Lets play Opposites. Ill say one word and you say the word that is opposite. Ready?Day. Girl. Cold. Summer. Proud. Did you say the opposite of the word proud is humble? Well, thats right! To be humble is the opposite of being proud. Our Bible verse for today is about those two opposites. 让我们玩一个反义词的游戏。我说一个词,你来说出它的反义词。好了吗?白天。女孩。寒冷。夏天。最后一个,骄傲。你的答案是不是谦卑?对,谦卑是骄傲的反义词。我们今天的圣经经节就是讲到这两个反义词。 James 4:6 God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.To resist means to go against, to fight against. Grace means kindness, an undeserved kindness.If you are a child of God by believing in Christ Jesus, God wants you to be humble, realizing all that you are and all that you have comes from the kindness of the Lord. We have nothing as His children to boast or be proud about. Over and over again in the Bible, God warns us that pride is a sin and causes many other sins. How can you recognize pride in your life?You can remember a simple little letter of the alphabet. What is the middle letter in the word pride?What is the middle letter in the word sin?Be careful that what you do and think and say doesnt reflect that selfish I. 雅各书第4章6节说神阻挡骄傲的人,赐恩给谦卑的人。阻挡就是反对,与它争战。恩就是慈爱,我们不配得到的慈爱。如果你已经相信主耶稣而成为神的孩子,神愿意你是一个谦卑的人,知道你的所是和所有的一切都是来自神的慈爱。我们自己,作为神的孩子,实在没有什么可以自夸和自高自大的。神多次在圣经中警告我们骄傲是一种罪,许多其它的罪也是因为骄傲而引起。那么在你的生活中,你怎么才能觉察得到自己的骄傲呢?你可以记住一个简单的字母。骄傲这个字英文拼写最中间的字母是什么?罪这个字英文拼写最中间的字母又是什么呢?对,是字母I。 |