信心的支票簿 Faith's check book
持守正直
經文: 「正直人祈禱，為祂所喜悅。」（箴言十五︰8）
這節經文是儼然的應許，因它宣告一項永不改變的事實︰上帝喜悅正直人的禱告，所以我們第一要務就是持守正直，不偏左右。不要向惡勢力低頭，也不要與罪惡妥協，倒要守正不阿，建言直陳。若我們開始搖動沒有立場，我們就會無所適從；若我們心術不正，我們會發現自己無法禱告，即使我們試圖繼續禱告，天上的門也不會為我們打開。
我們有否按著上帝的心意禱告﹖若是，讓我們常常在信心裡禱告。上帝不在乎我們的文法是否正確，詞藻是否美麗，乃在乎我們的誠心與正直，即使我們像牙牙學語的孩子，禱告得辭不達意，或結結巴巴，上帝仍然愛聽祂子女的祈禱，既是如此，我們豈不該常到祂施恩寶座前，獻上我們禱告的馨香之祭；上帝樂意聽我們的瑣碎絮語，我們也該為此獻上感謝。
Continue Upright
Scripture: "The prayer of the upright is His delight"(Proverbs 15:8).
This is as good as a promise, for it declares a present fact, which will be the same throughout all ages. God takes great pleasure in the prayers of upright men; He even calls them His delight. Our first concern is to be upright. Neither bending this way nor that, continue upright; not crooked with policy, nor prostrate by yielding to evil, be you upright in strict integrity and straightforwardness. If we begin to shuffle and shift, we shall be left to shift for ourselves. If we try crooked ways, we shall find that we cannot pray, and if we pretend to do so, we shall find our prayers shut out of heaven.
Are we acting in a straight line and thus following out the LORD's revealed will? Then let us pray much and pray in faith. If our prayer is God's delight, let us not stint Him in that which gives Him pleasure. He does not consider the grammar of it, nor the metaphysics of it, nor the rhetoric of it; in all these men might despise it. He, as a Father, takes pleasure in the lispings of His own babes, the stammerings of His newborn sons and daughters. Should we not delight in prayer since the LORD delights in it? Let us make errands to the throne. The LORD finds us enough reasons for prayer, and we ought to thank Him that it is so.
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