对今日诗句的想法
谦卑并非我们文化中最被推崇的价值或最为渴慕的优良品格。然而谦卑却是要求——并非因为这是诫命(虽然这可以是足够充分的理由),而是因为我们已经赚得了对它的需要。每一年都带来另一波道德、品格、灵性的败坏。即使在最好的状态，我们仍都亏欠神的圣洁。我们发现自己跌倒，而非使文化进步。我们以谦卑来到神面前的需求是“赚得”的！因此，让我们谦卑地呼求神，抛开我们的罪，寻求神！
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
Humility is not our culture's most valued asset or most desired character quality. However, humility is what is needed — not so much because it's commanded (though that would be enough), but because we've "earned" our need for humility through our arrogance and abandonment of God and his character, compassion, and faithful lovingkindness. Every year brings another wave of major failures in morality, character, and spirituality among our leaders, both political and religious. Even on our best days, we all fall short of God's holiness. Rather than progressing culturally, we find ourselves slipping, rebelling, and degrading ourselves. Our need to approach God with humility is "earned." So let's be humble ourselves and call upon the Lord, throwing off our sin and seeking after him. Only then will we begin to see our hope for a brighter future emerge and healing come to the people.
我的祷告
圣洁、全能的神啊，你的作为令人敬畏，你的信实令人惊叹，你的怜悯与恩典是何等的祝福啊！我来到你面前，知道你聆听我的声音，即便你的价值、圣洁与我缺乏之间有鸿沟相隔。我承认，我和文化以及身处的国家，损害了你赐予我们的祝福。我来到你面前，谦卑地祈求你以显明的方式，再次来到我们中间。我以信心奉主耶稣之名祈求，阿们！
My Prayer...
Holy and Almighty God, your deeds are awesome, your faithfulness is overwhelming, and your mercy and grace are such blessings. I come to you knowing that you hear me, despite the incredible distance between you and me, between your worth and holiness and my lack of it. I confess that I, and my culture and country around me, have made a mess of what you so wonderfully blessed us with. We come humbly, asking that you reassert yourself in our churches, nations, and leaders in clearly recognizable ways. At the same time, we humbly acknowledge our personal failures, arrogance, and rebellion. We ask for your grace, in faith, through the power and loving mercy found in Jesus and his name. Amen.
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