第188天 死亡的原因

翻譯：Carol 審譯：白蓉

主播：鍾熙宜

第六部分 上帝在哪裡？

第188天-死亡的原因

現在，你可能不會覺得與上帝非常親近。也許你會想，上帝在哪裡呢？上帝真的在乎嗎？祂怎麼可以讓這樣的事發生呢？我未來的路又在哪裡呢？

羅伯特·傑夫瑞思博士分享了一位父親的見證，他有七個孩子，其中三個孩子因白血病離開了人世：

「當有人問他，『你怎麼還能繼續相信一位居然讓你和你的孩子經歷這樣悲劇的上帝？』這位父親回答說，『在那樣的經歷中，你有兩種選擇：要麼放棄，要麼繼續相信上帝，即便一切看起來不合情理。但真正的信心是在黑暗中操練的。』」

傑夫瑞思博士繼續補充自己的感悟：

「我認為，信心是有時你不明白其中的原因卻願意單純地相信。我認為上帝不會因你問為什麼而譴責你。但探究到最後，問題不在於為什麼，而是是誰掌管這一切？」

「上帝呼召你信靠祂，祂說：『我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。復活在我，生命也在我！信我的人，雖然死了，也必復活。』（約翰福音14:6，11:25）。最終，你必須相信這一點。」

祈禱

我的主，我有這麼多的問題、疑惑，內疚與責備的感覺。我不知該何去何從？請以禰的道路，真理和生命引領我。阿們！

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Day 188 - The Why of Death

Right now you might not be feeling very close to God. You might be thinking, Where is God? Does God really care? How could He let this happen? What does my future hold?

Dr. Robert Jeffress shares the response of a man who lost three of his seven children through horrible deaths to leukemia: 「When somebody asks him, 『How could you keep believing in a God who would allow you and your children to experience such a tragedy?』, this is what he says, 『In those kind of experiences you have two choices: You can either give up or you can keep believing in God even when it doesn』t make sense. Faith means something when it』s exercised in the darkness.』」

Dr. Jeffress adds his own insight: 「I believe that faith means something when you don』t understand the whys. I don』t think God ever condemns you for asking why. But in the ultimate analysis, the question is not why but it is Who? God calls on you to believe in Him who said,『I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again』 [John 14:6, 11:25].Ultimately you must trust in that.」

Lord God, I have so many questions and doubts and feelings of guilt and blame. Where do I go from here? Lead me in Your way, truth, and life. Amen.

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