
Word for Today 今日圣言 2022.6.15 Unconditional joy 无条件的喜乐(中文为本人试译) When joy is absent from your life, power is also missing (see Nehemiah 8:10). Our happiness shouldn’t be based on what’s happening around us; it should be dependent on our relationship with Jesus. John says, ‘We can be completely filled with joy’ (1 John 1:4 GWT). 当你的生活中没有喜乐,你就不会有力量(尼希米记 8:10)。幸福不应该建立在我们周围发生的事情上,应该取决于我们与主耶稣的关系。用使徒约翰的话说,我们可以“喜乐充足”(约翰一书 1:4)。 Pastor Reimar Schultze notes: ‘John did not say this when all was well, but when…everything had turned to shambles. 1) All his fellow apostles had been murdered. 2) Rome had destroyed the temple [so]…not one stone was left upon another. Flavius Josephus, an eyewitness wrote, “The multitude of those that…perished exceeded all the destructions men or God ever brought upon the world.” 3) Many Jews and Christians became refugees. Average life expectancy was about forty years and 25 per cent of the people in Rome were slaves. 4) John himself lived as a condemned criminal on ...