对今日诗句的想法
罪伤害了那么多心灵、盼望与家庭。这些伤害危及我们的文化、侵害我们的生命。神为我们提供了遏制罪并且得饶恕的方式:真诚地认罪。认罪的核心就是以神的视角看待罪的本质,并为自己罪的行为而伤痛。难怪认罪有医治的功效(参见约翰一书1:5-2:2)。难怪神期望我们彼此认罪并来到他的面前为彼此祈求,使罪的伤害得以医治。难怪神赐予义人祷告的力量,为他人代求使之能够认罪悔改。就让我们认自己的罪,并离弃罪继续前行。
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
So many hearts, hopes, and homes are broken by sin. This brokenness infects our culture and invades our lives. God has provided both a deterrent to sin and a means of forgiveness for its guilt: honest and genuine confession of our sin. At the heart of confession is a passion to see sin for what it is in the eyes of God and to be anguished for our participation in it. No wonder confession is so healing (cf. 1 John 1:5-2:2). No wonder God wants us to confess our sin to each other and then come to him for each other's healing from sin and its damage. No wonder God grants such power to the prayer of a righteous person interceding for one led to confess. Let's confess our sin and leave it behind.
我的祷告
噢慈爱的天父啊,圣洁、恩慈的神啊,请饶恕我的罪...(具体列出需要在神面前承认的罪)。慈爱的天父啊,愿你引领我到你的儿女中间,使我能够在认罪中卸下罪的重担,知道他们将为我祷告,使我能够得饶恕,并且带领我更加信靠你恩典的大能与圣灵的力量将帮助我战胜生命中的罪。奉主耶稣之名祈求,阿们!
My Prayer...
O loving Father, God of holiness and grace, please forgive me for my sin... (list specific sins you need to confess before God). Please lead me, dear Father, to the group of your children with whom I can lay down my burden of sin in confession and know that they will pray for my forgiveness and lead me to greater confidence in the power of your grace and the might of your Spirit to help me overcome the sin in my life. In Jesus' name. Amen.