July - 7
OUR ROLE IN GOD’S SOLUTION
I acknowledged my sin to you . . . . And you forgave the guilt of my sin. Psalm 32:5
Sin taints our spiritual blood and separates us from God. But Jesus offers a spiritual “marrow transplant” that restores our spiritual circulatory system. Because of that, we can now have fellowship with God again.
Except . . .
Except that we still sin. We may be saved, but we still sin. So let’s push the imagery a little farther. If “Jesus in me” is the source of the new “blood” I need, and nothing can change that wonderful truth in my life, what do I do about the fact that I keep tainting my new spiritual blood?
How do I deal with this everyday contamination?
That’s what Psalm 32 is about. If our heart’s desire is to connect with God, to live in good relationship with the Lord, then we will want to get rid of the stuff that gets between us and God. And the way to do that, God says, is to go through a daily kind of “dialysis”—a process that helps cleanse our “blood” of the daily guilt that makes it dirty and separates us from God.
In the strength of God’s Holy Spirit, we pursue that “dialysis” by taking a look at ourselves, honestly confessing our sins before Jesus, and asking him to cleanse us of it. That’s what forgiveness is all about. Without it, separation only grows. With it, relationship gets restored each time again.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, thank you for giving us an ever-renewed relationship with our God. By your Spirit, help us daily to come to you for cleans¬¬ing. In your name we pray. Amen.
罪玷污了我们灵里的血和使我们与神隔绝，然而耶稣为我们提供了灵里的「骨髓移植」，来重整我们属灵的血液循环系统。这样，我们现在便可以与神恢复交通了。
只可是…
只可是我们仍然会犯罪，我们虽然已经得救，但我们仍然犯罪。让我们更进一步来看这比喻吧。如果「耶稣在我里面」是我需要的新「血液」的源头，而没有任何事情能改变我生命中这个奇妙的事实，那么，我应如何处理新的属灵血液不断被玷污的问题呢？
我应如何处理这些天天产生的污染？
诗篇32篇论到的正是这个问题。假若我们的心渴慕与神交往，又与主保持良好的关系，我们自然希望除去那些妨碍我们到神那里的事物，神所说的做法，就是每天进行「洗肾」—— 它帮助我们洗净我们的「血液」，除去那些天天玷污我们和叫我们与神隔绝的罪疚。
我们仰赖圣灵的大能，透过自我省察，在耶稣面前坦白承认我们的罪，又祈求祂洗净这些罪，我们便能进行「洗肾」，这就是赦免的意思。罪若未蒙赦免，隔阂只会越来越厉害；罪若得蒙赦免，关系便不断得以重建了。
祷告
主耶稣，感谢祢，因不断更新我们与神的关系。求祢藉祢的灵帮助我们，天天来到祢面前蒙洁净。奉的名祈求，阿们。