By God’s Truth 藉着神的真理

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Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17

Today's Scripture John 17:1-5, 13-19

Today's Insights In John 1:1-18, readers are introduced to biblically weighty words that appear throughout the book, such as life and light (v. 4) and believe (v. 7). John 17 includes significant words that are also found in John 1—Word, glory/glorify, and truth. In John 1:14, these words are clustered together: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Of note is the word truth. There’s perfect harmony between Jesus, the living Word who declared Himself to be “the truth” (14:6), and the written Word (17:14, 17). Christ, the living Word, helps us to be authentic by aligning our lives according to His truth

Today's Devotional

Merriam-Webster’s 2023 Word of the Year was authentic. It means “not false or imitation” and “true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character.” People search for truth, but discerning fact from fiction can be challenging. Editor Peter Sokolowski said, “Can we trust whether a student wrote this paper [or] . . . whether a politician made this statement? We don’t always trust what we see anymore. We sometimes don’t believe our own eyes or our own ears. We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.”

As what is real becomes less clear, authenticity is something most people crave. This kind of “crisis of authenticity” can be averted as we take in and live out the wisdom of Scripture. Jesus spoke to His disciples just before His arrest, trial, and death (John 13-17). Preparing His disciples for His departure from earth, He also “looked toward heaven and prayed” for them (17:1). He prayed that the Father might “sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth” (v. 17). This implies that what God has revealed in the Bible doesn’t conform to some other standard of what’s true, but it is truth itself and the standard by which everything else is judged.

God calls us to align our lives with Scripture, to conduct ourselves according to its truth. Only by doing so can we become truly authentic, which is very much what the world needs today.

Reflect & Pray

How does the Bible reveal God’s truth? How is it truly authentic?

Dear God, please sanctify me with the truth of Scripture as I serve You.

By Marvin Williams

“求你用真理使他们成圣；你的道就是真理。”（约翰福音 17章17 节）

今日经文：约翰福音 17:1-5, 13-19

今日心得：在约翰福音 1章1-18 中，读者接触到贯穿这本福音的重要的词汇，例如生命、光（第 4 节）和信（第 7 节）。约翰福音 17 章中也包含一些重要的词汇，这些词汇也出现在约翰福音 1 章中:道、荣耀/使…得荣耀、真理。在约翰福音1章14节，这些词汇被归为一类：“道成了肉身，住在我们中间，充充满满地有恩典有真理。我们也见过他的荣光，正是父独生子的荣光。”值得注意的是“真理”一词，耶稣，这位永活的道，宣称自己是“真理”（14:6），祂与“道”这词之间有着完美的和谐（17:14, 17）。基督，永活的道，帮助我们活出真实的自我，使我们的生活与祂的真理相符。

今日灵修：韦氏词典2023年的年度词汇是“真实”。“真实”意指“不虚假，不模仿、忠于自己的个性、精神或品格”。人们寻求真理，但辨别事实与虚构却并非易事。编辑彼得·索科洛夫斯基说：“我们能相信这篇论文是学生写的吗？……这篇声明是一位政客发表的吗？我们不再总是相信眼见的。有时，我们甚至不相信自己的眼睛或耳朵。我们现在认识到，真实本身就是一种表演。”

随着真实变得模糊不清，大多数人渴望真实。当我们汲取并践行圣经的智慧时，就可以避免这种“真实性危机”。耶稣在被捕、受审和死亡之前曾对门徒说过这些话（约翰福音13-17章）。祂“举目望天，为他们祷告”，使门徒能面对自己将要离世之事（17:1）。祂祈求父“用真理使他们成圣；你的道就是真理”（17节）。这意味着，上帝在圣经中启示的真理未必符合其他的是非标准，只有真理本身是评判一切的标准。上帝呼召我们，使我们的生活与圣经相符，并按其真理行事。只有这样做，我们才能成为真正真实的人，而这正是当今世界所需要的。

反思与祷告

圣经如何启示上帝的真理？圣经真的全然真实吗？

亲爱的上帝，当我事奉祢时，请祢用圣经的真理使我成圣。