Spiritual Thought for the Week 2008/11/16

Spiritual Thought for the Week
Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.”
In this world we have many relationships with people, things and events. Some are so close to us that we can not let go. They occupy our thought, our life, and our time. However, they are no big deals. They can be changed and lost any moment and can cause us stress, trouble and misery. They create so much pain that we ought to let go of them without any regret.
Only Jesus’ relationship with us is reliable. His relationship with us is like that of a good shepherd and his sheep. It will never change. This relationship is deeper and closer than any kind of worldly relationships. In fact all other relationships come into being because of Jesus. All the principles, arrangement and placement of relationship lie under the deployment of Jesus. If Jesus wants it change and perish, it would be gone and have no trace of existence.
Therefore our main duty and concern in life is to have good relationship with Jesus. If we do that well, other things will fall into place. If we do not make it right with Jesus, everything else will have problem. Yes, only Jesus is my good shepherd. He knows me and I know him. He is the only God in the whole world that matters to me.
How I wish I can be released from all the earthly relationships; the fight between humans; and the trivial happening of events. For all these things will come to pass. All the unresolved problems will be over. Only our relationship with Christ remains the same in this life and in the life to come. There is nothing that can separate our relationship with the Lord. There is nothing that can separate us from his love. For this love is in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 8:38-39). We have to take this relationship seriously. Let's treasure it; maintain it; and grow in it deeply.


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耶稣说：我是好牧人。我认识我的羊，我的羊也认识我。
在世界上与我们有关系的人，事，物很多，有的似乎很密切，放不下，离不开，缺不了，不住地占据着我们的思想，生活，时间。然而那一切并不是真的有甚麽了不起的关系，不可分解的关系，其实是没有真正常存的意义。因为都可以随时发生变化失去的，以致那些关系成为重担，麻烦，痛苦，所以就是那些关系改变了，解散了，也不足可惜。
只有耶稣与我们的关系，好像好牧人与羊的关系，才是真正永远不改变的，这种关系比世上任何的关系更深，比任何的事物更近。实在说来，其他一切的关系，也是由耶稣而来。是由耶稣所规定，安排，赐给的，都是附属在与耶稣的关系里，甚麽时候耶稣要是改变，消逝，就变得无影无踪，毫不存在了。
所以唯一的责任和目标，是保持和耶稣有正当美好的关系，其他问题就解决了，和耶稣的关系不对，别的也会出问题。啊！真的，只有耶稣是我的好牧人，他认识我，我认识他，他是那唯一与我有关系的神。 但愿能割断一切属地的关系，人间的纠缠，世事的烦琐。不必为任何人，事的关系操劳，烦恼，因为早晚都要完全解除，脱离，只有和主的的关系是确定不变的，今生不变，永远不变。也没有任何事物能使我们与主的关系改变，正如谁也不能使我们与他的爱隔绝一样，这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的（罗8：38，39）。我们要极其珍重，保守，加深与主的关系。