对今日诗句的想法
对于基督徒来说，神的殿有两层含义：基督的身体(哥林多前书6:19-20)，和组成教会的人(哥林多前书3:16)。因为组成教会的人有缺欠的地方，许多人对他们的伪善吹毛求疵。然而神的教会在神眼中看为宝贵，我们的态度也当如此。任何以纷争败坏神教会的人，终必被败坏。神保守教会走过历史中一切破坏与逼迫，以及神对瑕疵的百姓所组成的教会充满耐心，这一切展现了神对其百姓的信实。神仍是教会的中心，惟有神应当被高举。神的话语掌管教会，而非教会自身的意愿。
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
For Christians, God's temple is one of two related things: either the Christian's physical body (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) or the group of people who make up his Church gathered together (1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Peter 2:4-5). Because of the flaws in the people who make up our churches, many are overly critical of our bouts with hypocrisy and weakness. The problem with most churches is that they are made up of people like the one we see in the mirror each day. Despite our flaws and failures as God's people, his Church is precious to him. We should also value the Church, the temple of God, as precious. Anyone who destroys the Lord's Church, the Lord's temple, through division will be utterly destroyed (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). God has demonstrated his faithfulness to his people by preserving the Church through the ravages and persecutions of history, and by sustaining it through the failures of some of its most significant leaders. He has done this by his patience with the flawed people in his Church. God is still the center of the Church, the place where he chooses to dwell. So, dear friend in Jesus, we must value the Church, our congregations, the people that we share faith with, as we obey the word and will of God, and as we praise God and exalt him for his love, grace, and faithfulness.
我的祷告
圣洁、无可比拟的神啊，你在历史长河中保守你的教会，使你坚定不移的爱与信实得以展现，我要赞美你的爱与信实。我要珍视你的教会，并尽我所能帮助教会成长、成熟，更有主耶稣的形象。我意识到你且只有你高于一切，教会也不能过于你话语中所启示的旨意。即使我的教会不全然尊崇你，愿你赐予我勇气，向你保守纯正。奉主耶稣之名祈求，阿们！
My Prayer...
Holy and incomparable God, I praise you for your steadfast love and faithfulness revealed in your preservation of your Church through all the years and centuries of history. I will cherish your Church and do all I can to help it grow and mature into the bodily presence of Jesus. Through Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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