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

God did not wait for a change of heart on our part. He made the first move. Indeed, He did more than that. He did all was necessary to secure our reconciliation, including our change of heart. Even though He is the One offended by our sin, He is the One who makes amends to Himself through the death of Christ.
Jerry Bridges

We should rest in Christ alone for our salvation. But along with that there is still an abiding principle that we ought to worship on the Lord’s Day and trust God enough to have a weekly routine where we cease from our normal labors... He made the Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). God gives us Sabbath as a gift; it’s an island of get-to in a sea of have-to. He also offers us Sabbath as a test; it’s an opportunity to trust God’s work more than our own. When I go weeks without taking adequate time off, I may or may not be disobeying the fourth commandment, but I’m certainly too convinced of my own importance and more than a little foolish. If my goal is God-glorifying productivity over a lifetime of hard work, there are few things I need more than a regular rhythm of rest.
Kevin DeYoung

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 以赛亚书 46

46
彼勒屈身,尼波弯腰;
巴比伦的偶像驮在兽和牲畜上。
他们所抬的如今成了重驮,
使牲畜疲乏,
都一同弯腰屈身,
不能保全重驮,
自己倒被掳去。
 
雅各家,以色列家一切余剩的要听我言:
你们自从生下,就蒙保抱,
自从出胎,便蒙怀搋。
直到你们年老,我仍这样;
直到你们发白,我仍怀搋。
我已造作,也必保抱;
我必怀抱,也必拯救。
 
你们将谁与我相比,与我同等,
可以与我比较,使我们相同呢?
那从囊中抓金子,
用天平平银子的人,
雇银匠制造神像,
他们又俯伏,又叩拜。
他们将神像抬起,扛在肩上,
安置在定处,它就站立,
不离本位;
人呼求它,它不能答应,
也不能救人脱离患难。
 
你们当想念这事,自己作大丈夫。
悖逆的人哪,要心里思想。
你们要追念上古的事。
因为我是 神,并无别神;
我是 神,再没有能比我的。
10 我从起初指明末后的事,
从古时言明未成的事,
说:我的筹算必立定;
凡我所喜悦的,我必成就。
11 我召鸷鸟从东方来,
召那成就我筹算的人从远方来。
我已说出,也必成就;
我已谋定,也必做成。
12 你们这些心中顽梗、
远离公义的,当听我言。
13 我使我的公义临近,必不远离。
我的救恩必不迟延;
我要为以色列—我的荣耀,
锡安施行救恩。