We Love God!

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

The providence of God is the way in which He governs everything wisely, first for the glory of His own Name, and second for the ultimate blessing of His children.
Sinclair Ferguson

It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.
James Denney

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 诗篇 116

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为出死入生而赞美 神
我爱耶和华,
因为他听了我的声音和我的恳求。
他既向我侧耳,
我一生要求告他。
死亡的绳索缠绕我;
阴间的痛苦抓住我;
我遭遇患难愁苦。
那时,我便求告耶和华的名,说:
耶和华啊,求你救我的灵魂!
 
耶和华有恩惠,有公义;
我们的 神以怜悯为怀。
耶和华保护愚人;
我落到卑微的地步,他救了我。
我的心哪!你要仍归安乐,
因为耶和华用厚恩待你。
 
主啊,你救我的命免了死亡,
救我的眼免了流泪,
救我的脚免了跌倒。
我要在耶和华面前行活人之路。
10 我因信,所以如此说话;
我受了极大的困苦。
11 我曾急促地说:
人都是说谎的!
 
12 我拿什么报答耶和华向我所赐的一切厚恩?
13 我要举起救恩的杯,
称扬耶和华的名。
14 我要在他众民面前向耶和华还我的愿。
 
15 在耶和华眼中,
看圣民之死极为宝贵。
16 耶和华啊,我真是你的仆人;
我是你的仆人,是你婢女的儿子。
你已经解开我的绑索。
17 我要以感谢为祭献给你,
又要求告耶和华的名。
18-19 我要在他众民面前,
在耶和华殿的院内,
耶路撒冷当中,
向耶和华还我的愿。
 
你们要赞美耶和华!