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Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise!

You’re the one, God, you alone;

You made the heavens, and heavens of heavens, and all angels;

The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them;

You keep them all alive;

haven’s angels worship you!

 

You’re the one, God, the God who chose Abram And brought him from Ur of the Chaldees and changed his name to Abraham.

You found his heart to be steady and true to you and signed a covenant with him, A covenant to give him the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, The Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites, – to give it to his descendants.

And you kept your word because you are righteous.

 

You saw the anguish of our parents in Egypt.

You heard their cries at the Red Sea;

You amazed Pharaoh, his servants, and the people of his land with wonders and miracle-signs.

You knew their bullying arrogance against your people;

you made a name for yourself that lasts to this day.

You split the sea before them;

they crossed through and never got their feet wet;

You pitched their pursuers into the deep;

they sank like a rock in the storm-tossed sea.

By day you led them with a Pillar of Cloud, and by night with a Pillar of Fire to show them the way they were to travel.

You came down onto Mount Sinai, you spoke to them out of heaven;

You gave them instructions on how to live well, true teaching, sound rules and commands;

You introduced them to your Holy Sabbath;

Through your servant Moses you decreed commands, rules, and instruction.

You gave bread from heaven for their hunger, you sent water from the rock for their thirst.

You told them to enter and take the land, which you promised to give them.

 

(to be continued)

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有時候能夠從神既角度思想並不是必然的，而這個不是必然的因素卻可以決定我/我們的人生。

利未記 25:55 因為以色列人都是我的僕人、是我從埃及地領出來的，我是耶和華你們的　神。

羅馬書 1:25 他們將　神的真實變為虛謊、去敬拜事奉受造之物、不敬奉那造物的主，主乃是可稱頌的、直到永遠。阿們。

在我們和很多我們不喜歡的，或者是心中滿有惡念的人相處時，我們心中多會充滿著嬲怒和掙扎。

我彷彿想起了主耶穌的生命：

可能我們喜歡聽耶穌行神蹟，喜歡聽耶穌趕鬼的故事；

但主耶穌可能付出了更多的時間去和不明白祂，甚至是對祂懷著惡意的人相處，關愛他們。

為何我們卻不喜歡認同主在這方面的榜樣和付出呢？

提摩太後書一章(七節)

為此我提醒你，使你將 神藉我按手所給你的恩賜，再如火挑旺起來。

 

因為 神賜給我們，不是膽怯的心，乃是剛強、仁愛、謹守的心。

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;

but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

 

你不要以給我們的主作見證為恥，也不要以我這為主被囚的為恥，總要按 神的能力，與我為福音同受苦難， 神救了我們，以聖召召我們，不是按我們的行為，乃是按他的旨意，和恩典，這恩典是萬古之先，在基督耶穌裡賜給我們的，但如今藉著我們救主基督耶穌的顯現，才表明出來了。

他已經把死廢去，藉著福音，將不能壞的生命彰顯出來。