诗篇4:6 有许多人说：「谁能指示我们什么好处？」耶和华啊，求祢仰起脸来，光照我们！
诗篇31:16 求祢使祢的脸光照仆人，凭祢的慈爱拯救我。
小兄弟俩人合住在小房间里，白天没有阳光，觉得非常阴暗。他们看见外面的阳光很是羡慕，两人就商量说，我们去把外面的阳光扫一点进来。
于是，兄弟俩拿着扫帚和畚箕，走到外面去扫阳光。扫的时候，畚箕里好像装满了阳光，等到他们把畚箕搬到房间里的时候，里面的阳光就不见了。这样一而再，再而三的扫了许多次，屋内还是一点阳光都没有。
母亲看见很讶异，问说：「你们作甚么？」他们回答说：「房间里太黑了，我们要扫一点阳光进来。」母亲说：「傻孩子，只要把窗户打开，阳光自然会进来，何必扫呢？」
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.
创世记28:20-22
雅各许愿说：「神若与我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又给我食物吃、衣服穿， 21 使我平平安安地回到我父亲的家，我就必以耶和华为我的神， 22 我所立为柱子的石头也必做神的殿。凡祢所赐给我的，我必将十分之一献给祢。」
创世记28:10-22记载雅各从别是巴出发，前往哈兰投靠母舅拉班的初始旅程。从别是巴到哈兰，两地相距约800公里（台湾南北距离的两倍），在古代，这是段漫长的旅程，靠着步行或骑骆驼，长途跋涉需要数周甚至数月的时间。
经过几天路程，雅各来到路斯，望向遥远的哈兰，随地枕着石头睡觉，我们可以想像当时雅各内心的惶恐与不安。睡梦中，神在天梯向雅各祝福，雅各睡醒惊惧说：「这地方何等可畏！…乃是神的殿…」于是，把所枕的石头立作柱子，浇油在上面，将那地方改名叫伯特利（意为神的殿），同时向神许愿说：
「神若与我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又给我食物吃，衣服穿，使我平平安安地回到我父亲的家，我就必以耶和华为我的神。…」（创世记28:20-22）
马太福音7:1-2
你们不要论断人，免得你们被论断。 2 因为你们怎样论断人，也必怎样被论断；你们用什么量器量给人，也必用什么量器量给你们。
网路一篇文章写着：有个人初到美国不久，某天早晨到公园散步，看到一些白人坐在草坪上聊天、晒太阳。他心想：「美国人生活真是悠闲，有钱又懂得享受生活。」走了不久，又看到几个黑人也悠闲地坐在草坪的另一边，这位先生不禁想到：「唉！黑人失业的问题真严重，这些人大概都在领社会救济金过生活。」
一个人对同样悠闲地坐在草坪上的白人和黑人，从既有的印象或认知，竟然可以产生如此南辕北辙的主观想法。哈兹立特有句话：「偏见是无知的孩子。」说得一点都不错，「人」合「扁」为偏，人一旦有了偏见，就会把「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
每早晨这都是新的，祢的诚实极其广大。 24 我心里说：「耶和华是我的份，因此我要仰望祂。」 25 凡等候耶和华，心里寻求祂的，耶和华必施恩给他。26 人仰望耶和华，静默等候祂的救恩，这原是好的。
西元1814年，法国将军陶美尼打仗时，被敌军炸断一条腿，负责擦皮鞋的勤务兵为此难过的哭着；陶美尼将军斥责说：「哭什么哭！你忘了吗？军人只能流血、流汗，不能流泪！以后我只要穿一只皮鞋就好了，多方便啊！你只要擦一只皮鞋就够了，多轻松啊！」
有句话说：「命好不如态度好！」发生事情以后，执著过去已经不重要了，重要的是你怎么面对未来！所谓的态度有部分是我们生活上的行为表现，更重要的是我们心灵的交托和盼望，也就是我们的信心！我们相信天父的慈爱，祂的怜悯永不断绝。因此，信心将我们从痛苦的灾祸深渊救拔出来，再将我们浸泡在喜乐的救恩泉源当中。
明白且接受「穿一只皮鞋的方便、擦一只皮鞋的轻松」是穿两只鞋走路的人需要学习的功课。
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).
传道书5:18-19 我所见为善为美的，就是人在神赐他一生的日子吃喝，享受日光之下劳碌得来的好处，因为这是他的份。 19 神赐人资财丰富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的份，在他劳碌中喜乐，这乃是神的恩赐。
毕业分别多年的同学相约拜访老师，一坐下，老师高兴地垂问大家生活过得如何。不料，这句话勾出了大家的满腹牢骚，每个人轮流诉说生活的不如意：「工作压力大！家庭烦恼多！做生意的资金套牢！当公务的仕途受阻！…」仿佛大家都成了时代的弃儿。
一阵子的诉苦抱怨，老师看出大家口干舌燥，从橱柜里拿出一大堆杯子，摆在茶几上。各式各样的杯子，瓷器的、玻璃的、塑钢的…，杯子表面有彩绘风景、雕塑图腾、还有纪念图案…，老师提把水壶说：「大家都是我的学生，我不把你们当客人看待了。你们要是渴了，就自己倒水喝吧。」
大家纷纷选了自己看中的杯子倒水喝，留下了一落叠在一起的纸杯，老师拿起一个纸杯说：「你们有没有发现，大家手里的杯子都是最好看、最别致的杯子，而像这纸杯就没人选中它。」当然，还用说？我们都希望自己拿着的是一只好看的杯子。
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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