灵命日粮 - 2005年4月1日
读经: 诗篇31篇9-24节

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金句: 「我好像破碎的器皿。」（诗篇31篇12节）

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全年读经: 撒母耳记上21-24章  

被上帝使用的人很少从未受过挫折，在实现梦想的过程中，总是有曲折和失望一路相伴。
但是人的尽头常常是上帝的起头，在人看来是糟透了的事，也许正是上帝展现祂大爱与恩典的时刻。我们只有跟随到底，才能看到那些受过挫折和磨难的人成了更好的基督徒，但按照自己的计划和意愿而行的，他们是不可能做到这一点的。

我的朋友，现在的你正面临着重挫吗？你失去了你生命里最珍贵的东西吗？请记住，如果你能全然地以上帝的观点，来看这件事情背后的目的，你便会赞美主。

我们生命上最宝贵的事情不是靠自己的方式所得来，而是有上帝的安排。虽然试炼和考验的过程似乎既艰苦又残忍，然而那是上帝展现大爱的方式，并且那结果对我们才是最好的。请记住，主对我们做出应许：「他未尝留下一样好处不给那些行动正直的人」（诗篇84篇11节）。MRD


一生之中，始终将主信靠，
不要害怕，因为祂在身旁；
一路赞美，哪怕天色黑暗，
终有一天，看到阳光灿烂。Cornelius

无数的挫折，重塑了基督徒的完美。
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Broken Things



Read:Psalm 31:9-24
I am like a broken vessel. —Psalm 31:12


Bible In One Year: 1 Samuel 21-24

Few unbroken lives in this world are useful to God. Few men and women can fulfill their hopes and plans without some interruption and disappointment along the way.

But man's disappointments are often God's appointments, and the things we believe are tragedies may be the very opportunities through which God chooses to exhibit His love and grace. We have but to follow these lives to the end to see that people who have been broken become better and more effective Christians than if they had carried out all their own plans and purposes.

Are you, my friend, being broken today? Has the dearest thing in your life been torn away? Then remember that if you could see the purpose of it all from God's standpoint, you would praise the Lord.

The best things that come to us are not those that accrue from having our way, but by letting God have His way. Though the way of testing and trial and sorrow often seems hard and cruel, it is the way of God's love and in the end will be the best for us.

Remember, we have the Lord's promise: "No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). —M. R. De Haan, M.D.


Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way, still sing and praise,
Sometime, sometime, we'll understand. —Cornelius

For a Christian, wholeness always comes after brokenness.