灵命日粮 新的开始 你们得救是本乎恩，也因着信。 —以弗所书2章8节

[Hongzhi Xu]

新的开始

在许多国家，卫生法令都明文禁止人们贩卖或使用旧床垫，只可以将之送到垃圾掩埋场丢弃。然而，提姆·基南（Tim Keenan）却解决了这个问题。如今他的公司聘请了十几名员工，负责取出旧床垫中可以再循环使用的部分，如金属、布料及泡沫塑料。但他所做的还不仅是回 收利用，记者比尔沃林在《科罗拉多日报》中写道：「在基南所有循环再生的物品中⋯⋯最成功的可能就是『人』。」基南雇用的员工里有许多曾是吸毒者和流浪 汉，让他们有重新开始的机会。他说：「我们雇用那些大家都弃绝的人。」


路加福音5章17-26节告诉我们，耶稣如何医治瘫痪病人的身体，拯救他的灵魂。因着这个神迹，利未回应耶稣的呼召跟随祂，并邀请他的税吏同伴及其 他朋友和耶稣一同坐席（27-29节）。当有些人指责耶稣与罪人一同吃喝（30节），祂提醒他们无病的人用不着医生，有病的人才用得着，并且说到：「我来 本不是召义人悔改，乃是召罪人悔改。」（32节）


若你觉得自己像是「被丢弃」到人生掩埋场的人，耶稣正展开祂慈爱的双臂，要给你一个全新的生命，这也是祂来到世上的目的！

上帝大能会改变人心，

远离邪恶，摆脱罪孽；

上帝慈爱使生命更新，

洁净内心，重写新页。

Fasick


得救恩就是接受新生命。

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. —Luke 5:31

In many countries, health laws prohibit reselling or reusing old mattresses. Only landfills will take them. Tim Keenan tackled the problem and today his business employs a dozen people to extract the individual components of metal, fabric, and foam in old mattresses for recycling. But that’s only part of the story. Journalist Bill Vogrin wrote, “Of all the items Keenan recycles . . . it’s the people that may be his biggest success” (The Gazette, Colorado Springs). Keenan hires men from halfway houses and homeless shelters, giving them a job and a second chance. He says, “We take guys nobody else wants.”

Luke 5:17-26 tells how Jesus healed the body and the soul of a paralyzed man. Following that miraculous event, Levi answered Jesus’ call to follow Him and then invited his fellow tax collectors and friends to a banquet in honor of the Lord (vv.27-29). When some people accused Jesus of associating with undesirables (v.30), He reminded them that healthy people don’t need a doctor—adding, “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (v.32).

To everyone who feels like a “throwaway” headed for the landfill of life, Jesus opens His arms of love and offers a fresh beginning. That’s why He came! —David McCasland

The power of God can turn a heart
From evil and the power of sin;
The love of God can change a life
And make it new and cleansed within. —Fasick

Salvation is receiving a new life.