Yourself

Dear brothers,I have been talking to you as though you were still just babies in the Christian life……
—1 Corinthians 3:1(TLB)

Some people have received Christ but have never reached spiritual maturity.They have been in church all their lives,and yet they have never become mature Christians.They are still considered“spiritual children”and“babes in Christ.”They know little Scripture.They have little desire to pray,and bear few of the marks of a Christian in their daily living.To say,“I will resolve to do better,I will muster all my will power and revise my way of living,”is noble,but futile.A corpse could as well say,“I will-through sheer effort-rise out of this coffin and be a living man again.”You need a power outside yourself.You cannot get over the habits and chains that are binding you.You need outside help.You need Christ.

The Bible tells of a bridge of faith which reaches from the valley of despair to the high hills of glorious hope in Christ.It tells where we are,but beyond that-it tells where we may be in Christ.Now,of course,you will not be completely mature until you are in the presence of Christ,but you should be growing every day as a Christian.

Prayer for the day:

Lord,work through me this day,that I might be maturing as a Christian and come to know You better,that I might know Your perfect will for me.In Jesus’Name,Amen.