公义与怜悯的神
“不公平！”一个小女孩喊道。我们从小就能感觉到那些天平偏向别人的时刻！我们人人都想得到公平公义。
启示录15、16章的诗歌告诉我们，神是全然圣洁、全然公义的。有意思的是，这些话被放在谈论审判和惩罚的两章经文中。
许多人都把神的愤怒归到旧约，认为新约描述的是一位只有爱的神。其实，新约中的每卷书都提到了神的愤怒，这会不会使你惊讶呢？确实如此，因为神是全然圣洁和公义的，祂抵挡邪恶。
约翰清楚地说，神的愤怒是可畏的——这是个坏消息。然而好消息是，神是全然公义的，祂也是有大怜悯的。在耶稣里，公义和怜悯同时彰显，以致我们能免受罪的惩罚。
约翰还写道：“神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。”（约翰福音 3:16）没有人能逃离神的审判；但神欢迎每一个罪人来投奔耶稣，在祂里面得着神的怜悯，以致得蒙拯救。
这就是福音。你今天有没有投奔耶稣呢？
主耶稣，人类的救主，愿我们今天藉着认罪而藏身在祢里面，并接受祢恩典的礼物—罪得赦免和新生命。奉祢慈悲的名祷告，阿们。
启示录 15:1-4; 16:1-7
1我又看见在天上有异象，大而且奇，就是七位天使掌管末了的七灾，因为神的大怒在这七灾中发尽了。
2我看见仿佛有玻璃海，其中有火搀杂。又看见那些胜了兽和兽的像并它名字数目的人，都站在玻璃海上，拿着神的琴，
3唱神仆人摩西的歌和羔羊的歌，说： 主神－全能者啊， 你的作为大哉！奇哉！ 万世之王啊， 你的道途义哉！诚哉！
4主啊，谁敢不敬畏你， 不将荣耀归与你的名呢？ 因为独有你是圣的。 万民都要来在你面前敬拜， 因你公义的作为已经显出来了。
1我听见有大声音从殿中出来，向那七位天使说：“你们去，把盛神大怒的七碗倒在地上。”
2第一位天使便去，把碗倒在地上，就有恶而且毒的疮生在那些有兽印记、拜兽像的人身上。
3第二位天使把碗倒在海里，海就变成血，好像死人的血，海中的活物都死了。
4第三位天使把碗倒在江河与众水的泉源里，水就变成血了。
5我听见掌管众水的天使说： 昔在、今在的圣者啊， 你这样判断是公义的；
6他们曾流圣徒与先知的血， 现在你给他们血喝； 这是他们所该受的。
7我又听见祭坛中有声音说： 是的，主神－全能者啊， 你的判断义哉！诚哉！
Worship The One Who Is Just
"Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations." — Revelation 15:3
"That's not fair!" exclaimed the little girl. How early in life we sense when the scales tip in someone else's favor! We all want justice.
The songs in Revelation 15 and 16 tell us that God is holy and just in all his ways. Interestingly, they are found in two chapters that speak about punishment.
Many people relegate God's wrath to the Old Testament and suggest that the New Testament pictures only a God of love. Would it surprise you that every book of the New Testament speaks of God's wrath? It is precisely because God is holy and just in all his ways that he opposes evil.
John expresses clearly that God's wrath is awful. That's the bad news. The good news, though, is that because God is perfectly just, he is also amazingly merciful. In Jesus, justice and mercy work together to provide us a way out of the punishment for our sin.
John also wrote, "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). No one can run from God's judgment; but everyone is welcome to run to Jesus and find in him the mercy of God that can save us from sin.
That's the good news. Will you run to him today?
Lord Jesus, Savior of the world, may we hide ourselves in you today by repenting of our sins and accepting the gracious offer of your forgiveness and new life. In your merciful name, Amen.
诵读: 楚云
片头: 张妙阳
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