上帝是忙碌的

上帝是忙碌的
聖經閱讀：約翰福音5:16-23 現代中譯本|合和本
2016年6月7日(二)

　有一個老教授住在校園一棟很高的建築物頂樓，這個人很開心住在那裡，但是常常有人問他：「住在上面不會感到寂寞嗎？」老教授總是回答說：「不會，我唯一的鄰居是上帝，祂總是很忙，但祂很安靜。」
在今天閱讀的經文中，耶穌忙著醫治人、幫助人，耶穌說：「我父親一直在工作，我也該照樣工作」（第17節）。上帝一直在我們的生活中動工，有時候上帝用戲劇性的方式動工──當祂醫治我們的病痛時，或當祂突然用一種令人驚奇的方式來回應我們的禱告時。
但上帝常常默默地在我們的生活中動工，祂永遠與我們同在並留心聆聽我們的禱告，在我們每天的工作中，上帝不斷地鼓勵我們、堅固我們。
今天就謝謝上帝總是忙著在你的生命中動工！ —AA

「他為萬事特定適當的時間；他使我們有永恆的意識，卻不讓我們完全明白他一切的作為。」 傳道書3:11

禱告：天父，求祢幫助我知道祢一直在我的生命中動工。奉耶穌的名，阿們！

(尤榮輝譯)

God is Busy
Bible Reading: John 5:16-23

　There was an old college professor who lived on the top floor of a tall building on a college campus. This man was happy to live there, but often people would ask, “Don't you get lonely living up there?” The professor would always answer, “No, my only neighbor is God. He is always busy, but He's quiet.”
In our Bible Reading today, Jesus was busy healing and helping people. Jesus said, “My Father never stops working, and so I work too” (verse 17). God is always at work in our lives. Sometimes God works in dramatic ways — when He heals us from a sickness or when He suddenly answers our prayer in an amazing way.
But often God works quietly in our lives. He is always with us and pays attention to our prayers. God continues to encourage and strengthen us as we work every day.
Thank God today that He is always busy working in your life! —AA

“God gave us the ability to think about his world, but we can never completely understand everything he does. And yet, he does everything at just the right time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11

PRAYER: Father, help me to know that You are always working in my life. In Jesus' name. Amen.