Daily Devotion - Dec 3 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

給上帝時間

經文: 「凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時。」（傳道書三：1）

這話的確有道理，凡事都有定時。這是真的嗎？我們忙到和上帝溝通談話的時間都沒有嗎？難道這不是最重要的一件事嗎？每天挪出一段時間來親近上帝，經歷祂的全能和大愛，我懇求你，要撥時間給上帝。

我們需要花時間查考聖經，沐浴在真理的亮光中，使我們的靈性得著滋潤與餵養。藉著聖經的話，上帝的思想與恩典進到我們心中，每天花時間讀幾節聖經，仔細琢磨、深思、默想，做為每日的靈糧。若我們不花時間讀經禱告，上帝的靈如何向我們說話？如何引導我們的思想？當然不能。

聖經的話以及應許，可以做我們禱告的內容，求上帝來施恩兌現。我們禱告常常沒有效果，因為我們只顧著向上帝報告自己的事，卻沒有時間聽上帝向我們說話。求上帝教導我們明白我們的需要、上帝的應許、以及該用怎樣的態度向上帝祈禱。藉著上帝的道，人的心就預備好來與上帝溝通交談，當然，這一切都以對耶穌的信心做基礎。

親愛的弟兄姐妹們，我們談了這麼多屬靈生活的祕訣，以及如何得著更豐盛的生命，但你若沒有每天花時間來到天父面前，和祂談話，領受靈糧，則一切流於空談，我們仍然與聖潔的生活無分，仍然勝不過世界的牽絆與誘惑。除非我們願花時間讓上帝啟示在我們心中，否則我們永遠無法明白何謂豐盛的生命，與得勝的生活。


GIVE TIME TO GOD

Scripture: "To everything there is a season, and a time to every pur¬pose under the sun."—ECCLES. iii. 1.

This is literally true, there is a time for everything. Can it be true, as so many maintain, that there is no time for communion with God? Is not the most important matter, for which we must find time, fellowship with God, in which we may experience His love and His power? Give God time, I beseech you.

You need time to feed upon the Word of God, and to draw from it life for your soul. Through His Word, His thoughts and His grace enter our hearts and lives. Take time each day to read the Bible, even if it be only a few verses; meditate upon what you have read, and thus assimilate the bread of life. If you do not take the trouble to let God speak to you through His Word, how can you expect to be led by the Spirit? Meditate upon the Word, and lay it before God in prayer as the pledge of what He will do for you. The Word gives you matter for prayer, and courage and power in prayer. Our prayers are often futile because we speak our own thoughts and have not taken time to hear what God has to say. Let the Word of God teach you what God promises, what you need, and in what manner God wishes you to pray. Thus by prayer and the Word your heart will be prepared to have fellowship with God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Dear child of God, it is of little use to speak of the deeper, more abundant life of Christ as our life, if we do not daily, above all things, take time for intercourse with our Father in heaven. The life and love and holiness of God cannot be ours amidst the distractions and temptations of the world, unless we give God time to reveal Himself to us and to take possession of our hearts.


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