信心的支票簿 Faith's check book
可貴的悔改
經文: 「你們在那裡要追念玷污自己的行動作為，又要因所做的一切惡事，厭惡自己。」(以西結書廿：43)
當我們為上帝所接納，藉著恩典站在與上帝和好的地位上，我們便能自然而然地來到慈悲的父上帝面前，求祂赦免我們的過犯錯失。悔改是如此的珍貴，以致我們堪稱它為第一滴水的珍珠，也是上帝所應許救恩最神聖的一步。上帝接受人的悔改，也賜下赦免之恩，而這是從上帝餵養祂兒女的甜蜜之泉而來。我們本不配蒙恩，卻得寶血救贖，如此大的恩典，焉能讓我們不感激涕零？我們仍然覺得心硬嗎？讓我們想想加略山的愛，並且願意認罪，離罪，恨罪；是的，該為我們也曾輕忽、辜負這無限的大愛而責備自己。讓我們來到上帝面前，按著祂寶貴的應許，求祂讓我們記起自己的過犯，並認罪悔改，回轉到上帝面前。喔，如此我們將在那如高山熔流的愛中歡欣快樂，並在泉湧的淚水後感受到無比的輕鬆。主啊！擊打我這頑石，向頑石說話，讓這磐石流出水來！
Precious Repentance
Scripture: "And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed"(Ezekiel 20:43).
When we are accepted of the LORD and are standing in the place of favor, and peace, and safety, then we are led to repent of all our failures and miscarriages toward our gracious God. So precious is repentance that we may call it a diamond of the first water, and this is sweetly promised to the people of God as one most sanctifying result of salvation. He who accepts repentance also gives repentance; and He gives it not out of "the bitter box" but from among those "wafers made with honey" on which He feeds His people. A sense of blood-bought pardon and of undeserved mercy is the best means of dissolving a heart of stone. Are we feeling hard? Let us think of covenant love, and then we shall leave sin, lament sin, and loathe sin; yea, we shall loathe ourselves for sinning against such infinite love. Let us come to God with this promise of penitence and ask Him to help us to remember, and repent, and regret, and return. Oh, that we could enjoy the meltings of holy sorrow! What a relief would a flood of tears be! LORD, smite the rock, or speak to the rock, and cause the waters to flow!
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