We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

If thankfulness does not move us to serve God, then we do not truly understand who our God is and what He has done in our behalf. Without gratitude for Christ’s sacrificial love, our duty will become nothing more than drudgery and our God nothing more than a dissatisfied boss.
Bryan Chapell

Certainty of the call of God is not only necessary for sending you into the ministry; nothing is more essential for keeping you there. Regardless of the blessings and fruitfulness God grants to your service, there will be dark, heavy days when you would walk away from the Gospel ministry if it weren't for the bedrock of assurance that you are doing what God Himself has called you to do. Not having an unshakable sense of divine call is one of the main reasons why so few who begin to preach stay devoted to it for a lifetime. But preachers who, like Jeremiah, are sure of the fire of God's call in their bones (Jer. 20:9), can, as Jeremiah did, endure glaciers of opposition and icebergs of discouragement.
Donald S. Whitney

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 诗篇 4

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求助的晚祷
大卫的诗,交与伶长。用丝弦的乐器。
显我为义的 神啊,
我呼吁的时候,求你应允我!
我在困苦中,你曾使我宽广;
现在求你怜恤我,听我的祷告!
 
你们这上流人哪,你们将我的尊荣变为羞辱要到几时呢
你们喜爱虚妄,寻找虚假,要到几时呢?
(细拉)

你们要知道,耶和华已经分别虔诚人归他自己;
我求告耶和华,他必听我。
 
你们应当畏惧,不可犯罪;
在床上的时候,要心里思想,并要肃静。
(细拉)

当献上公义的祭,
又当倚靠耶和华。
有许多人说:谁能指示我们什么好处?
耶和华啊,求你仰起脸来,光照我们。
你使我心里快乐,
胜过那丰收五谷新酒的人。
 
我必安然躺下睡觉,
因为独有你—耶和华使我安然居住。