真理必叫你们得到自由

The Truth Sets You Free

by Jon Walker

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32 NIV)

你们必认识真理，真理必叫你们得到自由。 约翰福音 8:32 CCB

Read this as a prayer today:

请你今天用祷告的方式来读：

Jesus, you are the Truth, and the Truth sets me free. You are the Truth, and your Truth lives in me.

耶稣，你是真理，而真理必要叫我得到自由。你是真理，而且你的真理就住在我的里面。

I clothe myself in your Truth, Jesus, putting on the coat of a new self, “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24 NIV). You are “the way and the truth and the life,” and I am connected to God through you and you alone (John 14:6 NIV). Because of you, I know the Truth about who I am and I know that your life is working in me (Galatians 2:20).

耶稣，我让自己披戴你的真理，“穿上照着上帝形象所造的新人。这新人有从真理而来的公义和圣洁。”（以弗所书 4:24）。你“就是道路、真理、生命”，而且我是靠你，也只能靠你，才能和上帝相连（约翰福音 14:6）。因为你，我知道关于自己是谁的真相。我知道现在是你活在我的里面（加拉太书 2:20）。

Truth enables me to discern and reject the lies of the enemy. Your Truth demolishes arguments and pretensions that are at war with the knowledge of God. In your Truth, I will “take captive every thought” and make it obedient to you (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV). With your Truth, I will teach these thoughts to obey you, King Jesus (suggested by 2 Corinthians 10:5 MSG).

真理使我能明辨是非，拒绝仇敌的谎言。你的真理使那些阻碍人认识上帝的谬论和高傲言论都被击破。在你的真理中，我能“夺回被掳去的心思意念，使其顺服基督”（哥林多后书 10:5 CCB）。在你的真理中，我要教导那些心思意念都去顺服你，认识你是主耶稣。

Your Truth says I’m forgiven, I’m loved by my Creator, and I’m God’s child, beloved and empowered by the Spirit of Truth.

你的真理告诉我，自己是被赦免的，我是得造物主喜悦的，是神的爱子，也充满了圣灵的大能。

The Truth enables me to respond to your direction. I can trust your leadership, I can trust your commands, and I can trust your plans because you are the Truth.

这真理让我回应你的指引。我也能相信你的带领，我能信靠你的话语，我能坚信你的计划，因为你就是真理。

I will leave it up to you to interpret the facts and determine the truth of any situation. I will let your Truth make the decisions, and then I will obey and leave the consequences in your loving, truth-filled hands.

我会让你来告诉我事实真相是如何的，带我在每个状况中明辨是非。我会让你的真理替我做决定，然后我还要遵行这个决定，从而把自己放在你的慈爱和信实中。

All the decisions are yours to make. Because you are Truth, I can respond in the Truth in all situations; I am no longer a slave to my emotions.

所有的决定都是出于你。因为你是真理，我也决心在每个状况中以真理回应你，我不再是情绪的奴隶。

 

Jon Walker is managing editor of Rick Warren’s Daily Hope Devotionals. He is also the author of Costly Grace: A Contemporary View of Bonhoeffer’s ‘The Cost of Discipleship’ and In Visible Fellowship: A Contemporary View of Bonhoeffer's Classic Work ‘Life Together’.

This devotional © Copyright 2012 Jon Walker. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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