【双语灵修】赦免带来的安慰THE COMFORT OF FORGIVENESS

以赛亚书 40:2；以弗所书 1:7–10

要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话，又向她宣告说，她争战的日子已满了；她的罪孽赦免了；她为自己的一切罪，从耶和华手中加倍受罚。

我们借这爱子的血得蒙救赎，过犯得以赦免，乃是照他丰富的恩典。 8这恩典是上帝用诸般智慧聪明，充充足足赏给我们的； 9都是照他自己所预定的美意，叫我们知道他旨意的奥秘， 10要照所安排的，在日期满足的时候，使天上、地上、一切所有的都在基督里面同归于一。

6月2日

赦免带来的安慰

要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话，又向她宣告说，她争战的日子已满了；她的罪孽赦免了；她为自己的一切罪，从耶和华手中加倍受罚。——以赛亚书40:2

神的子民曾无视祂的律法，对先知的话语侧耳不听。结果，百姓被掳，流亡他乡。他们既不听从恩典的召唤，就必承受管教的杖。

然而，那位管教百姓的神，也凭着怜悯复兴他们。神呼召以赛亚，要他温柔且坚定地对流亡的百姓说话，宣告他们被掳的日子已经结束，他们的罪已蒙赦免。这是何等令人宽慰的信息！

因为神爱祂的子民，所以祂管教他们。在管教的同时，神也赦免他们。神赦免祂的百姓，并使他们得着复兴。

除了神的赦免，没有良药可以医治罪咎感。没有药物能平复被负罪感折磨的心灵，也没有任何疗法能止住因懊悔过犯而发出的绝望哀声。唯有神的赦免，能挪去那压碎我们的沉重负担。

你得到神的赦免了吗？你是否正享受着那“出人意外的平安”（《腓立比书》4:7）？

现在就是恩典的时刻。如果你的心正因罪而感到沉重，现在正是转向神、悔改并寻求祂赦免的绝佳时机。

祷告

神啊，求祢用祢那复兴的怜悯对我们的心说话。求祢挪去我们罪咎的重担，赦免我们，引导我们从管教走向更新，赐下唯有祢能给予的平安。奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们。

Isaiah 40:2; Ephesians 1:7-10

TUESDAY, JUNE 2

THE COMFORT OF FORGIVENESS

Proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for. . . . —Isaiah 40:2

God’s people had ignored his law and had closed their ears to the words of his prophets. As a consequence, the people were taken into captivity and exile. Because they would not listen to the voice of grace, they heard the crack of the whip of discipline.

But the same God who disciplines his people restores them by his mercy. God called Isaiah to speak tenderly and with assurance to his exiled people, proclaiming that their time of captivity was over and that their sins were forgiven. What a comforting message!

Because God loves his people, he disciplines them. And along with disciplining his people, God also forgives them. God forgives his people, and he also restores them.

There is no remedy for guilt except in God's forgiveness. No medicine can calm a heart tormented by guilt. No therapy can stifle the desperate cries of a conscience plagued with remorse for wrongdoing. Only God’s forgiveness can lift the heavy burden that crushes us.

Have you been forgiven by God? Do you enjoy the peace that “transcends all understanding” (Philippians 4:7)?

Now is the time of grace. If your heart weighs heavy with sin, now is the opportune time to turn to God in repentance and seek his forgiveness.

Lord God, speak to our hearts with your restoring mercy. Lift the weight of our guilt, forgive us, and lead us from discipline to renewal, bringing the peace that only you can give. In Jesus, Amen.