每日箴言
普世欢腾（记号：马槽）
“我报给你们大喜的信息，是关乎万民的。因今天在大卫的城里，为你们生了救主，就是主基督。” - 路 2:10-11
✟ 灵修
你会不会享受圣诞这个季节。那些令人愉悦的装饰，和亲朋好友相聚一起，品尝圣诞佳肴。不过，也许你最喜欢的部分是唱圣诞歌曲，尤其是，“普世欢腾”这首歌。
神的百姓在圣诞时节宣告说：“普世欢腾，救主下降”。以撒·华兹（Isaac Watts）这首18世纪的圣诞颂歌是基于诗篇98篇，为了庆祝耶稣基督的降临。
救主降临的喜悦在万物中回响，甚至田野、岩石，小山和平原都“响应歌声嘹亮”。这对神的整个世界来说都是大好的消息！
我们在每个圣诞节都宣告的这个消息为什么这么好呢？为什么唱这首歌的感情如此丰沛而欢快？以撒·华兹在第三节中回答了这个问题，他在那里宣告说，耶稣的到来化解了人类犯罪和悖逆而来的咒诅。耶稣藉着祂的死和复活，“将咒诅化为了祝福”。
在以撒·华兹的诗歌中，这句歌词重复了好几遍——这是有原因的。脱离了罪的束缚以及死亡的辖制，我们便得以自由，活在喜乐中，能以爱神和爱邻舍，耕耘神赐给我们的土地。所以，让我们喜乐地唱出这个好消息吧：“普世欢腾！救主下降！”
✟ 祷告
耶稣，你已经来释放我们，脱离了罪和死的辖制，请帮助我们活出并宣扬你爱的奇妙，阿们！
普世佳音每日箴言
✟Joy To The World! (Symbol: Manger)
“I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord." — Luke 2:10-11
✟ Devotion
I enjoy the Christmas season. I like the cheerful decorations, spending time with family and friends, and eating Christmas goodies. My favorite part of Christmas, by far, though, is singing carols—and, above all, “Joy to the World!”
“Joy to the world! The Lord is come,” God’s people announce at Christmastime. Based on Psalm 98, Isaac Watts’s eighteenth-century carol celebrates the coming of Jesus, the Christ. The joy of the Savior’s coming resounds throughout all of creation, even the fields and rocks and hills and plains “repeat the sounding joy.” This is good news for all of God’s world!
What’s so good about this news announced each Christmas? Why sing this carol with such exuberance? Watts answers that question in the third stanza, where he declares that Jesus has come to deal with the curse of human sin and rebellion. Through his death and resurrection, Jesus brings the blessing as “far as the curse is found.”
In Watts’s hymn, this phrase repeats several times—and for good reason. Released from bondage to sin and the power of death over us, we are now freed to live with joy, to love God and our neighbor, and to cultivate the earth God has given us. So let’s sing with joy that good news: “Joy to the world! The Lord is come”!
✟ Prayer
Jesus, you have come and released us from the power of sin and death. Help us to live in ways that proclaim the wonders of your love. Amen.
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每日箴言（中英）︱背井离乡（记号：眼泪）
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每日箴言（中英）︱顺服呼召（记号：火钳火炭）
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