对今日诗句的想法
洗礼中，我们在死亡中与基督相结合（见罗马书6:1-14了解这虔诚的冥想之背景）。我们以前罪恶的自我与基督同钉在十字架上。我们不再是罪恶的奴仆。我们活在基督里－ 罪恶和死亡无法征服。现在他的生活是我们的生活。他的胜利就是我们的胜利。他的未来是我们的未来。让我们的心活在这种信念里。
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
In baptism, we are united with Christ in his death (see Romans 6:1-14 for the background of this devotional meditation). Our old sinful selves are crucified with Christ. We are no longer slaves to sin. We are freed from sin, death, and evil powers that could separate us from God (Colossians 2:12-15, 1:13-14). We are alive in Christ — the one whom sin could not master and death could not conquer. His life is now our life. His victory is our victory. His future is our future (Colossians 3:1-4). Let's set our hearts to live based on this certainty, realizing that we are dead to our past failures and sins and now alive to Jesus' future for us!
我的祷告
仁慈的父亲，这是如此的难以置信，你把我过去的罪放进你被钉死在十字架上的儿子的坟墓里，并把我带进了他的新生活里。激励我发现耶稣的真意，喜悦和胜利。用你的精神使我强大，使我在我的主面前更完美。请让我充分信任，我所有的罪已经死了被埋葬了。请使我相信我的新生活与耶稣和他的的未来紧密联系。耶稣，为这个希望我感谢你，以你的名义我给出你这样的赞美。阿门。
My Prayer...
Gracious Father, I find it incredible that you killed my past failures with Jesus' death on the cross. You put all my past sins in the grave of your crucified Son. You have raised me to a new life in Christ, united with him and his glorious future. Inspire me to find meaning, joy, and victory in Jesus. Strengthen me with your Spirit and conform me more perfectly to my Lord (2 Corinthians 3:18). Please empower me to live, fully trusting that all of my sin is dead, buried, and gone. Please give me the confidence that my new life is bound up with Jesus and his future. Jesus, thank you for this hope, and I offer this praise in your name. Amen.
