اندیشه ها در مورد آیه امروز...
"خدايا، ما را به نرمى فروتن ساز" يكى از دعاهاى مورد علاقه دوست منست. منهم آنرا دوست دارم. اما سپاس خدا را زيرا عيسى فروتن ملايمى نبود. هر چند كه من متنفرم از اينكه او مجبور به تحمل عذاب شد، فروتنى غير خودخواهانه او تيز، شجاعانه، انقلابى، و تكان دهنده بود. اما من نيز بايد چنين طرز فكرى داشته باشم هنگاميكه ميخواهم به فرزندان گمشده خدا كمك كنم.
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
"Lord, humble us gently." That is one of my friends' favorite prayer requests. I like it, too. I want to be humbled, but not humiliated. Thank God, however, Jesus was willing to be humbled, but not gently humbled. He humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!He was willing to be humiliated to save us! I hate that he went through such agony. I grieve that his self-emptying humility was stark, brutal, drastic, humiliating, and outrageous. Jesus' self-sacrificing love challenges me to have the same attitude as he had! Jesus' example challenges me to examine what I am willing to give up and endure to forgive those who have wounded me. I am humbled by Jesus' love for me, so I ask myself what I am willing to do to serve and reach others who are lost.
دعای من
خداوندا تو قادر مطلق هستى، با اين وجود، خود را خالى كردى تا مرا برهانى. خواسته من اينست كه طرز فكر و رفتارم با سايرين كمتر خودخواهانه باشد، و بيشتر مثل عيسايى باشد كه با من است. در نام عيسى دعا ميكنم. آمين.
My Prayer...
God, you are all-powerful, and yet you emptied yourself to redeem me. May I be more selfless in my attitude and treatment of others, more like Jesus has been with me. Dear ^LORD,^ I need an infusion, a special empowering of the Holy Spirit, so I can be humble and live before others with the same self-emptying "love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" as the Spirit transforms to be more like my Savior.* In Christ Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
* Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Corinthians 3:18.
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