双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：3月18日 驯服你的脾气

3月18日

驯服你的脾气

耶和华说，你这样发怒合乎理么。

——约拿书4：4

人都是有脾气的！这并不稀奇。当然每个人的发脾气程度不同。上帝并不是要你去掉脾气，而是指出若想要活得好，你需要控制、疏导脾气。上帝不会使用一位没有脾气的人，他使用的是可以控制脾气的人。因为太多的基督徒从不“愤怒”，面对不公义之事、面对权贵之人的腐败，他们从不抗议。

今日祷告：

主啊，请使用我的脾气来帮助别人。当我看到有人受到伤害或祢的话语被诋毁时，让我成为为此发声的管道，而不仅仅是发怒。奉耶稣基督的名，阿们。

March 18

Tame Your Temper

Doest thou well to be angry?
—Jonah 4:4

You have a temper!There is nothing unique about that.Most people have tempers,in varying degrees,of course.God does not ask that you get rid of that temper.But He does say that if you are to be happy,it must be brought under control and rechanneled to proper use.God cannot use a man without a temper as well as one with a controlled temper.Too many professed Christians never get“wrought up”about anything;they never get indignant with injustice,with corruption in high places,or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of men.

Prayer for the day:

Use my anger to help others,Lord.When I see them hurting or Your world decaying,let me be challenged to reach out—instead of merely exploding.In Jesus’Name,Amen.