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真正意义的敬拜
默想:
“耶稣说:‘妇人,你当信我。时候将到,你们拜父也不在这山上,也不在耶路撒冷。你们所拜的,你们不知道;我们所拜的,我们知道,因为救恩是从犹太人出来的。’”(约4:21-22)
灵思:
作为基督徒,我们的最大需要、最大特权和最高使命是敬拜神。因为这是我们被造的原因。神邀请我们、命令我们、鼓励我们、授权我们——敬拜神。神要我们因敬拜神,故而像神。
如果你想按照你的“心想”生活,那么,结果是痛苦的。如果你想按照“神想”生活,那么,结果是喜乐的。看着神的脸,学习敬拜神。
据约翰福音第4章记载,耶稣遇见一个撒玛利亚女人。这个女人被撒但蒙蔽了双眼,被悲伤磨折到崩溃,被罪捆绑。耶稣与这位女人分享的信息提醒我们——“用心灵与诚实敬拜”的重要性。
按照耶稣的教导,这位妇人必须明白“真正的敬拜”意味着什么。
人很容易陷入偶象崇拜、虚谎与邪恶的试探。真正的敬拜是:在人与神之间架起“响应”神的桥梁,藉着神的启示——耶稣基督——对神“虔敬的默想”。我们的敬拜是基于我们对神的荣耀考量——他“配”我们敬拜。
行动:
你如何评估你的敬拜“现状”——无论是好的,还是不好的?
有哪些证据表明你的人生是在“奏响”神的荣耀?
你有没有把某些“物”当偶像拜,那怕是“无意识”的?有哪些?采取措施,摒弃它们,“一心”敬拜神。
教会写手 译
The True Meaning of Worship
Bible Meditation:
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither onthis mountain, nor in Jerusalem,worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship,for salvation is of the Jews.”(John 4:21-22)
Devotional Thought:
Our greatest need, privilege, and supreme duty as Christians is to worship God; it is the very reason we were created. We are invited, commanded, encouraged, and empowered to worship God, because we become like what we worship.
If you want to be utterly miserable, turn your life inward. If you want to be filled with joy, turn your life upward. Look into the face of God and learn to worship.
In John 4, Jesus met a woman who had been blinded by Satan, broken by sorrow, and bound by sin. What Jesus shared with this Samaritan woman reminds us why it is important to be faithful in worship.
First, Jesus taught her the meaning of true worship.
It is easy to fall into the trappings of idolatry, insincerity, and iniquity. True worship is all that we are, responding to all that God is. It is the adoring contemplation of God revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. We worship according to the worth we place on God.
Action Point:
How have you seen the reality that you become like what you worship—whether good orbad?
What evidence does your life give of the worth you place on God?
What might you have made into an idol, even unknowingly? Take specific steps to turn your full worship to God?
Adrian Rogers
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