【双语灵修】信靠顺服TRUST AND OBEY
约翰福音 14:15-21
你们若爱我,就必遵守我的命令。“我要求父,父就另外赐给你们一位保惠师,叫他永远与你们同在,就是真理的圣灵,乃世人不能接受的,因为不见他,也不认识他。你们却认识他,因他常与你们同在,也要在你们里面。我不撇下你们为孤儿,我必到你们这里来。还有不多的时候,世人不再看见我,你们却看见我,因为我活着,你们也要活着。到那日,你们就知道我在父里面,你们在我里面,我也在你们里面。“有了我的命令又遵守的,这人就是爱我的。爱我的必蒙我父爱他,我也要爱他,并且要向他显现。”
十诫:生命之言
Kurt Selles
八月,我们将一起探索十诫—我们从神领受的生命之言。神在这些诫命中颁布的律法,为我们如何在世界上生活奠定了基本根基。如果我们用一个词来概括这些诫命,那就是“爱”。因为,正如耶稣在《马太福音》22章37-40节中表明,诫命教导我们要“尽心、尽性、尽意爱主我们的神”,以及“爱我们身边的众人”。
作者Kurt Selles牧师在2026年7月退休前担任ReFrame Ministries的总监。该机构负责出版“每日箴言”本灵修资料。他毕业于加尔文学院暨神学院(Calvin College and Seminary),并在范德堡大学(Vanderbilt University)获得了博士学位。在加入ReFrame之前,Kurt曾在基督教改革宗世界宣教团(CRC World Missions)服侍,在台湾和中国大陆宣教19年。此后,Kurt在比森神学院(Beeson Divinity School)教授宣教学,并兼任该校全球中心的总监。Kurt和妻子薇琪(Vicki)现定居于大急流城(Grand Rapids),他们育有三个已成年的孩子。
8月31日
信靠顺服
“你们若爱我,就必遵守我的命令。” - 约翰福音 14:15
当我默想十诫时,一首古老的福音诗歌总是在我脑海中回响:《信靠顺服》。(译注:英语经典圣诗 Trust and Obey。)这首简朴的圣诗,唱出了我们为主而活的生命基石:信靠神,并以行动去顺服。因着对神的信靠,我们每日转向祂,仰赖祂的恩手扶持。如此,我们便能在基督里那永不衰残的新生命中,得着那直到永远的属天喜乐。
十诫向我们显明并揭示我们的罪—那根深蒂固的败坏,以及无法按着呼召去爱神与爱邻舍的软弱。然而,藉着圣灵对我们内心恩慈的洁净与更新,使我们踏上了一条顺服的新路。在这条新路上,神的诫命成为了我们心存感恩、顺服神而活的指引。
尽管我们在今生仍然需要不断与罪搏斗,神每天依然呼召我们要信靠并顺服祂。十诫以及其他对神律法的总结—如《弥迦书》6章8节;《罗马书》12 章;《哥林多前书》13 章;《加拉太书》5章22-25节;《以弗所书》2章8-10节等——都是这条道路上信实的指引。
正如诗歌所唱,当我们信靠顺服神时,我们可以期待在“耶稣里得喜乐”。事实上,更清晰的描述是:因那根植于神在救主耶稣基督里,向我们所显的奇妙恩典,与大爱的满足和惊叹,我们可以满有喜乐。
今天,你可以通过哪些方式,与他人分享在基督里新生命的喜乐呢?
祷告
我主我神,求你帮助我们行在你话语的光中,在凡事上信靠并顺服你,使我们的生命溢满你的喜乐。阿们。
John 14:15-21
MONDAY, AUGUST 31
TRUST AND OBEY
“If you love me, keep my commands.” —John 14:15
As I’ve been reflecting on the Ten Commandments, an old gospel song keeps running through my mind: “Trust and Obey.” This simple hymn expresses the bedrock faith and action of seeking to live for the Lord. By trusting God and, through his strength, turning to him for support each day, we find joy in the new life we are promised forever in Christ.
The Ten Commandments reveal to us and convict us of our sin, our deeply ingrained failure and inability to love God and our neighbors as we are called to do. But through the gracious cleansing and renewing of our hearts, the Holy Spirit sets us on a new path of obedience. And on this new path, God’s commands become a guide for gratefully living in obedience to God.
Though we continue to struggle with sin in this life, God still calls us daily to trust him and obey him. The Ten Commandments and other helpful summaries of God’s law—Micah 6:8; Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5:22-25; Ephesians 2:8-10; and more—are faithful guides along the way.
When we trust and obey the Lord, as the song puts it, we can expect to be “happy in Jesus.” Actually, a clearer description is that we can be joyful through the inner contentment and wonder grounded in God’s amazing grace and love for us in the Savior, Jesus Christ.
In what ways can you share the joy of new life in Christ with others today?
Help us, Lord God, to walk in the light of your Word, trusting and obeying you in all things, so that our lives overflow with your joy. Amen.

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