Not Like Yesterday / 不像昨天
Dexu Xia
Not Like Yesterday
Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3
When our grandson Jay was a child his parents gave him a new T-shirt for his birthday. He put it on right away and proudly wore it all day.
When he appeared the next morning in the shirt, his dad asked him, “Jay, does that shirt make you happy?”
“Not as much as yesterday,” Jay replied.
That’s the problem with material acquisition: Even the good things of life can’t give us the deep, lasting happiness we so strongly desire. Though we may have many possessions, we may still be unhappy.
The world offers happiness through material accumulation: new clothes, a new automobile, an update to our phone or watch. But no material acquisition can make us as happy as it did yesterday. That’s because we were made for God and nothing less will do.
One day, when Jesus was fasting and faint with hunger, Satan approached Him and tempted Him to satisfy His hunger by creating bread. Jesus countered by quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3: “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).
Jesus didn’t mean that we shouldn’t live only on bread. He’s rather stating a fact: We’re spiritual beings and thus we can’t exist on material goods alone.
True satisfaction is found in God and His riches.
不像昨天
人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。-申命记8章3节
孙子杰伊小的时候，我的儿子和媳妇送他一件运动衫做为生日礼物。他兴奋地立刻换上，整天都开心地穿着。
隔天早上，杰伊又穿了那件运动衫，我儿子问他：“这件运动衫让你很开心吧？”他却说：“不像昨天那样开心了！”
这就是追求有形物质会面临的问题：生活中再多美好的事物，也无法带给我们深刻长久的快乐。我们可能已经拥有很多，却一点也不快乐。
新衣服、新车，最时尚的手机或手表，这些世上的物质常会使我们感到开心，但却没有一样能让我们的快乐“像昨天那样”。因为我们被造时，心中就有个属灵空洞，非物质所能填满，唯有上帝才能真正填补满足。
当耶稣禁食四十昼夜，饿得全身无力时，撒但前来试探祂，叫祂把石头变成面包来填饱肚子。耶稣引用申命记8章3节回答说：“人活着，不是单靠食物，乃是靠上帝口里所出的一切话。”（马太福音4章4节）
耶稣说我们活着不是单靠食物，祂是在陈述一个事实：我们有属灵的生命，因此不能单单靠着属世的物质存活。
的确，只有在上帝和祂的丰富中，我们才能得到真正的满足。
上帝啊，求祢教导我靠着祢的丰盛而活，
因祢拥有我真正需要的一切！
为什么追求物质无法给我们长久的快乐？
你从过去的经验中学到了什么？