2012 禁食日记 – 第21天： “谁的罪？” 2012 Fasting Diary – Day 21: “Who sinned?”

August 29, 2012

 

第二十一天（27/08/12)

有时候我们真的需要学习同理心，也需要向神求怜悯的心肠；因为有时候看到别人落难或面对问题，我们不但不同情或体会他们的感受，反而还落井下石，在背后议论纷纷，批评人落到此下场的原因等等。

当然也有很多状况是个人的罪和愚昧带来的，那在适当的时候当然要好好教导和纠正；但太多时候我们是需要有怜悯心肠去体会人的感受和真正帮助他们解决问题，引领他们归向神，而至终会荣耀神。

“耶稣过去的时候，看见一个人生来是瞎眼的。 ² 门徒问耶稣说：“拉比，这人生来是瞎眼的，是谁犯了罪？是这人呢，是他父母呢？” ³ 耶稣回答说：“也不是这人犯了罪，也不是他父母犯了罪，是要在他身上显出神的作为来。”
～ 约 9:1-3 ～

 

Day 21 (27/08/12)

Sometimes we do really need to empathize with people and also ask God for a merciful heart; because there are times when people encounter troubles or face problems, instead of showing sympathy or understanding their feelings, we might instead rub salt into wounds by gossiping behind their backs, concluding the reasons they have fallen into such predicaments etc.

Of course there are also many situations where personal sins or foolishness are the cause, in those cases of course people need to be properly taught or corrected at the right time; but too many times we really need to have a merciful heart to appreciate people’s feelings and to truly help them solve their problems, and to lead them back to God and ultimately bringing glory to God.

“As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”³ “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.”
~ John 9:1-3 ~