1
我.主耶穌是.生命源，我.主耶穌是.活水泉.，
凡.喝這水主曾明說：“到永.遠.，再不渴。”
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴？
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴.？
凡.喝這水，主曾明說“到永.遠.再不渴。”

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主.在曠野要.開道路，主.在沙漠要.開江河.，
流.出活水澆灌我心，到永.遠.再不渴。
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴？
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴.？
凡.喝這水，主曾明說“到永.遠.再不渴。”

3
口.渴的人就.近水泉，願.意的人白.白來喝.，
必.在腹中成為泉源，到永.遠.再不渴。
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴？
難道永遠再不渴？真真永遠再不渴.？
凡.喝這水，主曾明說“到永.遠.再不渴。”

還記得小學時看教育電視, 說地球先生會好像跳芭蕾舞一樣自轉, 也會圍繞著太陽公轉.
地球先生自轉一次就是一天, 公轉一次就是一年.

聖誕節也像新年的第一日, 也是每年一次, 特別有一日慶祝耶穌嬰孩在馬槽內降生.

我們其實不知道耶穌究竟在哪一日出生, 但他總是有一日出生, 那, 何妨分別一日, 特別慶祝道成肉身? 誠然, 敬虔的基督徒每天也因著道成肉身這大奧秘而歡喜快樂, 感恩不斷.

新年, 地球先生走了一轉, 時節乃由耶和華所定, 比其他文化節日, 有更深一層的意思, 彰顯出神在創世的規律. 這一天, 人們特別慶祝, 萬象更新, 因為我們實實在在的經過了一年, 新一年的第一天, 雖然不同地方有不同的曆(陽曆, 陰曆, etc.) , 相對其他節日, 這一天更是根據創世規律的一天.

耶和華讓地球走了一圈, 回到起點,

創 1:14　 神說、天上要有光體、可以分晝夜、作記號、定節令、日子、年歲．

(作記號就好像樂譜上的barline)

上帝造人, 住在地球, 新一年地球有個新開始, 主也安排我們人可以在跟地球一起, 有個新開始, 更是說, 上帝使地球有新一年, 是為讓我們停下來, 做一個有rhythm的人, 看看祂一切美妙的創造, 在新的一年, 領受新的恩典.

65:9  你眷顧地、降下透雨、使地大得肥美．　神的河滿了水．你這樣澆灌了地、好為人預備五穀。
65:10 你澆透地的犁溝、潤平犁脊．降甘霖、使地軟和．其中發長的、蒙你賜福。
65:11 你以恩典為年歲的冠冕．你的路徑都滴下脂油．
詩篇

testing

Does God know everything? Yes, nothing can be hidden from the Lord.

Can God do everything? Yes, He can do everything of His holy will.

Where is Jesus? Jesus is everywhere.

物遠而小, 物近而大.

雖然上帝不受這樣的限制, 但不代表人明白上帝的全知.

一塊小圓片在眼球面前足以蓋而不見, 困難不需要大, 若常將問題放在眼前, 足以使你錯過更多更美的人生.

God give us wonderful moments.

1:32 ...愚昧人的安逸必毀滅他們自己

9:8 ... 要責備智慧人, 他必愛你.
Proverbs

打麻將打通宵打死人.

責備 - 留給最愛的說話, 留給智慧人的說話.

For the beauty of the earth
For the beauty of the skies
For the love
which from our birth
Over and around us lies
Over and around us lies

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For the beauty of the hour
Of the day and of the night
Hill and vale
And tree and flower
Sun and moon and stars of light

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For the joy of human love
Brother, sister, parent, child
Friends on earth
And friends above
For all gentle
Thoughts and mild
For all gentle
Thoughts and mild

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For each perfect gift of thine
To our race so freely given
Graces human and divine
Flow'rs of earth and buds of heav'n
Flow'rs of earth and buds of heav'n

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn, our joy ful hymn of praise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

"Therefore to avoid this evil, the Lord teaches His servants the vanity of this present life and gives them continual practice in different miseries. In order that they may not promise themselves peace and repose in the present life, He often allows this life to be troubled and attacked by wars, tumults, brigandage, or other harm. In order that the faithful may not aspire to empty riches with too great a psssion, or rest in those which they possess, He reduces them to poverty, sometimes in another fashion, or He holds them in a moderate or middle state. In order that they may not take too much pleasure in marriage, He either gives them rough and contrary wives who torment them, or He gives them bad children to humble them, or He afflicts them by taking away their wives and children."

(I really don't like writing the reference...)
Institutes of the Christian Religion, of the Christian Life, p. 703, 1541 French edition, translated by Elsie Anne McKee, published 2009 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

主差惡婆...

33. What is justification?
Justification is an act of God's free grace, in which he pardons our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, for the sake of the righteousness of Christ alone, which is credited to us, and received by faith alone.

free grace, 一般被理解為"白白的恩典", "免費的恩典", 側重點是: 我們人無須付出, 無須交易而得到上帝所賜下的恩典.

但是如果稱義是一上帝行為, an act of God's free grace 似乎更適合以上帝的自由(指主權方面)恩典的行使來理解, 也就是說, 上帝作為主體而不是以人作為主體來理解. 上帝自由的graceful act, 使人稱義.

請指教.

For all those whom the Lord has adopted and received in the company of His children ought to prepare themselves for a hard, laborious life, full of travail and countless kinds of evils. It is the good pleaseure of the heavenly Father to exercise His servants this way in order to give them experience. He began this order with Christ His first-born Son, and He pursues it with all the others.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, of the Christian Life, p. 694, 1541 French edition, translated by Elsie Anne McKee, published 2009 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

But while we live in this earthly prison none of us is so strong and well disposed as to hasten along this path with such ease as he ought, and especially the majority are so weak that they waver and limp so that they cannot advance much. Because that is so, let us each one go along according to his little ability and let us not cease to pursue the path that we have begun. No one will make such poor progress that he will not each day advance a little and gain some ground. So let us not cease to aim there, let us continually profit in the way of the Lord, and let us not lose heart even if we only advance a little. For although the progress does not correspond to our wish, it is still not all lost when today we are further along than yesterday. Only let us consider our goal with a pure and upright simplicity, and let us strive to reach our goal, not flattering ourselves with vain adulation and not pardoning our vices, but striving unceasingl to act so that we may become day by day better than we were. Let us do this until we are come to the soverign goodness which we must seek and follow the whole of our life, so that we may grasp it when, having been stripped of the infirmity of our flesh, we are made full participants of it, that is, when God receives us into His company.
....

We are not our own; therefore let our reason and will not rule in our counsels and wht we have to do. We are not our own; therefore let us not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient to us according to the flesh. We are not our own; therefore let us forget ourselves as much as possible, and all that is about us. Next, we belong to the Lord; let us live and die to Him. We belong to the Lord; let His will and wisdom preside in all our actions. We belong to the Lord; let all the parts of our life be referred to Him as their unique Goal.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, of the Christian Life, p. 658, 1541 French edition, translated by Elsie Anne McKee, published 2009 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.