554 中翻英 (254) God's will must be obeyed. 上帝的旨意必必遵守. 10/17/2023

 554 中翻英 (254)            God's will must be obeyed.       上帝的旨意必必遵守.      10/17/2023

十月十七日的晨曦甘露是有基督信仰者必須飲用的.   它是基督徒的見證.   為什麼基督信仰的人在蒙受苦難時仍是喜樂的?    為什麼使徒保羅在受苦受難之境遇中,  仍是勇往直前?  因為上帝愛我們,   祂的旨意必定是美善.

「以色列人受了他們些食物，并沒有求問耶和華。」（書9:14）

人在神面前的罪有兩類：一是神發出的命令，而人拒絕順服。一是神還未發令，而我們就任意妄為。前者是背逆，不遵守神的吩咐，后者是自大放肆，任意做神所沒有吩咐的事。我們為神所做的工，到底有多少是根据于主明确的命令？或有多少是因著那是「好事」而我們就去做的呢？我們往往以為，只要我們的良心沒有禁止，或者我們的良心認為某事善美非凡，就夠有理由叫我們下手做工了。弟兄姊妹，你們豈不曉得每一個仆人都應該先等候主的命令，然后才照祂所吩咐的去事奉祂么？ 

October 17

“The children of Israel received some of their food without consulting the LORD.” (Joshua 9:14)

There are two types of sins that humans commit before God: One is that humans refuse to obey commands issued by God. One is that God has not yet issued a command, but we do whatever we want. The former is disobedience and disobedience to God's commands; the latter is arrogance and presumptuousness, arbitrarily doing things that God has not commanded. How much of the work we do for God is based on the Lord’s clear commands? Or how much do we do it because it is a “good thing”? We often think that as long as our conscience does not prohibit it, or our conscience thinks that something is good and beautiful, it is enough reason for us to do something. Brothers and sisters, don’t you know that every servant should first wait for the Lord’s command before serving Him according to His command?