憐憫、慈悲的上帝 You Deal with God

經文: 「我必不發猛烈的怒氣，也不再毀滅以法蓮，因我是上帝，並非世人。」(何西阿十一：9)

「上帝要我們明瞭祂的慈悲。」你是否正落入愁苦的光景，一切如同世界末日般，且讓這句話救拔你脫離絕望的深淵。同時上帝也要藉此讓你自我反省，看內心有何要對付的罪。上帝若是人，祂老早就把你剪除；上帝若按著人的方式行事，上帝的怒氣早就把人置死，但上帝不是人，「天離地何等的高，祂的慈愛向敬畏祂的人也是何等的大。」（詩一○三：11）         犯罪會惹祂發怒，但祂的怒氣不會長久，只要你離罪轉向耶穌，上帝就不再生氣。因為上帝就是上帝，祂有豐盛的慈愛，即使你大惡不赦，祂也願饒恕你。沒有任何人會有像上帝那般的耐心，你會使天使皺眉，也會使你父親心煩氣燥，但上帝是恒久忍耐，永遠愛你。來吧，你面對的是這樣一位上帝，趕緊來靠近祂，向祂認罪悔改，信靠祂，你必得拯救。

 

Scripture: "I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man"(Hosea 11:9).

The LORD thus makes known His sparing mercies. It may be that the reader is now under heavy displeasure, and everything threatens his speedy doom. Let the text hold him up from despair. The LORD now invites you to consider your ways and confess your sins. If He had been man, He would long ago have cut you off. If He were now to act after the manner of men, it would be a word and a blow and then there would be an end of you: but it is not so, for "as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are his ways above your ways."         You rightly judge that He is angry, but He keepeth not His anger forever: if you turn from sin to Jesus, God will turn from wrath. Because God is God, and not man, there is still forgiveness for you, even though you may be steeped up to your throat in iniquity. You have a God to deal with and not a hard man, or even a merely just man. No human being could have patience with you. You would have wearied out an angel, as you have wearied your sorrowing Father; but God is longsuffering. Come and try Him at once. Confess, believe, and turn from your evil way, and you shall be saved.

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