Be Doers ， Not Hearers ONLY 。 不 单 听 ， 是 要 行。

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黃金定律 Golden Rule：

1. 「避免做一些別人做了你會責怪的事。」- 泰利斯

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him. – Pittacus[20] (c. 640–568 BCE)

2. 「你不希望發生在自己身上的事，請你不要做。」 - 塞克斯特斯 的 畢達哥拉斯

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

– Thales (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC)

3. 「別人對你做了會惹你怒的事，你也不要作於別人。」 - 伊索克拉底

What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either. – Sextus the Pythagorean.

4. 「你所要避免的苦難，不要強加給別人。」

- 愛比克泰德

Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you

by others. – Isocrates (436–338 BCE)

Ancient Greece

The Golden Rule in its prohibitive form was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. Examples of the general concept include ...

委身 / COMMITMENT

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「你们作丈夫的，要爱你们的妻子，正如基督爱教会，为教会舍己。」 弗5:25

祷告

神啊，求祢提醒我们，「我们爱因为（祢）先爱我们。」又帮助已婚的能忠于我们的配偶，在我们遇到困难时，求祢激励我们。奉耶稣的名祈求，阿们。

一对在美国阿拉巴马州的夫妇 Alonzo 和 Beulah Sims，刚庆祝了他们结婚八十一周年纪念，创了吉尼斯世界记录！但我同时也读到，美国的离婚率已接近百分之五十，即每两对夫妇中便有一对离婚。

　　

我想到我的父母和祖父母，根据昔日中国的传统，婚姻是父母之命，媒妁之言的，在结婚之前，双方互不认识，然而他们却可以很快乐，更没有离婚这回事。事实上在那个时代，大多数人都不接受离婚，和现在相比，那时的已婚人士往往会尽多点努力去解决婚姻中的难题。很可惜，今天很多人会轻易地放弃婚姻，就像高中生遇到困难时放弃学业一样。

　　

神的话语又怎样教导我们呢？在哥林多前书13:4中，我们看到爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。以弗所书5: 21-25中，规劝夫妻，要彼此相爱和舍己。神的话语敦促我，我在婚礼时对妻子的承诺，是不可轻看的∶

　　

我愿娶你为妻，从今以后，成为正式夫妇，无论苦乐祸福，富贵贫穷，平安疾病，我都一样敬爱你，保护你，同偕到老，永不改变——这是我对你的誓约。

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"Husbands, LOVE your wives, just as Christ LOVed the church and gave himself up for her." Ephesians 5:25

PRAYER

O! Creator, remind us that "we LOVE because [YOU] first LOVed us." Help us who are married to be committed to our spouses, and encourage us when we struggle. In Jesus, Amen.

I read in the news that Alonzo and Beulah Sims had celebrated their wedding anniversary in Alabama—their 81st! At the same time, I read that the divorce rate in the United States is approaching 50 percent, which means that one out of every two couples who marry will get a divorce.

I thought about my parents and grandparents. Their marriages were prearranged according to old Chinese traditions. They did not really know each other before they were married, but they lived happily and were never divorced. Divorce was much less acceptable in those days, but it seems couples in general were more committed to work out problems than some couples are today. Many people today are easily defeated in marriage, like students who drop out of high school when it seems too difficult.

In 1 Corinthians 13:4 we read that LOVE is patient and kind, and Ephesians 5:21-25 exhorts husbands and wives to LOVE and sacrifice for one another. I always remind myself that what I said to my wife on our wedding day is a commitment not to be taken lightly:

I take you to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to LOVE and to cherish, till death do us part. And I pledge you my faithfulness . . . .

@crcna

These Affirmations !

1) 

I Love You, I Always Have and I Always Will.

2) 

I Care Deeply for You and All Things.

3) 

I Am Always With You and Will Never Leave You.

4) 

I Am Confident and Completely Free From All Worry & Concern.

5) 

I Am Calm and Content, Satisfied and Fulfilled.

6) 

I Am Fearless and completely at Peace with Everything in my Life.

7) 

I Love and Fully Accept All without Criticism or Judgment.

8) 

I Am aware that I Am one with All There Is.

9) 

I Am excited to live and fully experience my life.

10) 

I Am Deeply Sorry for any Pain that I may have caused to others or myself.

11) 

You are Already forgiven and I will Always forgive You. I Love You unconditionally.

12) 

I Am so Happy, I Feel so Good.

13) 

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

These affirmations will completely transmute the negative emotional energies that were cleared from the healing sounds. 

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As a Man Thinketh

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,

And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,

Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: —

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:

Environment is but his looking-glass.

Quotes

• Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.
• A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
• Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.
• The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.
• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound.
• Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.
• Right thinking begins with the words we say to ourselves.
• Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to himself.
• You cannot travel within and stand still without.
• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts, can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
• Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err...

承诺 是 很 重要 的 / Promises ARE Important

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你知道什么是「勾小手指」吗？或许这是你儿时的把戏，也可能你现在仍不时会这样作，好像我常和儿女勾小手指一样。玩法是：有人答应你一件事，你想肯定他们的诚意，便提出「勾小手指」，于是你们两人把小手指勾住，表示一言为定。你也可以勾住自己的两只小手指，以示一诺千金。虽然这只是一个把戏，却有助小孩子明白，承诺是很重要的。

成人也会用行动证明他们会尊重自己许下的承诺。例如双方在达成一项买卖后会互相握手；新娘和新郎在婚礼中交换戒指来订下盟誓。这些建基于信心的记号，表示大家都是认真地许下承诺的。

Are you familiar with the "pinky swear"? Perhaps you remember it from childhood or still play it from time to time, as I do with my children. Here's how it works: someone promises you something, and because you want to make sure they mean it, you say the words "pinky swear." The two of you then hook your pinky fingers together to confirm the promise that has been made. You can also link both your pinkies to seal the promise with a "double pinky swear." While this is just a game, it can help kids learn that promises are important.

Adults also accompany their promises with actions to show that they intend to honor their commitments. People shake hands after a business deal. In a wedding ceremony the bride and groom confirm their vows by placing rings on each other's fingers. Done in good faith, these signs indicate that when people make promises, they mean what they are saying.

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为 何 结 婚 ？ WHY MARRY ?

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Flee from sexual immorality. . . . He who sins sex-ually sins against his own body.(1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20) 

A radio talk-show host was asked what she thought about couples living together without the benefit of marriage. The caller felt that living together before marriage would be a safeguard against a bad marriage. He did not want to repeat his parents' mistake of getting married and then finding out they couldn't bear to live with each other. The talk-show host pointed out that the divorce rate among couples who lived together before marriage is higher than for those who did not.

But, more important, what some couples call a safeguard is something that the Bible calls sin. Whether it happens in the first or in the 21st century, sex outside of marriage is immorality, and immorality is sin. When God instituted marriage, he said that a man and woman who are "united" sexually "become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). As old-fashioned as it may sound, only a husband and wife are meant to become one flesh.

Sex is a special gift from God to be enjoyed within the bond of marriage. Outside of marriage it is destructive. Millions live with the guilt of a sexually promiscuous lifestyle. Sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high. Thousands of children are born as an unwanted consequence of sex outside of marriage. God gave his guidelines to protect us, not to keep us from enjoying life. So we ignore those guidelines at our own peril.

PRAYER:

Lord, we thank you for creating us male and female and for the gift of sex. Help us to enjoy your gift the way you intended. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

「你们要逃避淫行……惟有行淫的，是得罪自己的身子。」

(林前6:18; 6:12-20)

一位电台访谈节目主持人曾被问及她对同居的看法，打电话来的听众认为先同居后结婚，可以防止婚姻失败，他不想重蹈父母的覆辙，在结婚后才发现大家相处不来。不过主持人却提出一些数据，就是先同居后结婚的夫妇，其离婚率往往高于没有先同居的。

而更重要的是，同居的人所谓的保障，圣经称之为罪。不管是在第一世纪或二十一世纪，婚外性行为都是淫乱，而淫乱就是罪。当神设立婚姻，祂说一男一女在肉体上「连合」，二人便「成为一体」（创世记2:24），这说法虽然好像已落伍，但只有一夫一妻才能成为一体。

性是神所赐的特别礼物，只可在婚姻关系上享受，婚外性行为是会破坏婚姻的。数以百万人因为男女关系混乱而带着罪疚感生活，而因着性行为传播的疾病空前高涨，婚外性行为导致数以千计的儿童沦为弃婴。神把祂的指示告诉我们，是要保护我们，并非要妨碍我们享受生命，我们若漠视这些指示，只会自食其果。

祷告:
主啊，我们感谢祢造男造女，以及赐给我们性这份礼物。求祢帮助我们按着祢的心意享受祢所赐的礼物。奉耶稣的名求，阿们。

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True 'LOVE' - God So Loved

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(1 John 4:11,12) Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

There's an interesting fact about the word "so" here of which few may realize impacts the meaning. "So", the Greek word "houtos", does not refer to the magnitude of God's love but to the manner of God's love. Likewise "houtos" is used in (John 3:16) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son ..." The meaning is "For God in this manner love the world .." It does not mean "For God love the world so much"

So also here the idea is not that God love us so much that we should love one another so much. But rather since God loved us in this manner (the cross), in this manner we should love one another. Which among other things means dealing with other people's sins. 

Likewise Paul writes, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." (Eph 5:25-27) But such an idea is unpopular in the post-modernistic feel good Christian community in which any confrontation with regards to sin or correction is treated as itself being sinful.

"No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known." (John 1:18) And in particular we know God's love through his Son and what he did on the cross.

If we love others in that manner, then God's love for us has fulfilled its objective in our lives.

忍耐 的 美德

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忍耐本是一种崇高的美德，然而若能正确恒久地在各样试验中使用它、操练它，这美德将可使人生出更美的品格！这就是说：「……但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全完备，毫无缺欠。」的深层意义。

　　

成功的忍耐就是指一种始终不渝的恒心，任凭环境多恶劣，也不会动摇所持定的。然而，人往往在开始面对考验时，总能表现得坚定出色，但当试炼的轭越来越大、困境越来越深的时候，不少「人」的忍耐就会受到威胁，什至摇动，渐渐减弱，因而不能成功地坚忍到底。
　　

一颗始终不渝的恒心，能帮助信徒穿过考验，并在考验中将人品格里的软弱、败坏……等渣滓磨掉，使人的生命因此更臻完美。

　　

弟兄姊妹，在我(们)面对各种考验时，我(们)是否能坚忍到底，持守美德再生出美德呢！？

人生应用：
面对生活中的磨练，我能否坚忍到底？

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What is LOVE 无法 形容 的 爱

What is Love?

"Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?" 

LOVE is not simply a "Feeling" of affection. Rather it is the willful intention of meeting the real needs of others. As such, LOVE is measurable by the degree to which you are meeting the real needs of those you allegedly "LOVE".

无 法 形 容 的

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若 是 弟 兄 或 是 姐 妹 ， 赤 身 露 体 ， 又 缺 了 日 用 的 饮 食 ；

你 们 中 间 有 人 对 他 们 说 ： 「 平 平 安 安 的 去 罢 ！ 愿 你 们 穿 得 暖 ， 吃 得 饱 」 ； 却 不 给 他 们 身 体 所 需 用 的 ， 这 有 甚 麽 益 处 呢 ？

面对 ，仍有

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日光之下，耕种罪孽而收成恶果的例子可说是比比皆是，例如：有人沉溺赌博，伤害家人，最终令到自己债务缠身，妻离子散，害己害人；有人终日放纵私欲，放荡淫乱，结果惹了爱滋病，自残己命；有人终日放荡、醉酒，至终损害了自己的身心，也断送了自己的前途；有人贪爱钱财，结果后来被发现而身败名裂，什至成了阶下囚；有人以奸诈的手段欺负别人，后来反被别人所对付，自食其果；总之「都照样收割。」

再者，即使有人大奸大恶而在今生照样亨通、享福，将来也是逃不了，必要面对审判和刑罚。

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遇上困难、恐惧害拍是人性的自然反应，它的优点是帮助我们认真小心去面对，但它的缺点却是容易消磨我们的勇气，使我们逃避所有的困难。人生艰苦的日子是多的，若缺乏勇气，就会无法面对，反会让挫折破坏我们的生命。

　　

生命中能否产生勇气和积极的力量，乃在乎我们所持定的信念。我们的生命绝对不是绝望的，纵然是每天受伤、悲哭，都仍有希望。

诚实 的 秘诀

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老天爷所重视的，不是我们的外貌和外在的行动，而是我们的内心。入口的不能污秽人，出口的方能污秽人；心里所存的是恶，就生出恶来。所以要保守我们的心，胜过保守一切。

　　

无论作什么，都要从心里作，要先用「心」去行事，才用「行动」去行事，若「心」与「行动」一致，这就是「诚实」，是「敬畏」老天爷的表现！

老天爷曾多次劝告我们，不要假冒为善像那些法利赛人一样，倒要诚实行善，小心自己「心」的行动。

「心」的行动应如何去作？很简单，就是「不在眼前事奉」，即是「要行在暗中」。施舍的时候，祷告和禁食的时候，都不要让人看见，要让暗中的老天爷看见，老天爷必然在明处报答你！你若在暗中行善，就是像给老天爷作，不是给人作，不是讨人喜欢，而是讨老天爷喜欢了，这就是「诚实」的秘诀。

Remember Me 记 念 我

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缘 Predestination

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俗语说：有缘千里能相聚，无缘对面不相识。

Separated as We Are Thousands of Miles Apart, We Come Together as If by Predestination.

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