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希伯来书3:7-11：7圣灵有话说：“你们今日若听他的话，8不可硬着心，像在旷野惹他发怒、试探他的时候一样。9在那里，你们的祖宗试我探我，并且观看我的作为有四十年之久。10所以我厌烦那世代的人，说：‘他们心里常常迷糊，竟不晓得我的作为！’11我就在怒中起誓说：‘他们断不可进入我的安息。’”
我们无法生活在过去，因为我们任何人都无法改变过去发生的任何一件事？这就是为什么赦免对我们来说是如此的美好。我们无法改变过去发生的事情。但是上帝永久改变了我们罪的后果。他永远除去了罪。我们的神最想要的，就是让我们活出他赦免的儿女的样式。
我们无法改变过去，我们也无法操控我们的未来。我们中间没有一个人能预言接下来的时间内会发生什么。但是当上帝在这些经文中提到“今日”，他是呼召我们要活在当下，听他的话，不要硬着心拒绝他的悔改呼召。以色列百姓当年在旷野就是如此心里刚硬的拒绝耶和华，他们硬着心违背耶和华长达40年之久。
今日，如果你听见上帝的话，就不要硬着你的心。悔改是我们每天甚至每时每刻要做的事情。这是路德《九十五条论纲》中第一条的要点。他说，基督徒生命中的每一天都是悔改的一天。每一天我们都要听上帝的话。我们要承认我们的罪和罪性。我们在耶稣和他的福音里找到赦免。我们在圣灵那里得力量去恨恶我们的罪并在今日过敬虔的生活。
当你清早起床问自己：“我今日要做些什么？”就对自己说：“我要听上帝的话，我要悔改我的罪。”
祷告：主耶稣，请让我永远活在当下，活在悔改和信心的当下。当我起床的时候，请让我意识到我的今日属于你。教导我活在你的赦免里。求你指示我一条比罪的路更好的道路。愿你每一天甚至每时每刻都使我的生命变得有意义。阿们。
Hebrews 3: 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
We cannot live in the past, for who of us can change a single thing that has happened in our past? That’s what makes forgiveness so sweet. We can’t change what happened. But God can and has changed the eternal consequences of our sins. He has removed them forever. There is nothing that our God wants more than for us to live as his forgiven children.
We cannot change the past and we have no control over our futures. None of us can even say what will happen in the next few moments of our lives. But when God says “today” in these verses, he is calling for us to live in the moment, to listen to his voice and not to harden our hearts against his call to repentance. That’s what the children of Israel did in the wilderness. Fort forty years they hardened their hearts against the LORD.
Today, if you hear God’s voice, do not harden your hearts. Repentance is something that we do every day and every moment of every day. That was the point of Luther’s first of his Ninety-five
Theses. He said that every day in the life of a Christian is one of repentance. Every day we listen to God’s voice. We confess our sins and our sinfulness. We find forgiveness in Jesus and his gospel. We find strength from the Holy Spirit to hate our sins and to live a more godly life today.
When you get up in the morning and ask, “What am I going to do today?” then say, “I will listen to God’s voice and I will repent of my sins.”
Prayer: Lord Jesus, let me always live in the moment, the moment of repentance and faith. When I rise, give me the awareness that today belongs to you. Teach me to live in your forgiveness. Show me a better way than the way of sin. I want you to be the difference in my life every moment of every day. Amen.