詩篇4:6 有許多人說：「誰能指示我們什麼好處？」耶和華啊，求祢仰起臉來，光照我們！
詩篇31:16 求祢使祢的臉光照僕人，憑祢的慈愛拯救我。
小兄弟倆人合住在小房間裏，白天沒有陽光，覺得非常陰暗。他們看見外面的陽光很是羨慕，兩人就商量說，我們去把外面的陽光掃一點進來。
於是，兄弟倆拿著掃帚和畚箕，走到外面去掃陽光。掃的時候，畚箕裏好像裝滿了陽光，等到他們把畚箕搬到房間裏的時候，裏面的陽光就不見了。這樣一而再，再而三的掃了許多次，屋內還是一點陽光都沒有。
母親看見很訝異，問說：「你們作甚麼？」他們回答說：「房間裏太黑了，我們要掃一點陽光進來。」母親說：「傻孩子，只要把窗戶打開，陽光自然會進來，何必掃呢？」
Satan wants you to look back, to obsess over past failures. Yet, the grace of Christ invites you to move forward, enter a new life. “His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God” (Hebrews 9:14 NCV).
The disciples of Christ abandoned their Lord. They left him to carry his cross alone. What would have happened if they had lived in the past? We would not have their gospels, their influence, their teachings.
What about you? If you fail to move forward, who wins? What messages will go untaught? Words unsaid? People unloved? Organizations unled? Children unparented? Confess your struggle to God. He will hear, and he will help. Help will come through a circle of good friends. Get smart, make some changes, time for a new start! It’s time to come home.
I do not know how to say this tactfully, so I won’t try: don’t listen to stupid people. And when it comes to sexuality, everyone is stupid but God. Don’t think you can lust and not get hurt or hurt someone else. At the same time, don’t underestimate God’s love. You have not out-sinned God’s grace. Move from self-reliance to God-reliance.
One of the greatest toys is the Etch-A-Sketch. Twist the two knobs and watch a figure appear. The genius of the device is not in the creating but in the erasing. Just shake the toy and you get a fresh start. In God’s hands, your heart is an Etch-A-Sketch. And he can do what you cannot do: he can wipe away the past.
創世記28:20-22
雅各許願說：「神若與我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又給我食物吃、衣服穿， 21 使我平平安安地回到我父親的家，我就必以耶和華為我的神， 22 我所立為柱子的石頭也必做神的殿。凡祢所賜給我的，我必將十分之一獻給祢。」
創世記28:10-22記載雅各從別是巴出發，前往哈蘭投靠母舅拉班的初始旅程。從別是巴到哈蘭，兩地相距約800公里（台灣南北距離的兩倍），在古代，這是段漫長的旅程，靠著步行或騎駱駝，長途跋涉需要數週甚至數月的時間。
經過幾天路程，雅各來到路斯，望向遙遠的哈蘭，隨地枕著石頭睡覺，我們可以想像當時雅各內心的惶恐與不安。睡夢中，神在天梯向雅各祝福，雅各睡醒驚懼說：「這地方何等可畏！…乃是神的殿…」於是，把所枕的石頭立作柱子，澆油在上面，將那地方改名叫伯特利（意為神的殿），同時向神許願說：
「神若與我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又給我食物吃，衣服穿，使我平平安安地回到我父親的家，我就必以耶和華為我的神。…」（創世記28:20-22）
馬太福音7:1-2
你們不要論斷人，免得你們被論斷。 2 因為你們怎樣論斷人，也必怎樣被論斷；你們用什麼量器量給人，也必用什麼量器量給你們。
網路一篇文章寫著：有個人初到美國不久，某天早晨到公園散步，看到一些白人坐在草坪上聊天、曬太陽。他心想：「美國人生活真是悠閒，有錢又懂得享受生活。」走了不久，又看到幾個黑人也悠閒地坐在草坪的另一邊，這位先生不禁想到：「唉！黑人失業的問題真嚴重，這些人大概都在領社會救濟金過生活。」
一個人對同樣悠閒地坐在草坪上的白人和黑人，從既有的印象或認知，竟然可以產生如此南轅北轍的主觀想法。哈茲立特有句話：「偏見是無知的孩子。」說得一點都不錯，「人」合「扁」為偏，人一旦有了偏見，就會把「人」看「扁」、看「偏」了。
Romans 6:13 (NCV) reads, “Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil…Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.”
When temptation strikes, immediately initiate the Uproot and Replant strategy. Go nuclear on the immoral. Yank lust like a dentist yanks a rotten tooth—pull it out by the roots. Lay claim to scriptures like this one: “God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear” (1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV).
Meditate on Christ. Running toward him is the easiest way to run from sin. We keep wrong thoughts out by keeping the right thoughts in. Ponder heaven. Memorize verses. Write psalms. Listen to Christian worship music. In running toward God, you are running from sin, and the run is so much more enjoyable.
耶利米哀歌3:23-26
每早晨這都是新的，祢的誠實極其廣大。 24 我心裡說：「耶和華是我的份，因此我要仰望祂。」 25 凡等候耶和華，心裡尋求祂的，耶和華必施恩給他。26 人仰望耶和華，靜默等候祂的救恩，這原是好的。
西元1814年，法國將軍陶美尼打仗時，被敵軍炸斷一條腿，負責擦皮鞋的勤務兵為此難過的哭著；陶美尼將軍斥責說：「哭什麼哭！你忘了嗎？軍人只能流血、流汗，不能流淚！以後我只要穿一隻皮鞋就好了，多方便啊！你只要擦一隻皮鞋就夠了，多輕鬆啊！」
有句話說：「命好不如態度好！」發生事情以後，執著過去已經不重要了，重要的是你怎麼面對未來！所謂的態度有部分是我們生活上的行為表現，更重要的是我們心靈的交託和盼望，也就是我們的信心！我們相信天父的慈愛，祂的憐憫永不斷絕。因此，信心將我們從痛苦的災禍深淵救拔出來，再將我們浸泡在喜樂的救恩泉源當中。
明白且接受「穿一隻皮鞋的方便、擦一隻皮鞋的輕鬆」是穿兩隻鞋走路的人需要學習的功課。
Don’t think for a second that lust has no consequences. And don’t think for a second that the consequences won’t lead to scandal. A secret sin never remains secret. Lust will take you further than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and cost you more than you ever intended to pay. Envision the worst possible outcome of infidelity and be assured, Satan is plotting to deliver it.
Even after you have turned away from lust, the filth lingers in your system. And long after the sin is forgiven, the soot of the sin lingers. And long after alcoholism is forgiven, the thirst lingers. Long after the embezzlement is forgiven, employment opportunities are rare. Long after the affair is over, the embarrassment hovers. Even the psalmist wrote: “Even my bones are not healthy because of my sin” (Psalm 38:3 NCV).
傳道書5:18-19 我所見為善為美的，就是人在神賜他一生的日子吃喝，享受日光之下勞碌得來的好處，因為這是他的份。 19 神賜人資財豐富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的份，在他勞碌中喜樂，這乃是神的恩賜。
畢業分別多年的同學相約拜訪老師，一坐下，老師高興地垂問大家生活過得如何。不料，這句話勾出了大家的滿腹牢騷，每個人輪流訴說生活的不如意：「工作壓力大！家庭煩惱多！做生意的資金套牢！當公務的仕途受阻！…」仿佛大家都成了時代的棄兒。
一陣子的訴苦抱怨，老師看出大家口乾舌燥，從櫥櫃裡拿出一大堆杯子，擺在茶几上。各式各樣的杯子，瓷器的、玻璃的、塑鋼的…，杯子表面有彩繪風景、雕塑圖騰、還有紀念圖案…，老師提把水壺說：「大家都是我的學生，我不把你們當客人看待了。你們要是渴了，就自己倒水喝吧。」
大家紛紛選了自己看中的杯子倒水喝，留下了一落疊在一起的紙杯，老師拿起一個紙杯說：「你們有沒有發現，大家手裡的杯子都是最好看、最別緻的杯子，而像這紙杯就沒人選中它。」當然，還用說？我們都希望自己拿著的是一隻好看的杯子。
There is a difference between healthy romance and lurid lust. Lust is a longing for sexual satisfaction outside of a covenant relationship. What is the epicenter for the pandemic of lust? Pornography. Never in the history of the world has it been so easy to look twice where a person has no business looking once. Anyone with unfiltered internet is a click away from images that were inaccessible and unimaginable a few years ago.
Solomon asked, “Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?” (Proverbs 6:27 ESV). Or in our day: can a person view click after click, page after page, image after image of violent, deviant, degrading immorality and not be infected? The answer is no.
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