每日箴言(中英)|祷告的确据

每日箴言

祷告的确据

“当趁耶和华可寻找的时候寻找他,相近的时候求告他。” - 赛 55:6

✟ 灵修

有些研究尝试找出祷告对人有什么益处,研究结果往往显示,一般来说,祷告的人比不祷告的来的快乐和健康,这个事实或许会帮助人多点祷告吧。祷告的人都知道,祷告的益处远远超过他们得到的健康和快乐的感受。


在这个月,我们曾经指出,归根究底,祷告关乎我们与神的关系。多年之前,我在一本古旧的书中找到一个祷告的定义,那里说:“祷告是与神的友情累积而成的生命。”


就像友谊牵涉和影响两个互相交往的人,我们与神的关系也是一样,今天的经文清楚说明这点;从一方面来看,圣经吩咐我们要寻求神,这似乎在说,我们是主动去祷告的;然而,我们能够寻求神,完全是因为神首先说:“你们一切干渴的都当就近水来。”神呼召,我们就回应,祷告是我们享用神早已为我们摆设了的筵席。我们祷告,不是因为我们一定要去做,乃是因为我们可以这样做。


当我们转向主的时候,我们就寻见那位早已经以怜悯转向我们,并无条件地赦免我们的主。这就是祷告带给我们的确据,也是它最丰厚的祝福。

✟ 祷告

主啊,以你首先寻找我,我便寻找你,因你已呼唤我,我便呼唤你,我为我能够借着耶稣与你有如此奇妙的关系感谢你,阿们!


普世佳音每日箴言

✟ The Assurance Of Prayer

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near." — Isaiah 55:6

✟ Devotion

A number of studies have tried to search out the benefits of prayer. Results often indicate that people who pray are generally happier and healthier than people who don't. This may help people to consider praying more. And people who do pray know that the benefits of prayer extend far beyond their health and their sense of happiness.


As we have noted this month, prayer is ultimately about a relationship we have with God. I am reminded of a definition of prayer that I found in an old book some years ago: "Prayer is a cumulative life of friendship with God."


Just as a friendship involves and affects two people as they interact, so does our relationship with God. Today's Bible reading makes this clear. On the one hand, we are instructed to seek God, which seems to imply that prayer happens by our initiative. But our seeking of God is only possible because God first says, "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters." God calls, and we answer. Prayer is our enjoyment of a banquet already prepared by God. We pray not because we must, but because we may.


As we turn to the Lord, we find the One who has already turned to us in mercy and who freely pardons. This is the assurance of prayer—and also its greatest blessing.



✟ Prayer

Because you have first sought me, I seek you, O Lord. Because you have called to me, I call to you. Thank you for the amazing relationship I can have with you, through Jesus. Amen.


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