如何得到饒恕的能力

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自律的心是神所賜的，它帶給我們健康的身心和安息的靈，自律幫助我們不致被自己衝動的情緒所牢寵。

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如何得到饒恕的能力

Haste Makes Waste

「神賜給我們不是膽怯的心，乃是剛強、仁愛、謹守的心。」 - 提後 1:7

The Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. — 2 Timothy 1:7

靈修

拉麥那放縱不羈的報復心理，有誰不感同身受呢？在怒氣填胸的那一刻，報仇雪恨似乎是正確的。不過，經驗告訴我們，「冷靜下來！」通常是較為明智之舉，這樣你會有足夠時間想想你應該要如何回應了。

Who doesn』t feel something for Lamech』s unrestrained desire for justice? In the heat of the moment, the desire to avenge a wrong seems right. But experience argues that it will usually be wiser to 「Cool it!」 and give yourself time to reflect on how you should react.

自律，或節制，能約束我們並疏導我們的私慾，對我們自己和我們的鄰舍都有益處。自律的心是神所賜的，它帶給我們健康的身心和安息的靈，自律幫助我們不致被自己衝動的情緒所牢寵。

Self-control, or temperance, bridles our desires and channels them for our own good and the good of our neighbor. The spirit of self-control is a gift of God that brings health to mind and body and rest to the soul. Self-control saves us from being enslaved to our impulsive emotions.

保羅告訴提摩太，自律不是為懦夫而設的，因為人需要超自然的力量才能做到否定自我。我們若降服在聖靈的能力之下，又降服在神藉耶穌基督賜給祂的門徒的愛中，便可以得到這種力量了。憑著神的能力和慈愛，我們開始了一生的禁食，來禁制自我中心和衝動的慾望，並且以聖靈的火磨鍊我們的心靈。

Self-control is not for cowards, Paul tells Timothy, for it takes superhuman strength to deny ourselves. Such strength is available by surrendering to the Spirit of power and to the love God bestows on his disciples through Jesus Christ. God』s power and love begin a life-long fast to our self-centered, out-of-control desires, to temper our souls with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

虛張聲勢的拉麥，其實是一個弱者，因為他自己被他愛好暴力的心控制了。他說，若有人得罪他，他會以七十七倍報復。然而，耶穌卻吩咐我們，要一次又一次饒恕人，饒恕次數要多到我們也數不清（參看馬太福音18:21-22）。若降服在耶穌所賜的自律之下，我們便可以得到祂的能力去饒恕了。

For all his bravado, Lamech was a weakling because he yielded to his passion for violence: he would avenge himself 77 times, he said, for a neighbor』s wrong. Jesus calls us, however, to forgive a person again and again, so often that we couldn』t really keep track (see Matthew 18:21-22). And surrendering to his gift of self-control will give us his strength to do that.

禱告

主啊，感謝禰賜我能力，使我願意降服在禰的旨意之下。然而我知道自己不是時常都懂得自律，求你幫助我奉你的名堅強起來。阿們。

Lord, thank you for the strength to surrender my wants to your will. But I know I don』t always show self-control. Help me to be strong, in your name. Amen.