【诗143:8】求你使我清晨得听你慈爱之言，因我倚靠你；求你使我知道当行的路，因我的心仰望你。【Psa143:8 NIV】Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

当大卫被仇敌追逼，心灵发昏、里面的力量衰微时，他最迫切的需要，不是环境立刻改变，而是重新回到神面前。When David was being pursued by his enemies, his spirit grew faint and his strength within him was failing. His most urgent need was not for his circumstances to change straight away, but to return to God.在这诗篇143篇，大卫让我们明白，如何回到神面前的属灵法则：不是做这做那，而是运用信心，倚靠神、仰望神。In Psalm 143, David shows us the spiritual principle of returning to God: not by simply doing more, but by exercising faith—trusting in God and looking to Him.当大卫做好本分，把自己信心抛向神，他立刻向神发出两个深切的祈求：使我听见你的慈爱，使我知道当行的路。When David had done what was his responsibility and cast himself upon God in faith, he immediately made two heartfelt requests: let me hear of Your unfailing love, and show me the way I should go.

信心的果效就是灵魂的救恩。一个在旧约律法时代的人，却能从神领受灵魂得救的真谛，我们得救是本乎恩、因着信，大卫确实是一个合神心意的人。The outcome of faith is the salvation of the soul. Although David lived in the Old Testament era under the law, he was able to receive from God the true meaning of the salvation of the soul: we are saved by grace through faith. David truly was a man after God’s own heart.

 “求你使我清晨得听你慈爱之言，因我倚靠你。”大卫所求的，不只是听见神说话，更是求神使他再次听见神的慈爱。“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you.” David was not simply asking to hear God speak; he was asking to hear afresh of God’s unfailing love.当一个人身处困境，最容易失去的，往往不是对神存在的认识，而是对神慈爱的确信。When we are going through hardship, what we most easily lose is often not our belief that God exists, but our assurance that He loves us.

当环境一旦迟迟没有改变，我们就开始怀疑：神还顾念我吗？祂还爱我吗？祂还听我的祷告吗？When our circumstances remain unchanged for a long time, we begin to wonder: Does God still care about me? Does He still love me? Does He still hear my prayers?我已经祷告这么久，为什么仍然没有出路？我们很容易让眼前的处境成为判断神是否爱我们的依据。I have been praying for so long—why is there still no way forward? It is easy for us to let our present circumstances become the measure of whether God loves us.

当大卫在旷野缺水，被追杀，处境极其艰难，但他仍说神的慈爱比生命更美好。When David was in the wilderness without water, being hunted down and facing extremely difficult circumstances, he still said that God’s love was better than life.十字架更让我们看见，神的爱不是一句安慰人的话，而是基督为罪人舍己的事实。即使我们暂时不明白神的作为，也不能因此怀疑祂的慈爱。The cross shows us even more clearly that God’s love is not simply a comforting message, but the reality that Christ gave Himself for sinners. Even when we cannot yet understand what God is doing, we must not allow that to make us doubt His love.

耶稣基督在客西马尼园的祷告，面对十字架，祂真实地经历痛苦，却仍向父神祷告：“不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思。”（太26:39）In Jesus Christ’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, as He faced the cross, He genuinely experienced anguish, yet He still prayed to the Father: “Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39 NIV)因着祂完全的顺服，仍然信父的慈爱，顺服至死，以至于死在十字架上，“成了”…在十字架上，走完了父指示祂当行的路，成就了万世救恩。Because of His perfect obedience, He continued to trust the Father’s love and became obedient unto death—even death on a cross. “It is finished.” On the cross, He completed the path the Father had shown Him to walk and accomplished eternal salvation.

祷告 | Prayer

亲爱的天父，我承认自己常常口里说倚靠你，心里却仍然抓住自己的意思；Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that I often say that I trust in You, while deep in my heart I still hold on to my own will.求你赦免我，明明头脑知道你的真理，却因不信、惧怕、骄傲和自我保护，而迟迟不肯把生命的主权交在你手上，不能明白你指示给我当行的道路。Please forgive me. Although I know Your truth in my mind, because of unbelief, fear, pride, and self-protection, I am often unwilling to surrender the sovereignty of my life into Your hands, and therefore unable to understand the way You are showing me to walk.

主啊，求你使我清晨先听见你慈爱的声音，不让环境定义我，不让人的评价辖制我，也不让自己的情绪成为我行事的主。Lord, please let me hear first thing in the morning the voice of Your unfailing love. Do not let my circumstances define me, do not let other people’s opinions control me, and do not let my own emotions determine how I live.求圣灵将你的慈爱浇灌在我的心里，让我有能力，有爱，去舍己，放下自己的意思。Holy Spirit, please pour Your love into my heart and give me the strength and love to deny myself and lay down my own will.使我不再只求你改变别人，改变环境，而是求你来改变我，不再只求你为我开路，而是求你带领我走祢要我当行的路。Help me no longer only to ask You to change other people or my circumstances, but to ask You to change me; no longer only to ask You to make a way for me, but to ask You to lead me in the way You want me to walk.即使这道路是十字架舍己、舍命的道路，求你让我因住在你的慈爱里，说主，我愿意。Even if this is the way of the cross—the way of self-denial and laying down my life—please help me, as I remain in Your love, to say, “Lord, I am willing.”

奉主耶稣基督的圣名祷告，阿们。In the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.

（Pastor Guo and the Daily Devotional Team）