【双语灵修】耶稣的气息JESUS’ BREATH

约翰福音 20:19-23

那日，就是七日的第一日晚上，门徒所在的地方，因怕犹太人，门都关了。耶稣来站在当中，对他们说：“愿你们平安！” 说了这话，就把手和肋旁指给他们看。门徒看见主，就喜乐了。 耶稣又对他们说：“愿你们平安！父怎样差遣了我，我也照样差遣你们。” 说了这话，就向他们吹一口气，说：“你们受圣灵！ 你们赦免谁的罪，谁的罪就赦免了；你们留下谁的罪，谁的罪就留下了。”

4月8日

耶稣的气息

“说了这话，就向他们吹一口气，说：‘你们受圣灵！’” - 约翰福音 20:22

死人是不呼吸，而且绝对不可能呼出那种能流入别人里面的生命！

就在几天前，耶稣才刚“断了气”（《路加福音》23:46），周围的人都以为他就到此为止了。但在这《约翰福音》20章，我们读到耶稣在周日清晨复活了；而且就在那一天的晚上，他正将圣灵的气息吹进他的门徒里面。

你听说过美国黄石国家公园里的“老忠实”（Old Faithful）间歇泉吗？它的水柱能喷射到130英尺（40米）的高空！我们也可以把耶稣的气息想像成类似间歇泉的样子—一个生命的喷泉。

你看过热带森林中幼嫩竹子的照片或视频吗？在酷热的环境下，它们生长得如此快，你甚至几乎能听到它们拔节生长的声音。当地球提供养分时，竹子就迸发出勃勃生机。在某种程度上，耶稣的气息也像那样迸发出生命。

你参加过尊崇那位宇宙的主与神—圣父、圣子和圣灵—的敬拜聚会吗？耶稣的跟随者们，在这堕落、破碎的世界中，竭力为救主而活，他们聚集敬拜这位创造主，并彼此分享耶稣的气息。他赐下气息，他们便领受生命。更新。复兴。

当耶稣激励（Inspire，原意为“吹入”）神的子民去分享祂的爱，并将盼望带到神世界的每一个角落时，耶稣复活的回响便连绵不绝。

祷告

主耶稣，求你向我们吹气。差遣你的灵临到我们。求你赐予活力、唤醒并差派我们，正如你当年对门徒所做的一样。阿们。

John 20:19-23

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

JESUS’ BREATH

He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” —John 20:22

Dead people don’t breathe. And they surely don’t breathe life that flows into others!

Just a few days earlier, Jesus had “breathed his last” (Luke 23:46), and everyone around him had assumed that was the end of him. But here, in John 20, we read about Jesus coming back to life, early on Sunday morning, and in the evening of that day he was breathing the life of his Holy Spirit into his disciples.

Have you heard of the geyser “Old Faithful” in Yellowstone National Park (U.S.)? The water shoots 130 feet (40 meters) into the air! We can think of Jesus’ breath too as something like a geyser, a geyser of life.

Have you seen pictures or watched videos of young bamboo plants in a tropical forest? In the searing heat they grow so fast that you can almost hear them stretch. As the earth provides nutrients, the bamboo plant pushes out vegetation. In some ways like that, Jesus’ breath pushes out life.

Have you been to a worship service that honors the Lord and God of the universe—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Followers of Jesus, striving to live for the Savior in a fallen, broken world, come to worship the King of creation and to share Jesus’ breath with one another. He gives it, and they receive life. Renewal. Revival.

The resurrection of Jesus keeps echoing as he inspires God’s people to share his love and bring hope everywhere in God’s world.

Breathe on us, Lord Jesus. Send us your Spirit. Enliven, awaken, and commission us, as you did with your disciples. Amen.