We Love God!

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

Truly, I believe that idleness has led to more sin than almost any other habit that could be named. I suspect it is the mother of many sins of the flesh – the mother of adultery, sexual immorality, drunkenness, and many other deeds of darkness that I do not have time to name. Let your own conscience say whether I speak the truth or not. You were once idle, and immediately the devil knocked at the door and came in.
J.C. Ryle

The first declaration of the gospel is negative – that every man is sinful, separated from God, and condemned to hell. A person will not seek to be saved until he realizes he is lost. Therefore the first step in proclaiming the gospel is to tell men of their lostness, and the first step in receiving the gospel is to confess that lostness. A person will not seek healing until he is convinced he is sick; he will not seek life until he acknowledges he is dead. Conversion, then, occurs in one who is willing to accept the death sentence and also the acquittal of God. The man who does not recognize his condemnation to death has no hope for new life.
John MacArthur

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 约伯记 17

17
我的心灵消耗,我的日子灭尽;
坟墓为我预备好了。
真有戏笑我的在我这里,
我眼常见他们惹动我。
 
愿主拿凭据给我,自己为我作保。
在你以外谁肯与我击掌呢?
因你使他们心不明理,
所以你必不高举他们。
控告他的朋友、以朋友为可抢夺的,
连他儿女的眼睛也要失明。
 
 神使我作了民中的笑谈;
他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。
我的眼睛因忧愁昏花;
我的百体好像影儿。
正直人因此必惊奇;
无辜的人要兴起攻击不敬虔之辈。
然而,义人要持守所行的道;
手洁的人要力上加力。
10 至于你们众人,可以再来辩论吧!
你们中间,我找不着一个智慧人。
11 我的日子已经过了;
我的谋算、我心所想望的已经断绝。
12 他们以黑夜为白昼,
:亮光近乎黑暗。
13 我若盼望阴间为我的房屋,
若下榻在黑暗中,
14 若对朽坏说:你是我的父;
对虫说:你是我的母亲姊妹;
15 这样,我的指望在哪里呢?
我所指望的谁能看见呢?
16 等到安息在尘土中,
这指望必下到阴间的门闩那里了。