He Makes Us New 重获新生
Dexu Xia
Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted. John 6:12
As a traveling executive, Shawn Seipler wrestled with an odd question. What happens to leftover soap in hotel rooms? Thrown out as trash for landfills, millions of soap bars could instead find new life, Seipler believed. So he launched Clean the World, a recycling venture that has helped more than eight thousand hotels, cruise lines, and resorts turn millions of pounds of discarded soap into sterilized, newly molded soap bars. Sent to people in need in more than one hundred countries, the recycled soap helps prevent countless hygiene-related illnesses and deaths.
As Seipler said, “I know it sounds funny, but that little bar of soap on the counter in your hotel room can literally save a life.”
The gathering up of something used or dirty to give it new life is also one of the most loving traits of our Savior, Jesus. In that manner, after He fed a crowd of five thousand with five small barley loaves and two small fish, He still said to His disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted” (John 6:12).
In our lives, when we feel “washed up,” God sees us not as wasted lives but as His miracles. Never throwaways in His sight, we have divine potential for new kingdom work. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). What makes us new? Christ within us.
By: Patricia Raybon
When have you felt you possessed little value? How has Jesus given you new life?
When I feel worthless, dear Father, help me see my new life in You.
把剩下的零碎收拾起来，免得有糟蹋的。—约翰福音6章12节
薛普勒（Shawn Seipler）因职务所需，经常需要出差。每当他离开旅馆，总是想：旅馆会如何处理没用完的肥皂？薛普勒相信，这些数以百万计没用完的肥皂，除了被当成垃圾丢进掩埋场之外，还能重获新生。于是，他开创一个社会企业“洁世”，从八千多个旅馆、邮轮以及度假酒店，回收上百万磅的剩余肥皂，经过消毒，重新制作成“再生皂”。然后把这些再生皂送到一百多个国家，提供给有需要的人使用，帮助他们预防与卫生有关的疾病，也避免因染病而死亡。
正如薛普勒说：“我知道这听起来好笑，但是您旅馆房间洗手台用剩的一小块肥皂，还真能救人性命。”
将剩下或污秽的收集起来，然后赋予新生命，这正是救主耶稣一个爱的特质。祂在用五个大麦饼和两条小鱼，喂饱了五千人之后，对门徒说：“把剩下的零碎收拾起来，免得有糟蹋的。”（约翰福音6章12节）
有时我们会感觉自己一无是处，但上帝却视我们为祂奇妙的创造。在祂眼中，我们不是被淘汰的，我们具备上帝赋予的潜能去做新国度的工作。哥林多后书5章17节说：“若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。”为何我们能成为新造的人？因基督在我们里面。
作者： 雷翠霞
你曾在何时感觉自己没什么用处？耶稣如何给了你新生命？
亲爱的天父，当我觉得自己一文不值的时候，求祢帮助我看到，我在祢里面已经有了新生命.