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Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God’s holiness or compel His pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer nothing for what He alone can give. Then we rest in His promise to forgive those who humbly seek Him… Repentance, therefore, is fundamentally a humble expression of a desire for a renewed relationship with God – a relationship that we confess can be secured only by His grace.
Bryan Chapell

In trial and weakness and trouble, He seeks to bring us low, until we learn that His grace is all, and to take pleasure in the very thing that brings us and keeps us low. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. His presence filling and satisfying our emptiness, becomes the secret of humility that need never fail. The humble man has learned the secret of abiding gladness. The weaker he feels, the lower he sinks, and the greater his humiliations appear, the more power and the presence of Christ are his portion.
Andrew Murray

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 创世记 14

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亚伯兰抢救罗得
暗拉非示拿王,亚略以拉撒王,基大老玛以拦王,提达戈印王的时候,
他们都攻打所多玛比拉蛾摩拉比沙押玛示纳洗扁善以别,和比拉王;比拉就是琐珥
这五王都在西订谷会合;西订谷就是盐海
他们已经事奉基大老玛十二年,到十三年就背叛了。
十四年,基大老玛和同盟的王都来在亚特律·加宁,杀败了利乏音人,在哈麦杀败了苏西人,在沙微·基列亭杀败了以米人,
何利人的西珥山杀败了何利人,一直杀到靠近旷野的伊勒·巴兰
他们回到安·密巴,就是加低斯,杀败了亚玛力全地的人,以及住在哈洗逊·他玛亚摩利人。
于是所多玛王、蛾摩拉王、押玛王、洗扁王,和比拉王(比拉就是琐珥)都出来,在西订谷摆阵,与他们交战,
就是与以拦基大老玛戈印提达示拿暗拉非以拉撒亚略交战;乃是四王与五王交战。
10  西订谷有许多石漆坑。所多玛王和蛾摩拉王逃跑,有掉在坑里的,其余的人都往山上逃跑。
11 四王就把所多玛蛾摩拉所有的财物,并一切的粮食都掳掠去了;
12 又把亚伯兰的侄儿罗得罗得的财物掳掠去了。当时罗得正住在所多玛
13 有一个逃出来的人告诉希伯来亚伯兰亚伯兰正住在亚摩利幔利的橡树那里。幔利以实各亚乃都是弟兄,曾与亚伯兰联盟。
14  亚伯兰听见他侄儿+被掳去,就率领他家里生养的精练壮丁三百一十八人,直追到
15 便在夜间,自己同仆人分队杀败敌人,又追到大马士革左边的何把
16 将被掳掠的一切财物夺回来,连他侄儿罗得和他的财物,以及妇女、人民也都夺回来。
麦基洗德祝福亚伯兰
17  亚伯兰杀败基大老玛和与他同盟的王回来的时候,所多玛王出来,在沙微谷迎接他;沙微谷就是王谷
18 又有撒冷麦基洗德带着饼和酒出来迎接;他是至高 神的祭司。
19 他为亚伯兰祝福,说:「愿天地的主、至高的 神赐福与亚伯兰
20 至高的 神把敌人交在你手里,是应当称颂的!」亚伯兰就把所得的拿出十分之一来,给麦基洗德
21  所多玛王对亚伯兰说:「你把人口给我,财物你自己拿去吧!」
22  亚伯兰所多玛王说:「我已经向天地的主—至高的 神耶和华起誓:
23 凡是你的东西,就是一根线、一根鞋带,我都不拿,免得你说:『我使亚伯兰富足!』
24 只有仆人所吃的,并与我同行的亚乃以实各幔利所应得的分,可以任凭他们拿去。」

+ 14:14 原文是弟兄