金句：“我把虹放在云彩中，这就可作我与你地立约的记号了。”(创世纪9：13)
敬拜与智慧之言 列王记下 23－25章
你喜欢看彩虹吗？当你在看彩虹时，曾想起过上帝也在看它吗？下次，当五彩缤纷的彩虹高挂于天空时，你不妨花点时间看它，想想上帝对挪亚的应许：“虹必现在云彩中，我看见，就要记念我与地上各样有血肉的活物所立的永约。”(创世纪9：16)
彩虹令人想起上帝施恩及祂决不再用洪水来毁坏全地的约定，但是有一个更糟的灾难即将来临。彼得曾警告我们：“但现在的天地，还是凭着那命存留，直留到不敬虔之人受审判遭沈沦的日子，用火焚烧。”(彼后 3:7)
彩虹于审判之云彩是对立的。彩虹是恩典的代表，但当它与耶稣在加略山被钉十架所显的恩典比较时，却不禁黯然失色。在十字架上，上帝把对罪的愤怒加诸在耶稣基督身上，耶稣是所有基督徒的代罪羔羊。当世上的光在加略山遭逢审判的风暴时，一道象征应许与宽恕的美丽彩虹却映入眼帘。将来有一天，所有的基督徒皆会环绕在彩虹围着的宝座旁。(启示录4：1－3)
所以下次你看到彩虹的时候，请记得上帝无尽的仁慈与恩典。
每当我看到天上有一道彩虹，
就记起上帝的大慈爱和祂的信实。
每一道彩虹都在提醒我们：上帝是守约的上帝。
生命是神赐的礼物
读经 撒母耳记上1：19－28
金句：“我祈求为要得这孩子，耶和华已将我所求的赐给我了。……使他终身归与耶和华。”(撒母耳记上1：27－28)
敬拜与智慧之言 诗篇92篇；箴言30章
我八岁时，有个同学去世。葬礼中我看着他，感到他是“安详地睡在主耶稣的怀中”。这使我得到很大的安慰，同时也让我不再那么害怕死亡。
同年，隔壁五岁的小男孩也不幸去世了。那时，我觉得我似乎能体会他父母亲的哀伤。他们的心碎了，并且近乎愤恨。很显然他们认为死亡夺走了那应当属于他们的宝贝。当我们所爱的人死时，我们会经历怀疑，甚至是愤恨的心路历程，这是可以理解的。然而，我们不能停留在那里。与其把生命当作是财产，何不把它看成是上帝所赐的礼物。
约翰·克莱蒲牧师夫妇的十岁女儿不幸因患上血癌去世。因他们把女儿的生命当作是上帝所赐的一份最纯洁、完美的礼物；如今主把她收回去了，他们就以感恩的心来接受，心里得着平安。
从圣经撒母耳记上1：27－28，我们看到哈拿因着把她儿子撒母耳当做是神所赐的宝贝礼物，所以她也早已预备好随时要把这份礼物还给上帝。
若是我们也能有哈拿这样的心境来看待生命，那么，当我们面对死亡的离别时，我们就能够以感恩来取代愤恨之心情。
主啊！谢谢你赐下生命，
以及你所赐的一切；
当你把我们所爱的人接走时，
求你的恩典帮助我们倚靠你。
生命是上帝所赐，也必归回于祂。
图书馆资料
《生命的触动－查尔斯史丹利讲道 78集》 3DVD
DVD2：
01 不饶恕的地雷
02 怠惰的地雷
03 妒忌的地雷
04 灰心丧志
05 急躁的后果
06 骄傲的地雷
07 惧怕的地雷
08 面对惧怕
09 面对批评和赞美
10 面对人生障碍
11 面对失败
12 如何克服自卑感
13 如何培养忍耐
14 如何孝敬你的母亲
15 生命的触动－慈爱的神
16 生命的触动－神的赦罪
17 生命的触动－神的旨意
18 圣诞节a
19 圣诞节b
20 提防假教师
21 体验非凡人生
22 天上的赏赐
23 性罪行的地雷
24 一时之快
25 属灵保全系统
26 罪恶感
Streams In the Desert for June 15
"For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." (Gen. 41:52.)
THE summer showers are falling. The poet stands by the window watching them. They are beating and buffeting the earth with their fierce downpour. But the poet sees in his imaginings more than the showers which are falling before his eyes. He sees myriads of lovely flowers which shall be soon breaking forth from the watered earth, filling it with matchless beauty and fragrance. And so he sings:
"It isn't raining rain for me, it's raining daffodils; In every dimpling drop I see wild flowers upon the hills. A cloud of gray engulfs the day, and overwhelms the town; It isn't raining rain for me: it's raining roses down."
Perchance some one of God's chastened children is even now saying, "O God, it is raining hard for me tonight.
"Testings are raining upon me which seem beyond my power to endure. Disappointments are raining fast, to the utter defeat of all my chosen plans. Bereavements are raining into my life which are making my shrinking heart quiver in its intensity of suffering. The rain of affliction is surely beating down upon my soul these days."
Withal, friend, you are mistaken. It isn't raining rain for you. It's raining blessing. for, if you will but believe your Father's Word, under that beating rain are springing up spiritual flowers of such fragrance and beauty as never before grew in that stormless, unchastened life of yours.
You indeed see the rain. But do you see also the flowers? You are pained by the testings. But God sees the sweet flower of faith which is upspringing in your life under those very trials.
You shrink from the suffering. But God sees the tender compassion for other sufferers which is finding birth in your soul.
Your heart winces under the sore bereavement. But God sees the deepening and enriching which that sorrow has brought to you.
It isn't raining afflictions for you. It is raining tenderness, love, compassion, patience, and a thousand other flowers and fruits of the blessed Spirit, which are bringing into your life such a spiritual enrichment as all the fullness of worldly prosperity and ease was never able to beget in your innermost soul. --- J. M. McC.
SONGS ACROSS THE STORM "A harp stood in the moveless air, Where showers of sunshine washed a thousand fragrant blooms; A traveler bowed with loads of care, Essayed from morning till the dusk of evening gloom. To thrum sweet sounds from the songless strings; The pilgrim strives in vain with each unanswering chord, Until the tempest's thunder sings, And, moving on the storm, the fingers of the Lord A wondrous melody awakes; And though the battling winds their soldier deeds perform, Their trumpet-sound brave music makes, While God's assuring voice sings love across the storm."
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