今日真道聖言/2013年12月21日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

問193: 在第四祈求中，我們所禱告的是甚麼?

答: 在第四祈求「我們日用的飲食，今日賜給我們」中，我們承認: 我們在亞當里，並且因我們自己的罪，我們已經喪失今生一切外在恩福的權利，應該被神剝奪所有這些恩福，並且我們在使用它們時，它們成為我們的咒詛。它們本身不能維持我們的生命，我們也不配得，也不是靠自己努力賺取它們；而且我們傾向違背律法，來追求、獲取、享受它們。所以我們為自己與他人禱告:

(1) 我們與他人，天天都等候仰望神的護理，使用合法的媒介，可以享受祂的白白恩典，按照天父的智慧所看為最好的，來充足領受這些恩福；

(2) 求祂繼續不斷的賜福供應我們，使我們以聖潔與安舒的方式來享用這些恩福，並且以感恩知足的心來領受它們；

(3) 求祂保守我們，知足於今生我們所需的夠用安享之恩典，遠離一切與此目的相反的事物。

Q. 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread), acknowledging that in Adam, and by our own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blessings of this life, and deserve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed to us in the use of them; and that neither they of themselves are able to sustain us, nor we to merit, or by our own industry to procure them; but prone to desire, get, and use them unlawfully: we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them; and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them, and contentment in them; and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort.

小要理問答

小要理問答104 我們在「主禱文」第四祈求中，禱告什麼？

答：我們在第四祈求中：「我們日用的飲食，今日賜給我們」，禱告求神賜下祂白白恩典，使我們豐富領受今生所需的美善事物，使我們享受祂的恩福。