【双语灵修】我是神的朋友

【双语灵修】我是神的朋友

约翰福音 15:9-17

“我爱你们,正如父爱我一样,你们要常在我的爱里。你们若遵守我的命令,就常在我的爱里,正如我遵守了我父的命令,常在他的爱里。这些事我已经对你们说了,是要叫我的喜乐存在你们心里,并叫你们的喜乐可以满足。你们要彼此相爱,像我爱你们一样,这就是我的命令。人为朋友舍命,人的爱心没有比这个大的。你们若遵行我所吩咐的,就是我的朋友了。以后我不再称你们为仆人,因仆人不知道主人所做的事。我乃称你们为朋友,因我从父所听见的,已经都告诉你们了。不是你们拣选了我,是我拣选了你们,并且分派你们去结果子,叫你们的果子常存,使你们奉我的名无论向父求什么,他就赐给你们。 我这样吩咐你们,是要叫你们彼此相爱。

5月26日

我是神的朋友

“‘以后我不再称你们为仆人,因仆人不知道主人所做的事。我乃称你们为朋友。’” - 约 15:15

有朋友是一个很大的福气。朋友增加我们的快乐,并分担我们的忧伤。当世人都离我们而去时,朋友会走进来。朋友认识我们的为人,所以他们仍然爱我们。《箴言》第十八章24节说“朋友,比弟兄更亲密”。换句话说,一个真正的朋友是可靠的,他们时常在我们身旁支持我们。

令人惊奇的是救主和宇宙的王耶稣,竟然称信徒为衪的朋友。作为基督的信徒,我们不仅是宇宙之主的臣民或仆人,我们更是衪的朋友。而衪是忠心和真诚的,比亲兄弟更亲密。在《约翰福音》第十五章中,耶稣解释说,衪像一个真正的朋友,对我们是毫无隐藏和开放的:“我从我父所听见的,已经都告诉你们了。”毫无秘密,毫无欺骗,毫无面具——只是一颗敞开的心,托付给衪的朋友。

牺牲的爱是友情最真实的标志。耶稣说:“人为朋友舍命,人的爱心没有比这个大的。”当耶稣在十架上为我们所有的罪付上代价时,衪证明了这一点。衪那么重视与我们的友情,为了保存这份友情,祂甚至牺牲了自己的生命。

祷告

主耶稣,有你作我们的朋友,真令我们深感震憾。求你加力量给我们,因为我们知道你要在我们一生中作我们恒久忠诚的朋友。奉你的名祈求,阿们。

John 15:9-17

MONDAY, MAY 26

I AM A FRIEND OF GOD

“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends.” — John 15:15

Having friends is a great blessing. Friends multiply our joys and divide our sorrows. Friends walk in when the rest of the world walks out. Friends know all about us, and they still love us anyway. Proverbs 18:24 notes that “a friend . . . sticks closer than a brother. In other words, a true friend can be relied upon and is always there for us.

The amazing thing is that Jesus, the Savior and King of creation, calls believers his friends. As believers in Christ, we are not just subjects or servants of the Lord of the universe; we are his friends. And he is loyal and true, sticking closer than a blood brother. In John 15, Jesus explains that, like a true friend, he is transparent and open with us: “Everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” No secrets, no deception, no masks—just an open heart entrusted to his friends.

The truest sign of friendship is sacrificial love. Jesus says, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Jesus demonstrated this when he went to the cross to pay the price for all our sin. He considered friendship with us so important that he surrendered his very life in order to secure it.

Lord Jesus, it’s overwhelming to know that we have a friend in you. Grant us strength in knowing that you want to walk with us through life as our constant, faithful friend. Amen.

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