【双语灵修】授粉蜂POLLINATING BEES

马太福音 28:16-20

16 十一个门徒往加利利去，到了耶稣约定的山上。 17 他们见了耶稣就拜他，然而还有人疑惑。 18 耶稣进前来，对他们说：“天上地下所有的权柄都赐给我了。 19 所以你们要去，使万民做我的门徒，奉父、子、圣灵的名给他们施洗， 20 凡我所吩咐你们的，都教训他们遵守。我就常与你们同在，直到世界的末了。”

2026-07-18

授粉蜂

“所以你们要去，使万民作我的门徒，奉父子圣灵的名，给他们施洗。” - 马太福音 28:19

8月下旬是我们采摘红莓的最好时段，这时红莓已成熟、变成红色和更鲜甜。与此同时，蜜蜂、熊蜂和其他种类的蜂，都在周围嗡嗡作声和传授花粉，它们正在进行日常的工作。蜜蜂收集花粉和花蜜，来建造它们的巢，又制造食物，就是供现在和整个冬天食用的蜂蜜。透过蜜蜂的工作，它们为任何开花的植物传播花粉，也为我们提供大量的水果、蔬菜、和绿叶植物。

蜜蜂不需要人吩咐它出去、收集和传授花粉，这是它们与生俱来的本能。这些都是神造它们时，指派的工作，好让植物和树木能茁壮生长，并且为所有生物—尤其是为我们人类—提供食物。此外，这些工作也帮助它们的蜂巢生存下去和茁壮成长。

作为跟随耶稣的人，我们都蒙差派去领人作门徒，邀请人来跟随耶稣。在神广阔的世界中，无论我们在何处工作和生活，我们都可以藉耶稣慈爱的信息来感动别人，这是耶稣的心愿。像传授花粉的蜜蜂那样，我们都可以触动迷失的人的生命，祈求基督的爱能够在他们里面结出信心的果子来。

你是否欣然接受这个使命呢？你为此采取了什么行动？

祷告

主啊，求你继续差遣跟随你的人，到各处传扬你慈爱和怜悯的信息。又求你使用我们的行为和言语，引领人到你那里。阿们。

Matthew 28:16-20

SATURDAY, JULY 18

POLLINATING BEES

“Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. . . .” —Matthew 28:19

Late August is the best time for us to pick our raspberries. That’s when the berries are turning ripe, red, and sweet. At the same time, honeybees, bumblebees, and other bees are buzzing all around and pollinating, doing their everyday work and living. The honeybees collect pollen and nectar to build their hive and produce food—honey to eat now and throughout the winter. As they go about their work, bees pollinate anything that has flowers. And for us their work produces fruit, vegetables, and foliage in abundance.

Bees do not need to be told to go out, gather, and pollinate. It’s programed into their nature. It’s all about doing what God made them to do so that plants and trees will thrive and provide food for all creatures, especially us humans. What’s more, doing what they do helps their hive to survive and thrive.

As followers of Jesus, we all are instructed to go and make disciples, inviting people to become followers of Jesus. Wherever we go about doing our work and living in God’s wide world, we can touch people with the message of Jesus’ love. This is the desire of Jesus’ heart. Like pollinating bees, we can touch the lives of lost people and pray that the love of Christ will produce the fruit of faith in them.

Have you embraced this mission? In what ways are you engaged in it?

Lord, keep sending your followers to bring your message of love and mercy everywhere. Use our deeds and words to draw people to you. Amen.